Temping Buddies 11 - The Vita West Appreciation Society - Springing into BFP's!!

lol - I will. thank you
I am just worrying and being grumpy because I don't want to have missed it!

One thing I don't understand - if the fertility monitor is measuring LH then why does it have to get used to your cycles?

I mean, it's not predicting anything it is actually measuring levels scientifically. Or am I being completely barmy?

The only other explanation is that the temp is a rogue one.

Have sex anyway!

The fertility monitor will be gathering data for the first 2/3 cycles and then it will be able to accurately predict your peak days. This is exactly what happened with my Persona a few years ago.
The best thing to do is chart your temp, ignore the CBFM for the first couple of cycles and have sex regularly if you are able to. Good general advice really.

Your charting will let you know when you've O and it is possible to still have a day on EWCM after O, I often do.

I think it's recommended to have sex on the day of the rise as well if you have fertile CM.

hth

yes. Is that a worry? I had a positive Ovulation strip yesterday too, and lots of EWCM today.

Maybe I shouldn't be doing temp charting and using a fertility monitor? It's too confusing.

Is this your first month using it beaniesteve?

sorkycake - you mean me?
I am confused then. If my Clearblue fertility Monitor gave me my first peak yesterday this doesn't tie in with the way a fertility monitor works. Surely a Peak on a CBFM means that you are about to ovulate, not that you have?

I'd say it looks like you O'd yesterday

sarah Did you do citizenship last year? Where in London are you? So funny about the passports - I'll have to get on it. Eventually we'd like DH to do his US citizenship and certainly any little one who comes along will be dual as well - I keep joking we have enough trouble trying to find two passports the night before a flight, can you imagine trying to find 6! or if things go according to plan, even 8!!!!

PrePG I love having two passports! I can sail through on either side of the pond. . .well, as much as anyone can 'sail through' U.S. immigration these days

Know what you mean about choosing dates--if I get lucky this cycle, my predicted due date would be around 31st December, and I really don't care! I found some EWCM a few min ago, and now plotting on how to get DP in the sack tonight....going to try not to jump into his lap and shout 'give me a baby!!!!' in his face. That tends to put him off a bit.

Also, my coverline was quite different this last cycle, about .2 degrees from where it normally is, so I guess they can change! As FF endlessly says, the actual temps don't matter as much as the thermal shift.

Beanie, I think it depends on what happens tomorrow. If your temp goes down again, that really high one might just be a fluke. Usually when I have one drink it doesn't affect the temp much, but might be different for you.

Oh - and I didn't do anything special yesterday - a can of lager in the early evening. I was up late (past Midnight) as I had to go and pick my sister up and drive her home, plus I was trying (Successfully) for Glastonbury Tickets yesterday too.

Time will tell I guess

I don't understand why I would only get a high on my Fertility monitor if I was actually ovulating already, and then a peak two days after though?

Oh well we'll see.

Sorry, I'm not really sure about OPK's as I've never used them. I was just judging by your temps. You've had a huge temp jump this morning - was there anything that you've done that might've affected your temp - ie drinking yesterday, exercise, etc? I guess ideally you would've had sex on CD10 & 11, but you did on the O date and a few days before that, so it seems as if you're covered. Fingers crossed for you!

I'm just looking at my chart again - at first I thought my temps looked way too low to suggest I ovulated already, but I checked my previous cycle (the one I got pregnant) and my post-O temp range was about 36.38 to 36.59 and then I seemed to go triphasic. This month post O according to FF has been 36.31 to 36.52, which isn't that far off... So maybe I DID O! That would make me the happiest girl on MN!!!!

oh - I had a peak today, a Peak yesterday. I thought A peak was the best time for conception, not an indication that you HAD ovulated.

Well - the EWCM only really happened today, it was a bit stretchy yesterday but not great. I hope I've not missed it. We couldn't do the deed on Friday because we were at the in-laws (his brother's) in a small house sleeping right next door, and on Saturday we were knackered! Bugger!

If I actually ovulated yesterday would having sex last night be too late

beanie it looks like you might have ovulated yesterday, but FF won't confirm ovulation until you have three high temps in a row. I woud BD whenever you have EW!

I have lots of EWCM and I had sex last night and 2 days before that

"Ok... my bbt book says ?For most women, 35.6 to 36.7 ºc taken orally is considered normal before ovulation, this increases to between 36.1 and 37.2 after.?"

I had a second peak today on my clearblue monitor and my temp was 37.1.

would this suggest that I mah have already Ovulated? I am on CD 12/13

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Hi sarah I'm from New York. Been here (also London!) 4years now - just did British citizenship actually! Still need to sort out my passport though!

I don't mean to suggest that anyone is wrong in how or when they choose to TTC, I guess I just don't understand the concept of self control in general . It's all I can do right now than to reach into my ovaries and pull an egg out I'm so desperate to ovulate! By now patience has completely gone out the window! (and I think maybe taken my sanity with it!!) Before I miscarried, my due date would've been the week after a huge thing at work, and I was slightly anxious about how the whole situation was going to play out, but now I guess I've got a new perspective on it.

poor Herby, the 2WW is sh-te isn't it....

Another American here, I'm from Wisconsin, been in London 5.5 years. What about you?

Lottie oops sorry to get you all excited, realised I put a BFP and really meant a BFN - you see I've gone off my rocker already imagining alsorts......

prepg....I know where you're coming from - a lot of people don't - I have a summer birthday and have always been able to have parties outside/bbq's etc and it's always been great (except usually it was near exams) ...but I know friends of mine who have had birthdays round christmas/NY and I just wonder if their presents and celebrations get a bit "lost" in the Xmas stuff..... I've only been TTC no 2 for a month or so and I suspect like you, given a few more months, I'll not give a monkeys when or where just a healthy baby !!

I've been fantasising over implantation dips too...any other month I'd really not be imagining alsorts. I wish now that AF would just arrive and put me out of my misery....

herbgarden Maybe it's an implantation dip??? Fingers crossed for you!!!!

I don't get the not wanting to have babies born at certain times of the year. I guess I got it at first - I'm American and I was trying to time things so that it would always be a convenient time (ie cheap!) for parents to visit for birth and subsequent birthdays no matter which country we were living in. But by now, I'm just so desperate I don't care how or when it's born, I just want a little one