Fx for you amber!
Ceri I didn't have any signs that made me know I was pregnant with my son. After the fact the things I felt made sense but I didn't know it at the time.
Laura this is my first cycle trying. I'm on my second cycle since af returned. I'm still bf so I'm worried I'm not O but I might pick up some opks to be sure. I've had two completely normal and right on time cycles though. I should be O this weekend which is annoying because Im getting my wisdom teeth out Friday and I don't know if I want to bd on pain killers lol.
Well, with me, since I'm still BFing, the only thing that I've noticed (my first two cycles were "normal' as in day's as well) is when the BFing ups it pushes my O back later. So like I said before, I would definitely be doing OPK's but that doesn't confirm your O day, only BBTing will do that, so it's been a major stress reliever for me to BBT, bc you can gear up to O and not actually O. So using the OPK's and the temps as well as charting other things like CP/CM give me huge piece of mind, so I can relax and know that I am Oing, it just changes from month to month when I do O. Sometimes, my LH strips will look like they are fixing to be positive then don't go as dark as I know they can get for me, and then a week later I actually O. If I had counted the first 'surge' then I would of stopped BDing and totally missed our windows. BFing even with cycle's the same amt of days can change when your O day is, so you can't really count on when it was the month previous, I would of been off by almost 10 days this month if I had went off last months O day, but she started BFing a lot this month again for some reason, and BFing releases hormones in your body that tell the rest of your body, "Hey, we're still taking care of a BFing baby, we don't need another one, shut it all down" LOL
no joke though, it really messes with your hormones so I would cover your bases and give yourself some piece of mind, bc LH strips/OPK's are really only one small piece of your fertility puzzle anyways. If that makes any sense.