SMEP advice please.....

[FrenchyMummy]

Soy isoflavones is a natural substitute for Clomid, it tricks your body into thinking that you have less hormones so it produces more, therefore helping with ovulation. I read it somewhere on here! I think there is a special way of doing it depending on the days of your cycle, but I will try to find out more about it if I need it. FIngers crossed I won't need to!

I agree that grapejuice is horrid, I had a glass this morning for breakfast and it didn't put me in a good mood at all.. it is supposed to help with ewmc, but it's not really been proven. If anything, it will be one of my 5 a day, so hey, it can't hurt.

Have you got anything exciting planned for this weekend, besides the obvisou BDing??! x

 

[Lea05x]

Hey.....Ive had one of those god awful days today and decided to jack everything in with this ttc.....from now on im guna relax and BD every day! Im finding charting so stressfull, and im bored of peeing on my ovulation tests so sod it im not going to do it, I just wana have fun and enjoyable sex with my man, surely thats gota be the best way to conceive?

Im having my two year old niece staying tomoz so im in for a treat....shes flipping ace, makes me smile and laugh so much Only downside is I have to watch peppa pig all day and night lol!

What about you hun? How you finding it all so far? I wish I could fast forward to testing day.....x

 

[FrenchyMummy]

Hi there, how are you today? I can understand that you have had enough, I wasn't too happy when the alarm went off this morning so I could take my temperature at the same time as in the week. I mean who wants to be woken up at 6.30 on a day off??!
I am not feeling too stressed yet, but then again I am only on CD11 (I got it wrong in the week). Give me another 2 weeks and I will be mentally unstable!!
Hope you have a lovely time with your niece, I only see my nephew 3 or 4 times a year as we live so far so you are a very lucky lady! x

 

[Lea05x]

Good Morning....sorry for taking so long to reply, had a mad busy weekend. Oh god getting up at that time at the weekend just to take your temp is hard, thats why I didnt want to do it also I dont really understand the temping charts really lol!

I feel so much better for relaxing my routine this cycle, sex is fun and enjoyable again plus we are doing it everyday.....well apart from sat when I had my niece who by the way was good as gold. We brought her some cool bad ass nike trainers on sat, they are pink and black

Wow that must be hard not seeing them that often, I am lucky as my sister only lives about 20 mins away so I see my niece most weekends.

Hows your cycle going? Are you still sticking the SMEP?

 

[FrenchyMummy]

Hello there! no worries about late reply, we are all entitled to having a life!
Weather has been crazy here, sunny, then cold, then warm, then cloudy so my moods have been up and down too-but mostly up as we had a lovely weekend. I am trying to stick to SMEP, but still no positive on OPKs nor any change on BBT so we are going to BD regardless (we are such rebels, haha!). It's been quite fun so far this month, as we have really taken the time to enjoy the BDIng rather than just focusing on baby-making, so I don't really mind if I don't get a BFP this month: we can just call it practice month!
I spoke to my cousin about TTC, I thought she'd be the best at it and she said that her GP had made her temp for 3 months before looking at any other tests, so I guess I can use them afterwards anyway (but waking up at 6.30, yuck!).
Just realised I'll have to wake up at 6.30 in my summer holiday too: pants, really didn't think it through!

Yesterday we did the webcam with my sister, her OH and my nepehew and my nephew was all excited to see us (he is 2 1/2). It was very cute but it made me feel very homesick too.. I am glad you had a nice time with your niece, I buy loads of stuff for my nephew ALL THE TIME, last week we got him a stripey jumper from Next. He is so spoilt by us that when we go over he says hello and then "can we open your suitcase now" as he knows we have presents for him!!

Anyway, all is good here, CD13 but not feeling stressed nor too obsessive. Happy days!
x

 

[Lea05x]

Hello.....ive been sooo busy past couple of days Ive hardly managed to get on here, sorry! Aww how nice to speak to your family, thank god for technology eh lol!

So I was naughty and on Sunday which was cd14 I did an ovulation test as U normally ovulate on this day and got a faint line but not a strong one. So I started to think maybe I ovulated earlier but then last night I took another ovulation test which was positive That means this month I have ovulated on cd16.......strange! So OH and I have been BDing every night still, so hope its enough! Guna carry on BDing rest of this week just to be sure.

Poor OH was fast asleep when I came up to bed last night, hes knackered from it all but I woke him up and said have a shower to wake you up. Felt so bad waking him up but its really important we keep on top of it this weekend.....lol!

How you doing? Do you know if you have ovulated yet? x

 

[FrenchyMummy]

Hi there, nice to hear from you! I thought you might be busy BDing as we are at the same stage of the cycle!

I did ovulation tests everyday since last week, and had negative every time, but then realised yesterday that I was doing them wrong and got a clear positive on it.. Oops! So now I am not too sure when or if I have ovulated, but hey, we shall stick to the BD plan either way (I think it might kill my husband though, he is properly shattered too, Haha!). So it looks like we Od on the same day, how strange!

Pfffff, I might give myself a BnB break after this, I don't want to spend the 2WW obsessing over symptoms-or lack of them. How are you going to spend your 2WW? x

 

[Lea05x]

Hey hun....wow how strange that we ovulated on the same day haha I love it. Im due AF around the 5th July. What about you? Are you still guna continue to BD every other day till AF or BFP arrives? I think im going to continue to BD every night for the rest of this week then hope and pray the little spermies do their job lol!

I know exactly how you feel about the 2ww...I hate it! I try not to go on the 2ww forum as I find I start to symptom spot as someone is. Do you normally test afew days before AF is due or wait and see if you are late? I always end up testing around 10dpo but Im going to try my hardest this month to not test untill AF is late, going to be so hard tho.

 

[FrenchyMummy]

Hilarious, I am due on the same day!! I don't POAS or anything, just wait for AF to show up as I know that if I start the whole routine of taking tests I will be obsessed!!
Definitely not going to 2WW, and I will never NEVER read the symptom spotting threads as I am as likely to obsess over them too. I guess we can say I have a tendency to get obsessed with things very quickly...

Will still keep you updated though, I hope we get our BFPs soon! x

 

[Lea05x]

How cool will it be if we get our bfp on the same day?? haha that would be spooky dont you think? I have loads of IC tests so I know I will crack and end up testing early altho I Really dont want too, seeing a bfn is so depressing and hurtful, I just think another month failed, another month of ttc......how much longer! Must say tho I have a friend on here who is like over 2 weeks late and only getting v.faint bfps some of the time, sbes besides herself thiking the worse......I hope when my time comes I get a dark line asap x

 

[Lea05x]

Hey..so I was determined that I wasnt going to symptom spot this cycle then today I went the loo 3mu and when I wiped I was bleeding, what the heck is that all about? Im only 3dpo. When I next went nothing, no bleeding and Ive just been and im spotting a little again. Oh god this ttc is so hard and confusing.

 

[FrenchyMummy]

Well that's weird! I am no expert so can't really advise you on that one, sorry

I am NOT going to symptom spot, but I have a headache and spots, and CM and ... only joking, not really having all this, I just think it is very funny that after all our "strong" decisions we can't keep to them. What are we like, hey?!

All I have to say is:
Come on, roll on Tuesday the 5th!!

 

[Lea05x]

Hey hun....well spotting didnt last long so im happy and not stressing over it. Been a lovely day today, went for a run this morn then had a bbq and then did some sun bathing.....im red raw lol! Not had any other signs or symptoms what so ever, but i do feel this 2ww is dragging and that the 5th July is agggeesssss away lol! How you going?

 

[FrenchyMummy]

Had a very lazy weekend, met up with some friends on Friday night, and spent the rest of the weekend reading. Was looking forward to some sun today, but it was cloudy all day so I sulked and stayed inside. OH was doing some work so I even had a nap. All in all, a very nice weekend!
Trying to tell myself that I am not pregnant so that I am not disappointed next week, but it is pretty hard. We are what? 10 days away? Let's be strong together! xx

 

[Lea05x]

Oooh a nice relaxing weekend....sounds bliss! I got my niece staying iver this weekend so no chance of a rest then lol! Well I was actually bitten on my foot yest and today its all swollen and red and very itchy so thats actually taking my mind off symptom spotting at the min, thank god lol! When are you test?