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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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Newbie looking for some support

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Peachycream · 27/05/2021 20:44

Hi ladies,

I’ve been lurking for a few days, just seeing what the deal is, trying to work out some of the terminology used, mostly going to post but then getting scared and carry on lurking haha.

I don’t really have anyone I can talk about the TTC journey with in my real life as we aren’t telling anyone as it stands so I’m hoping maybe I can make a few friends here that I can obsess and stress out with 🤣

I’m currently CD 7 in my first cycle so tracking with OPKs every day right now so that I can get a clearer picture of my cycle each month.

I’m 30 and this will be our 1st,

If anyone has any advice/is in a similar position to me or just wants a natter I’d love to hear from you 😊

Xx

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ConfusedNewbie21 · 04/06/2021 17:58

@HRP1990 @Peachycream haha! I'm so sorry if that post was insensitive, I am fairly young so was panicked and rushed to one of the first threads I found. However I will happily share Grin this is the first of many many negative tests to look remotely like a line. Grrr I wish I could show you to get opinions!

HRP1990 · 04/06/2021 17:39

[quote Peachycream]@ConfusedNewbie21 you can certainly try!

Also, if this is positive, and you haven’t been trying, can you explain to us all how because we are baffled by your luck! 🤣[/quote]
I second this 😂

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 17:36

@ConfusedNewbie21 you can certainly try!

Also, if this is positive, and you haven’t been trying, can you explain to us all how because we are baffled by your luck! 🤣

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ConfusedNewbie21 · 04/06/2021 17:32

[quote Peachycream]@GingerTea333 I wish I’d had the forethought to do this before we started trying, rather than after! I guess it’s just going to be trial and error with the apps and OPKs for a while cause google is so conflicting in some of its information!

@ConfusedNewbie21 welcome lovely! Do you have a little paper clip button below the text box? I think you use that. Although, I’m sure I’ve seen on here somewhere that you need to have had your account open for 48 hours before you can post pictures, but don’t hold me to that cause I could be thinking of a different site![/quote]
@KayL1988 @Peachycream thank you very much Grin in that case... can I send pictures over private message. This whole thing was not planned therefore I am bouncing off the walls here with uncertainty. Xx

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 17:28

@glasspaw if I’m honest, apple health predicted my fertile window before the apps I used to put in my OPKs and it turned out my first positive OPK was on the day health told me and all I’ve ever put in that is a period start and end date, to be honest I’d forgotten I’d even used it this month! Haha.

That’s probably quite sensible, testing early can throw up a whole host of other anxieties I would imagine because of chemical pregnancies. That, and tests are expensive! Haha.

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glasspaw · 04/06/2021 17:27

@KayL1988

I did. I had been on Marvelon for 13 years and after doing some reading about contraceptive pills I decided that I didn’t really want to keep messing with my hormones like that. It took about a year for my cycle to regulate which was really frustrating at the time, but I’m glad I came off when I did because I have a much better understanding of my dates and cycle lengths now.

glasspaw · 04/06/2021 17:22

@Peachycream I think 7 days. I’m using Apple health to track though rather than anything more accurate, so it may be slightly out. I’ve always had fairly obvious ovulation cramps though and the timing seems pretty spot on with the middle of my fertility window in the app.

Think I’m going to try and wait until the 14th to test if no AF by then. I’m sure the temptation to do it sooner will be huge but I don’t want to get into a pattern of testing too early and going through a tonne of tests. Feels like it could become a very expensive form of self torture.

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 17:17

@GingerTea333 I wish I’d had the forethought to do this before we started trying, rather than after! I guess it’s just going to be trial and error with the apps and OPKs for a while cause google is so conflicting in some of its information!

@ConfusedNewbie21 welcome lovely! Do you have a little paper clip button below the text box? I think you use that. Although, I’m sure I’ve seen on here somewhere that you need to have had your account open for 48 hours before you can post pictures, but don’t hold me to that cause I could be thinking of a different site!

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KayL1988 · 04/06/2021 17:03

If your on the browser version I think there is a little paper clip that you can upload pics too!

KayL1988 · 04/06/2021 17:01

Hi @glasspaw welcome!! I've found this thread really comforting too - can't wait to follow your journey! At least you had the thought process to track earlier - wish I'd done the same!! Did you come off long term contraception?

Welcome @ConfusedNewbie21 - hopefully we are not too scary to talk to - we are all confused newbies trying to help each other through! Feel free to post your test!

ConfusedNewbie21 · 04/06/2021 16:59

@ConfusedNewbie21

Hi all.. I am looking for opinions on this test. I am very unsure wether it is a faint positive or I am going crazy.

Also... very nervous to be posting on here. Hi! Blush

oh gosh how embarrassing..,. does anyone know how to add a photo? do I need the app?
HRP1990 · 04/06/2021 16:59

Hey @glasspaw welcome! I’m on CD21 (2DPO) so only a day ahead of you!

We’ve all said the same, I can’t believe what I’ve been learning the past month 😂

GingerTea333 · 04/06/2021 16:57

@Peachycream great experiment! The strips are great at showing you the progression, but you’re right, you only know you’ve hit your peak once your over it and it’s dropping back down again. So until that happens it might just show you as high. It’s definitely got better at predicting for me - now it’s pretty much bang on for getting my ovulation and my period date right but it’s taken a couple of months

Welcome @glasspaw, good luck with your tww! I know what you mean about the learning, I feel like I could take a degree in what I now know about my body!

SareBear87 · 04/06/2021 16:56

Hi @glasspaw welcome!

I think there is one thing we can all agree on. Our Sex Ed was really good at teaching how to not get pregnant, so much so that when it comes to doing the opposite, we are totally in the dark!

ConfusedNewbie21 · 04/06/2021 16:56

Hi all.. I am looking for opinions on this test. I am very unsure wether it is a faint positive or I am going crazy.

Also... very nervous to be posting on here. Hi! Blush

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 16:55

@glasspaw welcome!

The sex education thing seems to be a really common theme that we have all said? It seems a bit archaic now you think back on it right?

How far into the TWW are you?

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glasspaw · 04/06/2021 16:46

Hi everyone

Jumping in on this conversation as I’ve found ti super comforting reading about everyone’s experiences. I am CD20, have been tracking my cycle for about 2 years now (but this is the first month TTC, I only really started doing it in case it was useful in the future haha!) and am pretty regular with 27-29 days each time.

Finding the TWW unbearable, but I’ve learned so much about fertility and conception from reading about it this month! I can’t believe I never realised that at 1-2 weeks pregnant you hadn’t even tried for a baby yet! Or that there are so few days a month where it is actually possible to conceive. Starting to really resent my secondary school biology lessons for teaching me more about photosynthesis than my own body to be honest.

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 15:45

So my curiosity got the better of me so I downed a drink and then went to test, the OPK was much lighter, as I expected cause I’ve diluted my urine and then it’s registered my last test which was 2 hours ago as my peak and moved my O day to tomorrow and brought my period due date so it is moving it around on its own, I guess it just needs to find a peak first

This has become an experiment on its own 🤣

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 15:37

That’s why I stopped reading too 🤣

Yeah that’s what I would think? We shall see, I’m curious to see what’s going on now haha!

It’s no wonder people give up trying after a certain amount of time cause it just seems impossible to read, at least it is for me 😂

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HRP1990 · 04/06/2021 15:29

That’s too much info for me for a Friday afternoon 😂

I’d keep using your CB and test again after the 48 hours of static is up and see what it says. This is only your first month so it’ll be interesting to see how your body works. If your OPKs are still rising then I assume you’d see another static yeah!

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 15:18

Oh yeah I see! I don’t wanna touch it though incase I end up knocking it all out. Apparently if LH is gradual onset (which according to a study is 51% of women) OPKs will give you positive results for 2-6 days while it rises. Rapid onset will just peak on 1 day and then drop back to baseline the next day. And as mine are still getting darker I don’t wanna cock it all up 🤣

It’s between 10 and 48 hours so I just went with 36 as a medium, then the egg lives for 12-24 hours and then it’s all over.

I am curious to see what my CB does tomorrow though if my LH is still rising, surely I’d get another static?

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HRP1990 · 04/06/2021 15:04

I set the ovulation day myself when I thought I was having an early peak, if then readjusted after I got a higher peak the following week

HRP1990 · 04/06/2021 15:01

@Peachycream I’d just DTD as and when you can to make sure you’re covered - at least between now and the next 36 hours? I thought it was 12-36 personally 🤷🏻‍♀️

On the Premom App, go onto the homepage and bottom right says “log” scroll down and you can click yes where it says ovulation day.

For me it picked up my peak and then set ovulation as the following day

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Peachycream · 04/06/2021 14:51

I’m stopping reading now because I’m going back and forth as to whether I’ve missed it or not and it’s hurting my brain.

Some websites are saying that ovulation is roughly 36 hours after the onset of LH rise, others say 24-36 hours after the LH peak, and it’s not like 1 option is more favourable, it’s half and half!

I don’t get the option to say that it’s positive? Mines just reading the stick for me when I take the photo?

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HRP1990 · 04/06/2021 14:39

It’s all to technical 😂 Thats why I quite like the OPKs as you use them as much as you like and the darker the line to higher the LH. So expect ovulation when it starts to decrease.

I think I might start using a thermometer to track it all as I think your temperature drops when you ovulate?

I adjusted my Premom app, I put in that the ovulation test was positive and it bought my ovulation forward to the next day!

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