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Conception

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.

TTC First Baby - Thread 16!!

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Fivebyfive2 · 19/04/2019 08:39

Hi all, thought as it's Bank Holiday and thread 15 was 900 plus I'd start a new one, hope that's OK??

Copying tags from when @starkid updated them all the other day.

Hope this works as I've not created a thread before!!

@Jessikka - 28 Cycle 4
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Chembecky · 27/04/2019 09:21

FYI for all those testing...I didn't get a BFP until after AF was due....So if you don't have AF it's still possible 🙂

Dollywilde · 27/04/2019 09:22

Thanks @mrseg and @lokicat Smile Loki, think I’m 15dpo but just based on cycle tracking rather than OPKs or temping etc.

LindyMoe · 27/04/2019 09:25

Huge congrats @chembecky, lovely news!

To everyone else, what is a FRER?...

LindyMoe · 27/04/2019 09:27

Oh and also, how do I know when I'm ovulating so we can try again given we're still waiting for AF?

Chembecky · 27/04/2019 09:28

FRER is a first response early result - brand of pregnancy test that I believe is the most sensitive

LindyMoe · 27/04/2019 09:51

@chembecky thank you

Chembecky · 27/04/2019 11:52

@LindyMoe no worries! And with regard to ovulation...if you use a fertility app then they are useful to help pinpoint your fertile week. Some people use ovulation sticks to help work out when they ovulate - I used them this month and found out I ovulate later than my app suggested.

MrsEG · 27/04/2019 12:04

Hey @LindyMoe, there are a few things that can help pinpoint ovulation - you can download apps (Clue, Fertilty Friend etc) which predict your fertile week. I also use Clear Blue digital ovulation sticks as these show your most fertile days (quite expensive though, although I think they’re on offer on amazon at the moment). This month I am also using Ava to track my temperature too, others do this just using a simple BBT thermometer. I’d say the apps and ovulation sticks are the best place to start!

McHelenz · 27/04/2019 12:16

@lindymoe I've been trying out a few apps, found FF to be the most accurate, so much so I've paid for a years membership.

cupcakesandglitter · 27/04/2019 12:37

Ahhh @Chembecky congrats!! X

I've only just woken up (super late night). BFN for me as expected but I'm feeling okay about it 😊 boobs are definitely less sore, so I'm expecting AF soon but we'll see x

LindyMoe · 27/04/2019 12:56

@mrseg @chembecky @mchelenz thanks but the apps tell me ovulation following my AF... I'm still waiting for her... 7 days and nothing!

dahlia123 · 27/04/2019 13:21

Huge congratulations @Chembecky - that's a great line!!

Sorry about your BFN @LindyMoe. Enjoy the Avengers and all the cinema snacks you can fit in!

Hopefully next month will be the one for you @Hannah192

@Pinksunset1 sorry to hear about AF. Hope that the tests will give you some answers.

Fingers crossed for your Frer test @Dollywilde

Tropicana1 · 27/04/2019 13:30

@LindyMoe the apps can be quite wrong - they all assume you ovulate bang in the middle of your cycle but it can actually vary for a lot of women by sometimes a week either side of what they predict

Lottiepink · 27/04/2019 13:31

Hahaha laughing my head off catching up on the willy convo 🤣🤣 my dh was asking what I was laughing at.. better not upset him in fertile week 😂

Congrats @Chembecky 😊

Sorry to those who got bfn 😫 x

MrsEG · 27/04/2019 13:40

@LindyMoe If apps aren’t getting it right for you, definitely give the OPKs (ovulation strips) a whirl. The Clear Blue ones will flash in the days leading to ovulation so you know when to get cracking!

@cupcakesandglitter Oh Hun I’m so sorry. Glad you’re feeling okay about it. I really did have high hopes for you!!

@Lottiepink Ha I’ve said it to DH before about how ugly cock and balls are, he completely agrees! In his own words ‘I just don’t understand why all women aren’t lesbians’ haha!

McHelenz · 27/04/2019 13:42

@lindymoe I used OPKs with FF for it to learn my cycle. I tried temping and failed miserably.

McHelenz · 27/04/2019 13:43

Sorry the boobs let you down @cupcakesandglitter

Lottiepink · 27/04/2019 13:48

@MrsEG 🤣🤣 hilarious!! I think they look a little more attractive when erect rather than just hanging there 😂😂

1990shopefulftm · 27/04/2019 14:07

Does anyone's DH/OH take any conception vitamins? I've heard that zinc is supposed to be beneficial but don't want to be spending loads on anything if standard zinc on its own is just as good

Bec18x · 27/04/2019 14:11

So I had my appointment this week and my bloods show that I’m not ovulating (unless I ovulate late in my cycle). DH results show he has 1% morphology so at the moment there’s no point in starting me on clomid. He has to take vitamins and make some lifestyle changes and then re do seman analysis in a few months and another appointment in 5 months which seems like forever away. Just feels like it’s never going to happen for us Sad

cupcakesandglitter · 27/04/2019 14:19

@Pinksunset1 sorry AF got you xxx

@MrsEG @McHelenz the boobs most certainly did let me down 😂😂 I thought with all the cramping too I was in, but equally it could be early days. Not going to dwell on it 😊

@Lottiepink DEFINITELY more attractive when they're up!! 😂

@1990shopefulftm DH did take wellman tablets, we bought the conception for both from boots (usually on offer) which includes pregnacare for the women and wellman for the man xx

@Bec18x sorry to hear that 😩 try not to get caught up with it, in the next five months could make a real difference? (sorry I don't know much about sperm, DH's appointment is next week) is it now worth you starting clomid to try and start ovulating? xx

Lottiepink · 27/04/2019 14:21

@Bec18x aww sorry to hear that... hope you are ok, fingers crossed it's just your ovulating late, and the vitamins etc improve your DH's sperm. Can I ask if you temp and use opk's usually to detect ovulation? If so has it given false results?

Tropicana1 · 27/04/2019 14:25

@Lottiepink @cupcakesandglitter agreed - there is just nothing attractive about a flaccid peen. Like a sad little earth worm (just on a larger scale 😂)

@Bec18x Ah so sorry all your tests came back with not good news - any chance they just did your bloods at the wrong point in your cycle so missed ov?

Lottiepink · 27/04/2019 14:47

@cupcakesandglitter and obv makes you want it more 🤣🤣
Tropicana1 😂😂 hahaha omg I'll never look at DH's the same now 🙈 he's called it a trouser snake a few times, but earth worm is way funnier 🤣

Bec18x · 27/04/2019 14:48

@cupcakesandglitter no there’s no point because even if I ovulate DH’s sperm have a small chance of actually penetrating the egg and you can only have 6 rounds of clomid so would rather his sperm be healthy. I will continue with metformin for now.

@Lottiepink I was using ovusense and opks but never showed that I ovulate Sad I have PCOS and cycles are irregular. I was told to stop using the tests and temping anyway just to stop stressing.

@Tropicana1 my cycles are so irregular so it is possible it was the wrong time. I done them day 4 and 21.