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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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Maybe a Xmas surprise anyone else ?

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Bethany0903 · 14/12/2018 18:51

So this month I've used clear blue ovulation tests and according to when I peaked and my ovulation was I can test Christmas day! Anyone elses test day Christmas day ? Hoping for some Christmas luck ❤️

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03cclarke · 19/12/2018 04:11

@stroan yeah temping and opk results!

stroan · 18/12/2018 23:36

@03cclarke what data do you enter into the app? Is it temping?

I tend to believe positive OPKs over the several apps that I use.

03cclarke · 18/12/2018 21:36

Right I have been thinking that I'm 8dpo because that's when my LH stick showed a positive but my natural cycles app is telling me that I ovulated 4 days after that?!?!?!? If the app is right then I dtd too early 😭

Maybe a Xmas surprise anyone else ?
Soexciting · 18/12/2018 20:33

@billyandthesillies so sorry that you are out this month.

Kins00 · 18/12/2018 20:29

Sorry to hear that @billyandthesillies ... a new year will bring with it lots of new hope. Get yourself a glass of mulled wine! Xx

Pastaallday · 18/12/2018 19:55

Sad sorry to hear that x

BillyAndTheSillies · 18/12/2018 19:50

I'm out for the month. My suspicions were right and AF showed up 4 days early.
Sending unmumsnetty positive vibes to you all!

Kins00 · 18/12/2018 19:10

@soexciting I am the same as you... don't think this will be my month. Symptom spotting like mad but no difference to every other month! My cycles have been 26-31 days so expecting AF 21st - 26th December (no doubt will turn up after Xmas so I wouldn't have even been able to enjoy a drink) Trying so stay positive is so hard when you are wishing for something so much!!

duckeggbluenotblue · 18/12/2018 17:24

Haha I'd love a September baby! Will have to wait and see! Xx

Soexciting · 18/12/2018 17:16

Hi all,
Thanks for the reassurance.
Embarrassingly this is only my second cycle but I am a bit obsessive. I am stressed about the struggle to conceive before the struggle has even happened.
I am going to be positive I think this thread is going to be full of positives. Then in 9 months everyone who wanted a September baby will go a week early and end up with the youngest child in the school year!

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Bethany0903 · 18/12/2018 12:14

Yes I agree TTC is very hard and can be so upsetting a lot of my friends are announcing pregnancies and I'm so happy for them but so upset at the same time I feel like I've been trying forever!

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03cclarke · 18/12/2018 07:57

@Soexciting I was reading some bfp stories last night because it keeps my spirits up and I thought of you. Someone said the first signs they had was going off mince!!!!

duckeggbluenotblue · 18/12/2018 07:55

How long have you been TTC for @soexciting?

Soexciting · 18/12/2018 07:37

So sorry to hear about your losses @bethany0903 and @duckeggbluenotblue. TTC is so scary anyway without the added fear of already having experience the worst and having to try again Sad
For some reason I feel that I am not pregnant this cycle. I am symptom spotting like crazy but I don't have sore boobs, no implantation bleeding, only fleeting mild nausea and one dodgy mince pie. I feel like I was stupid to get excited on my first month trying.
A September baby would be so ideal for me and my DH and I feel like it's that whole "god laughs when you make plans thing". I am a natural pessimistic I think and am wondering how I am going to make it through potentially months if not years of trying.

duckeggbluenotblue · 18/12/2018 07:01

Bad luck I think, I've had 2 healthy, easy pregnancies and straightforward births and I had one 😔 but I'm so scared another will happen. Fingers crossed this is our month and another sticky bean for us both 💗💗

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Bethany0903 · 17/12/2018 19:13

@duckeggbluenotblue ooo I'm not too sure what it could be! There horrible aren't they! I was in agony with it they thought ectopic first! I had a really bad birth with my son and had lots of complications so scared that's done something hopefully not and it's just bad luck xx

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duckeggbluenotblue · 17/12/2018 19:09

@bethany0903 I had some pink blood last week but surely that would be much too early for implantation bleeding??? No idea what that was about. 🤔

Really sorry to hear about your miscarriages, I had one this year, and it was probably the worst thing thats happened to me 😓 really horrible x

BillyAndTheSillies · 17/12/2018 17:47

@Soexciting taste is usually the first thing that goes weird for me so you never know! Everything crossed.
Keep running back to the loo to check and it was just the once so seemingly I may have been lucky. My head says this may just be my cycles readjusting after a month on notrethisterone to stop my period when I was on holiday in November. But my heart is very thankful that I didn't touch the pate on the cheese board yesterday.

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Bethany0903 · 17/12/2018 16:55

@Soexciting oh no ham flavoured mince pie haha! I have also had some pink blood today just a small amount once while wiping 😬 I'm maybe gonna do a FRER this saturday! I'm just so scared of knowing early as I've had 3 miscarriages this year!

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Soexciting · 17/12/2018 16:36

Wow that is amazing @Billyandthesillies. I hope it's implantation! I doubt that AF would be this early. I am so jealous my only sign today was that my mince pie tasted of ham..the chef probably heated them on the same rack as he had used for meat before.

BillyAndTheSillies · 17/12/2018 14:54

I might have to test a little bit earlier. Just nipped to the loo and potentially got some implantation bleeding. Or AF is showing her face 5 days early.

Soexciting · 17/12/2018 12:44

I don't think I can wait until boxing day. I think I will be testing on Christmas day if not before!
Being at work is a good way to avoid symptom spotting although I am wishing away the last days of term for more reasons than one!

duckeggbluenotblue · 17/12/2018 11:55

Ooh thanks for that @soexciting
My AF is due on 27th 🤞🏻🤞🏻 this could be the month xx

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Bethany0903 · 17/12/2018 11:38

Hey @Teachermummy83 yes I think most of us are waiting until boxing day if AF doesn't arrive! Oh no I hope you feel better soon! I just know I'll be thinking about it all Christmas and won't be able to enjoy a drink incase I am!

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Teachermummy83 · 16/12/2018 21:35

Can I join the Christmas Day brigade? It’ll either be an amazing morning or I’ll be in the pits of depression! OPKs said I ovulated on the 12th and hubby went away that day..... grr! We’d managed dtd every other day the week before that, so fingers crossed! Absoultely knackered and full of the cold (nothing unusual for teachers in December!) so although I’m exhausted, i imagine that’s not potential-pregnancy related. Don’t want to test christmas day as I’ll be in a foul mood all day - think I’ll wait until Boxing Day too. If AF arrives, I’m Drowning my sorrows in baileys and puddings!