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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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CD1 entering 3rd month TTC (next fertile window 8th - 17th march)

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UnicornPrincessSarah · 29/02/2024 13:22

Would anyone like to join me on the TTC for March 2024

Going into my 3rd month TTC for my rainbow baby after a loss in 2007 at 7 weeks, I'm now 34 (35 in June) and TTC for our first baby with me and my DH

The last 2 cycles my body has played horrible tricks on me, so i have been keeping a log of my symptoms.

I'm not ready to do opks or bbt just yet trying to do natural and less stressful but did have 21 day bloods and day 3 bloods done and the results come back good, i do have PCO cysts in my ovaries and my DH has good sperm he had this tested last year.

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Rosyposy26 · 04/03/2024 20:56

@UnicornPrincessSarah its so strange but I’m hoping will sort itself out. I seem to have a high drive so we just do it most of the time 😂

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UnicornPrincessSarah · 04/03/2024 20:41

@Rosyposy26 Sorry to hear you had a weird period cycle i also had a weird one that was more watery and clots again but bled for 3 days then 1 day with no bleed then spotting today so very strange.
Snap im also 5dpo today to flow has me down to ovulate 12th March fertile 8th - 14th march, pre mom down to ovulate 14th march with fertile window 10th - 15th march it is strange how they vary when both have the same data put in them

@icallshade Yeah normally I have 4 days of bleed then 5th day of some random spotting. I'm at the fertility clinic Friday going to speak to them about the new 3 day bleeds

As you are like me and not tracking OPK or BBT what is your DTD schedule for you? we are looking at every 3 days from when the period ends to hopefully every 2 days in the fertile window then back to every 3 and stopping a few days before the period is due, last year we did every 3 days for the whole cycle month.

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YorkshirePeridot · 04/03/2024 20:27

Glad you've not had to wait too long @Emilyx00!

MelonSmoothie · 04/03/2024 20:07

Also I did a load of "last hurrah" eating and drinking at Christmas / Jan so need to shift a stone to be at the weight I was when I got pregnant the first time.....

MelonSmoothie · 04/03/2024 20:06

That's such a good idea - I'll need to do the same in a few months I think as I know I've been distracted and I don't want to waste a second with my child worrying about one that doesn't even exist yet. It's hard not to though.

Honestly we are struggling with the scheduled sex, we can't get in the mood at all (more me than my husband to be fair but it just feels so transactional) so we might do two more months max then give it a break. Also I can't be buying 8 pregnancy tests a month I'll be bankrupt 🙈

But honestly how do people even forget about it and relax really once you know it's what you want? I don't know that I've got the self control 🥴

Emilyx00 · 04/03/2024 20:01

@MelonSmoothie i’m not going to track this month, I’m just going to focus on losing some weight and getting some sleep! I’m not forcing sex, if we have sex we do , if we don’t we don’t. I just need to relax from being so obsessed with it because I’m missing out on time with my current DC not planning anything etc in case I get pregnant! I’ll start TTC again properly in April x

how are you? Any signs?x

MelonSmoothie · 04/03/2024 19:57

Onwards and hopefully this us the cycle for you @Emilyx00

Emilyx00 · 04/03/2024 19:40

AF is here ladies!! Still quite light so will class CD1 as tomorrow!

MelonSmoothie · 04/03/2024 17:02

Ah hope it comes soon @Emilyx00 .. I feel so ridiculous wishing time away 😞

Emilyx00 · 04/03/2024 16:22

@MelonSmoothie Same! I’m waiting for AF too. App says it’s due today but I gather it’ll be due one day this week. Had a tiny little few dots of spotting today when wiping so hopefully shouldn’t be too much longer. My youngest is nearly 5 too!

Rosyposy26 · 04/03/2024 14:54

I’m on CD5 and I use flo and premom both have me ovulating different times flo 14th March, premom on 8th march’s did a LH test today and it was 0.01. So will just go with it this month and see what happens.

MelonSmoothie · 04/03/2024 14:35

I'm waiting on my period now, just want it to hurry up! Due Weds. TTC #2 and although it hasn't been that long I'm getting impatient already and worried we've left it too long (#1 is 5...). Comforting to see other people on the journey and BFPs!

icallshade · 04/03/2024 13:47

@Emilyx00 all good here on CD4, period stopped late last night so time to start dtd as we dont track using opks or bbt etc- had the same thing as you @UnicornPrincessSarah where my period is normally 5 days but only been 3 days for the last 2 cycles! So weird, they've never been this short!

Rosyposy26 · 04/03/2024 12:45

hope you are all doing ok. My period seems to have stopped even though it really wasn’t anything this month after MC. Going to test to see if I ovulate and just enjoy dtd.

Adamsapple89 · 04/03/2024 12:28

@UnicornPrincessSarah were normally two-three times a month so this is a lot for us too. But fingers crossed we can get there and it’s not nice putting pressure on things

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UnicornPrincessSarah · 03/03/2024 22:11

@Adamsapple89 Oh that's interesting I have heard of that but never really knew how it worked, oh no chemicals are very sad.

Yeah was my partner who said he needed the 2 days in between to recover really and as im not tracking we have to cover a lot of dates works out we DTD maybe 8 times in the month, may not seem a lot im sure there people out there who do more then that but we use to go months without doing it so 8 is a miracle to me lol

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Adamsapple89 · 03/03/2024 21:08

@UnicornPrincessSarah I think we’re trying the SMEP method this month so start OPK from day 9/10 then DTD every other day and then 3 days in a row from peak OPK. Did this in December and had a possible chemical, faint line a few times then nothing and period was 5 days late. But it did feel like a lot and my bf works long days so let’s see

YorkshirePeridot · 03/03/2024 20:05

Flo is predicting my fertile window opens on Friday and ovulation on the 14th but that will be CD19 so I have no idea where it gets this nonsense! Going to start my CB opks tomorrow (CD9) and see what happens.

I am booked on a retreat next weekend so really hoping I don't ovulate then. If I do I wonder if I can get away with sneaking in hubs for a conjugal visit 🤔

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UnicornPrincessSarah · 03/03/2024 19:58

@Emilyx00 Ahh well hopefully she stays away but if she stays away and you're not pregnant then not too good, hopefully just a late BFP

Im CD4 normally my periods 5 days but the last 2 months have been 3 days so back on the DTD train tomorrow as we doing every 3 days from when the period ends again hoping to change it to every 2 days in fertile window through

@Adamsapple89 Oh same fertile week as me lol

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Emilyx00 · 03/03/2024 19:17

@UnicornPrincessSarah cant be bothered to test anymore, I know I’m out just hoping for AF to come xx where abouts are you in your cycle xx

Adamsapple89 · 03/03/2024 18:21

Hi all, nice day here in Coventry also been out for a walk and a hot choc. Currently day 3 of AF and fertile window begins next Sunday ☺️

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UnicornPrincessSarah · 03/03/2024 17:54

@Emilyx00 Oh not too far at all,

Sorry to hear AF is still being a pain in the bum are you still testing or going to wait to see how late you are?

@mamataylor Devon is nice haven't been there since I was a child though, hope to change that one day. fingers crossed for you this is your cycle

happy sunday @Squirreljr28 @Flowerpot9 @YorkshirePeridot @Shortcake06

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Emilyx00 · 03/03/2024 17:26

@Herewegoagain0 I’m Walthamstow so the other side of the river. @UnicornPrincessSarah Dagenham isn’t too far from me!

I need my period to hurry up ladies. I’m so eager to try again. I’m between 11-13 dpo today so hopefully I won’t be waiting much longer. Who else is waiting for AF? xx

Squirreljr28 · 03/03/2024 16:05

mamataylor I love Devon. We went in Summer. We then bought a puppy in October and called him Devon because we loved it so much.

Herewegoagain0 I used to live in Battersea, so not far from you.

Herewegoagain0 · 03/03/2024 15:03

@Emilyx00 we are clapham. What about you!?

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