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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.

SMEP - feel free to join! :)

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danielasummer · 03/12/2019 07:34

Hi everyone, just making this thread as it seems a few of us will be trying SMEP to TTC! Adding these lovely ladies in from another thread but I hope everyone feels free to join! All welcome :)

@Devgirl31 @fayy123 @NCON @MrsKJW19

Some stats about me:

TTC #1
27 years old, DH is 28 years old
Missed miscarriage in October 2019 at 7+2 weeks
Still in that cycle (no AF yet)
Long and irregular cycles, some anovulatory
Suspected low progesterone/hypothyroidism (I think this based on symptoms, not diagnosed yet!)

Hope we can all provide support for each other in this crazy TTC journey.

Feel free to introduce yourselves :)

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fayy123 · 03/01/2020 19:35

@lucy5546 congratulations!! That is wonderful news! You must be over the moon! Cycle 3 for me! 😒😭😭 @Diamond94 really hoping you get your BFP!! Did you follow SMEP again this cycle? X

Lucy5546 · 03/01/2020 19:07

@ChampooPapi yes i am. I didnt want to think of it as a chore so i just came off the pill and we hoped for the best. Yes im still in shock. Just waiting on OH to come in now and share the news. Im so nervous haha

ChampooPapi · 03/01/2020 18:35

Lol, so your also on the 'lots of sex' method 😂

Getting a line like that is a relief as well, what a beautiful blessing for the first month of the new year, you must be absolutely amazed!

Lucy5546 · 03/01/2020 18:27

Thank you @champooPapi. I just cant believe it!! Well we DTD every second day until i seen signs of ovulation. I didnt use OPKs or temp but followed my CM. DtD every day for 5days.then every other day or 3 days since. But we would normally DTD quite a lot anyway.

ChampooPapi · 03/01/2020 18:20

@Lucy5546 oh my god congratulations! You did it! Was your AF due this weekend? You must be over the moon, tell us all, did you do smep or just go with the flow?

This thread is getting positives at last ladies, long may them continue 🙏

@lunamoon1 I have absolutely no idea when I am ovulating, after a miscarriage in October I'm really not certain on even af cycle lengths either so this month I'm stepping it up to every day pretty much for 3 weeks.

New research actually says the more you do it the better, the whole regeneration thing has been debunked by other studies but who knows anymore 🤷‍♀️

All I know is that I know we are both fertile so going for as much as humanly possible so every ovulation eventuality is covered. After seeing that a lot of women are thinking they are ovulating at the wrong time I just want to cover all bases.

Will try the opks if I don't catch in the next few months though, I definitely won't be able to keep this up for more then a couple of cycles

Lucy5546 · 03/01/2020 18:01

Ladies i decided to test as i will be going out for my birthday the weekend. Well i was going to. Im speechless!!

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Diamond94 · 03/01/2020 17:14

@Shazzzzz i am nightshift this week 🙈 so ill wait until monday.. and im working with a girl who has accidentally fell pregnant recently 🙄

Shazzzzz · 03/01/2020 17:11

@Diamond94 i cant either 😣 but if you think you can go and get a first response to make sure x

Diamond94 · 03/01/2020 17:05

Yeah i will wait until monday.. thank you

Lucy5546 · 03/01/2020 16:55

@Diamond94 our eyes can playawful tricks on us cant they!! Ah so you could just be testing too early. Id leave it another couple of days and re test!!

Diamond94 · 03/01/2020 16:41

The more i look at them i start to think im imagining it.. im not 100% sure what CD i am, according to my app i am CD27, but im not sure how regular my cycles are as only stopped the pill end of october. So 13DPO apparently.. but i had lots of EWCM last weekend, so i actually think thats when i ovulated.. AF is due 5th so will just need to go with the flow i suppose

Lucy5546 · 03/01/2020 16:38

@Diamond94 im sorry i cant see a line on either. But iam really bad at seeing lines!! How many DPO are you?

Shazzzzz · 03/01/2020 16:34

Hi @mrsbevans2403 hopefully 2020 is the year of new babies for us! 🤞ive heard good things about SMEP, this is my first month, im 6DPO today Grin

danielasummer · 03/01/2020 16:21

@Diamond94 honestly I can't on those photos but do you have another pic? x

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Diamond94 · 03/01/2020 16:09

Hi girls 👋🏼 can anyone see the faintest of lines on these? Or am I officially insane 🙈

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lunamoon1 · 03/01/2020 13:44

@ChampooPapi fingers crossed for both of us this cycle! I don't normally ov until CD18-19 so have a little while you wait, what's your excepted ov date?

ChampooPapi · 03/01/2020 12:47

hey @lunamoon1 , sorry to hear you got af too. We are a similar timings so onwards and upwards, cd 8 currently

lunamoon1 · 03/01/2020 11:40

Hi everyone, hope everyone had a nice new year, SEMP didn't go our way this month & back to CD5, hoping this next month we will have better luck, and to the rest of you ladies too!

@HE88 congrats on your BFP! wishing you a quiet, healthy pregnancy😊

Shazzzzz · 03/01/2020 08:24

@fayy123 i have been doing it every other day so just skipping a day, i was ill over christmas and missed 3 days so did it 26, 27 and 28th, hoping ive done enough and being ill hasnt ruined things for me! I have tried to use the OPK's this month but havent had a positive so not gonna bother now too stressful! Angry hopefully AF wont make an appearance but we will see! Xx

mrsbevans2403 · 03/01/2020 06:00

Hi Everyone!
I have recently learnt about SMEP! We are going to get in the wagon this month... stats are:
Age: 33 (in March)
We have a beautiful son 👶🏼 who is almost 2 and are TTC#2 - round 11 😞
Baby dust to you all! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 wish us luck ☘️

fayy123 · 03/01/2020 00:39

@Shazzzzz ohhhh okay! Mine is due on the 16th praying to god it doesn’t come!!! Yeah just wait it out! How often you DTD? Feel like I’m out this month haven’t BD as much as I hoped been busy😭 and have you been using OPKS? I ditched mine last month.. too stressful and using FLO app to track x

Shazzzzz · 03/01/2020 00:17

@fayy123 just a waiting game for me now, AF is due around the 11th, i can test early next week with a frer but think im just gonna wait so im not disappointed with a bfn incase its too early 🙈 how are you x

Bunny2006 · 02/01/2020 21:54

@HE88 Congratulations!! Glad you have finally got your positive, best of luck to you x

@danielasummer I'm not sure about normal thyroid levels in humans (work in a vets and thyroid probs are usually a cat thing haha!) but I know what you mean about doctors sometimes saying they're normal when they may be be a bit low but not significant enough. Hope you get some answers soon and relief that tests have been done. Sounds like you've been very busy DTD which can only be a good thing!

I'm still quite early in my cycle so only DTD CD10 then DP has been away. He'll be back from work early hours though so I'm setting an alarm so I can be ready haha. Planning on DTD every day for next few days until ovulation then every other.

HE88 · 02/01/2020 20:41

@ChampooPapi thank you Smile I was a total wreck yesterday when I saw the positive (in a good way though) I'm still not sure I quite believe it 😂. It has definitely been a long journey! Xx

ChampooPapi · 02/01/2020 20:28

@HE88 oh brilliant news you have your bfp! Congratulations, so pleased to see this news this evening. After so long you must be feeling quite stunned, god woman you really deserve this 👣🥰

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