Hop aboard the Santa sleigh for a festive baby (late Dec /early Jan)

[Crazytictac]

Jingle jingle....anybody joining me? I figure this HAS to be my month if I'm starting the thread :o

crazy I charted for a few cycles without temping and still found it useful as a way to track AF and bd'ing.
I tend to wake up in the night too, however I understand that it only a problem if you get up.

Thanks pipbin. Maybe worth a shot. Hmm, not that keen on carrying on with the CB fertility monitor as didn't realise how expensive sticks were! However on day 8 it's given me a high, very unexpected so gotta get back on it (no pun intended).

Still no AF for you then....think you might have to give up your seat on the sleigh....!

Morning everyone, been off line for a few days just updating my stats.

Roxy31 TTC #1, cycle 9, AF due 6 April
YaYa OC TTC #1, cycle #2 AF due around 7th of April
Cejay8 TTC #?, cycle ?, AF due 10 April
LimeleafLizard TTC #4, cycle 2 or 4, CD 9, AF due 10 April
FrenchLimeBlossom (35) TTC #2, cycle 3, CD 5, AF due 18 April
Crazytictac (31) TTC # 2, cycle 6, CD 4, AF due possibly from 17 - 24 April
Combatqueen (30) TTC # 1, cycle 4, AF due around 9th April
Asianbabe TTC # 3, cycle, CD 1
Happilymarried cycle 12, CD 6
Debeez TTC # 2, cycle 3
Pandawatch TTC # 1, cycle 4, CD 11
Treats TTC #3, cycle 3, CD 2
Pipbin TTC#1, cycle 10*
Pinkie29 TTC #1, cycle 3, CD1
Olivetti TTC #2, cycle 1, cycle day 13

Thanks Lime, DH and I are moving out of the area we are in now so that we can afford a house, it?s a 60's build 3 bed semi-detached. It has a lovely big living area thanks to a great big single story extension and a lovely garden. It been lived in since new by this couple who are now in 80's so as you can imagine the decor isn't exactly to our taste. So lots of decorating to do, which will be fun whilst suffering from early pregnancy symptoms.

crazy i hope you are right about these things coming in 3's; DH is waiting to find out about a new job and a BFP would round it all off nicely.

Can anyone give any help/advice on temping? I've just started today but am unsure exactly what I'm looking for and what it's supposed to show? x

Hi pinkie, welcome. Essentially you need to get a basal body thermometer and take your temp at the same time every morning as soon as you wake up before doing anything else at all. Make a note of your temperature and plot it on a chart. I use "fertility friend" on my phone (most smart phones have it as an ap or you can do it online), i just sit back and let the fertility friend do all the calculating for me. It calculates your average temp over the last 6 days and plots a "cover line" once you have 3 temperatures above that line you know you have ovulated and it plots ovulation on your graph.

Pinkie I really recommend the book 'Taking Charge of your Fertility' for information on how to chart. Even if you use Fertility Friend it is still really useful read. I bought it from amazon but I'm sure you could get it in the library if you didn't want to pay until you were sure you'd use it.

I made up a chart in Excel to record my info.

Hey everyone
Trying to update my stats but can't stupid iPhone can someone add me

Asianbabe (35) Cycle 11 TTC no 3 Af due 20th April

Just realized its going to be nearly a whole year since I started TTC

I'm not even sure I can join this. AF due 09/04, Cycle 1, trying to concieve DC number 2 after a 7 year gap and DS 1 was not planned- I feel very clueless!

Fertility Friend is very useful if you're just starting to get your head round charting as it does the coverline for you. All you need is one of these and then you just enter your temperature every day in the chart.

But the key thing you need to look out for is your cervical fluid as that's the indicator to the best time to DTD. You're looking for stretchy, egg-whitey fluid. That's a really basic intro to Fertility Awareness which is what Toni Wechsler talks about in her book.

asianbabe - sorry it's taking so long .

Wiggy - why do you think you can't join? There isn't an entrance test!! Happy to have you aboard.

I've got a foot in both camps here.
I'm sure that AF is going to turn up any minute, but she hasn't yet.

I really recommend fertility friend too.

So, I was looking at thermometers on Boots website. Is it just a normal, stick it in your mouth type of one I need?

I've got this one from Amazon:
here

It can't just be a regular one, it has to take your temperature to two decimal places as the difference in temperature is slight.

You need to take your temp at the same time every day when you wake up before you do ANYTHING else.

You'll need to use it with charting site like Fertility Friend. my charts here
Temping won't tell you in advance when you ovulate but it will tell you afterwards. Couple that with OPKs and checking your cervical fluid and you'll become very familiar with your cycle.

Thanks for all the advice ladies just downloaded fertility me and got my thermometer ready for the morning! x

I wasn't sure about joining as I was so confused by dates,I wasn't sure this was the right flight for me!now I'm on I think it is! I'm going to give it until the end of this month,then get thermometers etc. All very exciting (&nerve wracking). so how does this work?Do you exit the flight if you fall pregnant or do you stay on if you fall this month? As I said,I'm a newbie so please excuse ignorance!

Hi again QT and welcome Wiggy! Good to have you on board... the sleigh is filling up now!

Wiggy once you are pregnant you can join an antenatal thread... but lots of people seem to stay around for a while until they are really sure, and to offer moral support to the ones still in their 2ww. If you don't get a bfp this 'flight' I expect there will be another one taking off soon after!
So is your DS 7 years old then? Same as my DS1.

I think I ov'ed this morning but not 100% sure... will have to see if my temp goes up tomorrow. Hope we have done enough this month... might have to waylay DH once more tonight just to be sure!

Hi all,

Please can I join you? We have just started ttc #2 this month. Excited but scared as DS is only 18 months and still a lot of work! Here are my stats:

Eleanora (33) ttc#2, cycle 1, AF due 10th April

I was in the chemist tonight for none pregnancy related matters& 'stumbled' upon thermometers (by stumbled,I mean actively sought out the woman to ask where they were)- I'm now a proud owner.going to check out fertility friend tonight&start logging in morning. Pretty sure it's too late for this month but will help me gauge the lay of the land for next month. We're going to STD again tonight for good measure&then drop to every other night for rest of the week

Am I right in thinking you take temp first thing in morning before you do anything else?also,do you take it at bedtime too?

Thanks again for support&advice

PS- limeleaflizard,yes,ds is 7& will be 8 in November.he would be ecstatic about having a brother or sister.hopefully he'll be getting one soon.x

Dtd NOT STD tonight!that doesn't sound appealing at all!excuse the auto-correct!

Wiggy, just in morning. And yes, before you do ANYTHING else. Keep your thermometer by your bed. Mine has a memory, so at the weekend I wake up, take my temp and go back to sleep.

And you can have Fertility Friend for free but the price is not so bad and you can track supplements too. my charts here

In other news, looks like I'm off the previous flight and onto the sleigh. Getting very fed up now.

Hee hee hee @ wiggy, love the auto correct!

Welcome aboard eleanora, my DS is 2 next month and is wild so I know where you're coming from!

Pipbin I've just been looking at your chart, would you have ovulated roughly day 22 then? I'm a bit lost on how it's meant to help as you don't know you've ovulated until the temp has rose? x

Welcome Eleanora! May I offer you a ? Top up, anyone? I have just opened a bottle of red but will only be having one small glass just in case!

pinkie yes you're right that the temp only tells you the day after you ovulate... you really have to watch your CM to predict in advance. If you keep doing this for several cycles you begin to notice a pattern. It is important to look for general trends in temp though, not just the number on any given day.

Typically, I have EWCM from days 11 - 13, less CM (turning sticky) on day 14, and a temp jump on day 15. I think then that I must ovulate late on day 13.

The last couple of months I have felt very crampy 7 days after OV which I have thought might be implantation. Why then am I not pg? Well I was reading that gradually as you move through your 30s, a fertilised egg is less and less likely to survive implantation. I am now 36 so I guess we just have to keep trying.

That was a quick purchase Wiggy! Hope charting works for you.
My DS1 almost the same age as yours then. I know a few in his class who've had little siblings recently - a bigger age gap seems to be working well for them.

Limeleaf - that's been my experience too! Two weekends ago I could have sworn blind that my cramps were implantation, but turned out not to be. The only downer I have on TCOYF is that she is quite negative about how easy it is to fall pregnant after 35 (we started TTC #3 on my 35th birthday).

I'd always thought that the impact of age was less frequent ovulation and less CM, but it turns out that it also impacts implantation, and that the 'quality' of your eggs declines, meaning that they're harder to fertilise.

On the bright side, it really just means that you have to give it