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HC
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Knax - read this :-

www.peeonastick.com/opkhpt.html

Let me know if you understand what it says LOL!

I've just read it again. It looks like they can predict pregnancy but usually later than a HPT. I think the second line should be darker than the first one if you are pregnant.

When are you due Knax?????

Oh, if only HC was here! That'll teach her to go off on holiday!

Thanks Willmouse!! I read your info and the 2nd fainter line means that the test doesn't tell me anything at this stage!! (Same as a HPT, but not as sensitive!) Af could be due any day from Thurs, but I'm determined to try not to test until/ if AF is late, particularly as when I was pg with DS I tested with First response a few days before AF was due and it was neg.
You're a regular mine of information,
Hope all's well with you and you've sorted out what's happening with your cycle.
knax x

I've just been on that site again.......

My God, on some of the pictures people are testing for pregnancy with breast milk..........only in America!

Looks like we posted at same time - yeah I saw that. Why?

I know that breast is best but that's just ridiculous!!!!!LOL

Perhaps it is possible to detect the hormone in breast milk. Yak (not to breastfeeding obviously but the presence of pregnancy hormone in breast milk)

I would just like to apologise in advance to any pregnant lady on this thread who is still breastfeeding....

Have just been looking at the "pee on a stick" website again, fascinating stuff, learnt loads.

Wanted to ask you Fountains of Wisdom with OPK expertise (since I'm off to wee on a stick tomorrow morning):

1. Is it always best to test 1st thing in the morning?
2. Pee on stick vs Pee in Cup then dip? Pros & cons please?
3. How involved are your DHs/DPs in the whole charting process, emotionally & practically?
4. The (digital) OPK says it's bloody important to insert the stick right, hold it right, take it out right, blah blah blah - is it really that precious? I'm pretty clumsy in the morning.

Sorry. I'm totally useless. Just milking you.

Knax, fingers crossed...

I love pee on a stick although I am still none the wiser as to the best HPT to use. I suppose clearblue digital......although Tesco's is popular as well and was acurate with DS2!

PS: Wow! The Pee on a stick Website!
I love you Willmouse, just saw it.

Cross posted Mandy.

I can't really help as have never really used them. HC is best for all this and she has gone on holiday.

1. Definitely the first wee of the day. Your wee is stronger so there is a higher concentration of hormones present.

1. I think it is better to pee on a stick if you can manage it. If you are less mobile in the morning to pee in a cup is probably easier.

1. DH would be completely disinterested in charting etc - although probably not first time around.

1. I never realised it was that scientific. If you don't do it properly you probably wont trust the result (IME) so probably worth being quite anal for your own sanity's sake!

fingers crossed for tomorrow morning then Mandy! I'm going to try and hold out for a few more days to test, as AF not due til at least thurs. Obsession is reaching fever pitch though!
knax x

Resist Knax............it will only end in disappointment! or not case the case may be!

I had a whopping month which I think was 38 days (I seem to have wiped it from my memory it was so bad) and wasted about £30 on tests before I finally satisfied myself that I wasn't pregnant!

afternoon ladies

My you have been chatty! Thanks for some more congratulations!!!!!

Willmouse -- I hope you are OK. I am worried about you again . I too was thinking I would come and take you to A&E if I lived nearer. Please make an appointment tomorrow [hopeful]

KNax - well done on holding off testing. i am suitably impressed! Myjob is the best as she manaed to hold off til AF was a week late I think but the rest of us weren't so good!

Mandy - I would do the opk sticks as well even if you can't BD. As I sort of said before, I ovulate somewhere around CD17-CD19. When we first started ttc we were BDing up to CD14 as that is when 'most' women ov!!! Now we know why we weren't getting pg! LOL Good luck if you and DH have 'the talk'

Hi to Babydrip - are you going to try the Agnus Castus then seing as it worked for me 1st month?????

Would anyone like my cheapie ebay opks???? You can have them for free and I will post shortly! Just let me know if anyone does!

Today I had a lovely day shopping in York with my Mum for her 'wedding outfit' for my dsis wedding in 2 months. She got a fab suit and we had a lovely lunch. I have got home and am ABSOLUTELY EXHAUSTED!!!!! I can't actually believe how tired I am! I guess it's all downhill from here!!!!

She insisted on buying a little outfit for 'pip' as she is now refering to my pregnancy! LOL

Hoping Angel and BB are ok - not heard from them for a while

Finally Soosy - I have everything crossed for you for Friday . I feel a bit odd doing this but I guess I can officially send you some baby dust???

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I really hope your FET is a success - you deserve it so much xx

my pee sticks were not to be done with 1st morning urine!!! I did them at 4pm-8pm as the LH hormone is produced during the morning. (I don't claim to be an expert tho!)

Pip I love it.

DS1 was 'Lumpy' and with DS2 we knew he was a boy and picked the name so always called him 'Baby Ollie'

Sorry Mandy I think I cocked up with my last message to you by not reading previous posts properly!
Thanks willmouse and CE.
Hi to everyone else
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Hi all,

Feeling a bit more human today after a nice lie-in this morning. Have spent the day with my BF and her 12-week old baby (the one that was born on mother's day). She is soooo lovely, and a really good baby - here's hoping I get one of those!

Don't forget it's the Apprentice tonight. I hope Michael Sophocles goes, he's such a rat!!

I hope Michael Sophocles goes, he's such a rat!!

Totally!
So many of them are former actors/extras/stage people though, just there to 'play a part', stir things up & make good TV. I suspect he is one...

Thanks again for all the brilliant advice & encouragement.

Juanitad I did not realise it was on tonight so thanks very much for reminding me

Soosy hope all goes well for Friday.

HM2J My sister is expecting a baby late September and has also had lots of pulling pains but they have also told her not to worry and the baby is fine. Hope you manage to relax soon.

Willmouse how are you now? Hope bleeding stops. My DD is 4 by the way, nearly 5. Dreadful I know, this southern attitude to 'THE NORTH'. I grew up in Essex and had not been anywhere much in the UK until I went to uni in Leeds.

Knax good luck with holding off.

Mandy hope the OPK helps. Guess it depends on the brand when you use it. I have not charted or anything, but if I had my DH would be totally disinterested. I mentioned I had bought an OPK once, and he said he did not want to know. Think he found it a big turn off.

CE well yes, tired is the way forward for the rest of your life now. Make use of those long weekend lie ins.

MJIM I have never bothered weighing myself in pregnancy, but am sure the doctors/midwife would notice if there was a problem. For example my sister was found to have ketones in her urine which meant she needed to eat more (although she was eating loads). Women who have hypermes-what ever it is called-that really bad sickness condition-still deliver healthy babies and they cannot put much weight on at all.

mandy - my DP was quite interested in the temp charts and pee sticks, but he said he had to draw the line at cervical mucus! (definetly TMI and a big turn off!). Sometimes think things might have been easier not telling him it was the fertile time and just trying to seduce him!! pmsl!

Evening all

Mandy - I am also a 'late' ovulater - I conceived both DS and 'bump' on about CD 22/23 so it is definitely worth peeing on the sticks just to work out when you do ovulate. Also, my OPK's said not to use early morning wee but I think HPT's recommend that you do - very confusing!!

Willmouse - am worried about you too but you know how you feel better than us.

Am so looking forward to the Apprentice tonight although if anyone but either Michael or Helene goes, I might be tempted to throw something at Siralan!! Michael is a complete waste of space and I have no idea why he has lasted so long despite being a complete numpty!!

Had the afternoon off work as I had a hair appointment - only the hairdresser got a bit scissor happy It looks ok now as she straightened it but I normally wear it curly, which is it's natural state, so I hate to think how short it is going to look tomorrow morning once it is curly again!

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Thanks Majormoo, CE & Ceebee!
Had a bottle of beer then the Big Talk.
DH approves, was sweet & rational about it all, saying 'But we haven't been trying THAT hard, right?' Eeeh, ok...

oh well done mandy - very brave . Glad it went well, you must have a fab DH! At least now you will feel that you are taking positive action...whatever it is you decide to do.

ceebee - sorry about the hair! thats awful! . Hope it looks OK in the morning Hair grows quite fast though doesn't it so will be a bit longer soon.

knax - keep holding out!

I'm off to bed xx

ok CD 1 is the first day of proper red bleeding, brown blood or spotting doesn't count, sorry!

A follicle is a little bubble of fluid on your ovary in which your egg matures and it literally pops out.(ovulation).

OPk's v HPT I think if you want a definitive answer you have to go with HPT, as an OPK could be either LH Surge or Pg.

I am too fascinated by the peeonastick site! Amazing what you can find out nowadays, in my parents day you waited two months before you were sure and then you handed in you urine sample to the doctor who sent it to a lab and they poured it on to the back of a frog!!!

My opk ((clearblue smileys!) I didn't go for the cheap option as really important I get it right and I don't use many.) says use early mornign urine, or not to pee for 4 hours before, which I haven't managed to do during the day since before I was PG with DS!!!

Willmouse get your doc to refer you to gynae. Is the blood bright red or brown? Would be more worried about red.

Mandy I would use them so you get to know when is a good time to........

MJIM I can't believe how pg you are this year has gone so quickly! Don't worry about the weight, especially if your midwife is not worried.

Love to everyone else will find out tomorrow what time transfer is.

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