Trying to conceive thread .....4

Oh Hana, sorry mate

Thanks Quackers, i am going to test on Wednesday...or maybe i will wait till Friday. No i will test on Wednesday...hmmm. Ho ho!

Jellycat, I've never skipped a month with Persona - it's good if you don't have to reset it after taking a break. Best of luck for when you decide to try again. BigBird, hope you feel better soon.

Hello girls. Sorry about AF hana . BigBird - did I miss something? You're obviously not well . Hope you feel better soon.

Welcome Emski and AussieSim .

Azure, I don't think we'll have a Christmas baby, we'll probably give it a rest for a couple of months now. According to the instruction book, you can skip a month with Persona, by just telling it when AF started but doing nothing else (no tests). Have you tried this and did it work OK? Don't want to shell out for sticks unless they're being put to good use.

Congratulations, crossfingers, you lucky girl!

Hana I think I'm going to be following you, as am feeling pre-menstrual today. Am CD 22 but had a positive OV on day 9, so am expecting AF within the next couple of days. My temperature has also dropped, although I am another one with a Rocky Mountain chart. I think we are all going to have lovely Christmas babies.

guys - hope you are all well. At home sick and feeling very sorry for myself. On Anti-B's etc. and temps have literally gone off the page (high!) Good luck to all....

hana and bunny

Hana .

CD 48 (!) for me today. Still miserable and sick of my spots which have come back in force now since coming off the pill (which worked wonders on them).

AF here

Thanks for clearing that up Azure! Good luck to everybody!

Hi all, gosh there are a lot of people temping now!!! Started a trend

Just wanted to say that it does take a litttle while to get used to temping and the first couple of months may be more 'rocky' than others. Looking on FF, there are literally hundreds of charts with rocky temps, mine included, my pgcy chart is now in the system. All over the show for the first week and after ov, but FF is very clever and can pick out ov from data that the human eye thinks can't mean anything! That's interesting about the low pre ov temps, but as you say loads do have that anyway. Rises and dips can occur for no apparant reason too, just to add to the confusion!! That's why I used FF as I just couldn't work them out otherwise!
ChaCha, looking very encouraging there chuck!!!! Only a few more days of waiting!!!!! As Bunny said First response can pick up a positive 3 days before AF or about 10 DPO. I got a BFP 3 days before each pgcy, but if you read the instructions, it will only get about 50% of BFP's as each individual's 'doubling' of HCG differs, so wouldn't want you to get BFN and actually be pg!!!

Congratulations Crossfingers! Welcome AussieSim and Emski. Ah yes Emski, the language of TTC - it'll be like second nature to you soon! The basics are BD (babydancing, i.e. having sex), AF (Aunt Flo, i.e. period), CD (cycle day), OV (ovulation) and DPO (days past ovulation.

Hi All, just thought I'd check in. Being doing a lot of BDing, think I have just OVed so now we have the long wait to find out!! Not temping or doing anything else to assist me in becoming PG yet - should I be?

Well hope you all had a good weekend and that there is some more baby news soon!!

Have searched for charts with low pre-ov BBT - and have found hundreds - feeling a little better.
Looked for information on hypothyroidism and fertility - and although it can go without symptoms, I don't seem to fit the profile at all, apart from tiredness which I blame on my son.

Going to stop obsessing about it and wait and see how the rest of my cycle turns out. On day 8 tomorrow

Thanks Bunny. Well keeping my fingers crossed. Do not want to do blood test. I hate 'em.

97.2degrees fahrenheit is 36.1 degress celcius

Some of my temps are below that

Thanks again for all your help and advice. i have just looked back on fertility friend regarding hypothryroidism and have googled and scared myself! The symptoms, however, do not seem to describe me. Will check out my tempertatures and maybe send a query to the 'team'.

Hi, I've just been reading all these messages and must admit some of them seem like they're written in a foreign language!(What does all that stuff mean?!)Anyway, we have been trying for about 5 or 6 months with no joy, we have a dd aged 3, and really want another baby, so the age gap is not too big. If anyone has any tips I'd be grateful!

Bunny,
Just in case u didnt see my last post. Pls have a look, need your advice.

Cheers.

HI ermentrude - your temps can look 'rocky montain' like and this could be for all sorts of reasons - mine have done that and sometimes (but not always) coincides with differences in the time i took temp, waking up/getting up in night, having had a drink, doing exercise etc. I have put all this info into fertility friend as well so that i can try and make some sense of it. Have you looked at the fertility friend FAQ - i have read that erratic temps can still indicate thermal shift but you may need to look harder for it - and you wouldn't see it anyway until you had put more info into graph. You could always contact the fertilty friend help/advice people for help in interpreting your chart. But i know what you mean about it becoming an obsession - especially at the beginning when i found i just kept looking at my chart, comparing it with others on the website and hoping some magical answer would jump out at me! It didn't, but now i have done one complete cycle i can see patterns. Also planning to take charts (and notes) to appt with Dr (i have now booked initial appt for me and dh in a couple of weeks time), on the basis that more info about what is happening to my body the better.......i suppose what i'm saying is that temping can be really useful but doesn't give you immediate answers so you have to stick with it for a bit. Good luck

Crossfingers - congratulations!! and welcome to Aussiesim

Congrats crossfingers. OPK yesterday both lines were similar colour and today the surge line was much stronger so down to action again tonight!!! Hope temps shift soon so I can have a rest!

ermentrude - sorry missed your post - no help here I'm afraid, but maybe someone else can help. Bunny Quacks? are you there?! It's awful when you've got the info in front of you but there's no pattern.....good luck
I still have to get a proper BBT thermometer. I finaly bought a copy of Toni Whatsit 'Taking Charge of YOur Fertility ' had been using a friend's copy for months and was time for my own copy!

welcome Aussiesim - hope your stay is a short one. there are lots of people here that temp or use the OKP's so you're in good company.
Mum2ela - no it's not fair. Really really really not fair. Found out this morning that a cousin is preg (due in Sept). Spent the afternoon yesterday with sil looking a baby things which was tough but I was suprisingly ok - they are planning to register with a store for baby gifts. I know this service is available but didn't think anyone actually did it!

AF is due in the next few days and I'm trying so hard not to imagine any symptoms.

Crossfingers - congratulations on you BFP! That's lovely news for you. But why all the secrecy?