Lunar Fertility!

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Explain how I work it out... in laymen's terms please. Oh and Seaside no confusing 'new moon' with 'full moon' today

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Ha ha!! I know!! Oh, to be young again

[MrsMcEasterBunny]

You're just a spring chick aren't you?

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Pah! I wish! I am 28 now I wish I had started ttc earlier... kept putting it off, had it in my head that the right time would be to start ttc at 27, baby at 28, start ttc for baby number 2 at 29... Oh how foolish and naive!! We should have started when we got married, but we wanted to make sure we had time as a couple first - tut Anyway, rant over

[scorpio1]

ready-the studying is going fine,thankyou for remembering!

i am feeling strangely positive now, since the last few weeks.

im sure we will 'see' each other soon!

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Glad you are feeling positive Scorpio - Fingers crossed for you!!

Oh.. Moon watchers - told DH about themoon phase theory - and he rolled his eyes

[MrsMcEasterBunny]

Ok, so I was born on 29/12/73 therefore 7 days before the new moon so during the waning moon, the cycle I got my BFP, I OV on 17/01/07 therefore during the waxing moon, not good. But, if I OVd on 28/03/07 that would also be during a waning moon so good, is that right?

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

I think you are right MrsMc - From what I understand, as well as the normal ovulation phase... you should have sex on your moon phase day, so 7 days before the new moon for you, you should be getting down to it and that you could get pregnant at that stage too.
It's my moon phase today, 2 days before the full moon... but also 12 dpo, so I wonder how likely a conception would be today!! But I'm never one to shy away from a challenge

[MrsMcEasterBunny]

Damn I think 7 days before the new moon was 24/3, had a break that day

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

I shied away from the challenge, I must confess.

I am hoping MrsMc that this moon phase thing means that an egg is released on that day... so the normal sperm/egg rules would still apply!? So if you have sex around that time - then the sperm could still meet the egg!?

As you can see, I clearly don't understand this too well... and Seaside has friends visiting this weekend, so is unlikely to be on MN to put us right

[MrsMcEasterBunny]

I like your thinking Ready!

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

When is the next full moon???

[MrsMcEasterBunny]

Looks like 30th April to me.

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

I've just sat and worked out, basing it on 28 day cycles each month (we all know that isn't going to happen ) my moon phase and ovulation should match January and February 2008!!! Seriously girls, I can't wait that long!!!

[seaside72]

don't worry ready - I worked it out too and I think its the same for me unless we manage to completly alter ov time?!

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Bloody moon!!!!

[seaside72]

lets just forget I ever mentioned it !!! we must take it upon ourselves to disprove the theory

[greedyforbabies]

surely the eclipse 4 weeks ago alters EVERYTHING and you are all fertile ALL the time!!!!!

thats what I read anyway!

[greedyforbabies]

sorry................i lurk everywhere!

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Seaside - Deal!!

Greedy - Howdee lurker!! How you doing?

[greedyforbabies]

i'm ok thanks. how are you feeling today after your dissapointment of yesterday. i have to say you seem quite perky!

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

I am disappointed. More than I thought I would be. I knew I wasn't pregnant and thought I had made peace with it. But last night I felt like shit tbh, couldn't sleep and I sobbed my little heart out. I just can't believe I'm on cycle 8. I know that people take longer and go on to have lots etc... and I still have hope - but it is starting to dwindle that's for sure.

Sorry... but you did ask.

[greedyforbabies]

ready - i know exactly how you feel. so cycle 8 means about 8 months for you doesn't it. i started ttc this one last april and now that i am pg i have very quickly forgotten how long it took. i was only thinking to myself the other day that its strange how our minds work cos when i was ttc it was the ONLY thing i could think about all the time and then as soon as you get pg your brain turns to mush and you can't think about anything for long!!!!!
you too will have a mushy brain VERY soon!
xxxxx

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

Greedy - Technically, it's been 7 months of trying (and not succeeding!) and this is the start of our 8th month.
I know what you are saying, when it happens I will forget all of this. I am just starting to worry that I am not going to be able to have them, and it's a scary prospect.

[MrsMcEasterBunny]

Don?t talk to me about that damn eclipse, I blame my loss on the moon ! Wasn?t there a song about blaming things on the moon? Norah Jones? It?s going to be my new moto ?so I?ll blame it on the moon? why can?t we be fertile whenever the sun shines? live in Scotland ? scrap that, whenever it rains?

Ready ? big hugs, sorry you were so sad last night but what Greedy says is so true and I felt exactly the same, as soon as you get that BFP the months of trying fade away and you forget all about them (and as she says, everything else too!) I?m holding onto that thought to get me through my next wait, however long that is. We just have to know for sure in our hearts and minds (remember that brain and hormones link!) that we will get pregnant and that it will be soon! We have a pact remember, we graduate together next time!! Ready to leave this cycle?

[ovenREADYhotcrossbuns]

"Don't blame it on the moonlight - blame it on the boogie" - Don't think that's quite the song you had in mind... If you want to blame the moon - then you go right ahead! Bloody moon!

Yes, I am Ready to go this cycle - packed and Ready!

It rains a LOT up North I have found out over the last 2 years - so Rain Fertility would be a good thing for me!!