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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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Anyone about to go into an ovulation week?

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Mama09876 · 15/08/2024 11:53

Hey!

TTC our 2nd been putting it off for a while but this month I’m going to be actively trying and testing LH etc
reading other posts feels as though everyone is already in there TWW this Aug 😂 so looking for company, anyone whose still waiting for their ovulation week.

I only used BBT when falling pregnant with my first but haven’t being doing it as regularly as I did back then.
Ive been trying to take my temp the past couple of weeks and natural cycles predicting ovulation on Weds!
what’s everyone plan of attack? 😂 I’m going to use LH strips from tomorrow onwards and as soon as I get my peak start DTD! Very sceptical it’ll happen this month with it being the first official month of trying but we shall see!
Hoping for some company if anyone is at a similar stage in their cycle?

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LucyLou0527 · 24/09/2024 09:10

I’m 11DPO, had a BFN this morning😫

AF is due on Thursday apparently, dates moved forward on flo when I put my ovulation date in, guessing I’m out this cycle🥲

Possumly · 24/09/2024 08:45

@Mama09876 it was an immediately obvious line (I'll see if I can find it to attach..) so I feel like It's sort of making me feel like I possibly could test earlier this time🤭 it was 11 days after peak so I guess I was 10DPO (tracked only by OPK, not BBT).

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LuckyDuck93 · 24/09/2024 08:40

@Mama09876 I'm not really feeling much different to be honest, although I am a bit crampy and bloated this morning, sometimes I can't work out if I'm just feeling things that aren't there though! Temp has been stable all week, like waaay more than usual and hasn't really fluctuated by more than 0.1 degrees, until today when it's gone up, again, probably reading into that 😂
Well I had no idea that was even a thing, although mine does seem to be staying exactly the same. Do you think you'll test before your holiday? I'm trying to stay strong until the weekend!

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Mama09876 · 24/09/2024 08:21

@Itonlytakesone stay hopeful still early days! You never know you might not of implanted yet. Got everything crossed 🤞🏻

@Possumly this is exciting!! I think we’re all in our tww now! Hoping for lots of BFP this month.
im on my 2nd month of trying for our second feeling a lot more relaxed this month. Im the same trying everything I did with my first hoping it works again! 😂🤞🏻
im 9dpo and holding out till af due on Sunday although I’m tempted to take a test just before I fly just to know really I’ll be 11dpo then so don’t know whether to just wait it out. How was your test at 11 days after with your first? Was it a squinter or could you see it was positive? I don’t want to do it and then stress over if it’s positive or not 😂

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Possumly · 24/09/2024 08:10

I'm finally in the 2ww too! Think 1DPO today (got a static smiley Saturday AM). With my son I got my BFP 11 days after the peak (luckily first cycle!)- didn't do any tests before then- so I'm going to try to wait until 1st or 2nd to test☺️ We BD on the same important days as we did conceiving our first so I'm feeling hopeful, but this is just our first cycle again and I know we were very lucky then!
Will be eagerly watching this thread for everyone's results!👀

Itonlytakesone · 24/09/2024 08:02

@Mama09876
8dpo tested - bfn
I don't feel pregnant

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Mama09876 · 24/09/2024 07:16

@Renee33 great news! Finally in that TWW. The madness begins 😂

@Itonlytakesone how you feeling this morning? Any more tests

@CosmoMango how’s your LH tests looking? Any signs of ovulation?

@LuckyDuck93 How you feeling? You’re similar DPO as me. I keep comparing the way I’m feeling now to my first pregnancy (as you do) and I don’t see any of the signs to be honest. My bbt is still high and I’m still really tired but that could be life/work making me tired 😂
I dunno if you’ve got a smart watch or track your resting heart rate but I did with my first and that was another indicator my rhr kept increasing.
mine shot up yesterday so I’m hoping it’s a good sign 🤞🏻
clutching at straws I think this month 😂

(sorry I couldn’t remember who else is around 7/8/9 DPO)

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Itonlytakesone · 23/09/2024 19:22

@Renee33
This afternoon a heaviness in my lower stomach like a fullness when I was out doing school run it was noticeable to me but it's eased now. I'm just starving today

Renee33 · 23/09/2024 18:56

@Itonlytakesone still fairly early not out yet, did you feel implantation cramps?

Finally 1 or 2 DPO

Itonlytakesone · 23/09/2024 18:51

I tested again tonight 🙈still negative 7dpo

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Mama09876 · 23/09/2024 09:23

@Itonlytakesone still very early days! See what happens this week, may not of even implanted yet. 🤞🏻

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Itonlytakesone · 23/09/2024 08:58

@Mama09876
I'm 7dpo I tested! negative

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Mama09876 · 23/09/2024 07:38

@LuckyDuck93 this was me last night! 😂 but I think it’s cause I was tired but I was extremely irritable.

Has any one tested today/weekend?

I think I’m going to give up on bbt this month. It’s all over the place. I’ve not been sleeping well so that hasn’t helped it either but it’s not telling me anything so I’ll just pick it back up when I’m back off hols.

I am getting some period type pains this morning but that cause just be in prep for next week! Happened last month as well the week before I came on.

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LuckyDuck93 · 22/09/2024 18:47

The only thing that’s different is I’m really irritable & hormonal, I’m usually like that before AF, but definitely not this early!

Think were all feeling the same this month!

Itonlytakesone · 22/09/2024 17:39

I don't feel any symptoms at all nothing think I'm out this month Confused

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Mama09876 · 22/09/2024 17:38

@LuckyDuck93 i’m with you! I really didn’t want to be symptom spotting this month but it’s so hard not to!
felt absolutely find up until yesterday really. Tired today but I didn’t sleep well last night so it’ll be because of that.
I’m getting like growing type pains in my legs 🤷🏼‍♀️ no idea what that’s about.

I still feel like it’s not our month though.

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LuckyDuck93 · 22/09/2024 15:43

How are we all feeling today ladies? I’m 6DPO today and for the first few days I could’ve sworn I felt different..now..absolutely no different at all 😂

CosmoMango · 21/09/2024 21:51

@Mama09876 yes I suppose folic acid is the main thing. I’ve had a fair bit of pain this last 3/4 days ago. Like my lower abdomen feels stretched/bruised and it feels heavy. Very difficult to explain but I was wondering if it was linked as others reported diarrhoea. I haven’t had D+ and it doesn’t feel like it’s my gut it feels like Repro tract. Maybe I will stop them tomorrow

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Mama09876 · 21/09/2024 21:35

@CosmoMango gosh that’s sounds horrid! Sorry you had to go through that. Things us women go through.

If you think they’re benefiting you stick with it. I’m just going off personal experience I never took them with my first and just stuck to Vit D/Folic acid. As long as Folic acid that’s the main thing isn’t it.

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CosmoMango · 21/09/2024 21:30

@Mama09876 I can’t decide whether to stop them and just take folic acid and vit D as I have folic acid in the house too so could switch easily.

it was a positive on 10DPO and I bled 3 days later so likely a chemical but I’ll never know. It was awful too, vomiting and unable to stand due to the pain and I bled for over 10 days.

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Mama09876 · 21/09/2024 21:12

@CosmoMango right, that would make sense then! With the potential delay. I took them for one month before I fell pregnant with my first and it delayed my cycle for sure, I just took the Coq10.

cricky! That sounds terrible what happened in work! Completely get with your line of work you just need to know positive/negative as soon as possible. Hope you have an idea about your ovulation soon!

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CosmoMango · 21/09/2024 20:59

Also the vitamins were in the sale so got 4 month’s worth for £5 so thought they were worth a try. Now I’m not so sure, the COQ-10 isn’t even at the recommended dose in the pregnacare but why do so many people have issues with their cycle afterwards?

CosmoMango · 21/09/2024 20:56

@Mama09876 Yes the one I’m taking has COQ-10 in it which is what I’m concerned about being the cause. There’s nothing proven which is annoying. I’ve read every scientific paper under the sun it feels like. I don’t have any reason to think my eggs would be poor quality and my AMH levels are really good as had those tested just incase. I’m veggie so just thought vitamins would be beneficial regardless and didn’t want to take one with Vit A.

I just hate the limbo each month as I handle so many drugs at work and deal with imported animals, anaesthetics, X-rays that pose risk etc I just want my positive so I can have a risk assessment. I had a positive a few months ago and then a colleague accidentally jabbed me with a syringe containing a drug that causes abortion I’ll never know if it was a CP or the drug that caused it. So I’m just very nervous about it all

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Mama09876 · 21/09/2024 20:43

Renee33 · 21/09/2024 20:20

Hi ladies,

@CosmoMango hopefully you've managed to catch it with all the BD, but just missed it when testing.

@Itonlytakesone hope all those little signs leads to your bfp.

So finally got my peak on CD20, 2/3 days later than usual. And experienced my usual ovulation pain (absolutely awful pains), so I am assuming that I will or have ovulated today. We DTD on CD14 and was hoping that would be enough if I ovulated when I was supposed to. But yeah didn't happen like that and my hubby and I have been bickering all week🤣 but I get him to DTD tonight hopefully 😉. But I'm sure we are probably out this cycle, which is fine becuase we didnt really make an effort.

Anyone testing tomorrow?

This was us in my fertile week! 😂 but managed to get an early morning dtd the morning after my peak which fell on ovulation day.
im not feeling to hopeful myself! But you never know!
jump on him tonight and hope for the best 😂

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