All Aboard the February Bus!

[CoffeeTwo]

Well I'm just waiting for AF to show up and the timings mean I miss January all together. Anyone out there who would like to join me in trying for a BFP in February? :)

CoffeeTwo, 31, ttc #2, cycle 6, BFP due 10th February.

Thanks spinning and to you :)

So annoyed that I missed proper testing time!! Wanted to properly track my temperature pattern! ????

sammy I'm on my first month of temping and I can never seem to take it at the right time. Depending on toddler DS, my work and DH's work I'm awake at different times every day. I'm still tracking it though as the temps seem very similar so I'm hoping it'll do the trick. Really I just want some confirmation that I am actually ovulating.

Do you temps normally vary a lot depending on the time?

Sammy, there's an online temp adjuster if you don't take it at the right time.

Just booked cd4 bloods for Wednesday. That will be all our tests done so hopefully get appointment at hospital before too long.

Well done ibeka

Still no egg here CD19 and I'm a regular 28 dayer so looks like the stupid pill has done a bloody lovely job on my ovaries

purdey for your dentist trip - I had root canal a few months ago and the actual procedure was far less traumatic than the waiting/worrying!

babybump, think my stats need updating. If I OVed yesterday that would make my bfp 8th February?

crazy you never know... Maybe just be a longer cycle?

Oh and night, hooray for auntie F! Are you going to do temping?

ibeka I have no idea what's going on but I've had EWCM for the last 7 days after having virtually none for the last 3 months.

I think I got my hopes up that going straight back into a 28 day cycle meant that the pill had come out of my system. After 10 years of fake hormones I should have expected it to be a bit less straight forward.

Spinning, great news about Wednesday.

I don't mind returning to the dentist, it's more time to chat on here without feeling guilty about the baby

Coffee I'm having the same trouble. I barely slept last week for coughing but even on a normal week I work shifts so taking it at the same time each day is going to be difficult. I'm hoping that taking it after a solid block of sleep within a window of about 3 hours will do the trick.

Thanks ibeka :) for the first 2-3 months am just going to go with the eod plan. Of that doesn't work will probably look into temping etc :)

spinning an online temp adjuster? But how would it know? What if it was a cold morning and you forgot your slippers when you went to make tea? Or DC threw up all over you and you had to have a quick shower?

Austral, it will only adjust temp if say you usually take it at 6 but you wake early or later and you input temp and time and adjust it obviously if you've taken it after you got out of bed or you've had interrupted sleep it won't be accurate anyway.

Spinning good luck with the bloods, good step forward.

Purdey ah the lovely dentist enjoy that delight!! Here's some for later!

My day 21 bloods were 28.6 and then 30.8 and 30.6 (these were taken three months in a row on day 21) I always thought it was to be over 30 too but fertility clinic told me 20?? Either way.. Day 21 ain't the problem it's after that the spotting starts which is what worries me. Oh and someone slap me- I was feeling positive yesterday after our first trial AI post mc, but somehow when googling for info, I have the fear!.. I found many people say you must wait two-three months or it could happen again due to the lining not being ready to facilitate a pregnancy so soon after the mc.. WHAT!!! i hope this is inaccurate!! Anyone ????

Sparkly, it does depend on which doctor you see whether they use

Morning all!
So after last nights debate whether or not to dtd we decided not to but we did early this morning instead as we have decided to try a different pattern of dtd this month as clearly dtd nearly everyday last month didn't work so.... Another High fertility this morning and I'm hoping tomorrow I may get 1st peak on Clearblue tomorrow...

Can I just say Purdey, thank you so much for going out of your way to find those charts on Fertility Friend for me. It really is great of you. One question regarding those charts - there is no way of knowing which dtd session in the lead up to ovulation actually produced the sperm that met the egg, is there?!!! So those ladies that dtd in the lead up and including their first peak day don't know if it was dtd on the peak day that did it or was sperm surviving from a couple of days before the peak!

That's spot-on, Tessie, there's no way of knowing which session of rumpy-pumpy has hit the jackpot. When I conceived in 2012 it was from sex we had on ovulation day (O), O-2 & O-4. Would you believe we have only repeated this exact pattern once in all that time? That pregnancy ended in mmc, you see, and I went crazy with desperation to fall preggo again and demanded sex on consecutive days leading up to ov. It never happened again for us (but that could be because of my age and having only one tube; perhaps that pregnancy was a rare one-off ).

I keep reading that every other day is best as the quality of sperm is better. I honestly think that ewcm and sperm that's a couple of days old has a great chance - but then I obsess over the charts on FF where the couple only had sex on ov day (or the day after!) and got pregnant! It's a ruddy brain-boggler.

Why have I lost the ability to post photos on here? The box where we write our messages has lost the options for posting photos Anyone help?

ibeka sounds v promising! I need a new cycle twin now.

God knows what's going on with me at the moment. CD13 and no signs. Brown gunk mixed with ewcm. Neg OPKs (ok I lied I am still monitoring). I have more brown than red in my cycle generally so I reckon I'll soon discover I have got progesterone issues. Normally ov around CD16 but would be expecting by now to get some pure ewcm not the filthy mess I'm producing

Wow Purdey - and don't the swimmers need a bit of time to get in situ ready for the egg? I guess it all depends on when you dtd on ovulation day and when you actually ovulate on the day that the timing can just work out perfectly....bloody hell!! This is doing my head in! . I actually sat down with DH last night with my chart to work out when to dtd and I thought 'what am I doing? This is taking all the fun out of it and turning it into some bloody obsessive scientific project'!!

Have you posted too many photos in a time period Purdey? I think you are only allowed to post 6 a day?

Purdey ok. I feel better. I started to have a wobble about whether it really was something to do with me that caused the mc rather than being the 1 in 5. Ok. Breathe, feel better, thank you must not let my positivity sway!!!

Thanks, Tessie, that may explain it. It's annoying as I have loads of charts to show you from the FF gallery where couples had sex only once - five days before ovulation! - and conceived The body is a mystery and a tormentor.

You are right about sperm needing time to be in situ. I have read umpteen times that the figure is ten hours. It takes ten hours for the sperm to travel to its optimal position (the foot of the fallopian tubes) and for all its enzymes to gather their senses in order to be capable of fertilising the egg. So...it would be just perfect if we dtd exactly 24 hrs after our LH surge appeared and twelve hours before ov. That is impossible to achieve except without a shedload of luck..