Working out when AF “starts and stops” when ttc

[JohnoWhits]

Hello. I’m ttc baby #2. My cycles are much more consistent than the first time, averaging 28-32 days.

My question is what is classed as “spotting” and when do you count your first actual day of AF and your last? I’ve swapped to using a moon cup so I’m finding it more difficult to know when AF has actually arrived, or if I’d been using other sanitary items if I would have classed it as spotting. The same goes for when finishing my AF.

Any thoughts (especially when using a mooncup is involved) would be great.

Hi @Johnowits, I’ve never used a mooncup, but could see nobody else had replied, so I’ll try to be helpful....

Day 1 is the first day when you see red blood, rather than pink or brown, which would have been seen as spotting. If you have cramps, they tend to start during day 1 as well (although some people do get them during spotting anyway).

You may find temperature charting useful if you are trying to judge ovulation?

Hey chemist. Thanks for the reply and not leaving me on my lemon. So when I’ve read up before it said af is classed as when it’s enough to fill a tampon or pad. But that’s much trickier with the moon cup. I did bbt last time trying to conceive but I got a bit obsessive with it!!