Welcome babygirl - I've got pretty regular cycles so the CBFM works as it should for me, but I know some of the ladies with longer cycles have some special tricks if you need them.
1. Make sure you look at the stick to ensure that the dye travels all the way through before you put it in the monitor - both Daisy and I have had some of the dye get stuck and it gives you a misreading. Your first cycle it asks for sticks starting on day 6.
2. If its working right, you'll get some lows, then 2-3 highs, 2 peaks, 1 high, and back to lows. On my first cycle, I got 4 highs. It learns your cycle so it can better predict each time.
3. The bottom line closest to the chipped end is the estrogen line, that is dark blue before estrogen surges, then fades out when it does surge. The upper line usually appears when your LH is surging and you get peak/high days. You don't need to know any of this, b/c the monitor uses the lines to read the sticks and give you your level, but its interesting.
4. I also use OPKs in addition to the CBFM to validate and do additional tests later in the day.
5. I don't know about anyone else, but I've found I have to be quite "assertive" when putting the stick in the monitor, I feel like I have to slam it down for the monitor to recognize it.
6. It will ask for sticks in batches of 10, so if you get your peak before CD16, it'll stop asking you for sticks, if you don't, it'll ask you for 10 more sticks.
7. You don't have to turn the thing on on days it doesn't ask for sticks (CD 1 - 5) and after your peaks. Just reset it when you get your period the next cycle. If you forget to give it a stick when it wants one, it'll predict based on what it knows about your cycle. You can only give it a stick (I sound like I'm talking about a dog) within the 3 hour window you set it in.
That about sums up all my knowledge on the subject - I'm only 2 months in to using it though
Hopefully I'll BF and shall just hope that that keeps any ''surprises'' away for at least 6 months after the birth but after that I'm fair game 
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smyth. Hang in there. Hope this is your lucky cycle. As for the job stuff, get ahead of yourself. Try to focus on finishing school for now, and getting prego. The job stuff will fall into line, and everything will work out ok. No sense is stressing over all the what ifs, you know? I do this too - get way ahead of myself and stress about things far off into the future - worst case scenarios - and it's not good. 
anyone had ff do that before? i dont think i did o no pains and im sure its because the window was open and thats whyi got a dip, silly me, lol x
jchic!!! 
DH was not at all interested, he's been working so late all week, he is just stressed and tired and I've hardly seen him at all. Maybe for like an hour tops each day. He's not even coming home tonight, working right through till his deadline which is tomorrow morning. Good News is that he is able to leave work early tomorrow so will be with us in the afternoon...I hope! So not feeling overly confident this will be the month as we only dtd twice, the 2 days before I o'd. If not its ok...I am done working myself up, it will happen when it happens and I am ok with it. God knows when the perfect time is, surely I do not!!
I have a good feeling about this cycle for a lot of you for some reason! Not for myself though 
