First entry, background info

Well, the time has finally come to make myself my very own TTC (trying to conceive) journal. Hopefully, soon, this will become my pregnancy journal.

My name is Nicola, I live in England with my husband Jonathan, and our cat Hazel. Currently we live in Buckinghamshire, in a 1 bedroom flat, but in the last week we've put an offer in on a house in Northamptonshire, and our solicitor is hopefully busy sorting out all the stuff needed so that within the next month or two we can move into the 3 bedroom semi detached house we've found. :)

Jonathan and I have been married 3 years (well, 3 years in May), and we have just started TTC our first child. I was on the pill for 9 years or so, until I stopped last June. My periods are now hopefully fairly regular, I've begun to document when they start and end each month so I can spot patterns which may help us when we are trying to time intercourse. Now, we have technically done our first month of trying, although we only officially started trying part way through my cycle, so I am concerned as to whether we started "too late" to have conceived this first month.

I am three days from when I think my period will come this month if I am not pregnant. I did test today, with some cheap pregnancy tests I found from a link via Alice's diary, and it came out negative (although I did squint for about half an hour trying to find even a tiny hint of a line). I don't know whether it is simply too soon to tell, or if I'm simply not pregnant. Either way, my period is due on Thursday (it's monday today), so if it hasn't appeared by Saturday, I'll test again (although I will probably find it hard to restrain myself from testing on Thursday or Friday).

I've not done any charts as such, but I have been keeping an eye on cervical fluid - 2 days ago I got quite a large amount of cervical fluid, which was tinted brown, and also spotting along with it - just under a week before my period was due. I looked it up on the internet, and found that spotting a week before your period is due can be a sign of implantation bleeding. Well, there's nothing much I can update with now for a while, until I see what happens later in on the week. Until then!