Anyone Planning To TTC From October

No, olivo, you've been counting right! Cd1 would indeed be the day your bleed started (same as for Icantbelieve). All sounds fine! Hope you've been lucky!

Ican'tbelieveit, i have recently just come off the PIll too, but I have been counting CD1 as the day my bleed started (a week after finishing). bugger, seems i've got it all wrong and probably missed my fertile time

bluesatin - i know what you mean. i fell preg with both ds first month. 1st one we weren't actually trying as was our honeymoon and just didn't use anything so our honeymoon baby was conceived. I know some women are trying for their 1st and i am really blessed to have my 2 ds and to have had them really quickly.

Good luck I can't believe! After I came off the pill my former 30 day cycle switched to being a 34 day cycle, and then the month after I fell pg (which sadly ended in mc) - now back to having first post-mc cycle again, but I'm not sure what it's going to be in terms of length. Hope yours is regular from the word go (or that AF doesn't appear at all if you've been ttc!)

VM - thank you so much, that's a real help. I'll sit tight until the end of the week and see what appears !!

Hi Icantbelieve, you should count the first day of your period after coming off the pill (8/10) as cd1. So you're now on cd27. Hope that helps!

Need some advice please !!

Decided to come off the pill after my last pack in October but, I have got myself all muddled and can't work out when I should expect my period to arrive !!!

Took my last pill on 4/10 and started period (finally) on 8/10. This finished on 11/10.

Is it 4 weeks from first day of period or 3 weeks from end of period or am I completely off the mark here !!

Thanks in advance !!

Good luck bluestatinsash and spats! Know what you mean about needing to become zenlike - I'm vvvv impatient for next AF so that we can get started! Zen, zen...

Thanks VillageMum - may also invest if I'm still ttc in the Spring... The OPKs have been my trusted friend thus far so will stick (pardon the pun)with them for now.

Talking of which I'm on CD9 tomorrow so will start using them again. I'm already excited/dreading the 2WW bit. I need to become more zen like in my approach as I know I may have to wait some months for BFP. Its harder for me as I fell first month trying for both pgs... I know that in itself is unusual so need to chill the feck out.

Would love to be on a pate/red wine ban for xmas though...

bluesatinsash, they're like little computers that tell you when your most fertile times are - they work either by getting you to wee on sticks and analysing your hormone levels or by asking you to take your morning temperature with a sensor (a bit like BBT but less DIY!) Both Clearblue and First Response do them but they work on different principles - I think the Clearblue one is the weeing kind, FR the temp kind. If we don't get lucky next cycle I may invest (they're pricey though!)
Sorry to hear you've had a low week. I'm willing my next cycle on so that we can start ttc!!

Happy BDing and fingers crossed...

I HAVE JUST DONE ANOTHER OPK, BY CHANCE AND ITS POS TODAY. I AM CD19 WHICH MEANS I WONT OVULATE UNTIL CD20/CD21. HOW LATE IS THAT. GOOD JOB I DID IT AS THOUGHT I WASN'T OVULATING THIS MONTH. BD TONIGHT, HOPEFULLY.

Afternoon!

VillageMum Fertility monitor you say? What the Dickens does that look like? Tell me more!

So glad its Friday tomorrow, have had a low week. Just feel so much in limbo wondering if/when it will happen for us again. I feel I'm willing time on to my next fertile week. Need to get back to gym to release some endorphins!

Hi all, does anyone use a fertility monitor? Any recommendations? I'm thinking of alternatives to having to do BBT on these dark mornings...

spats, bluesatin, I use OPKs (cheap lab ones bought from accessdiagnostics) and they work for me. I also do BBT charting (which sadly only tells you when you have ovulated, though, not when you're about to - the OPKs are the only way to know that!) After my mc these toys were all reassuring and it made me feel a whole lot better to see that I was ov'ing again...

I'm trying to avoid thinking of Christmas - I also want a BFP for it! I'd gladly spend Xmas in a state of total nausea.

I am v sad and have started xmmas shop, only because wanted to get a wii for boys so thought would get early. BFP would be ideal i agree

I have now totally, logically thought (as a scientist does!!) about my predicament. I tested sat morning and some say OPK don't pick up in morning so my LH could have been really low or only just starting. Then didn't test again until about 8 on sun as we were away for weekend. Maybe i did miss it as that was over 24 hr period. Will use kit tonight and see and if no pos i am assuming either didn't ovulate or missed it. Will then have to wait for AF i guess and try not to stress. x

Hi spats - I know a few BMS's in fact one of them gave me a tour of the labs a couple of years ago!

I swear by OPK's. Used them to conceive DS and last pg and they were bang on BUT saying that I have had 2 positives since MC and no pg but I need to calm down to a panic and be patient..

I was re-reading my 'how to conceive naturally' book last night and it reiterates how small your window of opportunity is and how you have to nail your 48 hours fertile period. Most women think they ovulate around day 14 but some can be as early as day 9 or as late as day 20 depending on length of cycle. I always start testing on day 9 as have 27 day cycle. They do say your body can have months when it doesn't ovulate which is so unfair...

Anyone started Christmas shopping? All I want to Christmas is a BFP

hi peacelily and bluesatin, i am also NHS worker - biomedical scientist in haematology!! Haven't looked at any profile pages yet, too busy looking on internet for ovulation papers!!!
Any of you uing OPK? I have't got a pos this month and did last month so am thinkikng maybe i am not ovulating every month which will be v annoying xx

Of course you should wait!

But... realistically I would have tested by now... I have the patience of a flea.

bluesatinsash, ooooh, I am jealous of you ttc on the 5th, since we're sticking to our decision to wait this cycle out!
Really hope it works out for you! x

have temporarily cured nausea by eating an apple.

thank you bluesatin stash for compliment and advice!

That's an old pic of dd she's a year older now (2) even cuter!

Sorry to hear about your jinx, so horrible for you, name chnage etc. is something I would do too! I'm a bit superstitious like that (bit crap for a CBT therapist).

I'm off out in 10 mins to get dads 70th B'Day pressie, don't know what tho! I have to walk past Boots so will scurry past it quickly and resist the urge. I'm trying to hold out til AF time but the waiting is torturous!

peacelily - just had a peek at your profile page and your DD is gorg! I'm also an NHS worker but a non clinical one (in HR).

I've left my profile page on my old regular - now jinxed - name (changed names after bowing out of April 09 ante-natal thread).

I would err against doing a test just now as your body may be foxing you but then I'm a "don't test-until AF-is-late" girl.

Its so frustrating that AF symptoms are also pg symtoms!!

Hi All, thanks for the welcome, I've got a conundrum!!

Feel sick, boobs are swollen and can get milk out of them (!) stopped bf 18 months ago, is this pmt or pg??!

Not due til 2nd Nov, what do I do!?! Do I do a test? Will I get a reliable result?

Only feel sick in throat though IYKWIM, not in stomach and dh has been feeling nauseuous recently, also might be anxiety.

What to do!!