anyone who's new to the Clearblue fertility monitor?

Thanks iloveberries. Hoping that we won't officially be on threads together too but in the nicest possible way
Good luck tomorrow chocchip. I might have a peak on here to see how you get on. Fingers crossed for you.

Thank you! Need to retest in the morning, trying not to be too excited but can't stop

Chocchip, that's fantastic news. Huge congratulations. I will have to treat myself to one as a Christmas present. I will join this thread when I am up and running.
Thanks for the advice and all the best for your pregnancy.

eliza I was in a similar situation to you, irregular cycles and not enough energy to SWI often enough to cover all bases! Using the bonkometer we managed to make sure we dtd at the right time. It took the guessing out of it for us.
And.....and.....I think I may have just got my BFP!

So yes! I would def recommend it to someone with irregular cycles

Hi girls, I'm after a bit of advice please. I have been debating whether to invest in a CBFM for a while now. I have extremley irregular cycles and not sure if it would work for me. My last 4 cycles have been 29, 43, 39 and 33 days long. The only information I can find suggests that you should have cycles between 21-42 days long. I've tracked 10 cycles and only twice gone over the 42 day mark.

I have one DD so know that I do (did) ovulate but I have no idea when. I just don't have the energy to SWI every day through a cycle (especially as my cycles tend to be long) and don't think the charting route is for me.

Do you think it would be worth me investing in a CBFM or should I just use opks for a while to see if I can gain any information from that? Do CBFM work with irregular cycles?

Thanks in advance and good luck to you all. May you all have a BFP very soon.

letting this is my first month but I had 5 highs, 2 peaks then a high (so far).

wondered if i'm looking too much into it but on my first peak i had 2 faint lines, second peak i had one stronger line and one fainter and today, the high after the 2 peaks I had 2 faint lines. When do you think ovulation was based on this? even typing this i'm thinking i'm looking too much into it and should just sit tight. wondering if it's worth dtd today too though- didn't manage it yesterday as didn't get to see dh as we were walking opposig shifts. any thoughts?

Thanks secret I'll have to keep an eye out..

A quick question but I had two peak days and then my high day afterwards. For some reason I was expecting my High days to be before my peak ones. Is this right??

So AF has arrived (hooray - very excited - that means this cycle we're officially starting TTC!) and so I get to use my new shiny CBFM! But I'm confused about whether I should set m to be today or tomorrow (ie do I wait until tomorrow to press the m button, making tomorrow CD1?)! Help!

Noticed AF had started at about 10.30am this morning. This would be within the 6-hour timeframe I'm wanting to use - 6am to 12pm. CBFM manual says:
"If your period starts in the night, or in the morning before your chosen m Button setting time, you can press the m Button when you wish that morning. If your period starts during the day, after your chosen m Button setting time, you should WAIT until the following morning before pressing the m button. You should set this as day 1 of your cycle"

Soooo... reading the above I'm presuming that I should press the button tomorrow morning and set tomorrow to be CD2? Because my period started during my timeframe today?

Help.... total noob here as you can tell.... this is what happens when you give a overthinking hormonal lawyer a piece of fertility technology :S

Does this feel like the longest month ever!!!

I had my high and peak really early on, days 9, 10 and 11 so it feels as though it's dragging. No wonder I wasn't having any luck as my cycle is 30 days and the calendars were saying my fertile days were a week after, when they really were

But it does make for a very long run to AF days.

We dtd on 1st peak, couldn't manage second peak (excuse the pun!), and dtd again on the high after peaks.
If you can manage then do all 3 if not I would do what we did. Should ensure you have the right stuff there at the right time anyway!

Hi all, my CBFM has broken :-( so I'm waiting for a replacement/repair. In the meantime, I've just used an ovulation calendar from on here, it said 30th-5th but have only managed to DTD on 2nd and 3rd so not holding out much hope this month, my friend at work who is 40 has just had a BFP as well, so am pleased for her but feel a bit rubbish as she said she felt bad for telling me coz she knows how much I want it, makes me feel desperate and sad really!!!good luck everyone! x

Excellent news both!
I noticed I had 2 lines when I has my peak so I think you are safe to be excited! Also it fits with the length of your cycles

Well.... I got an egg today cd13 (of typically 25-27 day cycle) so I was thrilled. HOWEVER, I need a bit of advice here as I'm not sure I'm getting prematurely excited- I did the test this morning but half hour/ 40 mins later I realised I hadn't inserted it properly so re-did it. Then I got the egg. So the test wasn't within the 15 min window. Does this matter much? I also noticed 2 lines on the ov stick today (a bit faint but both there), whereas on previous days I've only had one strong line. Does this sound in line for getting the egg?

Thanks for the advice.

hetty hope AF arrives for you soon and you can start afresh on a new cycle.

nearly good to see you back, hope you're not finding it too stressful, I was convinced I wasn't going to see a peak, AF had not long returned and I'm still bf and I was thrilled to see a peak on my first CBFM cycle. So hopefully you will get the same and at least allay your fears about ovulation.

No news here, day 9 of 2ww, normally I am desperately symptom spotting but have no symptoms whatsoever, made up or otherwise!