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[Oilyoilyoilgob]

Just starting a new thread on self insemination before our first one locks down!

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So I am utterly confused about my ovulation this cycle tbh. I didn’t record a peak until Sat but for some reason the app seems to be convinced I ovulated on Thu 🤷🏻‍♀️ I just don’t see how in the world that could be possible with a peak two days later - anyone experienced that??

Sorry to barge in here with my btt graphs without saying hello or aknowledging any of your posts - so rude! 🤣 This has been doing my head in though. Big fingers crossed for all of you in tww or SI-ing right now!! xx

@shelbyrae welcome to the gang and so sorry to hear about your chemical... the more of us here, the more statistically likely that someone will get pregnant this cycle though, AM I RIGHT?! 🥰🥰

@shelbyrae welcome ❤️ and goodluck for your tww 🙏

@primrosechill going by your BBT I'd say you ovulated the same day as your LH peak and would ignore the date that app has given you. Maybe it'll readjust in a clue of days? Looks like you've covered yourself with "DTD" either way though!

Hope everyone is okay today 😊

Thanks @MrsKin90 this is what I’m choosing to believe in as well - especially since we had a really good sesh on Sat so hoping it counts towards it 😂😭 Hoping the app will readjust itself, it’s super annoying to think I’m way further along DPO whenever I look at it haha. How are you doing?? Are the boobs still sore? Any spotting?

Can you override the app? 😊 You can with fertility friend 😂 I like to disagree with things designed to be smarter than me at working this stuff out!

I'm almost at the end of 13dpo and no spotting 🤩 some short cramps on and off still. Boobs seem to fluctuate! I'm taking it as a win that I'm about to get to 14dpo without any spotting and ovulated on CD14 this month even if I get AF on wednesday so something must have gone right with my hormones this time around.

Hi @primrosechill forgive me for sounding thick but I don’t even get the chart 😳 is your temperature highest today? Are you most fertile the first day of it getting higher? I don’t temp as you can tell 😂

Looks like you have all bases covered and you could always SI over the next few days to make sure. We are on day 13 of SI we started too early!

My opks were fainter today but just in case I did ovulate over the weekend we’ll have it covered.

Good luck to you if you do SI over the next day or two ☺️🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Xx

@Oilyoilyoilgob have you done 13 days in a row?! 😱😱😴

@MrsKin90 femometer app doesn't seem to let you disagree with it 😂 bloody AI! (Intelligence, not Insemination lol) But your comment about you disagreeing with it a lot really tickled me. Keeping fingers, toes, legs and hair crossed for you that your body is behaving differently this cycle for a reason!! Not long till Weds now.

@Oilyoilyoilgob yes the temp has gone up now and technically it's meant to dip right before ovulation and raise straight after but as you can see mine loves zigzagging a bit 😂 we are about to do one more SI tonight though I'm fairly sure I am way past O now - the question is whether it happened on Sat or even before that! And seriously - you did 13 consecutive days?! Your parter's balls must be blue by now, no? 😂😂😂 That is dedication!!

@MrsKin90 yes 😮😳😭 partly because I had my period start date as Sat 31/10 and husband thought I started Thur 29/10.
Then my period tracker and premom have different ovulation days.
So we started early just in case and here we are, I’ll admit I just wanted to go to bed after dinner and an hour of tv tonight, but just in case that second peak is correct we’d have covered for it!

Your last emoji is how my husband feels 😴😴😂

Had a mix of some with orgasm some without, some 20/25 mins and other times laying down longer so fingers crossed.

How are you feeling? Hope you’re ok xx

Sorry @MrsKin90 I missed your update! Fantastic news on no spotting, that’s great and good to hear the hormones seem on an even path ☺️

@primrosechill I don’t know if they are blue or just none existent 😂 but he did it, his testicles need a rest now 😅
I hope you get sorted on your ovulation date but hopefully doing another SI or two will make you relaxed that either date is covered 😊

I’m cd24 and I’m usually starting period on cd34 so let’s see xx

I'm torturing myself tonight watching a lot of these "telling my husband I'm pregnant" vlogs. Does anyone else get sad sometimes/often, thinking "I wish I could just ACCIDENTALLY get pregnant and have the whole spontaneous thing without going through all this TTC bollocks?" (totally a rhetorical question btw - I know a lot of us do).

Anyway... feeling weirdly emotional out of nowhere after doing quite well the past few weeks. Just really really want to be a mum, hah... it's such an overpowering feeling sometimes when you realise it's in your bones and that you have so much of you to give to this unborn creature. Hoping it happens soon. Sending lots of love to you all.

Awww @primrosechill I want to give you a big hug, sending you a big squeeze and I feel for you 😓

I totally get you, I really do. I ache to have a child and teach them things like my mum and dad did. About love and family, animals and the stars. Pass it on. Really love them so much that they’ll know forever they are so, so loved.

Had a wobble last night SI getting riled up some people have sex once and get pregnant. I know it’s a totally unfair thought but pissed off last night and got irrationally annoyed at my friend who got pg last year while being on antibiotics and saying she never wanted kids. All my own issues but they reared their head while I had the syringe in me ☹️

Lots of love to you xx

@Oilyoilyoilgob your poor husband 😂you've definitely covered all bases! Now just a waiting game for you 🤞🤞

@primrosechill I was weirdly having exactly the same thoughts yesterday and feeling very angry about it. I don't want to be obsessed and know when my period is due, I'd love to just wake up one day like 'oh.. when WAS my last period?' and take a test and have that be that! Like @Oilyoilyoilgob I absolutely get that ache. It's heartbreaking.
I kept day dreaming about getting a poppyseed out of the cupboard and showing it to my hubby and saying "this is how big our baby is right now" and I started to cry whilst doing the washing up 😳.

14dpo today. 😬 My RHR has gone up one and my BBT is still high 🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞. Usually resting heart rate starts coming down at 12dpo, and my BBT comes down on 14dpo. Tbf I haven't taken it since 7dpo 😂 so no idea where it would have been yesterday compared to today but last time I took it, it was 36.55 and today 36.67. I woke up with cramps though so aware it could go either way. Annoyingly excited though! 😆

@MrsKin90 I know I know! But he wanted to do last night, he said he’s come this far (no pun intended 😜) and he’s not giving up now!

Awww bless you, a big squeeze sent your way too. I love hearing about your daydreams though, I can tell you want this so much and that is absolutely beautiful ☺️

Big hugs xx

Oh bless him @Oilyoilyoilgob, it's really lovely that he's so invested 😊 it's made me go all teary eyed thinking about these men and what they're willing to put themselves through (and us too of course as it's not bloody easy!). When I think about how much my hubby wants a baby I always have a blubbery cry 😂 he's stopped mentioning it now.

“He’s come so far” 🤣🤣🤣 @Oilyoilyoilgob I’m DEAD.

Thank you both for being so lovely. Oily, the math/probability game is just so off on this isn’t it - I get jealous of people all the time. I keep telling myself I won’t let it affect me and then another pregnancy announcement drops and I want to punch something.

@MrsKin90 totally hear you about the Hollywood stop-in-the-street eyes-wide-open frantically-count-on-your-fingers-the-days-since-your-last-period moment that we will probably never have. I just keep telling myself that once I have a sticky bean, I will no longer care how I got there but for now I do mourn the loss of spontaneity in it all.

14DPO! I said it before and I’ll say it again - you’re a SAINT for not testing yet. I so hope that AF stays the fuck away! xxx

@MrsKin90 awww you are so cute, it made me teary thinking of you teary which is weird because I don’t know what you look like, but I’ve made up faces for you all 🤭😅 I’m keeping everything crossed that it’s your month.
They are good our men aren’t they? It makes me sad I didn’t stay pregnant and I feel bad for my husband. I mean last night his look of ‘oh shit ANOTHER pot to do’ I felt bad for him but tbf there was a good amount last night from him 😂

@primrosechill I totally get it. The jealousy, the anger, the sadness. Then I hate myself for it because it’s not generally who I am as a person.
I read a couple of awful stories in the paper about child abuse and thought why the fuck do these people have kids, same when I hear someone shouting at their kids. Not just normal telling off, but where you can tell there’s an actual unpleasantness behind it. Horrible fuckers. Then I get thoughts of these people have kids and here we are struggling, which I know does me absolutely no good.
Part of me does quite thrive on getting the rage every once in a while though, it’s hard to keep happy thoughts 100% of the time 😂 xx

@primrosechill I'm more of a 🐔 than a Saint I assure you! Other than my last cycle where my period went missing, I always always get AF as soon as I decide to test or buy a test. It feels very superstitious but that's part of the reason I can't test early... Or at all! 😬 I feel like every time I think about buying a test I start cramping.

@Oilyoilyoilgob hahaha thank you 😊 they're good eggs these men. Bless them. I get really mad too thinking about all these people lucky enough to have children who clearly don't deserve to have the privilege!

I went and bought a test 😬 even though it isn't early I got an early response one. I got clearblue which I know isn't as good as FRER but having taken FRER a couple of times I feel destined to get my BFP on a different brand 😂
So I'll fully expect my period in the morning 🤦

Hi all, hope you're all OK!

Sorry to change the subject slightly, but does anyone take 7 seas ttc vitamins? If so, have they affected you in any way?

I used to get ewcm every month, but realise I haven't for a few months now...around the same amount of time I've been taking these vitamins... It might just be coincidence... My CB opk came back with a solid smiley today, so looks like my hormones for ovulation are all there. Just wondering if the vitamins are "drying me out" for want of a better phrase.

Has anyone else experienced this? I've found one forum with about two or three women on it who have experienced similar, but not sure if it's just a coincidence x

Hi @Birchybirch I take those! Hmm I can't say I have noticed a CM difference but I've been taking them for over a year so who can remember 😆 I do know they help my LP be longer as the few months I went without it was only 11/12 and when I take it is 14+.
I know some women find they ovulate later than usual on them though. Different brands seem to work for different people.
I have a glass of grapefruit juice everyday and since I started doing that don't usually have an issue with EWCM. I know that's not much help sorry 😆

@MrsKin90 ah yeah I read somewhere else grapefruit juice. I've added the query/concern to my little notepad I have on my phone, just incase we need to seek medical advice in the new year.

Annoyingly, although my CB test has a solid smiley, the cheapies are showing nothing again. I keep recording the results, and we keep DTD, so we'll just have to see I guess x

Hi all, can I join? I’m onto cycle #4 of trying to conceive baby #2. Baby #1 (17 months) was a self insemination success story and hoping for more luck this time around 🤞🏻

People seem to rate evening primrose oil as well for increasing EWCM 😊 sorry you don't have a clear answer to your OPK situation @Birchybirch hopefully someone more familiar with them can help!

@Bizawit welcome!! How exciting to have you with us 😊