June Bus anyone?!

[Barefootcontessa84]

Hi all

I thought I'd start the June bus as I'm getting impatient!

I'm 31 (for a bit longer anyway), TTC#1. DH and I agreed to start TTC in May, but won't be ovulating till about the 24th. ETD 8th June! Feeling terrified and excited at the same time.

Join me if you will!

I don't think temping would work for me. Am I right in thinking you need a good night's sleep for accurate morning temp? That's what my friend said and she's been ttc for a year and a half so I trust her wise words.
trying maybe that would be a good thing. With your own Feb baby you could fob off the other birthdays if you wanted too maybe lol

Loving all the advice here about monitoring CP! I have been reading about it but haven't been monitoring CP or CM yet!
It's funny how I just thought I'd come off the pill and magically get pregnant! Now my eyes have been well and truly opened! How on earth do people accidentally find themselves pregnant! I laugh now about worrying all those times I forgot a pill or was worried I could somehow have gotten pregnant on the pill!( although I know it does happen)

mrsgsnow I know what you mean about missed pills and panic. It's wonder anyone ever gers pregnant..it seems like such a small window of opportunity!

I'm wondering the exact same thing. My dd was a surprise and I think what were the chances of that!

Hiding, you need to temp after at least 3-hours sleep. I'm not so great at taking mine because at weekends they're later than in the week because I can't be bothered to wake at my usual work time! But I can see patterns and pinpoint O.

I'm adding preseed and evening primrose oil to my collection of ttc paraphernalia this cycle!

Agree that I spent years worrying about getting pregnant and then 3 cycles ago my DP was disbelieving when I told him there was a window of a day for the egg to be fertilised.

soozc no good for me then as I'm usually woken at 1 and or 4am before getting up at half 6.
I could use opks though couldn't i.

CD16, lots of EWCM but not even the hint of a line on the OPK

What's going on?

I thought they came hand in hand??

EWCM is usually right before ovulation so you are most likely in your fertile window. Not sure why no positive OPK WriterWAnnabe! I'm not having much luck with OPKs either, I never get a positive that is as dark as control line.
I'd say since you have EWCM start dtd every other day or every day for few days. Maybe try another OPK before 8pm. I read somewhere about most women ovulating in the evening, not sure if there's any truth to that.

CD13 here, negative on Ovulation Test, no EWCM. First month on Clomid in an effort to bring Ovulation back from day 19, so I'm hoping at least this month for ovulation around Day 14-16.

Must DTD today! I swear it's not romantic at all. Last month we didn't touch each other for a good few days after the full week of DTD!! :) DH knows we are ttcing but this month I'm not giving him specifics as in I'm not saying it outright I'm fertile, last month I could tell he felt the pressure to perform!! :)

mrsG - thanks for your advice!

I have booked DH in for a sex session tonight. I was hoping to do it last night but it didn't happen due to issues with our boiler (long story). We did it 3 days ago and will be hoping to do it tomorrow too so hopefully we will catch an egg even without a positive OPK.

I will test again later tonight then - thanks for the tip!

Yep, hiding, use opks. Recommended test around 3pm for best result, I hear, which worked for me last cycle. The cycle before I was using FMU and didn't get a positive. Some people test twice, between 10am-8pm.

Lovely, well I need a wee now so I will hold it for a few hours and test when DS is napping

I couldn't wait and in just 2.5 hours I've gone from an absolute blank strip to now having this:

Eek exciting!

I know it's not a positive but to have such a big difference in 2.5 hours is promising!!!

I took one of the same strips an hour ago writer and mine looked almost as dark as the control, not quite there but better. Really pleased as only cycle day 14 and so far using the more expensive kits I have been getting positive on day 16/17 (which means short LP but won't get into that again now). Bad news is hubby has been away since thursday and wont be back until tomorrow night!! Hoping to get a full positive tomorrow :) P's I have started tested around 2/3pm as I have seen on some medical sites this is actually more accurate than first thing in morning and I have definitely noticed a line in the afternoons when I didn't in the morning.

Big QUESTION LADIES
I'm away for the weekend on a city holiday with DP, Can I drink?

Babydances have you ovulated yet? If not- definitely! Also, even if you have and it was a lucky month, it would just be a combination of cells at the moment so I don't think a few drinks would do anything. I know lots of ladies like to completely give up drinking when ttc (and good on all of you who do!!!!!) but my mom, aunts, a few of my friends and sister all didn't and just stopped as soon as they knew they were pg- that's the route I'm going down!

I am approaching my FW. Cycle is irregular so have no idea but it's meant to start today. Thanks blondie

After my almost positive OPK today and abundance of EWCM I was all geared up for DTD tonight but DH has injured himself.

He's been playing cricket today and had just phoned me on his way home and said he's in agony and thinks he's torn one of his abdominal muscles and he can barely move.

I'm not feeling hopeful for this cycle anymore

Oh no Writerwannabe! Sorry to hear that, but if this is just start of FW and you haven't got a dark line like control line yet then there's still hope for next 36 hours or so?
I also am not hopefully anymore about this cycle. I've come down with a throat infection and am having severe back/neck pain so am now taking antibiotics, steroid anti-inflamatories and cocodamol. ( long story short, I'd been avoiding all tablets as ttc which for weeks have just made things worse!) it's prob not going to help me with ttc and also don't think any of the tablets would be suitable for early pregnancy :( not sure if we should avoid dtd? I still want to use OPK to track my ovulation as I'm still trying to work out when/if I do though.

Oh no writer!

babydances I don't think a little bit at this stage would hurt, especially right at the beginning of FW. I've haven't really had much, if anything, to drink since we started ttc but more by lack of opportunity than intended, neither me nor DH drink much anyway. Personally I'm happy to have a glass of wine or so with dinner until mid -FW then leave off for TWW.

Well we managed to DTD - he was in a lot of pain afterwards though, whoops

It wasn't the optimal position for TTC (I don't think so anyway?!) but definitely better than nothing

Woohoo writer

CD 22 today and my boobies are in agony sure sign of AF for me

Don't break him just yet Writer there's still more time!

He's had 2x paracetamol and 2x ibuprofen so he'll survive the night hopefully

I suppose I should let him rest tomorrow and then plan for another go on Monday!

I feel like I'm just using and abusing him

Oh no Writer. Hope he's better soon and ready to get trying! Hope you feel better soon too MrsGSnow. We were out last month because of a sick bug. It seems so unfair when you wait all month to start trying and then something gets in the way.
I'm on cd 11 here. I think I ovulate around cd 17 so I'm planning to dtd tomorrow. I don't know if DH is going to be up for it during the week as he starts a new job on more so I'm hoping that leaving it until next Friday will be enough. Like Hiding I rarely get a long enough stretch of sleep to do temps so I'm relying on cm and luck!