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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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Breastfeeding and fertility signs...

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suzi2 · 28/05/2006 20:17

My DS is almost 10 months old and is breastfed. My AF returned 2 cycles ago (2 AFs - both 28 days) and we are TTC - not overly actively but I'm keeping an eye out as to what's going on!

Last month I had very little fertile CM but we did the deed approaching and including the 14th day. Then I got loads of EWCM for the next 10 days so I wasn't sure if I had been too premature and we DTD some more. Anyhow, no pregnancy. This month I have had EWCM approaching day 14 and am now having a second phase of EWCM yesterday and today (day 17 & 18). My cervix is soft and high.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Could I still be anovulatory but getting AF? I think I might get an OPK next month to check things out as i'm thoroughly confused! Smile

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suzi2 · 09/06/2006 17:38

Well I was wrong! AF is now officially late (although I still feel like I've got AF!) and I have a BFP!!!!! Really hoping it sticks.

So it looks like that late EWCM was me ovulating!

Best of luck everyone else.

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PINKY8 · 07/06/2006 05:47

:-) did you get an evap line on the 2 neg test yesterday? I did another tst today and bfn- :-(

I am soooo impatient especially when the test are so cheap :-)

Good Luck, fingers crossed!!!

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suzi2 · 06/06/2006 17:48

I reckon the metallic taste was something else as it seems to be dying back. I took 2 tests this morning - both BFNs. CP is now low so looks very much like AF will be coming. I think what I hate most about the 2WW is that AF hormones make you daft about testing and also I know that if AF arrives, that's another month to go! I can't handle all this bding!Grin

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PINKY8 · 06/06/2006 08:24

did another cheapy test this morning and it is neg :-(

I am either 7dpo or 10dpo that is if i ovulated this month. Am not feeling sick this morning.

How about you? Do you still have the metallic taste?

xxx

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suzi2 · 05/06/2006 20:33

the evap line is really faint - I checked it 20 mins after the test and it was there as a little shadow! I'm assuming it is an evap line and isn't a positive though. But I guess there's always a chance!

I should know better by now - I once was convinced I was pg when I was 18 and did 2 tests, they were both BFN. But then checked them an hour later and there was an evap line. And was sh*tting it! The doc confirmed I wasn't pg for me as I freaked out so much lol!

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PINKY8 · 05/06/2006 20:05

Thanks suzi,

I have no evap line,nothing :-( How long does an evap line take to get and is it really faint?

xxx

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suzi2 · 05/06/2006 19:59

Metallic taste is still there... and have been feeling really queasy at times today. And the test I took has an evap line! But I bet I'm not pg lol!

earliest for a possible result would be 10DPO or as a very rough guide, 4 days before you're due on. Although for a good result then wait until your af is overdue.

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PINKY8 · 05/06/2006 18:43

Good luck with the testing!!! I think i am due on the 10th which is saturday but i can't be sure as this is my first af as i am still b/f?

The thing is i feel pregnant, all the symptoms i have are the same as with my second? How strange? When do you think the earliest is that i may get a true result?

I have done an access diagnostic cheapy today aswell (25miu) and it is negative?

Fingers crossed for all xxx

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suzi2 · 05/06/2006 08:11

Erm - i think I'm due on on Thursday. The metallic taste isn't there so far today but it was so vile yesterday I spent the whole day drinking water! Took a cheapo Access Diagnostics test this morning and get a BFN. No doubt I'll be testing again in a couple of days lol!

Hope you get your BFP Pinky - I've been feeling exhausted (but not sure if that's due to DS getting more mobile) and a bit sicky at times. The one thing for me that I've had a lot the last week is very vivid dreams and I remember I had loads when pg with DS. Usually of the, ahem, erotic variety GrinBlush

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PINKY8 · 05/06/2006 05:52

Hi Suzi :-)

Godd Luck!!! Hopefully you will get a bfp!!!

I have been really tired,feeling sick,can't stop weeing and had cramps yesterday(could be implantation pains? that is if i ovulated atall this month?) but we will see??

I have a semi matalic taste in my mouth but i have a tongue stud so that could be making it worse? I don't believe that folic acid can give you a metallic taste, I have bee taking it for some time and it didn't give me a metalliic taste?

What cycle day are you on?

Love Becci xxx

bobblehead · 04/06/2006 22:42

I have been taking folic acid every day since before dd was conceived and never had a metallic taste so could be a good signSmile

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suzi2 · 04/06/2006 21:31

I have extreme metallic taste in my mouth today. I took folic acid for the first time - could it be that? Or any other good explainations? I'm getting excited that I might in fact be pg even though I know that I'm most likely not!

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suzi2 · 02/06/2006 20:24

Personally I've never noticed any ov pain. I often get 'windy' pains so I would just pass it off as that I guess! With DS I got a BFP at 10dpo which is about the earliest you could get one I think. I was pg before I had DS (had an early mc) and was going away for the weekend so did a test at 11DPO and it was negative. But got a BPF the day I returned which was 15dpo (1 day after af was due).

So I guess it depends how obsessive you are Grin. I would say to wait and see if your AF appears first. I always planned to do that but when TTCing DS I found myself drawn to doing pg tests for the few days before AF was due!

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PINKY8 · 02/06/2006 14:09

Hi Suzi,

I think I am 6 dpo so when will be the earliest i could test? I am not sure whether i ovulated this month? Is there any pain when you ovulate?

Thanks,

Becci xxx

peachygirl · 02/06/2006 11:29

Hi suzy, the emails are on their way!

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suzi2 · 01/06/2006 21:16

Hiya Pinky8 - no news from me. I would think that if I ovulated at all this month then the absolute earliest (10DPO) I could test would be Sunday. I got a whole load of cheap HPTs with my ov microscope thing (that arrived today) so I might try one early next week. Feeling a bit crampy already so I think that AF will be coming.

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peachygirl · 01/06/2006 17:10

Hi a while ago I sent another poster, fresco, a chapter out of the book 'Fertility' by Clubb and knight which is all about TTC and breastfeeding. I am happy to send this again if your computers can cope wth it. I think I had to send her 7 separate emails as the folder was too huge! you can email me on [email protected]

titchy77 · 01/06/2006 16:57

Thanks bobblehead do you know where can i get one of those?been using boots ovk didn't find them very good so brought cb digital which said i was fertile on sun(though not sure if i done it right as it said not to pee for 4hrs and i had but did it anuway!,does this matter?)then i done one mon and it said i wasn't fertile so think i may of missed out on my ov days????

bobblehead · 01/06/2006 16:42

Hi Titchy, an ovulation microscope is a little microscope (looks like a lipstick!) and you lick the lens and when saliva dries you see a pattern, either just random blobs (not fertile) or ferns around ov time. There is a thread on it called Isis Scope Gang, it has some links on it.

I am on cd16 but fairly certain I have not ovulated so probably won't be happening this month for me anyone else having any luck?

titchy77 · 01/06/2006 15:24

Sorry ladies this might sound dumb but can i ask what is "ferny" and what is an ovulation microscope and what does it do?!
I'm new to all this!!!

PINKY8 · 01/06/2006 14:18

How is everyone today?

Hope you are all well,

xxx

lua · 30/05/2006 15:03

Pheew...Thanks bobblehead!
I do hope is not a sign of AF comming back though....
I might consider having another one just to get rid of periods! ShockGrin

bobblehead · 30/05/2006 14:36

Hi Lua, I started getting changes in CM months before I got AF (only had one so far..)Tbh I don't think I ovulated before and don't think I will this cycle, but everyone is different so if you don't want to be pg be careful! I noticed a heavy discharge (tmi!) in around the 2 week build up before af, and was actually starting to worry it was abnormal but SIL said that is what happened to her before first AF post-baby.

PINKY8 · 30/05/2006 12:53

That would be great, I think b/f through pregnancy is great it is a little tiring but was only for me in the 1st trimester.

I b/f my first dd throughout my second pregnancy and for 1 month after Chloe's birth. I stopped feeding Olivia on her 2nd birthday as she was ready, she only had a 2 min feed b4 bed and i felt that i wanted to stop, I had no problems Olivia didn't get upset or anything even though Chloe was still feeding? Many people said that I should stop feeding when i found out i was pregnant with Chloe which upset me, but i spoke to a few doctors and midwives and they said it was no problem atall. Good luck if you decide to :-)

lua · 30/05/2006 12:50

Errr.. I have the opposite problem... I don't want to get pregnant and am still bfing, and haven't had an af yet. However, I have notice all of a sudden EWCM! Now I am worried!
HAs anyone out there had the typical CM changes while bfing and not having AF?

Suzi2 - In the past, when I got preganant with DS I had excessive CM right after I have gotten pregnant. Your cervix will remain high if it was succesful, right? I am keeping my fingers crossed to you