Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs! Jump aboard for the ladies hoping the Easter Bunny will bring a very special egg.

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Well the witch has caught up with me at last. So I have decided its time to start a new thread as I think our christmas reindeer need a rest.
So step aboard ladies and join me for a hunt for the golden egg.

Hi ladies - nice of you to ask . I'm doing OK actually - as with both previous pregnancies, I haven't had any morning sickness or any awful tiredness. But I'm only 5+6, so that might still be to come.

I HAVE got an appalling cough though and went back to the GP about it this morning. I've been awake two nights in a row now spluttering my guts out. Nothing to do with the pregnancy, of course, but it's not very nice.

lbot - I second blackcats. I felt a bit the same a few months ago when all my tests came back normal because I wanted something to be 'fixed' and magically make me pregnant. But give it a few days and you will feel better for knowing that everything's OK. Which just means that it's a matter of time. Great to have that insight into when you're going to ovulate this month! Maybe you're two weeks pregnant already

glad you're feeling ok with the pregnancy treats. hope the cough doesn't linger too much.

lbot my temps are a bit unreliable this month due to me being lazy on days off and not temping at same time. I had very positive OPKs on the evening of CD13 and morning of CD14, then before and after those times it was negative, i'm assuming i ovulated CD14 as it surely would have been a few hours after my first positive OPK, though i suppose it could have happened overnight and the next morning the OPK was still very positive but obviously on way down . anyway without a scan showing exact moment i know it can never be an exact science. Generally pleased that we got in 2 good chances this month and that i got 2 proper positives- i've never had 2 positive OPKS before!

I have already decided to give TTC only until the end of this year, maybe even stop before then. I have come or am coming to terms with thought that it may not happen- and that being ok for us, we both have our own children, just not one together and i've started to think about other things I'd like to do. I used to be quite creative and that's gone by the wayside a long time ago. Thinking about resurrecting that , and also trying to find new friends as that is something I lack.

Well AF turned up eventually. However my LP was 14 days with very little spotting really.

We have been spending the weekend with friends and their 10 month old and talking very openly about TTCing which has been therapeutic to do.

sorry to hear that pipbin but sounds like some positive things too. Glad talking openly to your friends has been helpful :)

FF has moved my ov day from CD13 to CD15, which pisses me off massively as we havent DTD since CD13 (i've had a nasty bout of thrush). its been changed due to a massive rise in temp today. almost all studies say that ov occurs within 12- 36 hours of your first positive opk, 36 hours for me would be around 8pm on CD14, my temp was down the next morning, not up. I know it can sometimes be delayed, there have been a couple of studies showing it was as late as 50 hours after the surge! if that is true for me means sex was a bit far off. really pissed off now. Its a nightmare isnt it? now i'm left thinking if only we'd DTD the following night as well. feel like i'm going to be out this month.

Oh Blackcats. This whole thing of TTCing is a complete bitch isn't it. Trying to second guess everything is so all consuming.
It was odd talking to my friends about all of this as their baby was a first cycle wonder. They were waiting a cycle after coming of the pill to begin TTCing only to find that she was pg!
It was good to vocalise why I find charting etc so helpful. They asked that surely it means that each failed month is a greater disappointment as so much emphasis had been put on it. I said that it meant that I knew we had done all we could.

Anyway, could the rise in temp be due to the thrush? Can we stalk your chart Black?

www.fertilityfriend.com/ttc/index.php

ok. hope the link works , not sure if it will as i normally have to log in /stay logged in to see my chart. the extra info would be i had some EGCM on CD12 (second day of bleeding- which was just spotting) and the positive opks, the first was the evening , the next the following morning. negatives on either side of that.

yes, the second guessing all the time, time consuming. I'm with you on charting though, it is generally helpful for me, though after the thermal shift i see little practical use for me. Also i like knowing what my body is doing. its not fail-proof by any means though and when you get thrown a curve ball like this month it does my head in! a change from ov on CD 13 to CD 15 also now means even longer until i can test! pity those people with extremely long cycles. I temp orally, i do know it not the most reliable way to take them, maybe i should move to temping vaginally? i'm not sure i'd hear the bleep though. what a thing to talk about!!

Shhhh... AF isn't here. CD1 was Sat 7th July. So was due Sat / Sun.
CD31 of a usually 28/29 day cycle...

Still not tempting fate by testing though.

No symptoms of anything

oooohh Flying you should test!! Don't leave us all in suspense like this!

I am 9 DPO and going a bit mental. They are referring us for IVF at the end of next month which sounds hideous so I'm dead keen to get diffed ASAP!

Blackcats your link didn't work. Try going to the 'sharing' menu in the upper right hand corner of the screen on FF, the Charting Home Page/Setup - it should be pretty straightforward from there.

Here is my chart if anyone's interested.

I love chart stalking.
You seem to have a lot of variation in your LP there Squirrel.

[url=www.fertilityfriend.com/home/3948c9]My Ovulation Chart[/url]

does this work??

test test flying !!

oh i give up.

Here's your chart Blackcats!

Hmmm, your chart has an interesting pattern. I can see why O is pinpointed for CD 15, as you had the high temp on the 27th and I think it takes the subsequent 6 days after the highest temperature and puts the coverline above it if you see what I mean. No idea why it thought it was CD 13 initially. It must be so frustrating. The only thing I can suggest is to record your mucus and and cervix position in FF, as the more info it has to work from the more accurate it should be in pinpointing O.

Pip I know my LP is a bit inconsistent, it seems pretty accurate though as I use OPKs. I can't find anything online that suggests why people have inconsistent LPs - do you know anything about it?

well we had sex on CD 12 and 13 so still in with some chance, but not the holy grail of SWI the day before ovulation (if FF are right). i'm thrown by this month because i usually ov very soon after a positive OPK, in fact my problem is usually getting SWI in between a positive OPK and my temp rise. hmm odd month due to the bleed mid cycle. anyway won't/ mustn't think about it so much any more.

squirrel how did you get it to link? (thanks)

Oooo, still nothing, no symptoms of anything!

I'm not getting excited as "Bristol-gate" is still fresh in my mind, that was a 35 day cycle... But the only one I've ever had in my life!!

Holding off testing, a BFN would not be welcome.. No news is good news

Although I will take it easy at Zumba tomorrow. Might dtd, that tends to encourage her arrival.

Did you all hear about Gary barlow's baby? Dawn gave birth at 8 months on Saturday, baby Poppy was stillborn
Awful, just awful

I just wrote a huge long message and it was lost grrr!!!

Blackcats - hmmm...interesting chart, I can see why you're confused. I would even say cd17 for ov, but your opks don't seem to agree with that. But they don't seem to agree with your temps either. Did you swi any time after cd13? I don't even know if your body could've surged again between cd15 and 17... I guess nothing to do but obsess wait?

Squirrel - your chart is looking good. Your post ov temps look higher than usual, no? Why all the open circles? Is it just inconsistent waking times? Was it just a few minutes or more? I usually don't tell FF unless it was more than a half hour out. Is that bad?

Pipbin - how are you doing, hon? Have you made your appointment yet?

Flying - I don't want to pressure you (but, seriously, test! Pretty please? ). LOL at Bristol-gate! I remember! Are you certain of when you ov'd?

Things are looking good here. No ov yet but it's imminent. Have had a good amount of Ewcm, have swi'd loads, peak reading on cbfm for two days now...what could go wrong? . I've actually even had a spot of red blood this morning so unlike the spotting I normally have, so could be ov spotting? Not much to look at but here's my chart

Happy Tuesday!

dtd worked
So that was a 31 day cycle, how very odd. 2 odd ones in 6 months.
AF is very light atm but that's normal.

Need to cheer up, this has really annoyed me

So, positives, erm....

DH will be pleased when I announce that we are going to use the Treats method and dtd every other day

i really think i did ovulate on the evening/ night of CD14, looking at my notes for that day i had bad lower abdominal pains on right side. i'd temped late that day or my temp would have been lower. next morning temped usual time, so not as much difference as usual. i dont always get ov pain, but its fairly regular, of course no way of proving what that pain is all about but one sided a bit of a giveaway. My pattern is almost always to get a rise day after ov, then a dip, then more rises. anyway thanks for looking.

good luck this month lbot sounds like you're right on track!

x post. so sorry flying, i hate those weird long cycles, they get your hopes up.
I think from my experience this month that SWI every other day throughout most of your cycle,( we can ignore during AF and have a rest) , is the way to go. not sure my DP could manage that though so we try to have more sex throughout that week but not best approach. FWIW Zita west promotes the SWI every other day as best way to get preggers.

flying try to do something nice for yourself today to help lift your mood.

Oh, Flying I'm so sorry.

Blackcats - cd14 sounds plausible. Did you try to adjust your temp? If you google BBT temp adjuster there's a good website that comes up pretty near the top of results.

Hi ladies, sorry not been around much. And sorry in advance for the me, me me post that it is to follow. Did a first response test thurs eve, negative. Went away for a spa weekend just gone and on the form you had to tick if you were TTC so I did but assured the therapist not pregnant and hac a neck and back massage. Drunks lots. Period due yest, no show so just did a cheapie and got a second line instantly. Don't know what to to think now. We only DTD once and I have all my usual pre period symtoms. Shit.

And I've forgotten to take folic acid for last few days. Double crap.

Sorry flying my post is a bit insensitive. I'm just speechless.

Don't worry about me, that is fantastic
Fwiw, I got quite pissed tipsy the week I was due on with DS, didn't take my frolic acid tablets with me and was away for 3 days through work.
DS is absolutely fine
Congratulations!!!

Tell us what you did this month

Oh, and we only dtd once at "prime time" (used opk) to achieve DS... Ahh, I remover it well: Tues 12th Feb 2008