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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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Scared to use ovulation strips

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 07:46

Hi all, so ive had the worst night sleep as all ive been thinking about is if i can conceive. This has probably got worse as i constantly google things! Heres the facts.....
Age, 27
Came off pill august 2018 after being on pill for 10 years (microgicon)
1st af 1st december
2nd af 9th jan
3rd af 17th feb
4th af 30th march
So as you can see my cycles are long and google says this could mean you dont ovulate!
Im so scared as i really want kids and would be devestated if i cant. Any similar success stories? Am i being stupid?

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Luckylola12 · 02/04/2019 20:42

@snowflake9 thankyou! Im feeling more positive again now =) going all out this month, quitting alcohol, cutting back caffiene, tracking my temperatures =)

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Snowflake9 · 02/04/2019 20:37

I had periods like that. I would think, oh it's finished. Not wear anything then BAM it came back..keep an eye on it, wear a pad just in case and if nothing more do a test in a week xx

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Luckylola12 · 02/04/2019 08:30

Just another random question everyone....so af started sat 30th afternoon ish! Quite a heavy one but now today has pretty much stopped! Is that normal?

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Luckylola12 · 02/04/2019 08:28

@gillianusedtolivehere thanks for sharing your story! I look forward to trying out everything i have learnt =)

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Luckylola12 · 02/04/2019 08:27

Thanks @92AP =) i will follow your advice for sure! Fingers crossed =)

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Luckylola12 · 02/04/2019 08:26

@snowflake9 thankyou! I have ordered that one =) also thanks for the tips on vitamins! The branded ones are so expensive!

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Snowflake9 · 01/04/2019 21:54

Morrisons own and Asda own pregnancy multivitamins are a fraction of the cost and have the exact same things in them as pregnacare.

GillianUsedToLiveHere · 01/04/2019 21:26

I used ovulation strips (cheap ones off the internet) as I have endometriosis and my cycles were all over the place, anything from 23 to 40 days.

I now know that I ovulate and my period starts exactly 14 days later but that ovulation can take place at any time so I used to start dip testing from day 8 onwards at the exact same time every day.

It worked and I had a baby who is now 13!

burritofan · 01/04/2019 21:21

Just take folic acid + vitamin D, ideally in a generic prenatal that covers all bases to keep you healthy while the foetus, which acts like a parasite (albeit a beloved one!), nicks all your good health.

Everything else – black cohosh, ubiqionol, red clover, whatever – is just Holland & Barrett snake oil preying on the fears we ALL have that we'll be the % of women who can't conceive. Honestly you can drive yourself nuts and bankrupt yourself with supplements but folic acid, vitamin D and lots of shagging is the first thing to try (for at least a year before anything else).

92AP · 01/04/2019 21:19

Mummyjojo, absolutely folic acic, probably iron too. Me and dp have started on pregnacare this month as i've been recomended it twice by two mates who say they both got caught the first month they started with it but its no different from a normal multivit and extra folic acid really.

mummyjojo19 · 01/04/2019 21:12

Ladies sorry yo jump on this but what vitamins and things should I be taking whilst trying to conceive? Xx

92AP · 01/04/2019 20:26

That one youve linked is similar to mine. I use Natural Cycles app as it has a really good graph and good predictions but you do pay for it. Theres plenty of free apps like Ovia and Clue that are good too. I keep it on top of my phone every night so when my alarm goes off I stick it straight in my mouth as im turning the alarm off. I lay till it beeps (normally about 30 seconds) then get up and add it into the app. Temp should be between 36C and 37C ish all the time but lower end first half of your cycle, then it should for dip a day or two before ypu ovulate before rising quite a lot towards 37C once the ovulation has taken place. It will stay high the rest of your cycle and if your pregnant wont decrease. It will decrease a day or so before your period if youve not concieved that month.

I find it really easy and its a surefire way to know youve ovulated.

Fingers crossed!

Snowflake9 · 01/04/2019 19:20

This looks like mine. I think I paid similar too

www.amazon.co.uk/BabyMad%C2%AE-Basal-Thermometer-Ovulation-Tests/dp/B014L9UVHC?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=bd56ef92-8166-528b-a5c9-8fa815560cda&pf_rd_r=C7PY64WTYBD1RK2T15G9&pf_rd_s=mobile-hybrid-6&pf_rd_t=30901&ref_=Oct_CATRatedC_2826718031_3&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&pf_rd_i=2826718031

Keep it by your bed and set an alarm and before you get out of bed stick it under your tongue and record the temperature.

The FF App will determine when you ovulate, it can only tell you when you have ovulated though, not when you are about too. I noticed a huge drop in my temp the day I would ovulate and then a spike after.

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 18:43

@snowflake9 i dont have an ebay account is there a amazon one similar? I have some clearblue ovulation tests which i will use aswell =)

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Her0utdoors · 01/04/2019 16:59

Not everyone's idea of fun, but your cervix will change position at texture throughout your menstrual cycle--forwards, down and soft when about to ovulate in my case. That and being rampantly horny are my tell tale signs.

Snowflake9 · 01/04/2019 16:49

I bought mine on eBay and downloaded the fertility friend app. If you have any questions please do ask me! I also started taking pregnancy multivitamins the month before I conceived. Just asdas own xx

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 12:23

@seventytwoseventythree thanks fot sharing your story! I will deffo try to track my bbt. Out of interest where did you buy a thermonitor from?

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 12:21

Thankyou and congratulations =)

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Seventytwoseventythree · 01/04/2019 11:09

Hi @luckylola12

No useful advice but just wanted to say I am in the same boat (cam off the pill Aug 2018 and having few periods with 35-40 day cycle). I am tracking BBT and I do find it easy - not showing any good temp increases for me yet though but fingers crossed! I have tried OPKs but I read that if you have a short LH surge you might need to do them twice a day during fertile periods which just seems anxiety inducing especially because I have no clear picture of when my (possibly) fertile period is!

Good luck!

Blondiecub0109 · 01/04/2019 11:03

Yes - third time lucky (2nd frozen embryo after a fresh that was a cluster and a MC with the second) a DS born 6 weeks ago. And one embryo in the freezer still.

HOWEVER - you are younger than I was (I was 33) you’ve not been trying as long AND it a big step up from where you are now to IVF. Please just keep trying but do speak to your GP if you need reassurance -0 they might get you a Day21 blood test to ease your mind.

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 10:22

@92AP wow we are on the same track then! I really need to try tracking bbt, what have you used to help? Also good luck to you too =)

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 10:20

@blondiecub0109 thankyou for sharing your story! Do you mind if i ask if you have had sucess?

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 10:19

@snowflake9 i do need to start the bbt tracking thankyou for your help!

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Luckylola12 · 01/04/2019 10:17

@burritofan thankyou! I havent looked for any other signs of ovulating as it all confuses me! But i will look into it a lot more now thanks!

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92AP · 01/04/2019 08:03

Lucky, I am in a really similar position to you. Im also 27, was on Microgynon since I was 17 and came off in Dec 2018. I've had a 39 day cycle and then a 37 day one and I am 100% ovulating as im tracking using BBT and OPKs.

Do both if you feel the need for the security of knowing like I do. We will get our babies, I am positive.