When is my fertile week?

[Birchgirl]

Hello!

Still pretty new to this and need some help with working out when my fertile week is please.

So basically AF was on 18th Dec and finished 24/25 Dec on a usual 28 day cycle.

Any advice would be appreciated

Try the Clue app, it learns your cycle and I've found it to be pretty accurate. You can add loads of categories in to track too like weight, cravings, skin, hair etc. Hope it helps x

Usually around 10 days after you start your period for 7 days. If you have a 28 day cycle and ovulate on day 14. You can usually concentrate your efforts in that time. If your cycle is shorter (like mine) or longer then you'll need to pin point when you ovulate.

I’ll have to download that app. Thanks!

@Mouselove so if I dtd everyday for the next 7/10 days but more than once on peak fertility days (I have the clue blue test) then I should have it covered? Is that right? X

I mean yes, if you can be that active good luck!!

I was using Clue and it was saying my fertile period was day 12-15, however I wasn’t getting pregnant. After 4 months I bought some cheap ovulation sticks and found that I wasn’t ovulating until a couple of days before my period, got pregnant that month. So maybe don’t take Clue as gospel; you have to tell it when you’re ovulating anyway, otherwise it’s a prediction.

You generally ovulate 14 days before the start of your next period (or 14 days before it is due) So in a 28 day cycle you should ovulate on day 14, in a 30 day cycle it'd be day 16 etc.

Once you ovulate (e.g. the minute you ovulate, rather than the day) you have between 12 - 36 hours before the egg is useless. So your fertile 'week', if ovulating on day 14 would be days days 9 - 16.

Well past months we don’t usually dtd until still smiley face so I think I’ve been missing out on a few days before. Fingers crossed for this month! X

And also bare in mind that it's all luck. There's a 20% each cycle with perfectly timed sex. 16 months in and I've still not figured it out. 😐😕

Sex every other day of your complete cycle if you can manage it is perfect.

@mouselove we did the sex everyother day last month but I don’t think we started early enough in my cycle if that makes sense.

Dtd last night and had the flashing smiley this morning so think we’ve started at a better time thins month!

Fingers crossed for both of us for 2018!

Start from day 8 if you have to a 28 day cycle. I dtd on cd11, only time that whole month and got pregnant.

@DailyMaileatmyshit that’s good to hear cause I actually started on day 8. Got the flashing smiley face on day 9 (yesterday) so dtd twice. This month I’m going to concentrate more on the days running up to Ovulation as last month I was waiting for the static smiley face before dtd. Think I missed some fertile days.

Thank you for the advice

Yes BEFORE ovulation is key. Once you've ovulated it's pretty much game over!