TTC 2nd baby - advice please 🙏

[rjs299]

Me and my husband have been TTC our second baby for 6 months, with no luck so far 😢 feeling so deflated and miserable about it.
I came off the combined pill in October, so first proper cycle was November. My cycles were fairly normal to begin with but with late ovulation according to OPKs, but the last two months have been 40ish days with positive OPKs around CD32.

I’ve been tracking BBT too, but not overly accurate as I wake at different times throughout the night. We have a 2.5 year old already, who was conceived first cycle so we were incredibly lucky.

I guess I’m just looking for any advice anyone may have, or anyone in a similar boat? Have been taking folic acid for the last 4 months, but haven’t tried anything else. I’m unsure if I’m actually ovulating, as have positive OPKS but they’re late in my cycle and I know they don’t actually confirm ovulation. The docs won’t do bloods for another couple of cycles.

Thank you!

Sounds like your luteal phase could be short
it has to be I think at least 10 days for pregnancy- I found vitamin b6 really helped lengthen mine

@2025babyfever I have been taking them for 2 months - from that first cycle taking them it got really long (42 days), so was worried they delayed my ovulation and caused lengthy cycles? I took them for the whole month. My LP was longer though - around 12 days. This month I only took them after ovulation and it was only 8 days 😢 do you take all month or just after ovulation?

I’m not actually taking it just now but when my lp was short- I took them daily and it helped.
If you ovulated on day 32 and period came day 42 that is long enough I think.
it might just be taking a bit longer for this baby for you.
I’m almost 2 years ttc this baby so I feel your frustration of waiting!

Try the Sperm meets eggs plan. When TTC DD2 I wanted to get a move on as DD1 was coming up to 3 and I was already 36. Pregnant the first month we tried that. Google the method, it's fairly simple, from day 8 start having sex every other day, once you get a positive ovulation test do it every day for 3 days, miss a day and then have sex once more. It did work for us. Good luck x

@Tryingtoconceivenumber2 can I ask if the first positive is when it's positive or peak? I normally get a test before the peak when the test is almost as dark as the control line, and then peak the next morning, so not sure which day of Sperm meets egg is meant to count as 1!

I'm pretty sure it's the peak xx