TTC - Ovulation

[MrsRosaline]

Hi!

I have been TTC this month. I got a flashing smiley face on the clearblue OPKS this morning so all is looking good! I would love to talk to anyone else who is also TTC this month... I am currently driving my husband mad as it's all I can talk about. 😊

@newtolineofduty @MrsRosaline Thank you 🥰

@newtolineofduty That sounds really crap for you. I took a test yesterday evening after I'd had light pink spotting for days and got my BFP. It's horrible when it feels like your body is just teasing you 😢

@Aims1991 sorry to hear that. With you with your pain xxx

@QueenLagertha was it you that took the EPO and ended up swimming in EWCM!? 😂 x do you reckon that helped!? X

@newtolineofduty yes!! I took 3 EPO every day from CD1 through to ovulation. And robitussin cough medicine for 5 days of fertile period. Plus a glass of grapefruit juice every day from CD1 through to ovulation. I swear I've never seen so much cervical fluid in my life 😂 was having to change my pants at lunch time.

Who knows! That might have did the trick for us. We didn't even DTD as much this month. Didn't even do it on the day of ovulation, just the two days before and that was pretty much it. So maybe all that cervical fluid kept some of DH's swimmers alive 😂

Try it. Will do no harm anyway. Also used pre seed. Just as a lube. Didn't insert it.

Thanks @QueenLagertha! Would you mind me asking how long you'd been trying? Xx

Since before Christmas on and off (had covid over Christmas and had surgery in January).
Four cycles properly tracking.

It has felt like forever. Sympathy for everyone trying. It is heartbreaking every month when it doesn't happen.

Feeling more positive about this one now. FRER darker today and my RHR shot back up. Plus I feel like crap.

Hoping you ladies all get your BFPs very soon 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

That's great! Is it your first @QueenLagertha? I've lost track of everyone's circumstances!!!! I'm starting to get anxious as I conceived my daughter second cycle so now I'm moving on to cycle 4 I guess I'm thinking something is wrong like my age/egg quality which I feel like I can't do anything about! X

@newtolineofduty your thoughts echo mine. I also wonder if it's my husband or me. He is in his 40s so maybe it's that 🤷🏻‍♀️

@QueenLagertha what were you using during the four cycles you were tracking? And would you say you knew when you had ovulated and DTD on those days? I'm just a bit baffled at my outcome because I know when I ovulated and I DTD twice the day before, twice the day of, and once each day after for two days... 😂

@MrsRosaline I'm going to try DTD every other day rather than every day this month x I'm also going to start taking ubiquinol for egg quality and Increase the amount of EPO I was taking x

It's my second. DS is 3.4. He was conceived first month and we were so surprised.

How long have you been trying now @newtolineofduty and @MrsRosaline? We should probably do re introductions. It's so hard to keep track of everyone now.

@MrsRosaline cheapie OPKs only the first two months of tracking. Didn't get a rise the first month I tried them. Then clearblue digital for last two cycles. Plus temping. And yes my fertile signs plus the temping and OPK all agreed date of ovulation.

We were doing SMEP so lots of sex. However we didn't do that this month. We have conceived only DTD on the two days prior to ovulation.

In the taking charge of your fertility book she explains how you shouldn't have lots of sex if your partner has a low sperm count and advises "saving" it for prior to ovulation. I'm wondering did not having as much sex work in our favour this month 🤷‍♀️

I also read online that sperm takes 10 hours to undergo a process called capacitation. They can't fertilise an egg until this has happened. And once the egg is released it starts degrading in quality immediately and is dead within 6-12 hrs. Studies have shown that most conceptions occur from sex that happened on the two days prior to ovulation. And it is actually quite unlikely that sex during ovulation will result in a pregnancy. So you want those swimmers ready and waiting for the eggs release ideally. TCOYF book talks a lot about the importance of cervical fluid for keeping sperm alive and that sperm can swim through it. If you don't have fertile cervical fluid the sperm die immediately.

All very interesting. I was willing to try anything lol

Would def recommend the book plus it starts with the egg. It recommends COQ10/Ubiquinol for improving egg quality. And get your partners to take wellman conceptions vits too! Men have been advised to do this by fertility clinics and within three months their sperm improved drastically.

Thanks @QueenLagertha. It's also my second and DD is 3years and 9 month. I worry incessantly about the age gap getting bigger and bigger! Interesting about the egg lifespan. That's why I wanted to do it in the morning too!! I've just bought proceive for him 🧐

Thanks for that @QueenLagertha! I'm deffo going to go on an EWCM increasing mish!!!! My daughter is almost 3! I've already ordered we'll man vitamins and ubiquinol!!!! I really want to not track this month but I reckon I'll be tempted! X

I'm wondering about taking some vitamins myself, but when I took the seven seas ones they really really messed with my cycles so I'm a bit paranoid!

Yea @MrsRosaline the gap was starting to get to me too. Plus people constantly asking are we not going to give him a sibling 🙄 why oh why do people do this.

@newtolineofduty it's so hard to stop

Yea @MrsRosaline I've heard that has happened some people. I think the vits made me ovulate slightly later this month. Day 14 as opposed to my usual day 11/12. But I was happy about that as I think earlier ovulation can result in an egg that not mature enough

@QueenLagertha I'm really hoping increasing my CM will help!!! It did increase this time but I still only noticed when I wiped on two occasions across two days. Previously I just noticed it once on one day when wiping. Was yours just coming out by itself!? Z

@newtolineofduty yes copious amounts of it! It was very watery as opposed to EWCM but apparently this is very fertile fluid. The robitussin probably thinned it out and made it more watery. TCOYF book says that younger women have up to 5 days of fertile cervical mucus and as we get in to our 30s we usually only get 2 days. I def got at least 5 days of it this month.

@QueenLagertha agh yes I got the watery stuff afew days before too!!! It makes sense why it'd be helpful! What does SMEP mean? Xx

Sperm meets egg plan. Basically you DTD every other day starting after your period then once you get a positive OPK you do it 3 days in a row, skip a day and one last go for luck. Overkill if you ask me. We were exhausted and sex was becoming a chore! If you know your fertile signs and use OPKs I don't think you need to be doing it once you're sure ovulation has passed.

Thanks @QueenLagertha-you're a fountain of knowledge!! I've actually been wondering if we've been stopping doing it too early! Xx

I've been reading up on the COQ10 supplement but I'm a bit confused about where to actually buy it and the difference between ubiquinol and/or bio-Quinon!? Did you take any of this @QueenLagertha ?

@newtolineofduty I've spent far too long obsessively reading and researching 😂 it's probably not healthy

Ubiquinol 200 Milligram EAF CoQ10 (Enhanced Absorption Formula Coenzyme Q10 as Kaneka Ubiquinol) 30 Softgels https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LFVDK1E/ref=cmswwrcppapiglttfabcFRN3GK7KXR5FDVQFQ9NQ??encoding=UTF8&psc=1

This is the one I've been using.
Apparently Ubiquinol is much easier to absorb than COQ10. It's just a more bio available form of COQ10 really.

Oh perfect thank you @QueenLagertha and are you supposed to take them even after ovulation?

Yea @MrsRosaline
Apparently it takes three months to make a difference to egg quality so I can't claim they def helped me. I def think they give me energy though.