Hop aboard the Santa sleigh for a festive baby (late Dec /early Jan)

Hey everyone
I'm still here waiting for af to appear. I'm due tomorrow poas yesterday bfn and this morning with an Internet cheapie bfn too so doesn't look too promising. Will test again tomorrow just for the heck of it.

treats i posted that. However i take isolated research findings with a pinch of salt as there are so many conflicting findings, the main consensus seems to be that the fertile window is 5 days pre ov ( with a smaller chance the further away you get) to day of ov. That's the generalised finding, however there are always going to be exceptions to that generalisation. I can't even start to think about the bit you quoted, that on top of egg being ok, sperm being ok, uterus being in good shape, implantation being sooner rather than later...does my head in. Timing i can control ! well to a certain extent.
Anyway i'm either 4 or 5 dpo. I'm thinking of testing next tuesday.

Hi! Sorry to have gone AWOL for a few days - busy weekend and difficult to get to the computer.

Lovely high temp today - 97.9 (I'm a fahrenheit temper). I've been worrying that they're generally on the low side, but as long as there's plenty of progesterone swishing around in there post-ov, then i'm not too worried.

5DPO today - reckon I'll start thinking about testing next Monday. I suspect it's just me who'll be testing then?

coveredinflour - congratulations!! A proper Christmas baby. Be prepared for lots of people to say "Jesus Christ!" when you tell them that you're due to give birth on Christmas Day.........

Very interesting study of factors affecting ov (Can't remember who posted - sorry ). I was particularly interested in this:

"Intriguing evidence suggests that in conception cycles, ovulation always occurs within 24 hours of peak serum LH, but in non-conception cycles, this is pushed out to up to 48 hours later."

That suggests that it's pretty much our ovaries that decide when we're going to get pregnant, and all the carefully-timed DTDing and temp taking doesn't really make a blind bit of difference......

It's done it's work on me though. I haven't used an OPK before, but I think I might try it next cycle (if there is one.......)

Wiggy - temps often drop after menstruation - there's usually a bit of progesterone floating around while you're on, but it's all gone by the time the bleeding stops. I think you'll normally get a result that's about 1/10th of a degree colder for every half hour earlier you take your temp. But better to record a few temps and look at the pattern emerging than to worry about individual ones.

Pipbin - looked at your chart (I know you posted it a few days ago) but I think there's a good chance you ov'd on Day 17. Hard to be sure because you missed a few pre-ov, but they're definitely substantially higher than the ones before. And you haven't recorded any EWCM post-day 17. Do you think that might be right?

Those who temp- do they generally go down a bit as af goes and does it make much difference if you take them earlier? Mine done down from 36.6 to 36.4 and was unsure if it was because af going or been taking at 7 not 9 as back to work.just started doing them when af came so not such what my average looks like yet.

wiggy I think you're right, no sign of her yet but haven't bothered testing again. Its probably just going to be a random longer cycle.

pip Fingers crossed for you for a Christmas baby!

Pippin- I think most of us are trying for Jan babies now although there may still be some New Year's Eve babies still lurking...? We need another list with all our dates on.

Coveredinflour- that's brilliant news, at least the roads will be quite if you're having the baby in hospital.perhaps Santa himself will even let u hitch a ride!

Rudeawakening- I've discovered from others on here that 99'9% of the time af is just lurking around,though I'm crossing my fingers that won't be the case for you.

So those of you expecting crimbo babies,what are you thinking for names? Noel? Holly? Donna? Dasher? Santa's Little Helper? X

Anyone else still out there? I'm getting lonely on the sledge on my own.

Temp this morning was highish but not as high as normal post ov.
I really don't know what to think.

Has any one seen my AF?

It was due yesterday but got a bfn so don't know what's happening. Don't even want to get excited.

Hooray! At last another BFP and with a 25 Dec due date, too! Many congratulations Coveredinflour! I know it will be a nervous time for the next couple of weeks but all the same, wonderful news for you.

Morning! I've been lurking off and on on this thread and just wanted to pop in and share my first ever BFP that I got this morning. Put due date into mn calculator and its... 25 December.

Trying not to get too excited in case AF turns up after all (due today/tomorrow/one day this week) and think I might be feeling some cramps but keeping d everything crossed that the reindeer will bring me a special delivery this christmas.

The problem is I wake up, stick a thermometer in my face, then notice what the time is.
I'm back at work on Monday so hopefully my sleeping will settle down.
I just want a baby, why is it so sodding involved?

fertility friend say to temp in the morning, if you have a problem with night waking (which i do) it is tempting to do temps then , especially if you suspect you haven't got 3 hours of sleep left ahead of you but you get a better bi-phasic pattern (they say) from doing it in the morning. I did a small experiment, took temp at usual time, went to loo, back into bed, took temp- exactly the same.
i often temp in the bathroom now . Also don't forget one odd temp is meaningless, its a pattern you're looking at.

Was it a clear positive the other day, because when I look at your chart my gut feeling is day 15. But I am new to it so you're wise to ignore me

The way I see it is that if I wasn't temping I would be sure I'd ov'd by now. So I'm working on the theory that I have.

Lime, judging by all the co-poasers last week, it's going to be one of those nights when half of us are at it I think

Pip, I do wonder how the temping thing works. This last month I've often woken up at say 1am, taken temp, found it's fairly low, then taken it at 4am, still low, 5am, probably its peak - then after that it goes lower again. Not sure if it's cos I'm waking up so much, I don't get out of bed or anything, just lie there, and sleep again usually - anyway, I know when I get up and wander about, it tends to go up quite a bit, so i've discarded one or two when I've forgotten to take it till DP and me have already had a cup of tea and he's gone to work - around 7ish. Because they've been really high.

Well heaven alone knows what is happening now.

I woke up in the night sweating, usually a sure sign that I am OVing. Then I woke up again and thought, 'ah, need to temp' but couldn't find my thermometer. When I did find it then my temp was as low as a pre o day. Then I realised it was only just after 5, I normally temp at 6.30.
So I went back to sleep and woke up again at 6.30 and temped then, which was 36.30 which is a reasonable post OV temp for me.
Thing is I normally wake up at 5 and go back to sleep. So it shouldn't mess with the temps too much.
I'm getting a sinking feeling it might be anovulatory.
Did an OPK today and got a faint line, which is again normal for my post OV. I get nothing before, until just before OV when I get a fade in, then a slight line after until AF.

Flightty I have just made my DH put 24th in his calendar, too!!

Lime It's 50 everything round here!

Pippers, I've had a look and I'm also thinking maybe yesterday...what are your temps normally like after ov? They're so much lower than mine all round, are you temping orally? What was it this am?

I'm starting to have a hate/love relationship with the thermometer. It's a pain because you can't use it several times a day, wouldn't that be wonderful, if it told you exactly what was happening in there...one day they'll invent something that tells you exactly when you're ovulating, whether you're implanting or not, etc etc.

Anyway, another 9 days before we need to have sex again... DP said he is going to put the 24th on his phone calendar, he's considering himself booked for that night but I bet he has to go away for work again!

I'm thinking today too. Temps are up in the air because I didn't take the thermometer on holiday with me. So odd that I'm oving 4/5 days early.
In the past I've OV two days after the +opk according to my temps.
Can I give the poor old DH the night off. He managed to DTD last night even though he'd been in bed sick most of the day (It was 2am, that's why it's gone down as an AM today.

Hi Pip - have just had a look...your temps are a bit but going by the +OPK and the EWCM I would think you ov'd today... Is that what you're thinking?

So ladies. Can someone have a gander at my chart and say what they think might be going on? chart here

I normally OV about day 20 - 22 but it seems to have been early this month. Anyone what to suggest when I have / am going to OV? Yesterday I had stacks of EWCM, today - nothing.

Lastbox glad your DS was better today. @ 'when a clown farts...'!!
I used to love the circus when I was a child. They still had animals in those days . I am a bit scared of clowns though.

Flightty 50?!?!