thread maxed out!!

OPks are good - it reassured me that I was probaby ovulating and it helped me indulged my poas obsession! I got a nearly-dark line on the Sunday morning but had run out of OPKs so I figured Monday was the day so we DTD Sunday and Monday. I found one I'd forgotten about in a drawer on Tuesday morning and tested but by then the line was gone. So we must have caught it! We'd also DTD the previous Thursday but I think the Sunday was the successful event!

It's a lovely late summer day here and we are on an island where DH's mum has a holiday home (sounds v glam - actually quite rustic here in NZ!) and heading off shortly for a vineyard lunch with friends over from the UK. I will have a glass of wine with lunch but everyone's going to know I'm preggers - normally I can polish off a bottle of wine without blinking

Hi mrsh, yeah the line should get darker until it's as dark or darker than control line. Mine was faint for 20odd days so I really thought it weren't gonna happen. I think sometimes it can even get lighter before getting darker again; none of those really matter, whether there's no line or a faint it's negative so just keep going until you get that positive

Hazel my LH surge lasted for 3 days before finally the test line faded again. I dunno if that means I ovulated after the first positive or whether my body was gearing up to ovulate for the whole 3 days before finally succeeding... God knows!

Good idea lady. Mines only lasted 12 hours so good to know but you def have days after that to dtd xx

Helen - I don't use the Ic's but from what I know of the digital one the line got darker and darker from nothing. Do you track your cm or twinges? Again I am no expert but going from what I have heard and my own body you get those a few days before.

Hazel - I think the hormone can show up over a couple of days. I only got my positive on one day. It can stay there from 12 hours to 2 days for some people. Again do you track cm or twinges?

Helen - I will try my best with that. Hopefully my DH will be up for that. Live in a small flat thought where you can hear everything. Eek. Would be a funny story though.

Xx

Still a positive OPK today. I have no idea if that's normal or not lol
Anyone know?

To the OPK experts.... Do you get a faint line on the ICs and then it gets darker and darker as the days go on? I just did one tonight and there was a very squinty line there, where as yesterday it was totally white. I know it has to be darker than the control to be positive though!

Misskgb, thanks for the advice, I'm just going to dtd regularly regardless of the OPKs but if I get a positive, I might try and squeeze in a few extra just to be on the safe side!!

Just having a glass of sparkling rose. Trying to drink up all our wedding wine before it's too late.... wine is the only thing that makes me glad I'm not pregnant!!!

Lolly- very quick, quiet dtd sessions?!

Thanks misskgb hope you are good x

Hazel I would keep doing the OPKs to see how long your surge lasts... That way you'll hopefully get to know your body better i.e. Does it tend to happen quickly or over the space of a few days hopefully it won't be relevant and you'll get your BFP this cycle!

Oh I didn't know about the sperm thing. Thanks ladies.

Yes Helen defo still hope. Feeling a little AF crampy this morning which is about right if AF is due in 4 days.

Hazel you could use the opk's but not sure there is much point if you know you are about to ovulate. Instead of that you could just go for gold over the next few days. How exciting.

Just calculated that I will have visitors over my next exact ov date. What on earth am I going to do? Might be another missed month. Aaargh.

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H I keep saying to DH that it is sperm that was produced 3 months ago so he needs to cut down. He really has, actually. Just need to control weekend binges

I'm not hopeful, considering we're now using December's sperm

No, Lolly not an expert at all. Will crack on with DTD over the next few days then!

Actually, I was going to ask...should I keep using the OPKs for a few more days?

Hazel Haha loving the summary! I think probably a lot of people don't get pregnant for a while because they are wrong about the timing. Realistically, it's really hard to keep going all throughout the month and it doesn't seem like ovulation is an exact science for a lot of people so it makes it a bit difficult to be 100% sure what the hell is going on. Sounds like you've covered every angle with your dates though, especially if you keep going for another few days and usually have a relatively regular cycle! I'm a bit daunted at the prospect of having to DTD for the next 40 odd days!!!

Fingers crossed for your BFP this month then! Yeah I am still having a couple of glasses of wine. I think giving it up would make this whole process even more painful than it already is! I am retrying the conception vitamins, but taking them at night in the hope they won't upset my stomach as much and also got DH on multi vit's. Cheaper and they include zinc etc so hoping that will be good enough!

Haha glad DH is getting in the spirit of things! I did read something that said generally it's stuff that happened 3 months ago that affect egg and sperm quality now because it takes that long for it all to mature. Absolutely no idea if that's true or not but if so means giving up drinking for one month wouldn't make a difference that month?! IT'S ALL SO COMPLICATED AND A BIG FAT HORRIBLE BALL ACHE.

Lolly- there's always a hope I think, which in a way makes it all the harder every month!

Because of a stressed hubby x

hazel defo keep dtd! apparently you can ovulate up until 5 days after positive opk. I am sure your an expert but it the opk just recognise the hormone but that's the start of ovulation. I stopped dtd at positive opk because of a stressed and am 100% I am not pg but live I hope lol x FX xx

H We will get there. This is cycle 3 for me but cycle 4 off the pill. I've looked at my app and I can conclude the following:

I was shit at knowing when I ovulate

To be fair, I knew on month 1 (didn't try this month) so didn't try around that time. January we DTD a day either side of ovulation and just didn't get lucky with that. February I completely screwed up with when I ovulated and we dtd too early and stopped too early.

This month we've DTD on CD10, CD12, CD15, CD17, CD18 and I'll probably make sure we DTD again today just incase

I've got cramps today, almost exactly like AF cramps. Will do another OPK tonight.

I've worked out if I get pregnant this month, my due date will be my birthday

If I'm not pregnant this month then next month I'll up my game. Will stop drinking completely, eat even better, exercise more, make DH take conception vits for men and anything else I can think of.

I have to say, DH has been great. It's taken years for him to get to the point of wanting a baby but now he's been showing quite an interest, even examining OPKs with me, although looked less than impressed when I shoved yesterdays in his face whilst shouting "OMG, THE LINE LOOKED LIKE THAT WITHIN 5 SECONDS!!"

however if he thinks he's drinking next month, he can think again

Good stuff Gennz, really pleased for you!

Hazel I did the exact same thing the month I used them and I know I will do the same thing again this month if I get a positive!!

I was thinking this thread really proves the 'most people get pregnant within 3 months of trying' thing! Nearly all of the original girls on here got pregnant within the first 3 months and the rest of people aren't at that point yet (I don't think)! To be honest, when I look back, I don't think I had any chance of getting pregnant since we first started trying. Not convinced I ovulated the first month, had way too much spotting and random bleeding the second month and then stopped dtd way too early on the last month given the fact I had a double length cycle to what I thought I was going to! So hoping I have more chance this month and that can be my month number 1 of properly trying!! Last night have a bit of a 'my body isn't working and I'm never going to get pregnant' moment, really hoping this month proves me wrong!!!

Thanks lady & Hazel! Congrats Hazel on the OPK, get busy!

Amazing news Gennz! Congratulations!

In my world....I got a positive today...on an OPK

Nowhere near as exciting but I took a photo of it I am so excited to know when I ovulated and now I know when BFP is due! April 3rd...I'm counting down the days

Gennz massive congratulations!!

Thanks everyone! You are the only ones who know apart from DH! I have no idea how I will keep it under wraps, I work in media and it's a very drinky drinky kind of a workplace so I'm sure everyone will figure it out within a week. Very exciting though! It doesn't feel real at all.

I am 11dpo today mrs h. I definitely had a suspicion from about 7dpo that I might be knocked up - the super strong finger nails were weird, and I've been feeling a bit queasy since about 1dpo! (Really hope this isn't a bad omen for morning sickness... )

Yay gennz congratulations!

Woohoo amazing news!! Congratulations :) how many dpo are you today?

YaaaaaY congrats gennz, been waiting all day for that

Congrats Gennz xx