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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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A thread for anyone TTC with a ClearBlue Fertility Monitor!

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ChandlersFarang · 14/05/2014 11:04

Morning ladies!! I was hunting around for a recent thread for anyone TTC with a CBFM but couldn't find any - please let me know if one is ongoing that I didn't find!! But otherwise I wanted a place to share experiences with other ladies using this rather interesting gadget. It makes big claims for success!!

About me - I'm TTC baby #1, cycle #3, expecting AF or BFP on 2-12 June.

I'm still having slightly long cycles after stopping the pill - this is my first cycle using the monitor properly, because my last cycle went on for 40 days, and the machine got bored and stopped asking for sticks after 25 days!!

I'm currently on CD09 and had my first day of a high reading today, although I know the machine gives out high readings like they're going out of fashion so not reading much into that! Will be kicking off the SMEP (sperm meets egg plan!) from today though anyway just to be sure.

Would love to hear from you!! Smile

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ChandlersFarang · 14/05/2014 12:54

I think that happens to the best of us Waffley! I think that if you're a natural organiser/planner, then TTC is just too big a deal to leave to chance.

Looking back over my last ('first' after the pill, so had no idea what was happening) 2 cycles, at the notes I took in the Kindara app (how i felt, what was going on, when we DTD) has really helped me work out, with hindsight, when I probably ovulated. I've noticed from that that I basically missed the optimum shag days in both cycles! Now if I hadn't been 'obsessed' and made those notes, I wouldn't know that now. I might have started getting disheartened and worrying... But the more facts I have the better I feel. The monitor is another thing that helps me feel like I'm in control (when lets be frank - I definitely am not - control has very clearly really been delegated to Mother Nature!!).

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Waffleyversatile · 14/05/2014 12:32

thanks very much for the reply- totally makes sense. i leave very early in the morning so my first pee would be around 5:am haha.

It appears I am doing exactly what i didn't want to do - get obessed whilst trying to conceive.

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ChandlersFarang · 14/05/2014 12:10

Sorry - dunno where that random half sentence came from!

By the way, you can just pee in a pot if you do get up in the night/05:00 and can't be arsed dealing with the machine then (I know I can't, I'd never get back to sleep!!). Just stash the pot somewhere you'll find it at a
More reasonable time within the testing window without knocking it over/someone else finding it first Shock - yes the latter happened to me... Yes my cleaner is still working for me..!!Confused

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ChandlersFarang · 14/05/2014 12:06

Hi Waffley! You aren't gate crashing one bit - I intended this thread to be about all things CBFM -those wanting to get one are also very welcome! Smile

Good news, you can start the monitor ticking from as late as CD05! The monitor comes with a very clear instruction booklet, which is good.

The only slightly complicated thing is setting the daily testing time frame. So when you set it (between CD1-5) you have to do it exactly in the middle of what you want to be your 6 hour long 'testing window'. You always have to test with your first pee of the day. The easiest way to think of this is - what's the earliest you do your first pee?! I sometimes get up in the night at about 05:00 to go to the loo so that would be the first pee. So I'd want my 6 hour window to start at about 04:45 to be safe. The end of the 6 hours would be 10:45 (highly unlikely my first pee of the day would be later than that!). So I'd set the machine at precisely the 3 hour point - 07:45.

Hope that made sense!! It is annoying that the monitor doesn't give you the option of setting a time in the future/past... But easy enough once you get your head round it. Hopefully it arrives in time for you to set yours by the morning of CD5! X x

You absolutely must set i

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Waffleyversatile · 14/05/2014 11:25

hope this reply appears!!

Sorry to gate crash your thread but wondered if you could answer a question about the monitor.

my friend recommended as it worked for her but do you use it from the first day of AF? Also can you use it first thing in the morning? If i order it i will probably be on CD5 by the time it arrives.

Thanks for reading.

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