The July Bus

GetDown yes it does....i hadn't thought of that

Day 9 and i'm bleeding again not loads but more than just spotting. Have mailed my herbalist to get her thoughts on it.

Grapefruit juice is supposed to help with getting good EWCM.

Watching a film with DS before he goes to bed (later than usual but it's nice to snuggle on the sofa) and DP is asleep in the armchair. We've not really done anything all day either........

Hi there hedgeblunder

so you are in the 2 week wait now then?
Or are you waiting till next cycle to go for it?

What's this about grapefruit?

Hi everyone! Pretty please can I join? I'm (deep breath)
hedgeblunder ttc #1 cycle 1 UCL 24-28 AF due 15 Oct

after this AF I have decided to go all guns blazing, grapefruit munching 3 times a week day baby dancing!

I have polycystic ovaries but thankfully not the syndrome yet so fingers crossed!

three times a day !!! How??

I've hardly even seen DH this week, nevermind, well, y'know . I thought we might fit some in this morning, but DH had to be out of the house by 8am to get to a men's group at church. Why so early in the morning? (spot the couple without kids yet!)

excellent, I will let you know when am all joined up

Nope, is free. You can pay and have the premium service but does all the basics really well and really, really good tutorials on charti9ng.

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thanks MrsP81 reviving now after the 3x daily shock

Am not on FF - do you think I should join, do I have to pay?

queenrollo - does your thermometer not store the last reading? I keep mine under pillow, take it when I wake up, shove back under pillow and go back to sleep (unless I'm really excited about what it says )

Then when I turn it on again later, it shows me the last reading for a few seconds. It's the boots on one. I would not handle that writing down on a bit of paper thing at all.

i haven't managed to take my temp for three days......DP gets up for work about 5am and sometimes wakes me (not on purpose) but if i turn over to temp then i can't get back to sleep and i need my sleep....then i forgot when i did wake up
I think i'll give it a miss this cycle and see whether this herbal stuff makes a difference to how i feel/cycle length and whether we're successful. If not then next month i'll make a better effort to temp.

I swing between very laid back about TTC and very despairing that it willl never happen....

Hmmm, not sure - it's def moving in right direction . Think you will have to wait and see where it goes. Are you on FF? Can you share chart?

I am also in awe of the three times a day, that's dedication for you! Mus try harder this month.....

eskarina, I keep a pad and pen by my bed so that once I've done my temp I can quickly write it down or else it would go straight out of my head. I can then put it on computer later once I'm properly awake.

talk to me about your temps...

I would consider for me 36.4 and below normal for FP, and 36.7 and above normal for LP. Anything in between is ambiguous for me.

Today was 36.68...

hmmm. Yesterday was 36.59 BUT I did take it half an hour early (stupid DH setting his alarm early how very dare he).

@ Eskarina 's DH - "not bloody likely"

three times a day all month?

It about killed DP . Not as young as used to be.

Knitter been known to do it three times a day, ALL MONTH!

Thanks, LadyGoneGaga & GetDownYouwillFall (love both names BTW!)

I'm not on FF, though I have looked at it. I'm a bit scatty and disorganised and it's taken me about 5 months to remember wake up and take temp everyday, I don't think I'd manage to get it onto the computer. Someone has suggested an iphone app. I mentioned this to DH (he's the only iphone owner in the house). The polite version of his response was "not bloody likely"!

thanks LadyGoneGaga awww I feel included

When we conceived DD, I thought there was no possible way I could be pregnant because we SWI'd SIX DAYS before I ovulated. SIX DAYS!!

I literally could not believe it when I got a BFP. Just shows those little swimmers can hang around longer than we think!!

yes I think 22nd Oct due for AF is fair, although I do sometimes have an LP of around 12-13 days... we'll see....

Am now having doubts about whether today was actually a temp increase day after all - it was up, but not definitively up IYSWIM... sorry, getting obsessed now.

Mon, Tues, Wed and tried thurs too? Wow, that's commitment I don't think my DH would manage that

Getdown I thought I was due 22 Oct if ovved on Thurs so put you down for same day, but change it if you have a shorter luteal phase. Is only approximate anyway! If you ovved on Thurs your Tues SWI could well have done it - I conceived last time from a SWI two days before ov. We did Mon, Tues, Weds - tried Thurs am but we couldn't quite get there, ahem. I don't know how Knitter does it!

Have added GetDownYouwillFall and *Eskarina.

Luce2006 TTC#2 cycle 14 UCL 19-36 AF due 5 Oct
Inbetweener TTC#3 Cycle 3 AF due 8 Oct
PeevedEve TTC#2 Cycle 16 UCL 27-28 AF due 13 Oct
Alien06 TTC#1 Cycle 3 UCL 31-32 AF due 14 Oct
Hippyhen TTC#1 cycle 18 UCL 26 AF due 21 Oct
LadyGoneGaga TTC#2 cycle 1 (post-mc) AF due 22 Oct
GetDownYouWillFall TTC#2 cycle 1 UCL 27-45 days AF due 22 Oct
Brasso4 TTC#2 cycle 1 UCL (not sure) AF due 23 Oct
Greeneyesbigbottom TTC#1 Cycle 14 UCL28 AF Due 24th Oct
KnitterNotTwitter TTC#2 cycle 2 (round 3) UCL 28-32 AF due 24 Oct
Fledtoscotland TTC #3 cycle 4 UCL 26-28 AF due 25 Oct
KnackeredCow TTC#1 cycle 13 UCL 28 AF due 27 Oct
Fatheadsgirl TTC#2 Cycle3(post 3MC's) UCL30-35 AF due 28 Oct
Rosieroseanna TTC#1 UCL 28 cycle 4 AF due 28 Oct
absentbump TTC #1 cycle 17 UCL 23-27 days AF due 28 Oct
Rosieposey TTC #5 cycle 10 UCL 30 AF due 29 Oct
Ravenlocks TTC#1 Cycle 6 UCL 29 AF due 29 Oct
Eskarina TTC #1, Cycle 4, UCL 27-35 (tending towards 33ish), AF due 22-29th Oct
Teds77 TTC#1 cycle 3 UCL 26-28 AF due 30 Oct
mrsden TTC#1 cycle 4 UCL 30 AF due 31 Oct
kat2504 ttc#1 cycle 2 UCL approx 26, AF due 31st Oct
Jazzy-ttc#2 cycle 2 UCL 25-? AF due 31 Oct?
Wombat33 ttc#1 cycle 1 (post MC) UCL 31ish AF due 5/6 Nov
MrsP81 ttc#1 cycle 6 UCL 30-32 AF due 5/6 Nov
FluffySparkles TTC #1 UCL 31-35 AF due 10 Nov
Queenrollo TTC#2 cycle 8 UCL 35-41 AF due 11 Nov
Jigglebum TTC no 2 cycle 9 UCL 35-40 AF due 11 Nov
Eskarina TTC #1, Cycle 4, UCL 27-35 (tending towards 33ish), CD14. AF due anywhere from 22-29th Oct)

yay LadyGoneGaga so are we due AF on the same day then?? I reckon mine's due on 18th/10

Am hoping today was an actual raised temp day and not just some spurious reading... think so as I slept well and took it dead on 7am (my normal time)

Did some SWI on sunday and tues so may not have exactly "hit the target" but hopefully near enough, what you reckon?

Cycle buddy, cycle buddy! Second day of high temps for me too. If I put a third on in tomorrow (just to see) FF thinks I laid on Thurs which tallies with the opk, cm and cp so v happy (this is first ov post mc which is why being sucjh a mentalist about it )

Hi Eskarina are you on FF? Can you share your chart? Also pop over to Charter's anonymous fred if you are confused - lots of experience there.

Hi there Eskarina temps can dip just before ovulation.... do they then show an increase for the 2 weeks or so before your next period?

So you are on CD14 - I guess you are well into the BD phase then

Hoping this is the cycle for you.

Second day of raised temps for me today (yesterday I thought may have just been due to insomnia), so am hoping I am now in the 2 week wait....

Is there room for another one at the back?

Eskarina TTC #1, Cycle 4, UCL 27-35 (tending towards 33ish), CD14. AF due anywhere from 22-29th Oct)

I've been trying to do temp charts for a while, even before ttc and I seem to defy every rule there is about them....temp seems to dip rather than rise for ovulation. No idea what's going on really. We're officially being relaxed about it, but at the moment it's only the cost stopping me from buying a clearblue monitor thingy

i've bought grapefruit juice today, so i'm hoping with that and my herbal stuff i'm going to be lucky this month.
Think the herbal stuff is doing something......my boobs were very sore before AF arrived and they still are.

I need to get a handle on feeling stressed though as i think this is a big barrier. Two of the main culprits have been resolved (waiting for dates for building work to start) and i need to be more chilled out about other things.

Mine sound similar to yours. The latest I have ov'd has been on day 32, making a total cycle length of 44 days! In fact I conceived DD on day 32 of a cycle, so I know it is possible to ovulate that late and still get pregnant.

Then last month I ov'd on day 13 and cycle length was just 27 days. Makes TTC very confusing and difficult.

Have never got into OPKs before but realising that just BBT charting isn't quite enough for us anymore.