MAY we all be blessed with baby! May 2013 and beyond (BFFs Seeking BFPs)

[burgbrandy]

If u change the o detector settings on ff to fam, does it change o to cd 15? I think that is o. I hate slow rises.

 

[ClandestineTX]

@ProfWife: I would say as early as CD 12, based on temps, don't know enough about saliva ferning to factor that in, though.

@gabbygabz: if you don't mind my asking, how long have you been TTC? I'm just curious how long everyone on here has been at this point, especially since most of us have been together since April!

 

[momwithbabies]

Thank you, Hopeful, for writing. I would also count Thurdsay if it was bright red and not just spotting. If it was just a little bit or a lighter color, I would go with Friday. I am still on my period (yuck) and feel so zapped of energy. Yesterday, all I did was lie around. I hate how AF makes me feel so icky, and of course I hate it most of all because it reminds me that I've been off of birth control since my daughter turned 2!!! She's 5 1/2 now and about to start Kindergarten! That's a blow to my heart as it is (ladies, it is true that they grow too fast). My son will be starting 3rd grade, which is also OMG! Okay, enough of my mommy pity party! I am blessed to have two kids who are healthy and happy! I'm thinking since TTC is so stressful and messes with my brain, I'm going to take another break if I don't get pregnant by September, maybe October. I'm not sure, but right now I feel like giving it up and just living normal for a while. Then, maybe I'll come back and try later, idk. I'm just sick of thinking about it every day!!! Sorry for the rambling. I need to get out of bed and get the day started.

 

[omgbaby]

Sounding good MamaPeaches!!! Fx for you!!!

Afm, last night wasn't so bad. I didn't want to go to sleep until I knew he was safe. He called me around 1 they were finally there. At 4:22 am I woke up. I should've temped but didn't even think it would matter & boy do I wish I would have. I called OH at 4 when I woke up & he had just woken up before I called too. Lol weird!!
But I temped at 7 & it was 96.35 & it looks ridiculous on my chart. I know it was because I woke up at 4. Damnit!! Lol

Use a temp adjuster.

I tried to adjust it but don't really know how.
I usually temp at 7, so I temped at the right time. The problem is since I woke up at 4 I should've temped then so I don't know how to find out what my temp would've been at 4

 

[gabbygabz]

Absolutely clandestine: This cycle is number is #11 with temping and the full court press, plus 4 cycles before that just sort of winging it.

 

[ClandestineTX]

@gabbygabz: 7 here with the "full court press" as you put it We had two prior to that. Have you had any tests done? I have been slack about seeing my regular doctor, was due to see her the month we started TTC and I figured I'd wait until I was pregnant... that doc left the practice, so going back to the doc I'd seen since 2010 (she's at a new office, but was still in the area)... hoping she's got some wisdom or ideas for us.

 

[gabbygabz]

I think at this point my gyno is tired of seeing me! Right around hitting the 12 month mark I had an ultrasound to rule out cysts, fibroids and such; DH had an SA around the the same time; I've also had 2 ultrasounds to track follicles on each of the 2 rounds of clomid (1st was 50mg and currently in my first 100mg cycle) and then this cycle I also had an HSG to rule out tubal blockages! Phew! Writing it all out it looks crazy.

So far every single thing has been normal which is both good and frustrating.

I've also done opks, preseed, soft cups, pineapple core and of course prenatals.

Turns out the full court press is exhausting! I actually thought this morning: if this round isn't it (with my temp drop and pointy cervix I'm losing hope) maybe I'd take temping off next round, do the clomid and just use opks around the "right" time and have that be that.

What about you? Any new plans going forward?

 

[ClandestineTX]

It IS exhausting, no doubt about that! Clomid and OPKs sound reasonable - temps are so inaccurate, that I'm really only still doing them out of habit at this point. I give no weight to them at all.

Apologies for the copy and paste, but this is what I posted in my journal yesterday: Cycle 10 Preview: modified SMEP/ sanity saving plan

• I will continue to temp, but will do it a la Lilly’s way (one of my friends): just take it when I wake up, no more of this daily alarm business. My temp shifts enough that this should still work just fine.
• We will have sex every third day, starting on CD 6.
• When I see EWCM, we will increase to every other day.
• I will wait to start OPKs until I see EWCM, because I generally have it for days before a positive OPK and don’t ovulate until later than most (original SMEP is CD 10, but my earliest OPK+ has been CD 16 in a non-fucked up cycle, and I am tired of all the testing – it stopped being fun and feeling like work a long time ago).
• When I get an OPK+, we will do the next two days in a row, and then go back to every other day for a week. Then, Hubster can have a break.
• I will not symptom spot or test early. Completely over the el cheapo HPTs and will test the day a new cycle is expected to start (14 DPO) only if my temp is still up that morning.

And that’s it. Rinse, repeat, until BFP.

 

[ProfWife]

@Burgbrandy - If I put it on FAM, it goes to CD13 (That was my original O date by FF).

This TTC thing is pretty exhausting. I'm not sure what is going to happen once I have to start teaching full-time again in less than a month. :-/ I guess in a good way, I'll have a solid 88 student distraction every day

 

[Dannixo]

Sounding good MamaPeaches!!! Fx for you!!!

Afm, last night wasn't so bad. I didn't want to go to sleep until I knew he was safe. He called me around 1 they were finally there. At 4:22 am I woke up. I should've temped but didn't even think it would matter & boy do I wish I would have. I called OH at 4 when I woke up & he had just woken up before I called too. Lol weird!!
But I temped at 7 & it was 96.35 & it looks ridiculous on my chart. I know it was because I woke up at 4. Damnit!! Lol

Use a temp adjuster.

I tried to adjust it but don't really know how.
I usually temp at 7, so I temped at the right time. The problem is since I woke up at 4 I should've temped then so I don't know how to find out what my temp would've been at 4

Try this:

https://www.whenmybaby.com/basalbodytemperature.php

 

[omgbaby]

Sounding good MamaPeaches!!! Fx for you!!!

Afm, last night wasn't so bad. I didn't want to go to sleep until I knew he was safe. He called me around 1 they were finally there. At 4:22 am I woke up. I should've temped but didn't even think it would matter & boy do I wish I would have. I called OH at 4 when I woke up & he had just woken up before I called too. Lol weird!!
But I temped at 7 & it was 96.35 & it looks ridiculous on my chart. I know it was because I woke up at 4. Damnit!! Lol

Use a temp adjuster.

I tried to adjust it but don't really know how.
I usually temp at 7, so I temped at the right time. The problem is since I woke up at 4 I should've temped then so I don't know how to find out what my temp would've been at 4

Try this:

https://www.whenmybaby.com/basalbodytemperature.php

Okay, I put my normal time is 4 but the time I took it was 7. It tells me it should be 95.82

Lol that's even lower

 

[Dannixo]

Sounding good MamaPeaches!!! Fx for you!!!

Afm, last night wasn't so bad. I didn't want to go to sleep until I knew he was safe. He called me around 1 they were finally there. At 4:22 am I woke up. I should've temped but didn't even think it would matter & boy do I wish I would have. I called OH at 4 when I woke up & he had just woken up before I called too. Lol weird!!
But I temped at 7 & it was 96.35 & it looks ridiculous on my chart. I know it was because I woke up at 4. Damnit!! Lol

Use a temp adjuster.

I tried to adjust it but don't really know how.
I usually temp at 7, so I temped at the right time. The problem is since I woke up at 4 I should've temped then so I don't know how to find out what my temp would've been at 4

Try this:

https://www.whenmybaby.com/basalbodytemperature.php

Okay, I put my normal time is 4 but the time I took it was 7. It tells me it should be 95.82

Lol that's even lower

Try it as normal time is 7 and you took it at 4. See what that does.

 

[ClandestineTX]

@omgbaby: please don't stress a single temp. The interruption in your sleep, if anything, would have made your temp higher than the basal (RESTING) rate NOT lower. But again, individual temps are not important - it's about the trend over time AND it's above your coverline, no matter what, and that's really all that matters during your LP.

@Dannixo: temp adjusting is generally a bad idea, but if you are going to encourage someone to adjust their temps, please don't ask them to do it in a way that doesn't reflect the actual circumstances. The only thing that is likely to do is give someone false hope, which is the last thing someone needs at the end of their LP. I get that you are trying to help, but there's no reason to believe treating a 7 AM temp as a 4 AM temp meant to reflect a 7 AM temp is going to give her any useful information about her cycle.

 

[Mme2kdee]

Mamapeaches your temps look amazing!!!!! FX'd!!!

 

[Mme2kdee]

When should you be able to tell by your charts if your prego? This is my first month. I know it's way to early to tell right now but for future info . My lp used to be a consistent 13 days and last month it was 11 days. I am currently 9dpo

 

[ClandestineTX]

@Mme2kdee: honestly 18 DPO, regardless of LP length. That being said, your LP can range 1-2 days, so if your "average" is 13, then you'd expect it to usually be 12-14 (but not impossible to have an occasional 11 or 15 day LP). So in your case 16 DPO would start to look really promising, but technically 18 days of higher temps is still the standard, by temping alone.

 

[Dannixo]

@omgbaby: please don't stress a single temp. The interruption in your sleep, if anything, would have made your temp higher than the basal (RESTING) rate NOT lower. But again, individual temps are not important - it's about the trend over time AND it's above your coverline, no matter what, and that's really all that matters during your LP.

@Dannixo: temp adjusting is generally a bad idea, but if you are going to encourage someone to adjust their temps, please don't ask them to do it in a way that doesn't reflect the actual circumstances. The only thing that is likely to do is give someone false hope, which is the last thing someone needs at the end of their LP. I get that you are trying to help, but there's no reason to believe treating a 7 AM temp as a 4 AM temp meant to reflect a 7 AM temp is going to give her any useful information about her cycle.

Wow. Lmao. I was just suggesting trying it the other way to see what it said. She's a grown woman I'm not forcing her to keep either temp or get her hopes up. I'm pretty sure she's smarter then that and I don't need your rude attitude. I don't know anything about tempting. I've only done it twice and I used the temp adjuster and it worked just fine.

 

[omgbaby]

@omgbaby: please don't stress a single temp. The interruption in your sleep, if anything, would have made your temp higher than the basal (RESTING) rate NOT lower. But again, individual temps are not important - it's about the trend over time AND it's above your coverline, no matter what, and that's really all that matters during your LP.

@Dannixo: temp adjusting is generally a bad idea, but if you are going to encourage someone to adjust their temps, please don't ask them to do it in a way that doesn't reflect the actual circumstances. The only thing that is likely to do is give someone false hope, which is the last thing someone needs at the end of their LP. I get that you are trying to help, but there's no reason to believe treating a 7 AM temp as a 4 AM temp meant to reflect a 7 AM temp is going to give her any useful information about her cycle.

Yeah I discarded it earlier this morning. I figure just see what happens with tomorrows temp. I just thought it was weird that it dropped so low.

 

[Ruskiegirl]

Big drop in temp today for me plus a pretty sure I was seeing nothing on those tests mabey just indents or evaps . Feeling confident will be here sunday

 

[Mme2kdee]

Fx ruskiegirl!! I hope you are not out!!!