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has anyone had probs with clearblue ov tests??

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wannabump2006 · 29/06/2006 20:09

was just wondering if anyone has had probs detecting their most fertile periods using a clearblue ov testing kit?
I've got really regular periods(28 days)and have detected(using net)that my most fertile days are today/tomorrow and i'm meant to ov on sat.I've got a clearblue ov test and have been testing since monday,first thing every morning,and even this morning it was blank?and its meant to be my most fertile time!!??

I've experienced this before when testing for my most fertile times and it didn't detect anything yet i got pregnant that cycle?so thought that was really weird??
Any suggestions?,would be muchly appreciated!!,thanx.x.xmichelle.x

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 16:08

thats good then nat!.x it sounds like your body might be going back to proper cycles?.xSounds like your fertile around the same sort of time as me too!!so lets hope we both have good news soon!!.x.x.x

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Natty1806 · 03/07/2006 16:50

i hope so wannabump.

Got to try and getDP in the mood for it tonight even though it is really hot - don't want to tell him that it is really important as i might ov in the next day or so as you never know he might not be able to perform under the pressure.

Don't forget the legs in the air tonight

LOl

coggy · 03/07/2006 19:11

In my experience it's best not to say!!
My DH does not perform under pressure and ESPECIALLY in this heat - it's just hopeless!!!

How does anyone in hot countries get pg???!!!
I can't bear my own hot hands touching me let alone anyone else's stickys!!!

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 19:22

yeah nasty!!
Try having a bath or shower together??....that way you won't wori about the heat and afterwards you can have a cool shower to relax?.x
I know what you mean about not performing under pressure...how hard is it though!!??when you know your ov'ing you can't help but want to pounce!!I found it really hard when i tested on sat morning and got my smiley face!As soon as dh came in i pounced!!and he's like,'whooa!!let me get in the door first!!'(ooops)
When you detect your serge its the next 24-36hrs that are most important right?.x

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coggy · 03/07/2006 19:24

Yeah...although sperm can survive several days so before is also good.
I think the o.p.kits say anytime in the next 48 hours.

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 19:27

ah thats gd!!Tryin not to think about it too much,plus have covered myself everyday last week and up till today,so heres hoping!!.x
how long you been trying coggy?(if you don't mind me asking?).x

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coggy · 03/07/2006 19:29

It feels like FOREVER!!!!!

We tried for nearly 5 years for ds (who then died from a knot in his cord!!!) and now for nearly 13 months......so we started ttc 7 years ago and haven't quite got were we wanted to be just yet!!!!

We will............

coggy · 03/07/2006 19:37

Oh dear WannaBump - have I scared you away??!!

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 19:39

I love your enthusiasm hunny!!
OFCOURSE you'll get there!!same as me....i had a stillborn at 33weeks last may(really rare 1 in a million condition that affected our ds's heart and liver),then had a miscarriage in september.i was quite depressed for awjile but have gradually picked myself up and told myself,'what will be,will be!!'...this is our first month trying so don't want to get hopes up too much...if it happens then great!,if not theres always next month!!...

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 19:40

soz!!was just bidding on an item on ebay at same time!!...

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coggy · 03/07/2006 19:41

D'you know - when it happened to us we were told that things like that were really rare but since then I have heard about more and more people....

Our ds died last June.
Glad to hear that you are ttc again after all of your horrible times too.
X

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 19:51

Its always the way isn't it!!?..I hadn't even contemplated any kind of complications or anything!(mind you,i guess you never do,do you?until these kind of things happen to you personally,or to someone close to you?)....then i discovered mumsnet back in june last year and it really helped as i could talk to all these people who had had similar experiences and i just couldn't believe it!!I'd felt so isolated and like i was the only one and so it was real comfort,then when had the m/c(appartently because my body hadn't quite healed from the stillbirth...i'd lost alot of blood),i left it until now to return...had to have alot of healing time to myself
If you don't mind me asking coggy,how are you feeling about everything now?...Ofcourse i haven't forgotton,but it seems like what happened to me was ages ago and seems quite bizarre in my mind?? IYKWIM? I still get upset now and then,but it has lessened,and i quite like sitting in the nursery we prepared and looking at everything and i'm kind of filled with a new hope that things will be different this time?.x

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coggy · 03/07/2006 19:53

Are you on messenger?

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 19:55

i can go on it i think?.x

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coggy · 03/07/2006 19:56

I actually accepterd it really quickly and think that everyone was worried that I was being too normal. I also discovered MN around the same time - it's been good for what happened last year and excellent for ttc too.

I think the worse thing is the shock - it still gets me every mow an again. After I had him it didn't feel real. I had to keep telling myself that, yes, I had given birth!!!
I still don't feel sensible enough to have had a baby!!!!

coggy · 03/07/2006 19:57

Oh actually - don't worry!

LOL...I was a bit worried about hi-jacking someone's thread but I've scrolled down and you started it anyway!!!!

It's fine!!

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 20:02

it made me feel quite inadiquite(not sure on the old spelling there!!??)...i felt like i wasn't gd enough to have a baby,and whenever i saw a mother and her child i was like,'shes a much better person than me'....
Its weird cos we've got the nursery and all the bits and bobs..but still no baby?and it feels like we're just pretending IYKWIM???and the way me and dh muck around sometimes makes me feel that way too!!...but then thats what makes us so good together(i'm 25/dh is 27)..and everyone keeps going on about how young we still are and how we've got plenty of time still!!.x.x(bugs me sometimes!!).x

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 20:03

oh ok!..yep i started this one so natter away!!

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coggy · 03/07/2006 20:05

I know....we have obviously got all our stuff too as I went into labour naturally and everyone was excitedly waiting for the phone call from the hospital.....not quite what anyone was expecting though!!

DH and I are both 34.

coggy · 03/07/2006 20:09

i also felt (and still do sometimes) that if i looked at a baby then people were thinking things!!
Not sure what....maybe "Oh look at poor her" and maybe "I hope she isn't going to be a mad baby snatcher".

I found it hard worrying about what other people thought even though they were all lovely.
Does that make sense?

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 20:10

well its not gd thinking about the past too much i guess??....i don't want us both to start feeling down!!
I'm on cd 17 so only a couple of days behind you!!.x

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coggy · 03/07/2006 20:11

Do you get the feeling that everyone's watching your stomach!!

I do!!

They're all so keen for us to get going again......little do they know....

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 20:14

yeah i got that too!!there were 4 of us at work that were pregnant all around the same time,and they all had healthy pregnancies,so you can imagine how i felt!!Like i was jinxed or something!!..and i worried that when they showed me their babies they were thinking,'i hope she doesn't snatch them!!'...terrible isn't it!!?they were probably thinking the total opposite!!...but its your mind at the time i guess!!.....
P.s:I don't mind carrying on talkin about it if you want to!!??I was just worried that i was upsetting you or bringing back memories?.x

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coggy · 03/07/2006 20:17

No it doesn't worry me - thank you for thinking about that though.
I can't talk much longer though cos DH is going to be back any minute so I may make a sudden exit!!

This gets wierder and weirder talking to you. There were three of us pg at work togther and the other two had beautiful babies. One is now 13 weeks pg with her second!! Another reason why I think people must be starting to want to ask me soon!!!

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wannabump2006 · 03/07/2006 20:19

LOL!!yeah especially the mil(mother in law)and dh's side of family!!!(most of mine have moved to spain!...we'll be out there soon enough once a little bubba comes along!)...
they keep asking if i'm ok,how i'm feeling!!etc etc!!...its prob my fault because i said that we would be tring again and that i wasn't going to let anyone know until 4 months or so!!!...

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