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Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

The February bus rumbles on - only stops are Valentine's Day, Pancake Day and BFP-land. Ding Ding!

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MrsGingerbread · 05/02/2015 21:28

Hello ladies,

Last bus looks full up. Unless there is a new one that I can't find...

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thenailgirl · 09/02/2015 12:10

Can you see the positives? Off to get a clearblue shortly. I can defo see them but very faint. Don't think they are the best tests ever . Excuse the dust Grin

The February bus rumbles on - only stops are Valentine's Day,  Pancake Day and BFP-land. Ding Ding!
nightandthelight · 09/02/2015 12:24

Wow loving all the bfps this weekend! Congrats to all Flowers

Giddymamma · 09/02/2015 12:34

Purdey, I don't know what she's or clomid is but your doc sounds delicious. :) hope your examination is not as bad as It sounds.....
Sarky.... Whoop whoop!
Not ignoring other discussions but I don't chart or take anything other than pregnacare and it appears I'm not even bothering to ovulate this month so not much use. Confused

crazypuglady · 09/02/2015 12:36

Giddy I was worried I wasn't ovulating so temped this cycle. It's great for putting your mind at rest.

BowiesJumper · 09/02/2015 12:36

Giddymamma, how do you know you haven't ovulated? Because of the sticks? Keep the faith!

I've just eaten too much chocolate. Again.

australopithecus · 09/02/2015 12:42

purdey your gp appointments are hilarious. Grin
sparkly yes I used the opks for cycle 0 and checked cm a bit and will now use them again for cycle 1 together with temping (in as much as I hope it will help with haphazard readings!) and cm again.

Hi autumn. Sarky hurray!

MissMrsMummy · 09/02/2015 12:47

sarky congratulations! Now I don't want to scare you but you need the mouse situation dealing with, especially now you are pg. We had them last year. You can contact the local council who will fumigate etc for FREE. Also, not many people know this, but if you catch one yourself you have to kill it as you can be fined for releasing them back into the wild as they are vermin! I would tell them you are pg as well as they might sort it out quicker and they might need to consider that before putting the poison behind your kick boards. Get onto it quickly before mama mouse has her babies in her lovely tea towel nest!

nightandthelight · 09/02/2015 12:48

Sarky cats are extremely good at dealing with mice and also provide cuddles etc :)

Giddymamma · 09/02/2015 12:59

Thanks crazy and bowies. Still bfeeding, had first bleed in 16 months last month, monitoring with cbfm this cycle, cd19 and still no peak. Very late compared to pre baby cycles. Bah. Haven't been temping as sleep disturbed by ds waking in night to chomp on boob but think will try temping so I don't feel left out of this page I can try and see if anything is happening. Just plotting with oh to see when it suits our work shifts to try night weaning to see if that gets the eggs going. Poor ds. Sad

australopithecus · 09/02/2015 13:04

Thanmks Sammy, and Mrs pleased to hear the b6 made a difference. I was taking 50 from last week but will up to 100 from today. Should I really speak to my gp about it? Only health issue I have is low thyroid function? Well, only relevant health issue I would think. Hmm I just wouldn't have thought it would be problematic to tske the b6 without asking the gp? Also taking folic+b12 tablet, my thyroid meds, and a generic "pregnancy" vitamin combo so not masses of stuff right now.
dizzy we should keep track and see what the messy schedule does for each of us! It's good to hear that regardless of the empty circles a pattern does emerge.

PurdeyBirdie · 09/02/2015 13:05

Congratulations, Allthefours! And may I echo Mummy's sentiment and say I am sorry I encouraged you to think of the worst.

Bowie, check this out from NICE re intercourse frequency: A couple who have sex twice a week have exactly the same conception chances as those who have sex three times a week. This clearly goes against the evidence that typical sperm only lasts 1.5 days, no? And, once again, doesn't this all depend on the timing of intercourse that week? If a couple have sex on Monday and Wednesday but the woman only ovulates the following Sunday they're up shit creek, no?

PurdeyBirdie · 09/02/2015 13:11

Juney, DHEA is made by our bodies and in our twenties and thirties it contributes to the excellent eggs and low miscarriage rates of you young nippers. As we age DHEA depletes leading to shite eggs, high rates of miscarriage and biz embryos.

Juney, I don't like the info he gave me on the success of self-insemination that is intracervical as opposed to intrauterine Sad Sparkly, can you please confirm if you inseminate intrauterine with that catheter? Do you deposit the sperm at the cervix entrance or does your catheter poke through the cervical opening and drop the jizz into the uterus itself?

MissMrsMummy · 09/02/2015 13:18
raviolig · 09/02/2015 13:20

Hi everyone, sorry I am such a lurker. Just after a bit if advice. Af (first since stopping pill) started 30th jan, lasted 7 days. Yesterday had really strong ovulation pains (started getting these after last baby), today lots of ewcm and cervix seems to be right for ovulation. But it seems very early for me to be ovulating? I used to have 28, 29 or 30 day cycles last time we were ttc but no idea any more. Just confused really. Huge congrats on all the bfps xxx

juneybean · 09/02/2015 13:24

As far I know we shouldn't do intrauterine with fresh unwashed sperm as something in the semen causes the uterus to collapse.

I like to think being away from sperm for the last 10 years (last two cycles notwithstanding) that my eggs will go ohh yayyy sperm!!!!!

MissMrsMummy · 09/02/2015 13:25

Hi ravioli you could ov today or tomorrow, my earliest has been cd12. I usually have 24 or 25 day cycles. Your cycles could have changed after coming off the pill.

juneybean · 09/02/2015 13:25

raviolig are you using opk? Ovulation isn't always day 14 as we've been led to believe.

Are you cycle day 10?

PurdeyBirdie · 09/02/2015 13:30

Sparko, I love my GP. He turns away from his desk and wheels himself right over to where you're sat and stares directly into your eyes when you are speaking. My sister has him, too, and she weeps all over him when she discusses her marital problems/depression. He seems determined to take every single issue you raise seriously.

I don't understand the medical professionals' aversion to us charting our temps. The scientific fact is that every woman has a fertile widow, no? Surely, then, it stands to reason that there is such a thing as well-timed intercourse. How are we supposed to practice that if we don't use opks and/or charts and/or cm observations?

When my GP looked aghast when I said we don't have sex in the 2ww (for exhaustion/fed-up and bored-of-sex reasons) I said: "Look, my husband is not twenty-two. He is 45 with sciatica and an erectile dysfunction problem. I am 43 with a diminished ovarian reserve and shit eggs. We are seriously running out of time. We have been ttc for over three years and we have both been psychologically damaged by it. I will not demand sex from my husband all the way through my cycle, three times a week, when I have demanded so much from him in my fertile window. You might argue I have no scientific way of knowing exactly when that is, but I would argue that I do. Are you going to argue that the rise in temperatures on my chart are not due to the release of progesterone from the corpus luteum after ovulation has occurred?"

He looked afraid and said, "No, Kerry. I wouldn't argue with you about anything." He then threw himself off his chair, opened my legs, exposing my throbbing and engorged labia and lapped at my (knickerless, obvs) pussy like a man deranged by lust...

Disclaimer: I may have somewhat embellished the last bit.

raviolig · 09/02/2015 13:31

No not using opk as trying to take it easy first month (got a bit obsessed with dd after 12 months of ttc so trying to take it easy on myself!). Think I am day 11 now. Hoping it is just a change in cycle, I suppose if af arrives this month I will have more clue on cycle length for next month.

Beansprout30 · 09/02/2015 13:32

Pmsl purdey

PurdeyBirdie · 09/02/2015 13:32

Giddy, he is delicious, but not in any discernible way I can put my breasts finger on. His unswerving and relentless eye contact is discomfiting in the way that climbing the ropes in PE when you were young was discomfiting.

PurdeyBirdie · 09/02/2015 13:34

I love mice. Especially them there white chocolate ones. I hate the brown chocolate ones though. This has nothing to do with race.

juneybean · 09/02/2015 13:36

Absolutely dying purdey you're great!

spinningirl10 · 09/02/2015 13:43

Haha purdey, your doctors trip has brightened my day, hilarious!
That aside, was it a useful appointment?

dojo123 · 09/02/2015 13:45

allthefours and Sarky Congrats fab news Flowers

purdey Your doc appt sounded interesting, your doc sounds fab!

Just ticking along here. CD6, DTD last night as DH was worried I was coughing too much on Saturday night to do it then. Means that we have moved our DTD dates around this month but hoping we can still get enough in before OV day.