Anyone about to go into an ovulation week?

[Mama09876]

Hey!

TTC our 2nd been putting it off for a while but this month I’m going to be actively trying and testing LH etc
reading other posts feels as though everyone is already in there TWW this Aug 😂 so looking for company, anyone whose still waiting for their ovulation week.

I only used BBT when falling pregnant with my first but haven’t being doing it as regularly as I did back then.
Ive been trying to take my temp the past couple of weeks and natural cycles predicting ovulation on Weds!
what’s everyone plan of attack? 😂 I’m going to use LH strips from tomorrow onwards and as soon as I get my peak start DTD! Very sceptical it’ll happen this month with it being the first official month of trying but we shall see!
Hoping for some company if anyone is at a similar stage in their cycle?

@Mama09876
8dpo tested - bfn
I don't feel pregnant

I'm finally in the 2ww too! Think 1DPO today (got a static smiley Saturday AM). With my son I got my BFP 11 days after the peak (luckily first cycle!)- didn't do any tests before then- so I'm going to try to wait until 1st or 2nd to test☺️ We BD on the same important days as we did conceiving our first so I'm feeling hopeful, but this is just our first cycle again and I know we were very lucky then!
Will be eagerly watching this thread for everyone's results!👀

@Itonlytakesone stay hopeful still early days! You never know you might not of implanted yet. Got everything crossed 🤞🏻

@Possumly this is exciting!! I think we’re all in our tww now! Hoping for lots of BFP this month.
im on my 2nd month of trying for our second feeling a lot more relaxed this month. Im the same trying everything I did with my first hoping it works again! 😂🤞🏻
im 9dpo and holding out till af due on Sunday although I’m tempted to take a test just before I fly just to know really I’ll be 11dpo then so don’t know whether to just wait it out. How was your test at 11 days after with your first? Was it a squinter or could you see it was positive? I don’t want to do it and then stress over if it’s positive or not 😂

@Mama09876 I'm not really feeling much different to be honest, although I am a bit crampy and bloated this morning, sometimes I can't work out if I'm just feeling things that aren't there though! Temp has been stable all week, like waaay more than usual and hasn't really fluctuated by more than 0.1 degrees, until today when it's gone up, again, probably reading into that 😂
Well I had no idea that was even a thing, although mine does seem to be staying exactly the same. Do you think you'll test before your holiday? I'm trying to stay strong until the weekend!

@Mama09876 it was an immediately obvious line (I'll see if I can find it to attach..) so I feel like It's sort of making me feel like I possibly could test earlier this time🤭 it was 11 days after peak so I guess I was 10DPO (tracked only by OPK, not BBT).

I’m 11DPO, had a BFN this morning😫

AF is due on Thursday apparently, dates moved forward on flo when I put my ovulation date in, guessing I’m out this cycle🥲

@LucyLou0527 oh no it's so deflating isn't it🥺
@Possumly that test from your previous preg is an obvious line for 11dpo iv got a good feeling for you this time too, you seem to catch easily. @Mama09876 I think a cheeky little test pre holiday at 11 is a great idea.

I'm still bfn however last time I got a Bfp at 8dpo however I conceived cycle day 10. This time it was cycle day 11 so in my head tomorrow I'll get my bfp🤣 iv got cramping again now after a walk must be the blood flow. Trying to think positively

This is really positive signs!! I’ve got a good feeling for you! I thought I was much hotter than normal this morning than realise my heating came on by mistake 🤣🤣 I was like why am I so hot! Getting my hopes up.
the RHR thing it was only something I was reading about last time I was pregnant and it did go up after ‘implantation’ around 7/8 dpo and kept going up. Apparently there is correlation on increased rhr and early pregnancy. Mines gone up again today but I’m not reading to much in to it either! 🙈
my temp is still ok and high but again not reading to much in to that cause it happened last month then dipped the day before af.

if I was going away I would defo wait till I’m due on! But other half isn’t coming away with us cause of work so if it is positive I kinda want to show him in person rather than on FaceTime 😂

There was defo no denying that! That’s the kinda line I need to see if i test 😂 no squinting to ruin my head 😂

@Itonlytakesone that’s it keep positive thinking!! Still early days and still a chance! And you @LucyLou0527 not over till af arrives it might be that you just show on tests later than others.

With my pregnancy last year I didn’t get a positive until 14DPO but I don’t know if it’s right to compare to that as ended in MC😫

@LuckyDuck93 this was my rhr when I was pregnant. You can see it increase at about 8 then from 10dpo it increased till I took a test at 13 dpo.

@LucyLou0527 yeah mine ended in mc too so I shouldn't compare either🙈

@Mama09876 wow, i'd never have thought of that, I'll be keeping an eye on mine now 😅
Yeah I don't want to read too much into it, but I can also feel myself getting my hopes up too, I think I preferred the months when I was too busy to think about it 😂

@LuckyDuck93 i know it’s just another thing to watch 😂🙈 and stress over! Haha. I just find it quite interesting as well to be honest.
i’ve just compared my rhr now compared to my first and it’s followed a similar trend! 😳 I need to stop now 😂
im just getting to the point in my cycle 9 dpo where it gets intense 😂😂 where I start thinking all sorts and reading in to all the signs! Really trying my hardest to ignore.

but to be honest I don’t feel any different so deep down I kinda think it hasn’t happened this month.

No joy @Mama09876
I still have these cramps/heaviness/stretching that is so odd and quite uncomfortable. Been feeling very sick the last two nights also. I think it must be pregnacare messing with me. Added the tests and chart although the chart isn’t much help when I started CD17

@CosmoMango do the bbt chart saying yojr ovulation on 16th is that based on previous months? They just predicted?

All very strange for you! I do think your tests look like they’re getting darker!

See i may even suggest maybe ovulation around CD20? Your nighttime LH test is defo darkest wonder if you missed peak over night? Then there is a dip on the CD21 and increases the day after? Possibly ovulation?
only thing I’d say is normally the bbt stays high after ovulation but mine hadn’t this month either.

My RHR has also increased but can’t take that as a sign as I don’t think I ovulated. It’s probably stress

I don’t usually do BBT @Mama09876 as I find it doesn’t really give me good readings as I often get up for the toilet but I might consider a temp drop band or something. I usually go off just LH and physiological signs

These are mine from when I was pregnant (the Fitbit) and now with Apple Watch.

I’d need to re read the posts from here cause I can’t quite remember the detail but I’m sure there is normally a dip or spike (can’t remember which way round) around ovulation. Then after implantation it tends to increase.

just in case any one else wants something else to follow/stress over 🙈

This has been my problem this month! Been up and down in the night with my LO so I think that’s why my bbt is all over the place!

keep going with the LH. You’re doing amazing DTD every day!! Take my hat off to you guys!

Could I have ovulated super early maybe? And the cramps are period cramps? Who knows. I am so confused and down about it all. I wish I never took that pregnacare. I feel like this was our chance and now it’s gone and it just won’t happen now. I’m worried my cycle will never go back to normal. I have bloods booked to confirm I’m ovulating (have been in the past) but going to do it next month as this one is just a crazy cycle.

I wonder if I should trade my Apple Watch in and get one that does temperature tracking @Mama09876 it might end up more helpful than trying to use the thermometer and also more practical than the armbands as I use my Apple Watch 24/7

@CosmoMango aww its hard to not get downhearted but you’ve done a lot over what could of been your fertile window. Maybe you could just of missed peak/ovulation. Only other thing I could think of of the sperm meets egg that a few ladies take about and just DTD every other day? To try catch it you have missed.

why do you feel it won’t happen now? You’ll still have a chance next month & you never know you might of caught it this month!

The new Apple Watch tracks temperature now! You can link it to natural cycles I know that.

You definitely could've just missed your peak with the strips, a few months ago I didn't find the peak with strips for a couple of months, but my BBT shot up so I know I definitely ovulated, it sounds like you've DTD enough to be covered too!