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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.

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fettle · 19/01/2007 09:35

Morning - definitely in too good a mood this morning for the hut - not sure why the good mood, but not going to question it while it lasts!!

Anyway, 37.83 this morning, so up a little from yesterday. 11 DPO (well 11 days high temps - when do you count ov from, the day before temp rise or the day of temp rise?)

speak later
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rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 16:04

OMG fettle... really hope it is positive...what great news...

rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 16:08

wow - this thread is already having success.. well done us!...I feel quite positive...It just came over me..

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fettle · 21/01/2007 16:12

Thanks Rahrah - trying to keep a sense of proportion. It is very early days still and after last cycle, having a mc at 5 weeks. I think I'll just go back to pretending I'm not, just laying off the caffeine and alcohol! No point making a doctor appointment until I re-test at the weekend.

Ao until then, let's just pretend I'm still a TTC temp buddy!!

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londonlottie · 21/01/2007 16:16

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rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 16:20

ok, will do...(my lips are sealed for another week)..but I smell the sweet smell of success!!I can imaging it will be difficult, but a pregnancy that ended so early was more than likely a one off event for that occasion. I have been reading a book on M/C from Professor Regan. (I'm an expert now)... sure everything will be ok.. XX

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fettle · 21/01/2007 16:39

I'm hoping so Rahrah - my first mc was at 9weeks, but I found out I'd had leaking carbon monoxide in the house for a while before I mc, so I'm hoping that is the reason. And then I hope the early mc last cycle, was just one of those things, so don't want to have 3 consecutive mcs! But at least I've already been referred to the local hospital for investigations. Initially it was for infertility, but it's turned in mc investigations now!!

Anyway, I'm so glad I've got you girls around. We're not even going to tell family this time for a while!

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rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 16:49

hopefully if I get pregnant again...I don't think I will be telling people for a while..Trouble is with me is the bleeding that I get and puts me at risk past the normal danger zone... But hopefully if I get past 12/13 weeks without bleeding it means my placenta should be bedded in better...

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fettle · 21/01/2007 16:56

I still think you are incredibly strong Rahrah. I so hope you get pg again quickly. Did you conceive Bertie quickly? Do they think you will have the same problems next time around?

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mum03 · 21/01/2007 18:53

Hi I hope you don't mind me joining in here, I just started charting temps for the first time last month, and now at least have an idea what I am looking for. A question - do you temp changes look similar each month or is it a guessing game looking for the o-rise each time? There were 3 possible "o" dips in my chart this last month and the least likely one was the one that fitted with the arrival of af - today, I got her instead of you fettle, I'll keep her occupied for you this week.

Ready - here we meet again on a different thread!

rahrah - that was the name my brother used to call me when he couldn't say my name when he was little, still my sister calls me rahrah a couple of decades later!

my starting temp today was 36.6 same as last month exactly.

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fettle · 21/01/2007 20:28

Hi Mum03

welcome aboard!! Temping is great for having an idea what your body is doing - I've been doing it for about 4 years, with a year off while breastfeeding DD! I love it, I started originally on the advice of my doctor when I first started TTC, as my cycles were so irregular, I never knew when to expect AF - now I can predict them to the day!! Its great!! Although now, I'd rather AF stayed away!

Your temp will vary from day to day and month to month. And many factors will affect your temp - what time you take it, lots of alcohol to drink the night before, disturbed sleep. What you are looking for is a sustained rise over 3 days, which is higher than your previous 6 readings. What you will hopefully find is your pre-ov temps range between about 0.2 of deg, with your post-ov temps at least 0.2 deg higher than your highest pre-ov. Does that make sense? For example, my pre-ov temps range between 36.2-36.4, then rise to between 36.6-36.8.

Not everyone notices a ovulatory dip - in the 4 years I've been doing it, I've only noticed a pre-ov dip once or twice!

I bought Toni Weschler's book called Taking Charge of your Fertility and she covers all sorts of temp questions, as well cervical mucus and cervical position charting, if you want to take things seriously! I'm not a charting fanatic, but now can take note of my CM throughout my cycle, but I found the book really helpful in other ways about how my body works!

HTH
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mum03 · 21/01/2007 21:10

Thanks fettle, I have posted my link to the fertility friend chart I have been using, wondering if you could look at it, I could not work out if I had o'd on day 10, 13 or 15. FF changed the date depending on whether I put day 14 as sticky or ew! I could not really remember as I only fleetingly checked it that day. In retrospect it would appear that I o'd on day 15 but I am not convinced by the temping. My cycles vary from 22 to 32 days! My two children were concieved on very short cycles with early ov. Thanks for helping

rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 21:22

fettle, it took us 1 and 1/2 years to conceive Bertie. The doctors don't know what happened really,so have just told me to try again and they were going to give me aspirin once pregnant. They suspect a clotting issue, but the tests they completed have come back negative. However after reading Prof Regan's book I found out my consultant has not tested for all the main clotting issues and probably not in the right conditions (you don't use a cuff and have to have the bloods analysed within an hour) plus they have to be repeated on several different occasions. Therefore I contacted the regional pregnancy loss clinic in Birmingham and they are willing to take me as a patient. I originally called Prof Regans office, but to go privately would cost me £1700 for the routine tests, which I don't mind about, but she could not see until June!
As the one in Birmingham is my regional clinic they will see me in the next 3 weeks! and as an NHS patient. She has reassured me there is no difference between patient care if NHS or private...Which is how it should be! But we had some money tucked away for when Bertie arrived, so I did not have to go back to work for a year, so if I needed any private treatment we have that option.
I also went for a private scan the other day and they said I have PCO. PCO can have different effects within pregnancy and is associated with some late pregnancy issues, such as clotting. But the pregnancy clinic said it could just be down to an implantation issue and it would of been inevitable that the pregnancy would of finished early. Implantation can also be an issue of PCO and most will end up in M/C under 12 weeks. I am going to see my fertility consultant on Tuesday, as we were seeing him to conceive Bertie...he did my first scan at 7 weeks when I was pregnant... Although we want to progress on and try for another baby I know seeing him again will be quite upsetting...

To be quite honest I feel so confused over everything. Common sense is telling me that there must be an issue, as had another pregnancy with bleeding (but lost just under 3 months), then a period of sub-fertility and then all that bleeding and placenta issues in my pregnancy with Bertie and now being told that I have PCO. But the doctors are saying just try again and see what happens.. Trouble is that if anything happened again it is not their lives being ruined, but I really want to have another child...

Hope this all makes sense.. I bet you wished you never asked now!

rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 21:23

Hi there mum03 - my husband calls me Rahrah, as my real name is Sarah...

ammylovesbabies · 21/01/2007 21:27

Rahrah, have seen you on here loads and just wanted to say I wish you loads of luck.

Did you use CRM in coventry?

rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 21:29

Hi ammylovesbabies, Yep that is where I am going on Tuesday, seeing Mr Kennedy..

Are you from Coventry?

rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 21:29

Oh, and thanks for the Good Luck... much appreciated!

ammylovesbabies · 21/01/2007 21:32

I work at Walsgrave.

Mr.Kennedy is very nice, very calm and together considering his job. U are in good hands rahrah. xxx

ammylovesbabies · 21/01/2007 21:33

by the way, I work in pharmacy.

rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 21:49

I remember now,,, sorry...

OMG that pharmacy is massive.. that is one crazy, manic place!

When I was in hospital (I was in Walsgrave for over a month when pregnant), my hubbie use to wheel me down to the shops close to the pharmacy... That use to be my trip out! It was always a bit of a nightmare having to be wheeled around near there!

I saw Mr Kennedy when trying to conceive Bertie, he is quite matter of fact... so know he will give it to us straight down the line....

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fettle · 21/01/2007 22:08

No, rahrah, not sorry at all I asked. I hope you didn't think I was being nosy. I certainly found it good to tell as many people as would listen about everything.

I have PCOS, or at least suggestive in a scan many years ago. after my 1st mc, I had a scan for retained products and the sonographer said my ovaries were clear. But I never really know the probs associated with actual pg if you have PCOS, only the trouble conceiving.

I hope your appointment is not too distressing on tuesday - Take care

Mum03, I'll try have a look at your chart for you and see what I can see!

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fettle · 21/01/2007 22:17

Hi Mum03 - tricky one. If it hadn't been for your higher temp on CD9, I would say that you had a ov dip on CD10. however, based on your CM charting, it looks more likely that you ov on CD13/14. The dip on CD15 is something that is sometimes seen according to toni weschler! however, she does say that it shouldn't dip below the coverline.

It will probably take a few cycles to gain an idea of what is "normal" for you!

HTH
take care
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rahrah1 · 21/01/2007 23:13

Thanks fettle.. no problems with any questions...

rahrah1 · 22/01/2007 09:05

HI guys

Todays temp:

AF has arrived for Rah - 36.2 CD1 (Boo hoo)

How is everyone else doing?

londonlottie · 22/01/2007 09:13

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mum03 · 22/01/2007 09:42

Thanks for looking at the chart fettle, I am glad that I was not the only one confused by it. Hopefully this cycle will clarify things.
Rahrah - sorry to hear that you are back to the beginning again too.

mum03 - 36.5 cd2
LondonLottie - 36.9 5 DPO
AF has arrived for Rah - 36.2 CD1 (Boo hoo)

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