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Ovulation bleeding?? Is it real? Am I going mad?

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Laurenabs · 11/04/2023 04:09

I just need to air this out to people on my wave length as my other half is about sick of me questioning every tiny thing my body is doing since trying to conceive 😂😂😂

So my periods are pretty much like clockwork and come when my flo app says it's going to start. And 3 cycles ago I started using ovulation test strips. I also attempted and failed at temping as I work nights and my sleep pattern is all over the place so could never temp at the same time to get a good reading.

I've noticed on a few cycles around my fertile window that I have had a small pink streak of cm when wiping after going to the loo, I put this down to ovulation bleeding! So this cycle my app predicted ovulation to be on the 7th, on the 4th I noticed the usual small pink streak when wiping, on the 5th I went to the loo and when I wiped there was a fair amount of bright red blood on the tissue and then a tiny amount in my pants, not enough to be a period and it didn't happen again that day. On the 6th for a few hours my cm was a dull brown like you'd get at the end of your period. whilst all this was happening I was still dipping my ovulation tests and I haven't had a peak or even a 'high' reading at all, it never got past 0.54 😩 I'm so confused! I of course googled and apparently ovulation bleeding happens immediately before, during, or right after you ovulate so I've no idea what's happening 😂😂

If only this was all as simple as it used to seem, when you thought you'd fall pregnant from just kissing a boy hahaha!

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DeflatedAgain · 11/04/2023 07:11

Not much advice on the ovulation side of things as everyone is different!

Just want to say good luck with TTC it is super hard sometimes. Took me two very obsessive years. Only advice I can give is DTD across the whole month not just ovulation week. I used to use the flo app etc. for tracking my cycle. When I actually got pregnant I happened to have ovulated super early. A few days after period (little man also survived inside me for a few days to implant). By that point my partner and I had stopped focusing on fertile week and just took it easy. We DTD a couple times a week and conceived within 2 months. The human body is very unpredictable. Try not to stress too much. X

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