Official Trying to Conceive - Thread 12

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

JoB, the house move is very exciting. By Christmas you'll be settled in and some leave will be good for both of you.

I did another OPK today... slightly fainter than the control line. I did it at 9pm having drunk a few glasses of water this evening so I have my suspiciouns that if I'd tested late afternoon without a drink since lunchtime like my previous three days, it'd have been positive. Hmmm... very interesting. I can't stop researching it online. In addition to the previous suggestions of early pregnancy, PCOS and double ovulation, I can now add reluctant egg release to the conspiracy theories! In any case, the consensus seems to be to count the first day it was detected as the surge.

So I'm declaring CD18 DPO2 (just a guess that I ovulate 24 hours after first detection of LH surge). Still using Conceive Plus and hanging out in the TWW camp.

MancMama4

Wow that is strange, hoping its a good sign for you - I had positive OPK for 2 days this month but didn't think anything of it as tested about 18 hours apart so was kinda the same day really.

CD23 8DPO today, and the "symptoms" I'd convinced myself of have all but stopped... I feel kind of "normal"... which I've now convinced myself is a good thing as normally I'd be getting PMT by now!!

The lies we tell ourselves! Sending positive vibes to everyone.

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice wrote: »

JoB, the house move is very exciting. By Christmas you'll be settled in and some leave will be good for both of you.

I did another OPK today... slightly fainter than the control line. I did it at 9pm having drunk a few glasses of water this evening so I have my suspiciouns that if I'd tested late afternoon without a drink since lunchtime like my previous three days, it'd have been positive. Hmmm... very interesting. I can't stop researching it online. In addition to the previous suggestions of early pregnancy, PCOS and double ovulation, I can now add reluctant egg release to the conspiracy theories! In any case, the consensus seems to be to count the first day it was detected as the surge.

So I'm declaring CD18 DPO2 (just a guess that I ovulate 24 hours after first detection of LH surge). Still using Conceive Plus and hanging out in the TWW camp.

cats2012

Hey all! Sorry been a bit quiet, can I be updated to CD8 please? Cycle was 32 days in the end.

Bought some OPKs to start trying as think I've been a tad naive about how easy this would be!!

Fingers crossed for everyone

MancMama4

Me too! I had no idea how small the window actually is each month to try, I had been blindly going along thinking you should just try all month and that some days had better chances than others!

How I have gotten to the age of 34 without truly understanding my own body's reproductive capabilities I don't know. Good luck cats!

cats2012 wrote: »

Hey all! Sorry been a bit quiet, can I be updated to CD8 please? Cycle was 32 days in the end.

Bought some OPKs to start trying as think I've been a tad naive about how easy this would be!!

Fingers crossed for everyone

staple28

Hi all,

I joined a while ago but stopped ttc until after the wedding. back from honeymoon and ttc now.

Already been using ovia for around 9 months. Just ordered the pregnacare ttc multivitamins for him and her and ordered some ov sticks from amazon. Will try and do bbt every morning too, tried to do this previosuly but i always forget. IS it definatly a good indication of ov?

Thanks all

Black_Ribboner

Staple, bbt is a good indicator that you have ovulated (though it's not foolproof), but it doesn't help in predicting ovulation - by the time you see a temperature shift, it's likely the egg's no longer up for fertilisation. It's good to pinpoint your cycles, but don't stress if you find it difficult to track.

Hugs to you Pug. I'm also feeling blue at the moment, though for different reasons - I'm on CD54 now and still no sign of *anything*. FF finally removed the crosshairs a few days ago, but has now put them back for last Friday - I don't know why, as there's no signs of ovulation then and no temp shift since. If it was then though we missed it, just haven't been able to keep up the bding.

It's been more than two months since I even had the excitement of a tww. I'm feeling barren, useless and massively patronised by the Clearblue people.

Hope everyone else is having a better time of it, lots of luck to those waiting to test xx

Milliebob

I'm now 9DPO and slowly going insane.

I've got such bad PMS(?) today, I'm going to kill someone. Everyone is annoying me and I'm snapping at people. I never ever normally have moods like this when I'm PMSing. Also having cramps, which again I can't remember having the week before my period before.

lulu_92

OH's ex got engaged last night. I feel like the world is laughing at me. I'm obviously not good enough for any of this!

One of my best friends gets married in May and her hen do is in Brighton in April - which gives me 4 weeks to get pregnant so I can drink at it!

Milliebob

Lulu it took me ages to work out why you'd want to get pregnant so you can drink, then I realised you meant next April and that it is actually June now!

Don't be down about not getting married or engaged. You're still very young for those things, and you'll probably find if you give it time it will feel more natural and 'right' when it does eventually happen. My OH and I didn't get engaged until our son was over a year old, and I was DESPERATE for it. OH said my desperation put him off asking. Now I'm glad we waited all that time, looking back I realise we weren't in the right place before.

lulu_92

Milliebob wrote: »

Lulu it took me ages to work out why you'd want to get pregnant so you can drink, then I realised you meant next April and that it is actually June now!

Don't be down about not getting married or engaged. You're still very young for those things, and you'll probably find if you give it time it will feel more natural and 'right' when it does eventually happen. My OH and I didn't get engaged until our son was over a year old, and I was DESPERATE for it. OH said my desperation put him off asking. Now I'm glad we waited all that time, looking back I realise we weren't in the right place before.

23 in 3 weeks, I know it can be considered young but it isn't at the same time. My mum had been married for 5 years at this age. It's not the being engaged it's the fact that we're not moving anywhere. TTC sucks balls and I don't feel like we're progressing in our relationship since I moved in 2 years ago.