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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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I'm out! Looking for cycle buddies ttc March

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Pbubz · 05/03/2023 11:10

CD 2 on month 4 and looking for cycle buddies to get me through the next month!

Am 31 (32 in May!) Partner is also 32 and we're ttc#1. I've stocked up on opks and will be temping for first time this month. Have a 27/28 cycle... Who's with me?!

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Feliciacat · 26/11/2023 14:24

Haha, all this time later and zero BFPs for me. I’m focusing more on my career and travel for the foreseeable. Not that I have loads of time (I’m 36) but if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen.

Bex4567 · 26/11/2023 12:07

Hi just wandered if anyone got there bfp after

Dreamer88 · 06/04/2023 19:20

@Mumof3wonderfullySEN thanks. You too!

Mumof3wonderfullySEN · 06/04/2023 17:17

Oh no :/ it’s such a long time too once you know you’re out to then try again and wait for AF again the following month.

I have my withdrawal bleed currently, hopefully il ovulate like I have in the past 2 weeks from now and il get lucky, who knows!

Good luck for next month x

Dreamer88 · 06/04/2023 11:10

AF arrived this morning so annoyed! I’m out x

Mumof3wonderfullySEN · 05/04/2023 17:28

Hello! I’m also 32 and TTC.

I am waiting for my withdrawal bleed to come tomorrow and then the fun starts.

I have had 4 previous miscarriages and a blighted ovum. So I’m quite scared.

TunnocksTCake · 17/03/2023 13:19

@Pbubz I think I'm the same! We didn't do it much either due to a sick but on Monday Tuesday but I think I got my peak on Wednesday and got a bbt rise today so guessing O was yesterday.
Managed to dtd o-4 and o-1 and o day so not our best work either, we shall see! Maybe it will make me less obsessive in the tww!

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Pbubz · 17/03/2023 09:11

Well I'm apparently 1dpo now so the wait begins, got my peak 2 days ago and dtd that night and 2 days before and a couple days before that but were so knackered yesterday with work we didn't manage to dtd on ov day... Not holding out much hope as don't think we had enough sex! Oh well we shall see!

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robin56 · 15/03/2023 04:28

Good morning everyone,
I'm currently on CD4 of first month, TTC number 2.
Baby 1 took nearly a year so I seem to be unbelievably optimistic it won't take so long this time!
My Husband and I are both 33.
Going to be using the SMEP as that's what worked last time. 💛

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Pbubz · 14/03/2023 22:00

Im so rubbish at bbt think I'll have to start again with it next month! Keep forgetting or not getting enough sleep! Lh strips are rising though! Good luck everyone!!

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Emmamoo89 · 11/03/2023 10:25

Katiex84x · 07/03/2023 10:46

@Emmamoo89 how does the soft cup work if you don’t mind me asking

It keeps all the sperm in. I leave it in for 12 hours. Put it in straight after sex.

TunnocksTCake · 08/03/2023 13:55

Joining in after a chemical last month. Cycle 5 of TTC no2 and on cd 8. Finally stopped bleeding today after 8 whole days (period is usually 4!) and hoping the chemical hasn't messed up my cycle too much.
Will do a version of SMEP and use conceive plus, CB digis and ic OPKs haha I like to cover all bases.
I conceived my daughter the month after a chemical by using all the above so hoping this is our month (but also trying not to get my hopes up!)

Katiex84x · 07/03/2023 10:46

@Emmamoo89 how does the soft cup work if you don’t mind me asking

NayNay03 · 07/03/2023 07:36

Hi Ladies, 🤗
id like to join in.. I am currently CD15 Today with a 30-32 day cycle.🙄
This is my first month trying.. TTC#2.. So stressful hence i'm not sure when is the O date..

Emmamoo89 · 06/03/2023 22:40

Pbubz · 05/03/2023 13:52

Oo I've heard good things about conceive plus, maybe I should get some. I don't always get ewcm. I've heard pre-seed is good too but that you have to use quite a lot and that it can make it feel a bit too wet down there... Hope this is your month!

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You don't need to use a lot of preseed 😊 got me pregnant. Also used a soft cup. Don't like conceive plus.

LBttc · 06/03/2023 21:19

Very same as you! 31, husband is 32 and TTC number 1! AF due 16th of this month so.im.in TWW now. Feeling optimistic, we have just started trying this month as last month my cycle was insane (I had to take period delay pill for my wedding in November and knocked me out of sync). Have an underactive thyroid that is is well under control, that's my onlu wild card. Hope you are doing okay, it's so hard not to become consumed x

Kirstylvsya · 06/03/2023 19:47

Hi. CD8. Don't ovulate until around CD20. Going to try temping this month to confirm ovulation PCOS x

MrsSB2023 · 05/03/2023 20:17

@Pbubz thats a really good point. Hopefully this is our month xx

MrsSB2023 · 05/03/2023 20:17

@Feliciacat thank you so much that’s lovely. I’m an over thinker and my mind runs away with me sometimes xx

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Pbubz · 05/03/2023 20:03

Dreamer88 · 05/03/2023 16:40

I’ll join! Been trying a few months. AF came today. Ordered clear blue digital ovulation kit as well today as I’m obviously doing something wrong and I’m guessing just following an AP that suggests when you’re ovulating is the most effective way.

This is the first time I’ve had a few years about it. 5 years ago I had an abortion. I don’t want to go into the reasons behind this but now it’s like Karma and it’s not happening.

I had one too. The reasons were right at the time and looking back, I know I did the right thing but it's hard now that I feel ready. No judgment from me at all. It's difficult and I try not to dwell on it, there's no point. Sometimes I think it's karma as well because when I got pregnant last time it just happened so easily and I was so terrified and full of dread.

Ultimately, and I hope you feel the same, I try to tell myself that I wouldn't have been as good a mum then then I will be now because I was really not in a good place.

Hugs and love to you, don't blame yourself. It will happen for us xx

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Dreamer88 · 05/03/2023 19:29

@Feliciacat a lovely message! Thanks. 🙂 Irrational thoughts just creep in.

Feliciacat · 05/03/2023 19:25

@Dreamer88 and @MrsSB2023 I’m sorry to hear you’ve been feeling like karma is punishing you. Of course you can’t help feeling like that even though you know it’s not true.

I just wanted to reiterate that life is random and chaotic and you’d be in the same situation whether you’d had terminations or not; conception just takes time. Also, karma affects you in the next life, not this one. So it’s definitely not karma ;) Karma also wouldn’t punish you for terminations; all religions do accept termination as far as I’m aware.

You’re both lovely and your future babies will be lucky to have you xxx

Dreamer88 · 05/03/2023 19:24

Yeah, it’s like you feel guilty about a choice that was right for you at the time. I’ve no idea about when I have been ovulating because the app I’m on just gives an average on a 30 day cycle. But I can have one cycle that’s 30 then a couple of months later it’s 34 days and then 29 and then back to 30 for a couple of months.

Got to stop reading all the reviews though as it’s addictive! All consuming. I don’t really want to go into work tomorrow but at least I know that it will occupy my mind on something else until trying again this month.

How long have you been trying?

MrsSB2023 · 05/03/2023 19:17

@Dreamer88 Hey, don’t feel bad I had a termination too when I was 19, I was in uni and still living at home and it just wasn’t the right time. I got pregnant again with no issues when the time was right so it’s completely possible to conceive again. I know what you mean about karma though because I’m having exactly the same feelings although hubby thinks I’m crazy to think like this you can’t help it can you. It will happen for you, monitoring ovulation will definitely help get a better idea of what’s going on. I always thought I ovulated around CD14 but since using the CB digital I’ve realised it’s more like CD18-20!

Dreamer88 · 05/03/2023 16:43

*isn’t the most effective way.