Ovulation tips

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Heya lovely peeps I need some advise I am 19 years old I fell pregnant November last year and was due in August this year sadly due to unknowns reasons I sadly had a missed misscarrage and had to give birth on the 4th of April to a beautiful tiny baby girl, since then I downloaded the flo app to track my ovulation to avoid getting pregnant but am not having protected sector taking any safety measures as they cause bad problems for me but I'm due to be ovulating the Most on the 31st of this month I have been taking ovulation tests since the 23rd and they are all negative and I have milky white discharge but had my period a couple weeks ago is this normal and is there anyone who has any guidance or advise for me many thanks lovelys x

It's common for ovulation to move around, which is why using fertility awareness for contraception is a very risky business if you're not using a barrier method and you don't want to get pregnant. I'd definitely recommend using condoms if you want to avoid pregnancy.

The milky cervical fluid and negative OPK would suggest that ovulation isn't quite happening yet as it'll usually go clear and stretchy like egg white.

Often tracking apps will give you a default reading of ovulation happening on day 14 of your cycle, especially if you're a new user. Ovulating on day 14 isn't normal for everyone- day 15-17 is more normal for me as an example.

It's worth bearing in mind that ovulation tests can help to identify ovulation, but it's possible to have multiple LH surges in a cycle without successfully ovulating. You can reasonably confirm ovulation if you're also tracking your basal body temperature and you get a sustained temperature rise for at least 3 days after your positive OPK.

I do want to be pregnant just obviously not like next month and thank you so much for that advise that's really helped as I am just worried of getting pregnant and having to get to 22 weeks again and lose another baby she was my first but I know i am only young so I will have plenty of chance I am waiting for the postmortem to come back to find out what happened also asking for a friend is it common for the umbilical cord to shrink during pregnancy as my friend had to give birth early x

I'm really sorry for your loss and all that you're going through- I can understand why you're worried about that. There is lots of support on the Miscarriage board if you need it: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/miscarriage

I don't know about the umbilical cord question though.

Do you mean placental failure, OP?

I am sorry for your loss.

No hospital said I had a missed misscarrage I had a really severe urine infection at the time was sent to a and e with sever pain on my right side frot and back and up my shoulder making me sick the lot and because I was 22 weeks they didn't check the baby because in Wales don't know if they do it everywhere but they don't check till 24weeks x

So sorry for your loss. Hope you get some helpful answers from the post mortem

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the umbilical cord shrinking, but I have gestational diabetes and am likely to be induced early as it can cause the placenta to disintegrate before the end of the pregnancy. So that certainly does happen, not sure about it shrinking though!

I didn't mean you, OP, I mean that placental failure was the only think I could think of regarding 'shrinking umbilical cord'.