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timewilltel · 09/06/2021 13:04

Sorry in advance for this long post but I'm 39 years old and me and DH have decided we want to try for another baby. We already have a 2 and half year old son who was conceived first try naturally which we are ever so grateful for. So now we've decided to give him a sibling. Now, at first I was so excited naïvely believing that we got pregnant so easily first time so it would probably happen again, well I don't know whether it will as we've only just started first cycle and let's say everything I've been reading about online isn't helping. Apparently conceiving second time is much more harder than first and then we have my age to consider so now my stress levels are just out of control coz I'm thinking what if we don't ever have a second child and a sibling for my son?? Basically the point of this post isn't really to do with that but to actually ask about my current fertile window period. So every month when I'm ovulating I know exactly when it happens as I'm literally soaked in EWCM but now that we have decided to try I'm literally DRY like not even a drop of any kind of CM whatsoever! Like how is this possible when I always get it and the one time I need it I don't have it!? This is really stressing me out and now I'm thinking maybe it's because I'm so stressed out that this is happening does anyone know if it's possible or is it ok to conceive without CM coz I know it helps a lot with moving the sperm etc so it's making me panic quite a bit. Basically what I'm asking is has anyone conceived without CM and still got pregnant?? Oh and let me just add that when we DTD last night it felt really wet so I don't know if that was the CM that was just stuck inside? According to my app I ovulate today. Really confused and anxious right nowSad

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Mae01 · 09/06/2021 20:17

Hi @timewilltel .. I'm not exactly in the same boat as you - I'm 25 and TTC #1. I know exactly when I ovulate as I use OPKs and Premom app to track, but also because I get bad cramping on one side and usually plenty of EWCM. This cycle though, I had barely a spec of it. In fact we had to use conceive plus lube every time we DTD 🙈 and this morning at 12dpo, I got my BFP on 5 different tests 🙂

timewilltel · 10/06/2021 07:24

@Mae01

Hi *@timewilltel* .. I'm not exactly in the same boat as you - I'm 25 and TTC #1. I know exactly when I ovulate as I use OPKs and Premom app to track, but also because I get bad cramping on one side and usually plenty of EWCM. This cycle though, I had barely a spec of it. In fact we had to use conceive plus lube every time we DTD 🙈 and this morning at 12dpo, I got my BFP on 5 different tests 🙂
That's brilliant news! Congratulations 🎉 These are the stories I want to hear! I'm using conceive plus too so fingers crossed 🤞🏽🤞🏽 Btw do you have any idea why you may have been dry? I'm putting mine down to stress 🤷🏻‍♀️ was you stressed this cycle by any chance?
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Flopsy88 · 10/06/2021 07:38

Hi @timewilltel I never seemed to get any ewcm, maybe noticed it once 3/4yrs ago when I first came off the pill. This month I drank a glass of grapefruit juice every day leading up to ovulation and had lots of noticeable ewcm. I'd heard that it was supposed to help but was still really shocked by how well it worked (assuming it was the grapefruit juice, I guess it could have been a coincidence). The cycle before I'd used preseed with no luck but this month I didn't bother cos I had so much ewcm. I also just got my BFP! 🙂

timewilltel · 10/06/2021 10:32

@Flopsy88 thanks for the advice I'll defo be doing that if I don't have any success this cycle. It's funny coz I don't think I've ever had Grapefruit juice before so would be nice to try ☺️

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Mae01 · 10/06/2021 11:12

@timewilltel yeah I'm putting my lack of EWCM done to stress🙈 conceive plus was great though!

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