Clearblue Fertility Monitor Support Group Buddies Vol 4!!

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Time for us to move home again ladies!

Good luck Missyraines with this cycle! Fingers crossed and for everyone else as well!

KnackeredCow Awful isn't it when people bring up the subject you just want to change it straight away - good that your MIL has twigged on and can offer to change the subject.

MissLolita I sympathise i haven't yet had that from my family - but i'm guessing ahead that it will happen on xmas day as my step bro has just had a baby in April. So i can predict questions of 'Come on Em, when are you going to have one' I just use the excuse that we like our holidays and we'll do it soon (we go away quite a lot so people tend to buy this!) but there is only so long i can use that excuse for!!

Its just annoying and i'll be jealous of my step bro having his baby there - God, i'm such a bad person for saying that ! x

Hi everyone,

Don't feel bad EmmaC we all feel a bit (or a lot) when it comes to other people's pregnancies/babies etc, it's human nature, it doesn't make you a bad person. We're all so desperate for it to be our turn, we just can't help it.

Well, I am on CD14 and fully expected to get my first High this morning, but I'm still on Low! DH is all geared up for the lovefest to start tonight, as I have previously got Highs from CD13 and Peaked around 18/19. Think I'll just plough on with lovefest as planned, as I know it's not unheard of for the monitor to jump from Low to Peak. We've been doing it every other day so far and had planned to crank it up to every day from now until after the last High (with the possibility of twice a day on Peaks!!) - don't want us to peak too early though and run out of steam if it's going to be a late-Ov month...

I've only got 4 sticks left - if I haven't Peaked by then will it just stop asking me for sticks or does it ask for 10 more? (Will need to order some today if it might ask for more!!).

Blimey - just when I thought things had gotten into some sort of predictable pattern my body goes and changes its mind

EmmaC, yes, it is quite normal to feel .

PinkCustard, I have had three sneaky peaks [straight from low to peak] so best to get on with the lovefest just in case. The CBFM will probably ask you for another set of 10 sticks if you don't get your first peak before the last of your four remaining sticks. If it catches the first peak on your last of your four sticks, it'll assume another peak and a high without you having to waste more sticks.

Hell everyone else.

I think some of the good ladies in this thread are being far too hard on themselves about being at other people's PGs. Think of it this way....

I knew someone who was single for eight years and thought she'd never find a guy for her, and every single engagement announcement or wedding was torture because she was the single one always on the outside looking in. Lonely as hell. She endured other people's pity, and she endured mean people rubbing it in as well - offering her their single unattractive friends to go with on blind dates, as if she'd be grateful for any rubbish chucked her way. She's now involved with a lovely man, but has never forgotten those days. It's the same sort of thing, isn't it, what we're all going through.

One thing to remember is that everybody else's pregnancies have utterly ZERO influence on YOUR chances of a BFP or successful PG. Their luck doesn't reduce or change your odds.

For me, the one thing I can control is how am I going to be as a person when I do get a BFP and eventually have a baby. I have a long list of 'rules' I'm writing in my head so I am going to be a sensitive person to others. I hope I don't forget these days when I have my baby in my arms.

Awww chocciechip you are so right. What a lovely positive post. You've made me smile.

xxx

Too right Chocciechip! What a wonderful post. Thank you!

Lychees Sorry to hear tha tyou don't think this month is the month

PinkCustard I second what Lychees has said. BD lots just in case you get a sneaky peak.

EmmaC It's OK to feel . DH and I saw a psychotherapist last week and she put it in perspective well. Similarly to Chocciechip. It's displaced anger. When you have your baby, you won't fee the same way towards friends and family who have children. It is a temporary response.

Well hello to everyone today.

And the stats for today are....

FlyingCat TTC#1, Cycle #26, CBFM cycle 2, age 30, UCL 28-29, CD113
Rach879 TTC#1 Cycle #7, CBFM cycle 1, age 30, UCL 30-34, CD80
Jenni4 TTC#2, Cycle #5, CBFM Cycle 2, age 36, UCL 26, CD60
Hairytriangle TTC#1, Cycle #10, CBFM cycle 1, age 42, UCL 28/29, CD46
Boba82 TTC#1 Cycle #16, CBFM cycle 3, age 28, UCL ?, CD37
Ses TTC#2, Cycle #3, CBFM cycle 5, age 37, UCL 30, CD29
Emmylou30 TTC#1, Cycle #3, CBFM cycle 2, age 30, UCL 35, CD28
chocciechip TTC#1, Cycle #8, CBFM cycle 8, age 39, UCL29, CD25
Lychees TTC#2, Cycle #12, CBFM cycle 8, Aged 36, UCL 30-35, CD24
Starlet22 TTC#1, Cycle #14, CBFM cycle 8, age 34, ucl 25, CD23
ljg TTC#3, Cycle #5, CBFM cycle 4 age 38 UCL 28-30 CD20
wantbaby TTC#1, Cycle #9, CBFM cycle 4, age 38, UCL 30, CD17
MissLolita TTC#1, Cycle #5, CBFM Cycle 1, age 31, UCL 30, CD16
Keziah TTC#1, Cycle #26, CBFM Cycle 14, age 35, ucl 28-31, CD14
KnackeredCow TTC#1, Cycle #13, CBFM Cycle 2, age 31, UCL 28, CD14
PinkCustard TTC#2, Cycle #10, CBFM Cycle 5, age 33, UCL 30-35, CD14
Rosieposey TTC#5, Cycle #10, CBFM Cycle 3 aged38, UCL30, CD14
IzzyWizzyletsgetbusy TTC #3 Cycle #3, CBFM Cycle 3, age 34, UCL 26-28, CD7
Stormbird TTC#1, Cycle #4, CBFM Cycle 4, age 28, UCL 28-32 CD6
EmmaC29 TTC#1, Cycle #11, CBFM Cycle 1, age 29, UCL 26-29, CD 5
Missyraines TTC#1, Cycle #12, CBFM cycle 7, age 33, UCL 32, CD2
Headbanger TTC#1, Cycle #9, CBFM cycle 2, Aged 30

Thanks Pink Custard, Lychees, ChoccieChip & KC feel better now!

I have been using the OV sticks for ages and get a positive result on Day 12 or Day 15 so i was planning on using these along side the CBFM as well, might be wasting sticks but too many can't hurt can they?!

Its the other '5' days that is predicts for you before/after that i'm interested in as we've been just been doing it, normally on the day before, the day its positive and the day after but not always managed to hit all 3 days, so am going to start making an extra special effort, i haven't told my DH that i'm using this monitor, he would feel under pressure, although he knows i'm going to go to the Docs in Dec if nothing and he's happy to give a SA X

The reviews on Amazon make out this monitor is amazing and people have got their BFP after just 1 cycle, but looking at all of our stats, that's doesn't seem to be the case - wish they would put mixed reviews on so its more realistic!

Looking forward to doing my first test tomoz - even though it'll still be low as way too early! xxx

Thanks ladies, will dig out my sexy knickers then

Thanks everyone - really helpful posts ? you are all so right. I?ve recently started to feel like I ?see? pg ladies everywhere. I know in reality that there are no more or less pg ladies than before it?s just that I am conscious of them now ? it isn?t actually a conspiracy, although it doesn?t stop me joking that I think they are swarming?!

PinkCustard I?m with you ? best pants at the ready!

I'm definitely feeling a little as a friend of mine recently told me that she's pregnant with her third and it was a complete accident. Why oh why is is so much easier for other people to conceive and why coulnd't it be me. She didn't want any more children!!

pinkcustard thanks for asking, as predicted the dr pretty much sent me straight back out the door - she said that she didn't think a short luteal phase was a problem because as long as you have a good level of progesterone that will sustain the pg (I am slightly about this); and anyway she as a GP wouldn't do the 7dpo progesterone test but would have to refer to FC, which she wouldn't do for at least 12-18 months, especially as I already have dcs and have been pg recently. Oh and finished off with lots of pitying looks and telling me how she understands the wanting to be pg after a mc, but did I know stress was bad for fertility and we shouldn't let ttc interfere with our love life >

I left feeling a bit abandoned with it all tbh, but did manage to speak to the acupuncturist I had found who says she has a lot if success regulating cycles and sorting out luteal phases and was confident she could help. So that made me feel a bit more positive about things, and I've got my first appointment on Thursday (eek!)

Anyway, enough about me, I agree with others you should get the sexy knickers out and SWI in case of a sneaky peak. Enjoy!

To all those feeling I really understand that. I have had 4 birth announcements on facebook over last two weeks, along with photos to my phone and email (at work so no escape) and I am trying to be all joyous and sending wildly over-enthusiastic messages back but it's bloody hard.

Hi Everyone,

Totally getting the thang!!!!!

Just found out friend s SIL, who I might add I don't even know is up duff.... OK so we ll say its not a bad thing to feel a surge of ARRRRRRRRRGH when we are told this information but at the minute I really hate all PG women and think they all look really Smug. Is this in my head...most probably!! But I still can't help it.

Anyway hope your all well. Hi to any newbies Misslolita and anyone else I've missed.

Izzy sorry your feeling a bit deflated after the docs but as you've pointed out the Acupuncturist made you feel better so concentrate on that hu and hopefully it will help.

Choccie I agree....great post.

Coming to the end of AF's visit for me so will start SWIing soon. I have to admit though, for the first time in a wee while we got all frisky and got down to business yesterday and it had nothing to do with TTC. I was so impressed that we still have it in us........ Trouble is by the end of next week I'll have turned into Sargent Shagalot and my DP will be exhausted cos of the gruelling excercise LOL.

Well will pst again soon xxx

Stormbird your commment about PG women looking really smug'! Really made me laugh! I saw a lady in the card shop the other day - literally about to pop and felt very . She was on the phone and then preceeded to say 'i'm trying to hold on because we want to go to Sarah's party' or something along those lines and i thought hope you don't get to go!! - serves you right! ha, ha! Awful that i know! xx

Chin up Izzy fingers crossed for your acupunture xx

IzzyWizzy i had a birth announcement on facebook as well yday someone's GF who i don't even know - managed to put a nice 'That's great news' message on there! Grrrr!xx

Hello,

Izzy sorry that your doc was a bit crap, although when I saw my doc and she said 'Right, let's get things started then you're no spring chicken' (Not her exact words admittedly) I felt a bit unprepared as had really expected her to say just go away and keep trying, no need to worry yet. So in a strange sort of way perhaps it's a bit reasurring that she doesn't think you need to worry yet..? (Or she might just be crap). Acupuncture sounds hopeful though - have considered that myself but been put off by the cost for the time being.

Am feeling a bit reasurred by the fact that it took Myleene Klass 18 months to get preg recently, and then it just happened without any medical intervention, which has reminded me that sometimes it just takes a while for no reason and it will just happen one month (hopefully soon).

Am pleased to report I got my first High today, so will continue with the lovefest which kicked off last night. Am assuming the monitor is perhaps a bit more accurate now that it's had several (!) months to get used to me.

One other thing I've been looking into is Maca. I'd never heard of it til yesterday but there was a MN-er who had been TTC for 5 years and then got preg 2 months after using it. Obviously could be a giant coincidence but I'm a sucker for herbal miracle tablets and frankly will give anything a go if it's safe. Has anyone had any experience of it?

Well done Storm for non-babymaking rumpage You go girl!

FlyingCat TTC#1, Cycle #26, CBFM cycle 2, age 30, UCL 28-29, CD114
Rach879 TTC#1 Cycle #7, CBFM cycle 1, age 30, UCL 30-34, CD81
Jenni4 TTC#2, Cycle #5, CBFM Cycle 2, age 36, UCL 26, CD61
Hairytriangle TTC#1, Cycle #10, CBFM cycle 1, age 42, UCL 28/29, CD47
Boba82 TTC#1 Cycle #16, CBFM cycle 3, age 28, UCL ?, CD38
Ses TTC#2, Cycle #3, CBFM cycle 5, age 37, UCL 30, CD30
Emmylou30 TTC#1, Cycle #3, CBFM cycle 2, age 30, UCL 35, CD29
chocciechip TTC#1, Cycle #8, CBFM cycle 8, age 39, UCL29, CD26
Lychees TTC#2, Cycle #12, CBFM cycle 8, Aged 36, UCL 30-35, CD25
Starlet22 TTC#1, Cycle #14, CBFM cycle 8, age 34, ucl 25, CD24
ljg TTC#3, Cycle #5, CBFM cycle 4 age 38 UCL 28-30 CD21
wantbaby TTC#1, Cycle #9, CBFM cycle 4, age 38, UCL 30, CD18
MissLolita TTC#1, Cycle #5, CBFM Cycle 1, age 31, UCL 30, CD17
Keziah TTC#1, Cycle #26, CBFM Cycle 14, age 35, ucl 28-31, CD15
KnackeredCow TTC#1, Cycle #13, CBFM Cycle 2, age 31, UCL 28, CD15
PinkCustard TTC#2, Cycle #10, CBFM Cycle 5, age 33, UCL 30-35, CD15
Rosieposey TTC#5, Cycle #10, CBFM Cycle 3 aged38, UCL30, CD15
IzzyWizzyletsgetbusy TTC #3 Cycle #3, CBFM Cycle 3, age 34, UCL 26-28, CD8
Stormbird TTC#1, Cycle #4, CBFM Cycle 4, age 28, UCL 28-32 CD7
EmmaC29 TTC#1, Cycle #11, CBFM Cycle 1, age 29, UCL 26-29, CD 6
Missyraines TTC#1, Cycle #12, CBFM cycle 7, age 33, UCL 32, CD3
Headbanger TTC#1, Cycle #9, CBFM cycle 2, Aged 30

Stats done for Weds.

PinkCustard interesting that post about MACA have just googled it and it sounds fab - worth a try isn't it?! xx

Have just been looking on the NHS website about how to get pregnant - make it look soo easy 'just do it on the 7 days leading up to ovulation'! if only it was that easy! Pfft! x

Something awful has just happened at work. I ordered a new box of CBFM test sticks from Amazon and because I work full time and the package wouldn?t fit through my letter box I got them sent to my work address. I get things sent to work quite frequently (as do lots of other people) so there is no big deal about this.

Unfortunately the box had come open in transit and the contents of the box were visible when it arrived. One of our postroom guys came bouncing up to my desk and said quite loudly (in front of my boss who was stood by my desk at the time) ?Your Amazon package has arrived open, but don?t worry we have a confidentiality clause!?

Out of all the people who could have sent his he is by far the worst as he is a huge gossip. When he gave it to me I just said, ?oh thanks for taking the time to deliver it to me personally? (packages are normally left in a central place for people to pick them up) and smiled but I went bright red and I am still absolutely cringing inside. I have quite a senior position and I?ve been negotiating a promotion in the last week so this is both embarrassing and possibly damaging. I know firms aren?t allowed to discriminate on these grounds but I now worry people will be gossiping about me and it will get around. I?m not sure whether to say something to him and risk fanning the flames or just ignore it. I am still bright red an hour later!

MissLolita I am cringing for you. How awful. I can't even go to Boots to buy pg tests - have to order them on line! Too worried I might be seen by someone I know who would spread rumours.

However, that said I would ignore the postroom guy. A bit like a troll, he probably thrives on the attention, so it's probably best not to feed him.

As you are quite senior, and your boss more senior than you, I suspect the likelihood of your boss finding out as being negligable. But I fully appreciate and understand why you are worried.

KC You are right ? Saying nothing is the best thing to do. I?ve calmed down slightly at last ? It was just the horrible stomach churning/sick feeling of the moment that got me panicked.

I bought the spare sticks online as I was buying some cheap pg tests and my rationale then was to buy them in the hope I don?t need them ? weird logic I know?

I was actually going to ask a question about the lines on the test window (before this happened) ? does anyone know what the difference between the 2 lines is and what they mean? I haven?t found anything online (all search results come up relating to pg tests not cbfm)

10 days at 2 bars?

Hi Lolita what a mare!!! I agree with KCOW ignore the Troll.

As for the test lines?, not sure which one is for what hormone surge...but I usually start off with a darker one on the left...(in the position it is put into monitor)gradually getting lighter and the right one getting darker until peak days when both lines are the same colour...

Im sure somebody else will be along soon who knows better.

I believe the lines are as follow:

The one furthest away from the end you pee on is the oestrogen line. It uses a competitive assay. Therefore, the more oestrogen in your urine, the paler the colour. It starts off dark blue when you have low levels of oestrogen and then fades. When the monitor reads that it is significantly paler than at baseline the monitor displays high fertility.

I've noticed I get high about 1 to 2 days before the colour completely fades out (oestrogen peak). The colour then begins to fade back in as oestrogen levels decrease after the peak.

The line nearest to the end you pee on is leutinising hormone. This becomes darker as levels rise in your urine. When it becomes significantly blue the monitor is triggered to read peak.

My cycle starts with a dark oestrogen line, which fades out completely at day 13 (oestrogen peak) and then begins to fade back in as levels fall. At day 15 (today for me) the LH line turned dark (showing LH peak) but the oestrogen line had also re-appeared confirming a drop in oestrogen - to be expected as the oestrogen peak occurs before and triggers the LH peak.

Hope that helps

Hi Lolita you poor thing, i feel for you just not something you want everyone to know about, I'm sure he won't say anything, but like the other girls say I just wouldn't say anything x

I did my first test today and its now reading day 6 and High - I'm assuming this is because its my first time on the monitor and it can give more high days than usual etc on your first go?

As even if my peak was detected on day 12 this is still 6/7 days away or am i being thick?! i'm just going to crack on with it anyway xxx

FlyingCat TTC#1, Cycle #26, CBFM cycle 2, age 30, UCL 28-29, CD114
Rach879 TTC#1 Cycle #7, CBFM cycle 1, age 30, UCL 30-34, CD81
Jenni4 TTC#2, Cycle #5, CBFM Cycle 2, age 36, UCL 26, CD61
Hairytriangle TTC#1, Cycle #10, CBFM cycle 1, age 42, UCL 28/29, CD47
Boba82 TTC#1 Cycle #16, CBFM cycle 3, age 28, UCL ?, CD38
Emmylou30 TTC#1, Cycle #3, CBFM cycle 2, age 30, UCL 35, CD29
chocciechip TTC#1, Cycle #8, CBFM cycle 8, age 39, UCL29, CD26
Lychees TTC#2, Cycle #12, CBFM cycle 8, Aged 36, UCL 30-35, CD25
Starlet22 TTC#1, Cycle #14, CBFM cycle 8, age 34, ucl 25, CD24
ljg TTC#3, Cycle #5, CBFM cycle 4 age 38 UCL 28-30 CD21
wantbaby TTC#1, Cycle #9, CBFM cycle 4, age 38, UCL 30, CD18
MissLolita TTC#1, Cycle #5, CBFM Cycle 1, age 31, UCL 30, CD17
Keziah TTC#1, Cycle #26, CBFM Cycle 14, age 35, ucl 28-31, CD15
KnackeredCow TTC#1, Cycle #13, CBFM Cycle 2, age 31, UCL 28, CD15
PinkCustard TTC#2, Cycle #10, CBFM Cycle 5, age 33, UCL 30-35, CD15
Rosieposey TTC#5, Cycle #10, CBFM Cycle 3 aged38, UCL30, CD15
IzzyWizzyletsgetbusy TTC #3 Cycle #3, CBFM Cycle 3, age 34, UCL 26-28, CD8
Stormbird TTC#1, Cycle #4, CBFM Cycle 4, age 28, UCL 28-32 CD7
EmmaC29 TTC#1, Cycle #11, CBFM Cycle 1, age 29, UCL 26-29, CD 6
Missyraines TTC#1, Cycle #12, CBFM cycle 7, age 33, UCL 32, CD3
Headbanger TTC#1, Cycle #9, CBFM cycle 2, Aged 30
Ses TTC#2, Cycle #4, CBFM cycle 6, age 37, UCL 30, CD2

Hello all! Really sorry for being so rubbish at keeping up with the thread. I really want to as you are all so lovely but just struggle for the time at the moment.

As you can see, AF arrived so I'm on CD2.

Hope you're all well and wishing you all lots of positive vibes for those BFPs :)

Thanks KC, I'm not sure which way round the lines are...as in which one is closest to the end! I only really registered they were there this morning. Stupidly I didn't consider which way round it was! Oh well, I'll have to check tomorrow morning [smile}

I feel quite a bit better this evening (a large glass of red helped) and I'm going to follow the advice of ignoring it. My dh reminded me that he probably wasn't actually that interested and that being a postroom guy he may well see far more interesting things than my CBFM test sticks

MissLolita, how awkward but I'm sure he'll forget about it before you do. Not sure about the lines on the test sticks.

Hi everyone else. I too have been a bit snowed under to have posted much lately. Also, I am heading to the end of a 30 days cycle with not much to report so I expect we'll be going onto the next cycle.