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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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35yrs + and trying ✨🫶🏼

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SCK2024 · 04/01/2025 19:31

I am now 37 and have one beautiful 10yrs old boy, my partner has 2 boys 9 & 13yrs.

I bought the Hertility kit online, not yet opened it… I was going to give this cycle my last attempt before investigating 🙃

We got pregnant a year ago but due to personal circumstances we both decided to not go ahead, this I carry so much guilt over 🪃

Now we are both ready and settled in our careers and home but now it has taken nearly 6/7cycles.

today I got my 1st + ovulation test, so beginning our January TWW.

what is everyone else’s story 🌟

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curliegirlie · 07/02/2025 09:16

Good luck with the bloods today (but be prepared for them to come back with questionable results, as I'm with Flo in when AF would be due!). I think some Apps might deliberately put testing day as a few days after you're due on, so that might be causing the discrepancy.

I'm CD10, the "thumb twiddling" part of my cycle, as I probably won't ovulate until CD16, so a few days yet until fertile period....I'm trying not to think too hard about the weeks after that as this really does have to be my final cycle. Next month marks the 3 year mark since finding out about my pregnancy, the MC under a week after that, and, if this cycle goes the way all previous ones go, finally giving the loft a sort out and getting rid of stuff. It will break me 😭😩

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SCK2024 · 07/02/2025 08:04

DPO12 ✏️

🚽💦💦💦 so much in the night!
No other symptoms today 🙂✨✨

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SCK2024 · 07/02/2025 08:03

curliegirlie · 06/02/2025 20:13

Well, if you really are 12dpo you may well be due on in the next couple of days, as the luteal phase lasts between around 10-14 days depending on the individual (although will be consistent to you)...

However, if your AF/BFP prediction of Valentines Day is correct you'll have most likely ovulated later than you thought (which might mean your Day21 test will be around the correct day after all).

Only time will tell.....

I definitely ovulated on the 25th I did the tests, but we will see

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curliegirlie · 06/02/2025 20:13

Well, if you really are 12dpo you may well be due on in the next couple of days, as the luteal phase lasts between around 10-14 days depending on the individual (although will be consistent to you)...

However, if your AF/BFP prediction of Valentines Day is correct you'll have most likely ovulated later than you thought (which might mean your Day21 test will be around the correct day after all).

Only time will tell.....

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SCK2024 · 06/02/2025 19:56

I swear my Flo app changes!
I even copied it into my own calendar at the time… so …
it now says AF due around the10th but could get a bfp on 14th 🤦🏻‍♀️

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SCK2024 · 06/02/2025 19:31

Got a new symptom this evening, not sure how I feel about it although AF is 7/8days away.

Feeling crampy/achey low abdomen, not had this so soon before AF due but feels like it’s on its way kind of thing? 🫠

Not sure what to make of it
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BabyBorn · 06/02/2025 19:30

I do use kits for the fun of it but it's just because I'm a gimp not because I have to 😂😂 I feel my ovulation every month (bloody painful) but I just like peeing on sticks obviously 🥴😆😂.

Tough isn't it trying to DTD every other day until peak. Hopefully you've done enough, I'm sure you have. Way too early for you to be testing 😂 Fingers crossed for you! I got my last positive 10DPO but everyone is different 😀

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SCK2024 · 06/02/2025 18:27

BabyBorn · 06/02/2025 16:25

Glad you've continued to get symptoms @SCK2024! I am CD 13 and I ovulate usually on day 13 or 16! Why not 14 or 15 I don't know?! 😂😂😂😂 so just DBing every other night at the mo 😮‍💨😂

How strange! 😂
are you using the kits?
Im trying not to test again just yet as it was a bfn yesterday AF isn’t due till 14th 💌
I feel we didn’t really 🐰 enough this month but we did use the conceive lube and 2/3 over the fertile week so fingers crossed!
& for you too!!! ☺️✨

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BabyBorn · 06/02/2025 16:25

Glad you've continued to get symptoms @SCK2024! I am CD 13 and I ovulate usually on day 13 or 16! Why not 14 or 15 I don't know?! 😂😂😂😂 so just DBing every other night at the mo 😮‍💨😂

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SCK2024 · 06/02/2025 11:41

carolinep3 · 06/02/2025 10:40

10dpo
Started spotting 😭

Is your AF due?
Is it heavy/light/just in wiping?
could it be IB?
sending baby dust
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carolinep3 · 06/02/2025 10:40

10dpo
Started spotting 😭

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SCK2024 · 06/02/2025 10:13

✏️ DPO 12 - using concieve plus lubricant this month

Everything is fine
slightly sore 🍉🍉
🚽💦 in the night
Little bloaty /weird lower tummy
never feeling full 🍴
BFN yesterday morning

AF not due until a weeks time 💌 Valentines Day

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Where is everyone else up to with DPO and symptom spotting? Xx

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SCK2024 · 06/02/2025 10:08

curliegirlie · 05/02/2025 12:50

So you ovulated on CD8 you reckon?

Sorry didn’t see this yesterday, Yes CD 8 ✨

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curliegirlie · 05/02/2025 12:50

So you ovulated on CD8 you reckon?

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SCK2024 · 05/02/2025 12:43

curliegirlie · 05/02/2025 12:40

Yes, the day after the positive OPK would be assumed to be ovulation day.

You have however, got things slightly the wrong way round. A "day 21" test is designed to capture progesterone levels when you're half way through your LP to establish whether you have actually ovulated or not. But the important thing is that it's around 7DPO, not that it's necessarily Day 21. If you ovulated on CD14 (as a lot of people do), then a Day 21 test on CD21 will work. If you ovulated on CD24, however, it would be pointless to do the test on actual Day 21 (as you wouldn't even have ovulated by that point) So you would try and book it in for CD 31.

So, if you guess from OPKs that you ovulated 25th Jan (based on a +OPK the day before), your "Day 21" test needed to be on 2nd Feb (or, as that was a weekend, 3rd Feb probably wouldn't have been too out of whack). But booking on in for 14DPO - when AF is about to pounce (or not! 🤞) - will tell the doctors precisely nothing useful.

Thanks for this, I have queried this with my GP and they have assured me that CD21 is right.
My cycles are short 21-24
fetrtile week 25-31 peak was 25th.
i am on CD 18 today.

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curliegirlie · 05/02/2025 12:40

Yes, the day after the positive OPK would be assumed to be ovulation day.

You have however, got things slightly the wrong way round. A "day 21" test is designed to capture progesterone levels when you're half way through your LP to establish whether you have actually ovulated or not. But the important thing is that it's around 7DPO, not that it's necessarily Day 21. If you ovulated on CD14 (as a lot of people do), then a Day 21 test on CD21 will work. If you ovulated on CD24, however, it would be pointless to do the test on actual Day 21 (as you wouldn't even have ovulated by that point) So you would try and book it in for CD 31.

So, if you guess from OPKs that you ovulated 25th Jan (based on a +OPK the day before), your "Day 21" test needed to be on 2nd Feb (or, as that was a weekend, 3rd Feb probably wouldn't have been too out of whack). But booking on in for 14DPO - when AF is about to pounce (or not! 🤞) - will tell the doctors precisely nothing useful.

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SCK2024 · 04/02/2025 09:59

✏️DPO 10

Tender 🍉🍉
🚽💦 in the night lots
Nausea in the night

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SCK2024 · 04/02/2025 09:57

I’m not able to attach an image of my Flo.

cycles are regular and Flo is pretty accurate every single month, without fail.

i took 2 tests this month and the 1st one I did I was certain was my peak 25th Feb.

Do I class the next day as DPO because they say once you get your peak then it’s 24-48hrs you ovulate?

GPs here in England/NW always ask for progesterone bloods at cycle day 21 it has always been this at my practice and my practice before.

I work at the Drs and I am a nurse, they have advised blood tests still pick up an accurate result. It does not have to be 7/8DPO as everyone’s cycle is different, also the chances of everyone getting an appt on the requested day would be near impossible as they cover 80,000 patients.

.. however your points do seem to make sense.

i already have my bloods form and labels I could just get my collegiate to do them today or shall I wait?

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curliegirlie · 03/02/2025 17:38

@SCK2024 so do you think you ovulate quite late then, in that a "standard" 14dpo (i.e. CD28) actually your 7DPO? If not, you will have completely missed the boat for an accurate progesterone test, as you'll be practically due on...

carolinep3 · 03/02/2025 15:19

I have a usual 28 day cycle but ovulated on cd17 this month, a bit different from usual so I had progesterone tests done this morning at 7dpo (cd 24) unless they are done 7dpo they won't tell you anything about progesterone. I would say they are pointless if you haven't tracked ovulation and are just going on an app, could create more confusion.

curliegirlie · 03/02/2025 15:04

So what's your usual cycle length? I'm confused. @carolinep3 Is correct - Day 21 tests need to be done at 7DPO otherwise they're pointless.

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SCK2024 · 03/02/2025 14:07

carolinep3 · 03/02/2025 13:21

@SCK2024 yes, that is why I asked you were having them 14dpo, you said you are 9dpo today 🤷🏻‍♀️

It differs in everyone.
My GP is going by Cycle day and not DPO.

I use the Flo app and didn’t really used the OPK this month so my DPO are only on estimates.

My cycles are bang on accurate

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carolinep3 · 03/02/2025 13:21

@SCK2024 yes, that is why I asked you were having them 14dpo, you said you are 9dpo today 🤷🏻‍♀️

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SCK2024 · 03/02/2025 12:18

carolinep3 · 03/02/2025 11:43

Why progesterone bloods at 14dpo? I thought they had to be done 6-7dpo or normally useful?

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Progesterone bloods are usually done on cycle day 21 or 7 days post suggested ovulation.
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carolinep3 · 03/02/2025 11:43

SCK2024 · 03/02/2025 09:47

✏️ 9DPO

No symptoms today yet

CD 20 progesterone bloods this Friday

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Why progesterone bloods at 14dpo? I thought they had to be done 6-7dpo or normally useful?

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