BBTing our way to a BFP in August 🎉

[Hotmalibu94]

Hi all!
My body has begun a new cycle in its quest to torture me with cycles that are getting a day longer at a time 😅 so I thought I'd see if anyone wants to join me in BBT charting this month!

DH and I are currently TTC #1, we started in June so are on CD1 of cycle #3 now and I wanted to start doing something a bit more to track without feeling like I'm constantly peeing on some kind of stick 😂 I've previously tried charting in April and May to prevent pregnancy but I hadn't quite got the hang of it yet so the charts were a bit all over the place. My chart since restarting BBT on Sunday already seems a lot more stable than it was last time so hopefully it'll give me some more info this time!

Please feel free to say hi below and introduce yourselves 😊 looking for as many friends as possible in this crazy world of TTC 💕

@Myna13 thank you! hopefully this month will be our months 😄

Excited to start with the opks! Today was so busy that I’ve only managed to do one now, I understand that you don’t use fmu for these but does it always have to be around the same times or literally doesn’t matter as long as is within that 10am-8pm window?

thanks!

@Hotmalibu94 unfortunately not AF came two days early 😩 shortest cycle I’ve had. Back to the start again oh well on CD3 now got a new thermometer with two decimal places so hopefully readings will be more accurate! Your chart is looking good.

Heres my OPK from this morning. I did this around 11am.

@CatiaR I think its around the same day every day and then when closer to ovulation twice a day? .. Im going to be doing mine around 11am for now and then in a few days also around 6pm just so I dont miss that OPK.

So I’m utterly confused and have been POAS obsessively the last couple of days I’ve done OPKs as well as HPT 😪
i just got a high tonight and no idea why!
currently in CD35 and 16DPO.
im going to to another OPK before bed and one in the morning just to see but DH is away with work so it’s not use anyway!

Hey all!
@CatiaR no idea with OPKs but good luck with it 😅

@CatLadyH oh I'm sorry! What a pain 😩 at least it didn't keep you waiting I suppose! Good luck for the next month, please keep sticking around here 😁 good luck with the new thermometer 💕

@Ncl31 I don't want to get your hopes up but I've seen a lot on these threads that LH tests get darker if you're pregnant? 😬 Or else a random erroneous reading I guess! Keep us updated with how they progress ❤️

@Hotmalibu94 thats why I’ve randomly started doing them, because I read that too.
but there’s not a whisper of even a squinter on a HPT so I can’t even begin to get my hopes up. I’ll update later tonight or tomorrow morning with what’s happened with more tests.

@Huriya I think I’ll stick to around this time for now and test sometime in the morning too when I do twice a day 😊

@Hotmalibu94 thanks! It’s all quite interesting so I’m hoping to keep this positive mindset going and learn as we go along !

hopefully won’t tske too long for all of us to get our BFPs 😊

Morning! Trying to get a hang on this BBT tracking but not sure how its going as of yet. Its been so warm these days in the morning when i wake up that i feel like it’s contributing to these increases but I guess time will tell! Only temped for 5 days anyway

@CatiaR I mean it seems quite steady, so at least it's not erraticly changing a lot. Hopefully all will become clear with it after a week or so.

I've woken up and I've bled in the night... My af was only three days this cycle so maybe my body is trying to get rid of the rest now but doesn't give me hope that I'll have much of a lining when it comes to implantation!

@Hotmalibu94 I guess that is true, we do need to keep taking BBT steadily for a while to know anything anyway so will just keep going with it!

Ah I see, my AF technically finished on Wednesday but yesterday I had some spotting at the end of the day when I wiped but nothing the rest of the day so my cycle ended up being 4 days only (fluctuates between 4/5 usually anyway) and a tiny bit today again, but this is fairly normal for me just after AF finishes.

Fingers crossed that will be ok for you tho!

@CatiaR I think the fact that the readings aren't jumping around all over the place is probably a good sign.

Yeah, I mean AF was short this month, only 3 days instead of 4 or 5 but I just don't know what this means for TTC this month 🫤 I've put my cup in and I'll check again at lunchtime and hopefully it'll have stopped by the end of the day. This AF started weirdly as well because it kind of gradually started instead of just starting bright red and a fair flow like it normally does. This one started as like brown spotting and then gradually progressed to full blown AF so I think maybe just a funky period but for god's sake why now 🤣

@Hotmalibu94 Ah I see, I had brown spotting the day AF was meant to be due and AF came the day after a day late technically and finished 4 days after with the 5th had nothing at all apart from some spotting at the end of the day and very small today too but I find that is generally how it works for me so never thought much of it.

Hopefully all will be fine for you this month 😄

@Hanban01 Hiya, this is the thread thats going on for all us August mummy to bes 💖🤞🤞

@Huriya Thank youu 💕💕

Hello again everyone,
Ive just done todays OPK and its gone down. I really dont know how I feel but its gone lower than yesterday. I scanned the strip twice incase of any error. Is this normal?

Done another OPK this morning and back down to low so no idea what that was about yesterday. Still no AF but I remember last month feeling heavy like she was imminent for about 7-10 days before.

Hi can I join please 👋 I’ve tracked BBT for a few years (mainly for contraception rather than TTC!), but have been trying on/off since January. I just had a MMC managed yesterday so I’m counting today as CD2 because I have nothing else to go on 🤷🏼‍♀️ hoping tracking BBT this month can show me what’s going on with what will presumably be a slightly unusual cycle, but here’s hoping!

@Huriya I don't do OPKs so I have no advice really but hope it becomes clear soon!

@Ncl31 oh bless you, that sounds frustrating! I hope something happens soon so you can move onto the next cycle if needed 🙈

@ginny93 hi lovely! Welcome 💕 so sorry about your MMC, I hope you're recovering 💕

About to go out for date night with DH and he basically pounced on me 😂 turns out I need to wear this short dress more often 😂

@Hotmalibu94 thank you ❤️ that’s a good sign! Always a good ego boost too 😂

@Huriya I think that's normal your LH tests aren't an exact science, it's affected by how dilute your pee is, time of day etc. The main thing your looking for is for the second line to be as dark or darker than the control line.
CD 6/7 is early so I wouldn't worry about it going up and down ( while still being lighter than the control line)

I am so confused at my body this month! A few days ago I started to get some ewcm, I normally get buckets of the stuff through my whole fertile week. This month I've had it for one day then it's basically dried up and gone back to lotion consistency! My opk's didn't even register a line on that day so I doubt I ovulated then. Maybe it was a fluke and im going to ovulate later? Premom says tomorrow and flo says Monday. They are normally quite accurate but there's no ewcm 😩 I've just done an opk and it's still super low. No idea what's going on at all 🙈 xx

Morning all, how are we all doing?

@ginny93 yeah definitely an ego boost 🤣 he likes my legs but this British Summer isn't doing me any favours in helping to get them out more 🤣

@thejollytrolleydolly I mean, I feel you girl 🤣 I would assume your ovulation is still going to happen next week maybe, keep an eye on those OPKs I guess they're pretty quick to change. I just googled and found this example so I think once it happens it's quite sudden!

As for me - my one random day of bleeding has stopped again, it all seemed like brown old blood so hopefully won't have affected my lining too much 🤷🏼‍♀️ Date night worked well to get a couple of early BDs in in case I ovulate earlier 🤣 due to ovulate on Thursday so going to try and have sex again maybe Sunday and then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday if I can 🤦‍♀️