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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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Testing Around 11th July

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MintGreenLife · 11/06/2020 15:57

Hey girls, as @juno231 pointed out, we were almost at 1,000 messages on our last testing thread, so thought we should set up a new one for anyone that hasn't got their BFP this month. Of course a few of you may still get your positives :)

I'm just going to tag anyone that has posted on the thread in the last 24 hours or so, but please feel free to tag others that I've missed out...

@foreverhopeful67 @BbyBx2 @Muriel84 @Smushty14 @Smiling124 @33Carr @memily @LottieX

Of course this thread is based on a cycle of around 30days, so take the title with a pinch of salt as I'm sure some of us will be testing earlier and some of us later. I seem to be on track for a 33+ day cycle at the mo! xx

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LottieX · 17/06/2020 16:50

@MintGreenLife I think you can take the positive that you did get a peak OPK this month! Fingers crossed your cycle settles next month.

I've started to read the inpatient woman's guide to getting pregnant, I'm only a few pages in and am tempted to research DHEA further. Has anyone taken this?

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MintGreenLife · 17/06/2020 16:06

AF just arrived, which means I had a three day luteal phase!! Normal is 14 days argh. I knew it was likely it would be short as I had horrendous nipple pain straight after ovulation and the same thing happened next month (although wasn't tracking ovulation) and AF arrived a few days after the sore nipples. My research points to low progesterone, and think it's totally normal for hormones to be badly unbalanced post-pill, but didn't even realise you could have that short a luteal phase! I've read two books about TTC now, and both say a short luteal phase cycle 1 & 2 after coming off the pill is highly likely, really hope it resolves itself soon :(

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notyetamumbuttrying · 17/06/2020 12:54

This is how I feel @Juno231!! I'm in FW now and only done it once as due to ov Saturday I think. I don't wanna tire him out before we've got to the crucial day!! These men are so annoying lol!

Juno231 · 17/06/2020 10:06

Hi ladies! Just checking but I've not got much to report. CD4 here, AF done and dusted although I still worry it's far too short and light.

Started temping, am drinking my grapefruit juice and taking all my supplements. FW due to start next Monday per femometer, Tuesday per Fitbit and Wednesday per FF! Considering OH gets sick of BD during FW I'm not too sure when to start without him tiring of it before OD lol.

@ForeverHopeful67 when is your FW due to start?

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 22:15

No probs @ReginaaPhalange ☺️ By the sounds of things you may just have ovulated late, so sure your long cycle is nothing to worry about x

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 21:38

@MintGreenLife thank you so much x

fashu · 16/06/2020 21:33

Hey all!
Still no AF for me.
Had really bad cramps today and thought this must be it and ran to the toilet. But nope still no sign but a lot of creamy CM!
Got an appointment in the EPU on Friday. They think there is a chance I am pregnant with very low HCG, but I highly doubt it. Probably as soon as I leave the hospital AF will arrive. I honestly think sometimes my lateness is psychological!

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 21:00

@ReginaaPhalange here you go ☺️

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07VF464QD?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:55

@MintGreenLife yes please - send me the link as that would be very helpful x

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:50

@ReginaaPhalange I've found it helpful this cycle as I got three LH surges in total on OPKs, but I knew I hadn't ovulated with the first two as no temp rise. Finally got a temp rise on the third positive OPK 13 days after the first!

I got my thermometer from Amazon for something like £10. I'll see if I can find a link for you as it has to be one that gives very precise readings. I take my temp every morning around the same time, which should be after at least three hours undisturbed sleep, which is kind of tricky as I always get up to pee in the night, but never mind. You're meant to take it before you do anything - talk, check your phone, sip water etc. I then input it into my Premom app and Femometer app and at some point you should see a shift in temperature after ovulation has happened. It's not useful for timing TTC, but does confirm you've actually ovulated, which OPKs can't x

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:45

@MintGreenLife I've never taken my temperature, but maybe I should! Anything you would recommend?

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:40

@ReginaaPhalange sometimes you can get more than one batch of EWCM in one cycle - your body might have geared up to ovulate and failed so tried again later. Do you temp at all and can then confirm ovulation? X

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:36

@MintGreenLife saying that, I did have a bit of EWCM last week...... but I already had that the day my app predicted I would ovulate earlier in the month/end of last month

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:35

@acaciabluebell have you been tracking your cycles already? I was just taking folic acid and vitamin D, but since I've had two cycles off the pill I've come to realise I possibly have low progesterone, which can be caused by coming off the pill, so I've started taking Pregnacare as it contains all of the b vitamins and other vitamins that are reccomended to try and balance hormones post pill x

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:33

@ReginaaPhalange haha endless friends watching for you two then!!

Oh no that's so annoying. It's just typical isn't it. As you ovulated at the usual time it is a bit weird that your luteal phase has gotten so much longer, unless there's a chance you ovulated later than you think? Fingers crossed AF will show up in the next few days, I'm sure she will ☺️

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:30

@acaciabluebell the only thing I've added to my lifestyle is folic acid! It's so strange!

acaciabluebell · 16/06/2020 20:30

Anyone have a summary of what vitamins are good to take for TTC? I've just started taking folic acid. I already take strong vitamin D as I have a deficiency, but not taking anything else yet.

ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:29

@MintGreenLife we have it on every night as DH needs something to fall asleep too. Since it's been on Netflix, we complete all 10 seasons then go back to the start and it carries on haha!

I had my implant removed 2 years ago and have been fairly regular since then. Never been more than 31 day cycles and 28 being least. So this is odd! We have always used condoms, but seeing as our travel plans have been cancelled for the foreseeable future, we agreed now is the right time to start TTC. We agreed once this AF has been and gone that we would start as we had the conversation about this after my peak.

When I had the implant removed, the nurse advised me to track my ovulation and I'm lucky it's been consistent..... until now!

acaciabluebell · 16/06/2020 20:28

@ReginaaPhalange I can relate lol, I'm starting TTC this month and just before it AF came late and was sooo frustrating lol. I kept doing pregnancy tests that I knew would be negative cos we hadn't been trying! Sometimes a change in diet, new medications/vitamins, or stress delays AF for me (once a full 2 weeks late!)

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:24

I'm literally watching it right now 🙈 I loved it as a teenager and have watched it all again once since it went on Netflix, but being at home at a lot at the mo has resulted in me watching it again 😂 @ReginaaPhalange

Ahh so you're yet to start TTC then? You're not fresh off the pill or anything? X

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:21

@MintGreenLife hehe thanks! But of a mad friends fan lol!!!

Yeah everything else has been normal! I wonder if it's cause it's the first month we want to start trying after AF goes lol!

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:19

Hmm that's strange @ReginaaPhalange do you usually have a normal luteal phase (12-16 days)? Also love your user name by the way 😂

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 20:17

@MintGreenLife I ovulated when I should have - so no idea what's going on.

I have a bit of an icky tummy (very noisy) but nothing else!

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MintGreenLife · 16/06/2020 20:12

@ReginaaPhalange I'm on CD37 😩 Were you tracking ovulation? I know I didn't ovulate until CD33 so obviously was going to have a long cycle x

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ReginaaPhalange · 16/06/2020 19:54

Still no AF! CD35! :(