Cycle buddy wanted. Cd6 on 2/16

I agree, I like seeing the faint line gradually increasing. I think that's very helpful. What day is your predicted OD? My predicted OD isn't until Sunday, which is why I was really surprised with that positive-ish OPK on Tuesday!

I went to Tahiti/Moorea on my honeymoon, which is right next to Bora Bora. We would've went to Bora Bora but only way to get there is a small (very small and expensive) plane. Moorea is very similar and only a short ferry ride from major airport.
 
Both apps had predicted tomorrow (Friday). But, I'm guessing that is not happening. I have had a few weird feelings around my ovaries yesterday and today, almost like a pinch. But, I don't know if that means anything. especially with all other tests and signs not quite showing o yet. I never got a + opk last cycle and it ended up going 51 days, but I only tested days 10-20 last time.
I guess my once-reliable cycle is now pretty unpredictable. I'll propbably just keep going until i see a + or AF comes around again.

That's really good to know about Tahiti. Maybe I should look into that. We never went on a honeymoon bc we bought a house the same year of our wedding and my husband was still in school at the time. Now, we want to but it's hard to schedule around work.
 
Ahhh! What do you think?!
 

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I think that looks great! Do another one in a few hours!
 
It's the first one I've had that has been even close to + AND my husband's work let him go early bc it is snowing so hard in Texas and we can't handle snow! I'm home for my 3 day weekend! Timing is lining up perfectly! Woohoo!

I'm excited right now if you can't tell!
 
That's so great! I'm so excited for you!

As for me, I'm still so confused. My "positive" OPK was on Tuesday. Wednesday was a very very negative OPK. Thursday was a decent faint line. I will be taking one again soon. My BBT has not risen, so I have no ovulated yet. Maybe that OPK from Tuesday was not positive, but why was it soooo close?
 
Yeah, that is frustrating. I don't know why it would go almost positive and then negative with no temp shift. Temps were all around the same time?
If nothing else, hopefully that means o hasn't happened yet and it is still coming in the next few days! I would keep doing both OPKs and temps!
Fx for you!!
 
Yeah, I take temps at the exact same time every morning. I am heading to bathroom for my OPK for the day!
 
Any news? Did you get your + opk?

Mine was even more positive yesterday. Definitely DTD yesterday. Today my temp was higher than it has been the last 8 days or so (since I started temping), but still not super high. I guess I'm waiting until tomorrow to verify if it was truly my temp shift, but I think it was.

If so, I'm finally back in the TWW! Woohoo!

Fx for you! It'll be a long 2 weeks if my cycle buddy is not there, too!
 
I was cd6 on February 16! Not sure how long my cycle is, but I believe I'm in the tww. Hope you both are finding ways to pass the time quickly lol. :)
 
Any news? Did you get your + opk?

Mine was even more positive yesterday. Definitely DTD yesterday. Today my temp was higher than it has been the last 8 days or so (since I started temping), but still not super high. I guess I'm waiting until tomorrow to verify if it was truly my temp shift, but I think it was.

If so, I'm finally back in the TWW! Woohoo!

Fx for you! It'll be a long 2 weeks if my cycle buddy is not there, too!

I'm just so confused. I thought I had a positive OPK on Tuesday, but my temps never went up. Also the OPKs around Tuesday weren't too close to a positive. Could it be that I had a lonely strange positive (or close to positive) opk? the one that I took today looked close to getting to a positive. My temp hasn't risen so I couldn't have ovulated yet. Haven't been dtd as much as id like to either. This month was just a very confusing month and I'm not feeling hopeful about it.
Tww is so less stressful than this pre-ovulation stage!
 
Welcome, sunshine! Your chart looks great! It's always good to have buddies in the same timeframe.
Soon2B, I totally feel your pain. That is exactly how I felt last cycle and why I ultimately stopped OPKs and just waited around (a very long time) for AF to show up. I feel like our bodies sometimes play tricks on us the exact same time we decide we are finally ready to start this journey. Be patient, if your cycle is off track this month, it will hopefully be back to normal next time around.

AFM, my opk was still very + this morning. So, I'm guessing I am still fertile and that my temp isn't the big shift just yet. Not really sure how to interpret it. As for BDing, I cannot say we have as much as I'd like to either. Yesterday it happened, but not Friday and most likely not today. My husband seems to get freaked out if I come on too strong lately, like he knows it is for a reason and then he just feels too much pressure. Not saying he is unable to perform or anything, he just like mentally won't go there. It's the strangest thing. He has agreed we both want this, but he doesn't want to talk about everything that goes into it. He wants it to "just happen." I am trying to find ways to let him know that it's important without freaking him out. :

Update: I still had very pronounced ewcm this evening and I could tell things were not going to happen if I didn't just come out and say anything, so I laid it all out there. I basically said "no pressure, really, but tonight is most likely the end of our windo this month, so if you really want to make a baby, tonight is the night." I then kept cleaning the dining room and keeping myself occupied, while he apparently went into the bedroom and lit candles and prepped. I'll spare you any more details, but I now feel confident we did everything this cycle that we could. Very excited about this tww!!
 
I'm having that issue with my husband currently. He says that this is turning more into a job and it's just not the way he imagined getting pregnant, which totally turns him off and he doesn't even give it a try. With that said, we've dtd twice in this cycle so far. On top of that, I got another OPK that kind of looked positive yesterday, then later on took another one and there was barely even a faint line. Also, I had a temp rise on Saturday, but I think that may have been because I was kind of awake before my alarm went off, so that BBT may not have been a true temp. Yesterday, my temp was not as low as usual either. So today would've been the third day of a high temp which could confirm ovulation. Well, I must've knocked into my nightstand in the middle of the night and flung my thermometer somewhere. For the life of me, I couldn't find it anywhere. So this was not a good month for ttc. I feel completely defeated and stressed. At this point, I think I'm considering putting this on hold. I am vacationing twice in April, so being able to drink and enjoy myself on the beach doesn't sound too bad at this point. It is Monday and I am at work and I want a drink right now!!
 
I'm so sorry! That all sounds super frustrating and I do not blame you one bit for wanting a drink. I definitely enjoyed some drinks while we were iced in this weekend.
Yeah, my husband likes to stay in the dark for the most part about all things related to ttc. He has no idea I'm even on this forum or he'd probably freak. I was amazed by his response last night when I laid it all out there, I thought it'd lead to a fight.

As for putting it hold, that is totally your call. If the window has already passed this month, then you're in the clear for a few more weeks. Maybe you continue to temp but stop with the opks for this cycle. I think maybe just watching it next cycle will give you peace of mind and have a frame of reference for when you are ready to delve back into it again.
 
I'm so confused about the ovulation/OPK/BBT anyway. My OPK's are all over the place, and my temps won't make sense until the end of the cycle, but I can not find my thermometer anyway. So I honestly don't know if ovulation or fertile days have passed for this cycle anyway. I'm so frustrated between the ovulation timing and a difficult husband that I just texted him that I tried it my way, and we will now be trying it his way. We can just "let it happen." But without know ovulation timing, and non-consistent dtd, we will not be getting pregnant. But since we tried it my way and he wasn't ably to comply, I'm over it.
 
I am really sorry. It is definitely not an easy road, and I am completely envious of those who "accidentally" get pregnant without ever knowing what cd they are on, or what cm should be, or giving any thoughts to temping. I think life would probably be much easier if I had just gotten knocked up at a younger age, but with the knowledge I have (for my job) comes responsibility and I was always just way too responsible to take that risk.
I am here for you to vent to if you want to continue to chat. If you are done with these boards for the time being, I totally get that, too. I wish you the best of luck either way!
 
We finally dtd last night and I already feel so much better today. I think I may continue to take temps, just because I want to be sure that I am actually ovulating. So far, I have not ovulated yet. (Yes, I found my thermometer!) My temperature was even lower than my normal today. Does that mean that I'm about to ovulate? Do temps drop right before ovulation?

Has your temperature risen yet? Did you confirm ovulation?
 
Ah! So glad you found your thermometer and you are feeling better about all of this! Yes, I believe a temp dip is somewhat normal just before ovulation.

I did get a temp dip on my chart 2 days before. After my temp this morning (tuesday), the ff chart officially placed the red line and said ovulation was confirmed to have been on Saturday. So, today is 3dpo! I am beyond thrilled to know that I am back to ovulating regularly, after everything from last cycle. It was really hard for me to just not have any answers and also have no reason why my body would be all screwed up. I'm healthy and not stressed out and I've never in my life had issues with my cycle until the last one, which just happened to be the first cycle we actually tried to concieve.

Keep up the temping! Until it goes up, you have not ovulated and your window is still to come! Do you have other signs? Have you noticed and changes in cm since we talked about it last week? I said it was hard to tell back then, but as it got to the days around o, I all of a sudden understood the term "egg white" like it was verrry obvious and abundant. Not sure I've ever had that before, or I just had never noticed my cm in my life.

It's weird how this journey opens your eyes to so much about your own body!
 
Yesterday, I had egg white cm. And yes, it was very obvious. lol. However, I did use an OPK yesterday and it was a complete negative. Temp was normal again so no ovulation just yet. I am under a good deal of stress and I'm just hoping that I ovulate at some point. dtd for the past two nights in a row and I'm thinking I'm going to take a break for tonight. I bought cheap OPK's this month and I must say. I understand why the expensive ones are expensive. The OPK's this month have been all over the place. They are not sensitive enough. I could have a positive looking one and a few hours later have no faint line at all. I did some research last night and changed what CD I was on. I originally started my CD1 as the first day of spotting. After research, I found that I should've started it on the first full day of a flow. So today, I am technically at CD18. My FF says tomorrow as OD. Part of me wants to dtd tonight and part of me feels like I should be happy with two days in a row and take a break for the night. What do you think?

That's awesome that you're now in the tww. I feel like the tww is less stressful because what's done is done. But in the window I am in, I still feel like I could miss it and not give this cycle a good shot!
 
I actually had better luck with the Wondfo internet cheapie strips than I did with clear blue, but then again, I may have just been off on my timing last cycle or never O'd, so that may not be a fair assessment.

As for DTD, if tomorrow is really o day, I'd say rest tonight and then DTD tomorrow and Friday. But, that's just bc I know my hubs and I could never make it happen 5 nights in a row. Our jobs tire us out too much, which is horrible, I know! Or maybe make one of them an early morning session. Just don't make it a job, like your dh is trying to avoid. Have fun with it!

Baby dust!
 

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