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Sperm Meets Egg Plan

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nk1605 · 18/11/2017 08:33

Hi 😊

So TTC #2 (dd is nearly 3). I've just recovered from hypothalamic amenorrhoea and regained my period 16th Oct. We TTC that cycle but no luck.

Although I got a positive OPK on CD18, I suspect either I didn't OV or my luteal phase was too short as I had a 28 day cycle.

Now I'm on CD6 of cycle #2. DP and I are going to try the sperm meets egg plan. Has anyone else tried this? Would love to hear any experiences whether or not it worked.

Thanks!

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Gem173 · 12/12/2017 06:01

Congratulations I’m glad it worked @AJ89 I’m so sorry about the miscarriage hope your scan goes well and says otherwise💕 here if you need to talk x

LookingAtTheStars89 · 11/12/2017 23:46

@AJ89. Flowers

AJ89 · 11/12/2017 23:36

@gem173 well I got my bfp on 2nd December but now think I am miscarrying unfortunately. Got an early scan on Friday to check it out. But will definitely try the sperm meets egg plan again when we TTC again as it does work.

Gem173 · 11/12/2017 21:54

Any news? @AJ89

Gem173 · 22/11/2017 07:11

@nk1605 wow oh will be ecstatic, I’m gunna be knackered! Thanks for your reply I understand it now. Hopefully it goes smoothly.

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nk1605 · 21/11/2017 14:20

@Gem173 yeah CD1 is the first day of your period. So for example my period started last Monday, finished on Friday and I started dtd yesterday, CD 8.

So you dtd CD 8, 10, 12 etc, until you get a positive OPK. The day you get a positive, you dtd that day, the next day and the day after. Then you take a break for 1 day and dtd one last time the after that.

I guess an example would be CD8 (sex), CD10 (sex), CD11 (positive OPK, sex), CD12 (sex), CD13 (sex), cd14 (no sex), cd15 (sex)

I might need to get the red bull in!

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Gem173 · 21/11/2017 13:14

I think it’s the day your period starts. So to be clear, I have to start doing the deed every other day from cd8 and start opk around the same time and then when I get a pos I dtd 3 days in a row then break one day and then have sex again the following day. What after ? Just break until 2ww ends? Xx

Gem173 · 21/11/2017 13:12

@nk1603 what day is CD1, day of period or day your period ends?

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nk1605 · 21/11/2017 12:49

@Gem173 good luck! I'm on cd9 so just started the plan yesterday. One thing I would suggest is maybe starting the OPKs sooner than CD10 as I have been getting quite strong lines since yesterday (not positives but very nearly). And I would have missed these if I had only started on CD10 as the plan says.

Saying that, my cycles are v irregular so I just started OPKs sooner!

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Gem173 · 21/11/2017 12:38

Hi guys I’m gunna try this for my next cycle :) so hopefully it will cover the correct days !

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nk1605 · 20/11/2017 11:05

Congratulations everyone who has had a positive outcome! Super news :)

I'm on CD8 so fingers crossed it works this month

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AJ89 · 19/11/2017 13:24

@hannknitted congratulations!!

@ournextadventure good luck to you also!

anothernetter · 19/11/2017 13:18

I tried it and I'm currently holding my baby girl who was conceived as a result. Good luck!

hannknitted · 19/11/2017 13:15

Thanks @CoconutGal Smile

CoconutGal · 19/11/2017 13:11

@hannknitted - that’s amazing! Congratulations!!!

hannknitted · 19/11/2017 12:47

Thank you @OurNextAdventure - still can’t quite believe it, doesn’t feel real!

Good luck with trying this month, fingers crossed for BFPs all round Smile

OurNextAdventure · 19/11/2017 12:10

@handknitted OMG Congratulations!!! So happy for you!!!

AJ - positive peak for me too today so we are in sync. Good luck with the 3 days of trying xx

hannknitted · 19/11/2017 12:07

Update on our SMEP efforts - two clear BFPs this morning at 13 DPO! Smile

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AJ89 · 19/11/2017 11:51

Got a static positive smiley on Clearblue opk today so dtd every day for 3 days starts! Gonna be so tired haha.

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nk1605 · 18/11/2017 22:15

@hannknitted wishing all the best of luck for a BFP!!

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hannknitted · 18/11/2017 21:19

It's only my first month of properly TTC but I'd heard about the SMEP and we decided to give it a go since it seems fairly logical in terms of having sex at the right times etc. From the day my period ended we had sex every other day until I got a solid smiley face on CB digital OPK, then we did it three days in a row - the only bit we missed out was to skip a day and then try once more, just because down to circumstances there wasn't time for it to happen that day!

Still waiting for the outcome... currently 12 DPO and using all willpower not to test early! I put my info into two tracking apps just out of interest to see if they came out the same - there is some discrepancy between when they predict my period is due, Clue says Monday, Fertility Friend says Thursday, so we will see. I will test sometime next week if my period doesn't arrive first.

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nk1605 · 18/11/2017 18:51

@felloutofbed2wice I think I could give that a go for only one month! I was knackered doing it every other day 😅 out of curiosity, what CD did you start dtd as much as possible?

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FellOutOfBed2wice · 18/11/2017 18:48

The only thing that worked for me was to throw a lot of sperm at the wall (so to speak!) with DD1 I had many months of trying the SME plan as I agree, it makes sense, but the month I actually fell was when we had literally as much sex as we could manage for pretty much the whole first two weeks of the month. Sometimes twice a day. It wasn’t pretty. When that worked we decided that was the way forward so did that first month with DD2 and I was pregnant first cycle. Could just be coincidence but DD1 took almost a year (with me tracking and reading up and doing my temperature) and DD2 took a month.

Basically I think have as much sex as you can manage and your schedule allows.

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nk1605 · 18/11/2017 18:44

@ournextadventure I had the same thoughts when I was reading about the smep. DP and I dtd pretty much every other day around what I believed to be my fertile window last month... It was really tough going and sort of felt like a task near the end! But I figure I'll give this plan a go and see what happens since I didn't conceive last time round. Could be that we stopped too early after my positive OPK

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chevrechevre · 18/11/2017 16:53

Adventure while CB static smiley shows your high surge that doesn’t necessarily mean you ovulate then, only temping can confirm. Some women get more than one high surge as body attempts to ovulate but fails so has another go, some ovulate earlier or later than the mid-point of the cycle so might miss the surge, some women ovulate very soon after their surge, and what if you don’t catch your surge until it’s been high for hours already? So I think by dtd throughout you’re more likely to catch the egg if you do ovulate earlier/later. But you really have to do whatever works for you and DH/DP. And maybe dtd with the flashing smiley too, because sperm can hang around.

But I haven’t got a bfp yet so am in no position to give advice, tbh. Just trying to maximise chances.

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