Would anyone like to join me in a SMEP thread?

Wow, Cam HUGE congratulations!!! That certainly looks like a line to me. How many days past ovulation are you? This gives me hope, as it's my first month doing SMEP and using conceive plus! Please keep us updated.

Here you go! Both tests!!

A line is a line!yay congrats cam .happy pregnancy!!!pics please

Morning everyone. An update from me! I've took a test this morning and got a faint positive. Took another and it was the same! So fingers crossed this is good news. Will test again tomorrow before we head off on our weekend break :-) X

Good luck everyone. AF is due on Sunday and i've been getting really sharp pains on the right side of my ovaries which I don't think can be a good sign. I completely agree with you mimi, it's taking it's tole on me too. I broke down at my acupuncturist yesterday and he reassured me that every couple gets there in the end! This will have been my third cycle on SMEP and using conceive plus. Think a month off TTC next month might be in order as well!

Mimi Sorry to hear Af is on the way She's a bitch & i'm sick to death of her in my house. I know the feeling, it's been 17 months for me. This is my first month properly doing SMEP though, and i'm taking pre pregnancy vitamins plus my conceive plus lubricant arrived in the post today. Hoping this makes a difference & I get my long awaited BFP. Do you mind me asking how long you have used the SMEP approach?

I think im out this cycle.spotting now,sign that af is imminent.im really tired of ttc tbh.is so depressing if u aren't getting pregnant.taking 1month break and baby dust to you cam sea village, hope u get your bfps this cycle fx

Wow bug,congratulations.wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months.

village I used it every time as a lubricant. It came in a bottle rather than applicator. We used lube normally so we just carried on using something that didn't have spermicide in it. It probably doesn't make a huge difference until just before and during ovulation x

Bug Did you use conceive plus everytime you BD? I am on day 3 of smep but my order of conceive plus won't be here until Thursday. Do you insert it or just use it as a lubricant? Keeping everything crossed for you, keep us updated!!

Thank you guys! A bit of a surprise because I'm only 10dpo so I am being cautiously optimistic. Village I also used Conceive Plus this month. Cam I couldn't resist doing a test 😳

Congratulations bug that is great news!! Amazing! How many days post ovulation are you?

I'm due to test on Sunday, although could test early on Thursday.

bug oh fingers crossed!! Huge congratulations in advance!

I bought conceive plus lubricant yesterday and am using it in conjunction with smep this month. Apparently it gets sperm where it needs to go.

Morning everyone. I did SMEP this month and today I took a test (earlier than I should have) and got a faint second line so fingers crossed its worked! X

I am gearing up to try SMEP properly for the first time this month. I'm shattered even thinking about it! 16 months in TTC and i'm so fed up of it!

I'm on day 7 of my cycle and my cycles are approx between 29 and 35 days (although I had a 27 day cycle this month) Going to start BD on day 9 I think, as this is when my clear blue advanced fertility monitor is telling me to test for ov.

Praying it works, I really, really, really need to get pregnant and not sure how long I could do SMEP!

Morning everyone. How are people doing this week? Hopefully keeping warm! When is everyone due to test this month? X

loki you give me hope. Yesterday was the last DTD on SMEP so back to doing it just for fun now 🙂. I'm now in the dreaded TWW but I refuse to symptom spot as I drove myself crazy last month even though we weren't properly trying!!

One! I didn't use opks but followed the bd guidelines.

Loki if you don't mind me asking, how many cycles did you try SMEP last time before it worked?

Definitely - it worked last time x

Seacrown I use the dual hormone digi clear blue OV test. I like it because it gives me certainty and helps me plan when we should be DTD 3 days in a row rather than EOD. Because an OPK has to be as strong or stronger than the control line I would be stressing out trying to figure out whether or not it's positive.

Loki17 I'm sorry for your loss. Will you use SMEP again?

I'm ok. Getting there anyway. Gearing myself up to start all of this again in a month or so. Scary if im honest but I must look ahead.

Seacrown I started using internet cheapies OPKs and didn't ever get a positive. I convinced myself that I wasn't ovulating. I then read that the clearblue digital was good because it tests for two hormones. Since using those, I have had a clear result every month. I got mine from Amazon with 20 sticks and that has lasted me a few months (I test from day 10 and oblate on day 13/14 so only use a few per month).
Personally I don't always have a lot of mucus around ovulation (my acupuncturist said no all women do) so I find the only way to know is OPKs. I definitely felt myself ovulate on Saturday but have never felt that before. Also, not sure I would have known what it was if I had't got the positive test that morning.

Thank you Loki, that's very sensible advice. Feel like I'm dwelling on them far too much, even considered forking out for the digital ones when I really can't afford it. I'll talk to my OH and see what he thinks . Thank you. How are you doing Loki? X

I had success with the smep plan although my pregnancy sadly ended in miscarriage. I'll be using the plan again when we are ready to ttc. Seacrown I gave up with opks. I had nothing but faint positives which are actually negatives for about a week. All they did was stress me out about when to bd. In the end I worked out when the midpoint of my cycle was and bd'd everyday for 5 days with the middle of my cycle being day 3. The rest of the time we did eod. It worked