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Hi everyone ☺️

I am a bit eager with this thread, I've just started my dreaded period (feel a little glum to be honest!) and I have been ovulating quite late, so if by a miracle I am successful this month I would be due end of may/early June. I have been dipping in and out of these threads and found them fantastic support so I hope you don't mind me carrying on the trend!

I am going into cycle 4, I am 31 and were trying for our first 👶🏻I suffered a chemical pregnancy recently and I feel SO ready to become pregnant, I want this so badly, as I am sure you all do too!

I was trawling through some old threads and found these facts that I found useful , feel free to read if you like 😙

1. 80% of couples having regular sex (2/3 times a week) with no issues will fall pregnant in a year.
2. 90% of couples having regular sex with no issues will fall pregnant in two years.

3.Each cycle you have approx 20% chance of falling pregnant. 4.The egg only lives for 24 hours so very small window to fertilise it 5.Decent sperm can live up to 5 days inside you so good to have sex before you think you ovulate as well as after. 6.If using ovulation testing the test picks up on Lh surge which often happens after the egg has been released. 7.Most NHS CCG will not investigate fertility problems until you have been having regular unprotected sex for over a year and some places insists for two years. 8.If you track your Basel body temperature it can give you a good indication of when you ovulate to get to know your cycles.

1. Some types of lube can damage sperm be careful what you are using. (We are using preseed but using it like normal lube, not inserting it prior!)

Wishing you all the luck in world for this cycle 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

@TTCn2 welcome cycle buddy 🤍

@NSx I will probably wait until day 28 or see if my AF is late. 31 day cycle last month, I'm not sure yet, I'll see how I feel! I'm trying to be super chill this time, but we all know the longer it takes the more obsessive we become. 🙈
Hopefully this will be the month for you!

@TTCn2 another cycle buddy! Hopefully there's something in the air this week for us 😂 I'm the same really, haven't been "trying" the whole time - it gets too stressful. I try and keep it fairly chilled out most of the time, but then I run out of patience and try everything for a bit (as I have done this month)! Have you done anything different this cycle?

@Cm078 im going to try not test, last cycle was 28 days the one before 29, I am supposedly ovulating cd15 this time so my cycle may be anything from 29 onwards who even knows 🤣🤣
I’m trying to be chill, but I don’t know how 😩 …

what cycle are u girls all on? This is cycle 3 for me after my loss in may @FieldView @TTCn2

@NSx i know, it is so hard to chill out as a month is so long when you're waiting for 1 day to test😂 then you get people who fall pregnant without trying!

Fingers crossed for you!! Is this your first you're trying for?

Okay still continuing on with the opks at cd22 (first cycle after the pill) and I’m still getting low readings, today was 0.27 but since lunch time I’ve had (tmi) what must be EWCM in my underwear. Like full on toddler runny nose type (sorry way tmi).. do you usually get this before or after your peak? I don’t see how I can have missed my peak and now so bored waiting on this cycle to pass I’m wondering if we should just go for it tonight presuming it will rise tomorrow.. or is it likely to be like this for days? I don’t think I really noticed it much last time

@NSx it's hard to say what cycle number I'm on as I've been hoping to get pregnant, and not been on any contraception for two years now, but then I've had many months where I will have missed ovulation by miles.
This is only the third month I've been religiously taking pre pregnancy vitamins and they seem to have stabilising my cycle which is good, so hoping that helps conception.
Plus making sure we dtd at least every other day in fertile period rather than just on ovulation day. Who knows, I'm not holding my breath!

@NSx similar to @TTCn2 for me. Came off the pill 2 years, but have ended up not really trying some months or actively avoiding ttc for various reasons (job change) other months. I've just checked and I think I've actively "tried" 13 cycles in 2 years, and pregnant for 2 months in that time. The odds definitely feel stacked against me, but stranger things have happened!! What cycle is this for you? I'm sure you've said, but I've got a bit lost!

@Cm078 yes this is my first - I was pregnant but lost my girl in may at 17.5 weeks, so just recovered from that and trying again, onto cycle 3 … I heard that you’re more fertile after delivery but so far that hasn’t been the case for me. Although I would say this month is probably the first month where my cycle has went back to how it was pre pregnancy - so who knows if my body was even ready the last couple months. I don’t know really - what about u? Is this your first ?

@TTCn2 @FieldView it’s mad isn’t it - you think it will happen so easily then the reality is that it really does not. It’s quite stressful 😩 it’s cycle 3 for me - is this your first or do you both have children already? I’m not holding my breath either 😅 I thought it would have happened again for me by now but it hasn’t which is worrying -
I went to the doctors to get my bloods checked, day 3 bloods came back normal, so day 21 bloods will be done next week & I’ll take it from there really.

@NSx so sorry for your loss. Can't even imagine what you've been through.
This will be our 2nd. Currently have a 2.5 year old boy. Think it took 3 cycles with him

@NSx so sorry for your loss. This is my first too. If I'd have know it was all this tricky, I might have started trying sooner!

@NSx I may copy you on that. I had bought NAC too but stopped taking it and can’t remember why I did that 🤣 I stopped ovuboost after it said it could change your cycles and mine only just got back on track post Covid. So I think we are similar in buying things and then overthinking after!

@Sparklythings1 have you not tested since CD20? technically you could have missed a peak yesterday or easily not. I get EWCM from about 5days prior to ovulation

@Mummyme87 I actually did test yesterday either once or twice but was so over it I didn’t even bother adding them as they were so pale there was barely a line, same as it has been for ages 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m going to do another one shortly and see if there’s any change, I might just be ovulating really late, I’ve started pregnacare before conception so that’s maybe also pushed it back

Hi @Sparklythings1 ! Sorry I have minimal advice but in a very similar situation. I am CD 19 with what I assume is a lot of EWCM today but my OPK is still negative. I had a miscarriage three weeks ago so I think I am just having a long cycle because of that, but also taking the pregnacare vitamins so who knows!

Sorry I don't have any useful information, but wanted to let you know you are not alone in your frustration, the time goes so slowly when waiting to ovulate!

Let us know what happens for you.

@Pepilachat aww so sorry to hear that, hope you’re doing okay 😢 are you trying this cycle or waiting for a period? I planned to wait a month after I came off the pill but I’d hoped it was a quick cycle, out the road and onto the main event but now it’s taking ages I’m considering just trying this cycle instead

@Cm078 @FieldView thanks girls 💕 you just never know which way it’s going to go do you, if only we had a crystal ball 🤣 could see how the future pans out…

@Tophy124 well you just don’t know if these things are hindering you 🤣 so you panic and stop taking them- I took starflower for 2 months and didn’t conceive - conceived naturally in feb without it - so that was my logic.
I’m taking Pregnacare conception at the minute, second month using it so gonna stick with that as that is made specifically for ttc - I may try evening primrose oil for next cycle let’s see - what u thinking ?

@NSx i started taking pregnacare conception this cycle also. And added omega 3, CoQ10 plus starflower first half of cycle.

@Sparklythings1 my opks are always low right up until my peak.
I’ve had EWCM since Monday, which is my CD 14, and then my opks went up yesterday CD 15 and peaked this morning (I think) CD 16.
I think EWCM can last for your 5 fertile days but the peak can be as quick as 12 hours within that so I would expect more CM before and after peak.

I’ve attached photo of my tests, the latest being this morning!

@Mummyme87 ive heard of using coq10 to improve egg quality ? Haven’t used it myself though, I think I’ll try evening primrose next month as it seems a safer option than starflower - I was nervous Incase that had an adverse effect -
that’s me finally into 2WW - 1dpo 🤣
how u getting on?

Yes CoQ10 is advised to improve egg quality, and as I’m 35 thought they could do with all the help they can get!!!

I’m 5dpo today. Not obsessing yet. Keeping my cool!

Thank you. Sending hugs right back, it will happen for us both, hopefully soon 💓

Also use ubiquinol (coq10) plus NAC, r-lipoic acid, omega 3, Vit D and fertility multi

Plus some specific supplements to help regulate my thyroid

Extra zinc and folate too

And vaginal probiotics

I rattle

@Mummyme87 - I’m also 35 but I’m a bit paranoid in taking things 😂😂😂 don’t know what to do really - I will get my bloods done next Tuesday they will confirm or deny ovulation & then I’ll take it from there - this is cycle 3 for me so hopefully it happens naturally, as it did in February 🤞 5dpo, good luck your almost done your first week 💕

@winningeasy is there a reason apart from thyroid why you’re taking so many supplements, what are they all for?