BBT graphs causing concern

Me and my fiancé want to start TTC our second baby after our wedding in September. I am still breastfeeding our 16 month old son and sleep is still disrupted. My past three cycles have all been 26-27 days long. For the past two cycles I’ve used Natural Cycles to track ovulation using bbt (with the natural cycles band). And each time it has confirmed ovulation around cycle day 19-22. I feel like I’m ovulating on day 14 due to an increase in sex drive and egg white mucus around then. But if the algorithm is correct then I am having a very short luteal phase which makes me worry about it limiting our chance of conceiving.

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Advice and maybe a bit of support 🥺 Long Post Sorry

I’m 17 weeks + 1 pregnant I’m not sure if I have a right to be upset or it’s just my hormones.

✨⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️✨

I’m adopted, I was taken away from birth mother at 12 months due to abuse and neglect, then at 4 years old I was removed from my birth father because of abuse and neglect. I was finally adopted at 7 years old by a very kind and loving family, in 2020 my birth father committed suicide. In 2021 i was told by 3 separate people he wasn’t my biological father and this other person was.

It’s extremely sad circumstances and what happened wasn’t ok I don’t blame my birth mum for the circumstances but I do feel a type of way because of what happened to me as a child and the lies and the controlling behaviour she shown towards me since being a adult sharing only the information she wants and with holding information and then using my two younger siblings as weapons it has been cruel but I don’t blame her around my conception. For 5 years I’ve been begging anyone and everyone for a DNA test. My uncle has finally agreed to one to see if he is actually my half sibling. My birth mother offered to pay for the DNA test in which I did offer to pay for because I didn’t want anyone controlling things. Sadly it’s happened she has put down she is the only person to receive the results. I’ve cried all night and not been asleep, I wanted the results I wanted to choose who knew and didn’t know it’s extremely sensitive information. I also don’t trust her and I fear if it’s the results she doesn’t want she will report false results or rewrite the results. So I have to put in writing to the company to send me a copy of the results which will take longer 4 weeks for me to receive them. It’s destroyed me I feel she could of asked me or even put my email address down for them to be sent to me also but it’s all about what she wants to do I feel it’s cruel and unfair and crosses my boundaries 🥺😢. I don’t know if I’m being pathetic or hormones are raging or I have a right to feel how I do 😮‍💨.

Pregnancy test

8dpo i swear I can see the faintest of lines but was so hard to pick up on camera.
Im may be delusional 😂 and being too hopeful.
But who knows going to retest in the morning

TIA 🩷

Clear blue

I took this photo straight after testing. I don’t know if you can see a faint line too? I will post a photo of the test that was taken 15 minutes later. Texted again with a different brand and it was negative - I checked the leaflet and the one I used today has sensitivity od 25mlU/ml and the one in the photo is 10mlU/ml

When do you use an at-home pregnancy test?

Whether you are or are not TTC, how many days after a “late” period do you take a test

Maternal instincts on Netflix

Like wtf did I just watch…the most horrific thing ever! If you haven’t seen it, you should but major TRIGGER WARNING

False positive STI

Has anyone here ever received a false positive STI test? How did you and your partner handle it emotionally?

I'm asking because I recently went through something that was honestly very stressful for both me and my husband.

I went to my gynecologist because I was having pain near my ovary. My doctor offered to test for vaginal infections, and to my complete shock, the test came back positive for gonorrhea. I've only been with my husband, and we've been together for 5 years.

As you can imagine, it immediately created a lot of confusion and anxiety. My husband insisted he had never been with anyone else, but it was hard not to question everything after getting that result. To make things more complicated, years ago there was an incident involving one of his coworkers that had already left a small crack in my trust, even though we had worked through it and moved on.

I ended up getting retested. One test came back negative, then I had additional testing done, including a urine test. My husband was tested as well. In the end, all follow-up testing was negative, and my doctor concluded that the original result was a false positive.

I'm incredibly relieved, but the whole experience was emotionally exhausting and put a strain on our relationship for a while. Even though we've talked through it and are doing well now, it made me realize how much damage a single unexpected test result can cause.

Has anyone else experienced a false positive STI test? How did you cope with the fear, uncertainty, and trust issues that came up while waiting for answers? How did your partner react?