December Bus - Christmas Wishes

@frank I wish I had that libido!! I have only one baby but by the end of the day I’m ready to curl up in my bed and sleep! Sex always seems less appealing than sleep (even though I love dh and still find him attractive!)

Wow @frank that's amazing! You're a fertile fiend! Hope you get your Christmas wish.

Af has arrived a week early, i guess to the procedure i had last week. So bfp due on 14th dec not 21st.

I use ovia, which has been pretty good so far. Not temping or using opks as i get a lot of ewcm and can feel ovulation (pains) so listen to my body.

Fx everyone!

Lol well the children are all ages between 10 and 4 so even though it’s a lot of work they’re all at ages where they sleep through in their own bed, pretty easy to manage really! So leaves us with enough time at night and early morning to make some time for each other

we have quite a lot of help and both of us are at home a fair bit too so it’s not as hectic with that many children as you’d think

This is the second month of ttc, all the other times we’ve just said ok let’s have a baby and it’s happened so we were disappointed when it didn’t happen this month, I don’t think it’s ever taken me more than one month before so it’s a new experience for me

@frank You have 7 children and you managed to dtd that often?! Damn, you must be super woman, Im so envious 😂 We have no kids and just struggle to fit it in. It's not even that we don't want to, just life seems to get in the way!

Going to carry on with my chilled approach until I've ran out of patience. I'm away Fri and Sat this weekend which is annoying because I think it's probably a good time (Assuming I ov on CD14 that would be a week today). O well, we can dtd thurs sun mon and see what happens. Fingers crossed for us all!

Haha frank - I'll need to make sure my husband doesnt ever find out that women exist who have that high a sex drive, haha

Hi can I join?

AF unexpectedly arrived today, and a day early just to snap me back to reality so I'm onto month #2. I have fairly regular cycles. I tracking cycles and no contraception except condoms for over a year. Took 7 months to conceive DD following 10 years on the pill and I struggled with the lack of control over knowing what my body was doing. So I'm hoping my planning will mean a nice short TTC journey.

TTC #2 (DD is 3)
Cycle 2
CD 1
AF due 13 dec

Hi guys af started today so I’m hopping on the December bus!

Try baby number 8😬🙊
CD 1

Using digital opk.

Is it possible to dtd too much?me and Dh have an active sex life and I’m sorry if this is tmi, but the days before and on ovulation we have sex once a day, when I’m not ovulating it’s a couple of times a day 🙈 I’m thinking maybe we should be doing it every other day around ovulation to make sure the sperm erm, replenish?

Haha that’s true, maybe i’ll stick to just the one for now!

I am trying to temp this month, only done it one month before and it was a while ago so don’t really have much to compare it to but hoping I can stick to it this month! I really just want to know if I’m ovulating so seems a good way to check.

Babydreaming you need a two decimal place thermometer as normal ones aren’t accurate enough and I think it has to go up 0.3 of a degree to indicate ovulation (not 100% sure though!). X

I use fertility friend. I did download Ovia as everyone said they used it but I don’t find it as easy to use.

Babydreaming no you need a proper nasal temp one. I made that mistake the first few months

*equally. blinking typos!

*temped

I do like Ovia but have nothing to compare it to. People who use multiple apps sometimes say they all give different info, so maybe trying another one would just send me mad!

I've never temper so I'm not sure about that. I admire people who do though!

I think if you dtd in the days leading to ovulation, the sperm can wait ready to pounce on the egg. But equality once ovulation occurs the egg lives for a short period so if you dtd during that time you could also catch it x

With my 1st I just used an online ovulation calendar. I tried the OPKs but never got a positive. I got pregnant 1st cycle then though so was clearly ovulating!

This time round I’ve got Ovia too. I am planning on doing opks and I’m actually starting to track my ovulation this month ( we are still using contraception til next month!) so that I get to know my cycle better.

I’ve considered temping...can I just use a regular thermometer? I have one for my little one that seems pretty good. Is it accurate?

I know thIs is a stupid question but when is the ideal time to dtd? Is it when you get positive on opk? Or actually on ovulation day?

What’s ovia like? I’m using Flo and it’s quite easy to use/looks nice but because my cycles are still long and a bit irregular I don’t know how accurate it is! Debating getting a different app (or just a second one haha) but not sure if there’s much difference between them?

@louella I'm using ovia. I also though my cycles were pretty regular but they are not currently so it's definitely helping to keep track of things!

@BaliBound I started off using opks like a mad woman for the last 7 cycles but that clearly hasn't worked so this cycle we're just going down the relaxed route and trying to read my body rather than just looking at sticks.
Sunday afternoon I was incredibly horny sorry if tmi yesterday had strange af type pains in my left side and today lots of cm so guessing i am or have ovulated at some point over the last day or so?!

I've been using Ovia. Always thought my cycles were like clockwork but have been tracking sInce May and they're a bit inconsistent. Probably better to be informed about what's actually going on. What apps do you all use (if any)?

Im not either but I did get an app so I could at least track what is going on and when!

I’d gone into this month with that attitude but then my closest friend announced her pregnancy and I ended up buying a bloody clear blue advanced monitor instead!

I think it’s definitely the best way though to just do it the natural way!

You've probably got the right idea! I'm not temping and I did try opks but I could rarely get anything close to a positive. I'm just trying to dtd but the closest I got to fw last cycle was cd 8, cd 10, cd 15 and cd 20 due to working opposite shifts. Must try harder!

Is anyone else not temping/using opks?

We're going down the relaxed route and just dtd more often in the middle 10 days. I'm probably not putting enough effort in am I?

Thank you @peterpanwendy for making this thread! I'm hoping over from the November bus too, although I'd been a bit quiet there as I've been struggling a bit with feeling like this is never going to happen.

@CoconutGal I understand how you're feeling, I think I'm feeling quite similar. Its so hard seeing people with babies and hearing more and more pregnancy announcements. I so want to be happy for my friends, but it hurts a lot :(

So here goes another month:

Age 30
TTC #1
Cycle 7/8
CD 5
Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
Taking vitabiotics pregnacare his and hers.

Good luck! Christmas baby dust all around! Lol!

Got my first high on the clear blue monitor this morning! Then a nearly positive IC opk this evening. So hopefully it’ll happen over the next few days!
I feel like I’m setting myself up for a huge fall though. I have a good feeling about this cycle and I don’t know why. It’s only going to end in tears if I get my hopes up too much then AF shows!

Forgot to say on opk ic test it was a faint line! So I'll keep testing next few days...that would also mean l could be early ovulation this month

Hehe @Fia256 you make me laugh!

I did a opk this morning currently only cd9 as AF short this month. Got rid of the old swimmers lol by dtd before fw! Does that even matter!?! Its hard getting the right balance I agree with you @louella99 to be fair I doubt we will do it again before the weekend as shifts don't match this week either