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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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Clearblue advanced fertility monitor (new one with touchscreen)

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Ladyboluna · 27/07/2014 11:34

Here is the amazon link:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00H4Y9EW0?cache=08e8a426eb0e0075448c734d03dde78d&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&qid=1406417637&sr=8-4#ref=mp_s_a_1_4

I've ordered it today as today is 12th month of trying after having AF. Has anyone used it or interested in using it? I like how it works it all out for you as I don't want to spend all that time stressing over learning how to chart myself. You poas when it tells you and insert the stick into the machine and it interprets it for you. Gives you a few high chance days and then the lh surge days. Measures oestrogen and lh. Also can test for pregnancy. You can input when you dtd too and a light and alarm can remind you.

I really like gadgets and technology anyway. If it works I don't care how much it costs. Anyone have any experience with it already? I don't think it's been put long.

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Foxtrot7459 · 20/08/2014 18:00

In anticipation of lots of highs before peak I'm not to jump DH just yet as don't want to exhaust him out and peak too early!

Can't wait for first peak reading to confirm my body is working as it should!

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Ladyboluna · 20/08/2014 17:37

chunder what do you mean live poas?

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Katybear123 · 20/08/2014 16:45

That's really interesting chunder thanks for sharing, great news that it can detect peaks on cycle 1. Am hoping if I have to use this, still waiting on my bfp hopefully tomoz but if not then cbfm is here with sticks and ready to go

chundercatsarego · 20/08/2014 16:31

Hi katy it's my first month...I spe b t the first week feeling smug that I didnt have to force myself to have sex at every opportunity, the next two freaking out at repeated low readings then yesterday and today felt like I'd won the lottery with a high then a peak! Grin God knows what I'll be like if I get a bfp!

Despite the roller coaster I'm pleased I'm using it as my phone totally mis calculated my o day- so we have been shagging furiously at completely the wrong time thwn giving up, exhausted just asbi become fertile Shock woops!

ladyb I demand a live poas!

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Ladyboluna · 20/08/2014 16:26

Hello ladies, welcome to the new ones!

Congratulations chunder! that is an amazing feeling isn't when you get your first high Grin even though it was 6am when I got mine I went to wake up my OH to shove the monitor in his face.

I'm on a countdown now - AF would normally be due for me on Friday, peak was exactly 2 weeks ago on friday. Have done a IC today which was negative but CB still thinks my cycle is going to be 28 days so it won't let me test yet (mine are 26). I'm trying to think that even if this isn't our month at least the CB will know me and we can start to use some of its other features such as comparing one month to the next, the graphs and stuff.

sunbathing I got 4-5 highs before I got my peak, and I had 2 days of peak before the CBFM stopped asking for sticks and gave me an automatic high reading before going down to low.

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croon979 · 20/08/2014 12:22

Brilliant Chunder well done! Well I have had another high day - the monitor seems to think I am continuously highly fertile but no sign of peaking! Ah well, it is only my first month of using it which I am using as a dummy test run anyway as my DH is away a lot this month anyway. The search for my elusive peak continues!

Katybear123 · 20/08/2014 10:59

Hi Chunder cat great news how long have you been using the cbfm?

chundercatsarego · 20/08/2014 09:01

Oh, and fox I have heard of a few people getting all highs in the first month as the monitor learns your cycle and sort b of calibrates itself to your 'normal' so try not to panic

chundercatsarego · 20/08/2014 08:59

Morning all, hope you're all well and the newbies are enjoying their poas moment each morning Smile . I got my peak today at cd21 after only one high yesterday. I have been worrying since first test on cd6 and it seems all is ok, so I would just try to relax and see what happens. ...easier said than done though!

CurlyJay19 · 20/08/2014 08:53

Hi ladies,

I'm on CD13 and have had my 5th 'high' reading today. Thought I was going to ovulate way sooner than usual as I usually get 2/3 'highs' each month but at the minute it looks like I'm on track. Don't know if it's a second round of Clomid that I finished last week that is affecting the readings? I have been using the monitor since May, although that month I wasn't TTC as DH still hadn't had his vasectomy reversed.

Foxtrot7459 · 20/08/2014 08:18

CD6 today so first test with CBFM and I got a high reading - wasn't expecting this, thought it would be low. Maybe I ovulate earlier than I thought or maybe my cycles are still messed up after mc. Anyone else had this?

SunbathingCat · 19/08/2014 13:06

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Mel3062 · 19/08/2014 12:55

I have that problem also he hates being told when to Dtd :(
The amount of high days can really vary I'm afraid sometimes I get 2 and others can be several. I Dtd every other day on high then every day for 2/3 days on peak. If it's first time using it could be a lot of high days as it gets used to you.

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croon979 · 19/08/2014 11:14

That's FAB chunder!! whoop!

CD18 for me and another high although I am convinced for other reasons (which will prob be TMI) that I am ovulating. Maybe my peak day will be CD20 as this seems to be a lucky day :)

Mel3062 - I think that the monitor does miss it certain months so probably nothing to worry about.

fingers crossed for you LadyB, newbie and katybear123.

Hope your CBFM arrives soon sunbathingcat, it's the future, I'm convinced!

chundercatsarego · 19/08/2014 07:48

Finally got a high!!! Grin CD20, and we're attending a family funeral today Sad ....not sure I how much swi will be on the cards later, but feel so much better to have had a high, I could sing!

Mel3062 · 19/08/2014 03:17

Hi ladies please can I join? Month 4 of my monitor now I think. Af due Saturday. Last month it didn't show peak but think it missed it.

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Ladyboluna · 18/08/2014 23:19

Hopefully sunbathing you'll be able to send it back? Wink

Boobs are really sore today. Normal impending AF symptom for me though, so not too excited although I know it could be for both. They're the kind of 'gravity is going to really hurt when I take my bra off' sort of sore. Ugh.

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SunbathingCat · 18/08/2014 17:27

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Katybear123 · 18/08/2014 10:33

Hi all

Newbie gd luck will pull on ur experience next month if no bfp

Chanders id b the same I would b straight to doc. It would make me feel better for sure

Day 23 here the waiting continues

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Ladyboluna · 18/08/2014 10:19

Fingers crossed chunder, do what you think will make you feel better about the process. I am sorry that you're still getting low readings. :( maybe it's just one of those cycles?

croon thanks, I just want Friday to be here now. I am enjoying the feeling that this might be our month and I want to test NOW but at the same time I think the longer I wait to test, the more I can enjoy thinking I might be. Avoiding looking at the CBFM incase it tempts me.

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croon979 · 18/08/2014 08:35

Hi all, was away over the w/e so not been around to post. Well I am now on CD18 and still high but no sign of peaking :-s. So for this cycle I had. 3 low days and then 9 high days. I think that it may well have missed my peak this time as my cycles are 28-30 days usually. I have read that this may happen the first month of using the monitor. Either that or I ovulate late in my cycle. Hmmm. Anyway, will keep testing as instructed for this month and see what it tells me next month.

Hope the 2ww is going well ladyb.

Fingers crossed for a high/peak to you Chunder.

Baby dust to all x

chundercatsarego · 18/08/2014 08:19

Good luck newbie!

ladyb I am jealous of you in the 2ww! CD20 now and still low! Am wondering if it is worth a trip to the docs this month if still low when I finish...been trying 8-9 months and never had a pos opk either Sad

newbie6 · 17/08/2014 21:54

Hi all

Did my day 6 test today and got a low so waiting now for my high, first time using this monitor and am on cycle 5 now, ttc#2 and praying this is our month! Good luck everyone else x

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Ladyboluna · 17/08/2014 20:00

Oh and chunder I totally understand. I have taken emergency contraception before when I was 18 and then been on hormonal contraceptives from then until now (I'm 23). Now I've not been on anything I'm like well I probably shouldn't have bothered then! lol

Said this to OH today and he said knowing our luck I would have fell pregnant while we couldn't cope with a baby if I did that. So swings and roundabouts, lol.

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