SMEP - feel free to join! :)

Congratulations @TunnocksTcake ! :D That's a lovely clear line.

Welcome :Loubell19 , out of interest how many temperature drops do you get before AF? I'm new to temping, have 2 days of temp drops then AF on 3rd day last 2 cycles.

I'm 10DPO, so symptom spotting! Very sore boobs which I don't normally get. Odd cramps past few days but I was convinced last cycle was different too as I was bloated and crampy :/

Hi all is it okay if I join? Planning to do SMEP with my next cycle.

I'm 27 OH is 30.
Will be cycle #2- am currently 10dpo on cycle 1 but had a temp dip and getting pms so I know AF will soon be here.
Had implant out 22.11.19 ovulated after 14 days.

Fingers crossed for next cycle. I've heard of lots of success with SMEP :). X

@LosingtheTTCplot Hehe I dont think there is such thing as TMI on here!!
I followed SMEP to a T apart from the last single day but my temp had already risen for 2 days by then so I knew my window was closed. I started testing with CB OPKS on CD 10 I think because I know I O around Cd 16 - 20, this month it happened on CD17 so fairly early for me. I took Evening Primrose, Pregnancy tablets for Vegans (I'm veggie but they have high levels of everything I needed), Shatavari (homeopathic adaptogen to balance hormones), Maca, omega 3s and raspberry leaf tea. All of these apart from the multi vitamins I only took until Ov. Hoping to be able to upload my chart Tomorrow when I have more photo upload credits!!

I have my fingers crossed @champooPapi. I have wanted this for so long but had to wait until OH was ready. Wow 75% is quite high. Im so ecited to start seeing some more BFPon here!!

quick google reveals 75% or there abouts of us will conceive within six months of first trying.

There is going to be a lot of bfp by the end of january on here!

@Lucy5546 wise words, lots baby dust to you

Though you don't sound like you need it as if your dtd that much your going to fall soon! By this time next year statistically nearly all of us will be pregnant, that's a very good way to see it I think

Congrats @TunnocksTcake. So excited for you. Definite line there!!
Thanks @ChampooPapi. I think i have resd too much now i dont know whats good and whats bad. Thats good advice. I have been following my plan and DTD every day when i thought i was ovulating (serial CM and Cervix checker here) we planned on DTD every other day during the TWW anyway. OH will be delighted!!

I totally agree with the early testing. I dont plan on testing until after AF is due. Just so happens i am away this month so have a few distractions anyway! Fingers crossed i stick to it!!

@TunnocksTcake OMG! Congratulations!! Didn’t even need to open the photo!

I know you are going to do symptom list, but just remind us of your OPK/BD regime. That just sounded way too personal! Lol. I mean did you follow SMEP to a T? Xx

Even if your cycle has been the same for years, any month it can be longer or shorter, it's not a hard and fast rule even if your cycle is always 28 days. The third mo the trying for a baby it could be 31 days and throw you. This is why it's definitely good to hold off on incredibly early testing because you will drive yourself crazy waiting for a bfp, thinking you've actually accomplished it, only to get your period 48 hours later.

*Sometime less sex but more consistently through out the month

@Lucy5546 sorry I missed replying to your post about sex in the two week wait. I really think it's a good idea surly? I haven't heard of any proof it's bad, in fact some women actually get pregnant in the two week wait because they ovulated later then then thought. Ovulation tests are not always accurate, in fact they are sometimes completely off so the only way to be certain with two healthy fertile adults is lots of sex.

I have heard good things about tempting but I think some women actually miss out on a bfp that month because they are not doing it through out the month, only the 2 weeks over their 'fertile' time. Sometimes less ex but more consistent throughout the month can be better for conception, this is from a friend who is a nurse. Of course it only takes once but there no way sex is going to stop a pregnancy or implantation, if it's going to happen, it's happening!

This is why some people get their dates wrong at the 12 week scans, when they actually conceived can be far off when they thought they were fertile/ovulated. Turns out they ovulated a week late or early

@TunnocksTcake congratulations 🎉 delighted to see a BFP on this thread! Fingers crossed for many more over the coming weeks 😊

@ChampooPapi aw bless you you made me teary! Thank you so much and it will be your time soon too! Don't give up, I know it's so hard to keep the faith sometimes.

Thanks all will update with digitals when I've done them 😊 feeling raaaather queasy now!

@TunnocksTcake huge congratulations!! our first BFP🥳 here's to many more!🤞🏼

@TunnocksTcake huge congratulations 🥳

@TunnocksTcake I am so happy for you, scanning abdk I saw and remembered that you had the same situation as me in that you went for your 12 week scan and it revealed the baby stopped at six weeks. I also had the d&c a few days afterwards because I felt exactly the same, I just wanted it to be over and to start again.

You dusted yourself off and girl did you start again! You deserve this so much this month, I am so so happy for you

@TunnocksTcake I didn't need to open the photo either! When you get a line like that a few days early your are well pregnant 😆 it'll probably say 2-3 weeks when you do a digital, your having a baby 🎊🥳

So happy for you 💜

@danielasummer thank you lovely I'm so happy but trying not to get ahead of myself until I have it on a digi or see a line progression! God we're never happy are we?!!
No I haven't told him yet! 🙊 he had already left for work when I did the test and I want to show him the test in person. He's going to be so happy!
😍

@fayy123 eeep! Due on Thursday I think. I did feel a bit sick this morning and have an annoyingly runny nose which I've had the past couple of days along with headaches. Have a few cramps but they feel different to af and I remember them from my mmc pregnancy in the summer. I will do a big post on symptoms when I've had it confirmed by digi, I always love looking at other people's symptoms

Omg I see a line!! Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 when was tour AF due? Are you feeling anything? Xx

That's a really shit photo I promise it's a better line in real life!!

Omg omg omg omg I couldn't wait and look! 🙀

*sorry I meant Static Smiley CB OPK

Hi ladies. I hope you don't mind me joining. We've been TTC for 9 months now. And this month we (well I) want to give SMEP a try. I got my first ever static CB OPK last Sunday and have been BD a lot since! 🙈 Finger crossed I'm actually ovulating this cycle! I took Pregnacare Conception before and it seems to lengthen my cycle and I never got positive OPK so I stop taking it this month.

Good luck to you all ladies and hope we will get our BFP soon! Xxx