Ok so after doing some math, here's just a quick guess. Assuming that this cycle will last anywhere between 25-37 days you are going to have a very large window of when you may have ovulated. To find exactly how long your Luteal Phase is, you would definitely have to chart, check bbt and best option is OPK. This will help you narrow things down. I've made a list of possible ovulation days below based on how long your cycle might be along with how long your luteal phase might be.
25 Days - 29 Nov to 03 Dec
26 Days - 28 Nov to 04 Dec
27 Days - 29 Nov to 05 Dec
28 Days - 30 Nov to 06 Dec
29 Days - 01 Dec to 07 Dec
30 Days - 02 Dec to 08 Dec
31 Days - 03 Dec to 09 Dec
32 Days - 04 Dec to 10 Dec
33 Days - 05 Dec to 11 Dec
34 Days - 06 Dec to 12 Dec
35 Days - 07 Dec to 13 Dec
36 Days - 08 Dec to 14 Dec
37 Days - 09 Dec to 15 Dec
You have to keep in mind that if you do ovulate between the dates give above, the best time to BD would be a few day before that. Because your cycle tends to be different from time to time, there is a large window that you and hubby would need to work on. You guys could just be missing the dates of ovulation by a wee bit! So it's not such a biggy. Just
every other day starting from the the day AF leaves for upt0 2 weeks during the cycle so you hit ALL you possible fertile days. If you can do it every other day, then it should be fine.
Also again, above dates are the days that you might actually ovulate!! You will be fertile a few days before that. AF for me is a little insane. My cycles are between 26-37 days. So I started bd'ing right after AF left this month. Also for me the time that AF is actually around varies. Sometimes 3 days and sometimes 7 days!! I would give it one day after everything is gone before trying.
I dunno if you've tried fertilityfriend.com but if you haven't check it out. I started charting on there without OPK or BBT or CM and it has helped me understand my cycles a little better! I will be finding out how my LP really is this month if AF pays me a visit. I hope that witch doesnt!!
Hope this helps and let me know if you need me to go over anything with you.
Also I fell asleep at like 6 pm today and just woke up
Tired!!! But should be up for a while
Currently in limbo since I am 2 dpo and it's hellish
Tomorrow I get my HPTs that I ordered, so thats one thing I can look forward too..
Let me know if any of this was helpful.
bezinga: has anyone ever told you that you are a blessing? you are wonderful! thank you for taking the time to figure me out and for sending me all this information! Yes, it was helpful.
i have a few questions:-
1.) I have an account with Fertility Friend - how do I chart without OPK, BBT, CM checking? I currently have in there the info. from above. LMP 11/19/11 and BD'd Nov 27, 28, 29, 30 then Dec 6, 10. But there is no graph, so not sure what I'm looking at.
2.) Your cycle, 26-37 days is so similar to my 25-37 days!!!
3.) AF usually lasts between 3-6 days or so with spotting 1-2 days prior to the day of RED flow and then spotting after for 1-2 days.
4.) So, is a woman not fertile when ovulation occurs? I thought ovulation was when the fallopian tube releases the egg which slowly travels down, until it is either fertilized or expelled.
5.) I was so scared that post Bcp's, I wouldn't be able to predict AF, thus I'd find a huge period stain in the most inconvenient/embarrassing location. Thank goodness for signs and spotting (how had I charted this prior to Bcp's???). Some of my main symptoms of pending AF are sore boobies, some acne, sometimes BAD pms (mood swings). Bloating & cramps occur during AF. I have tender/sensitive nipples since about a day ago, some new acne since about a week ago (& its scarring my face - ugh! ), and did have at least one mood swing (ask DH
). Is this when I'm Ov'ing?
6.) When we had BD'd end of Nov '11, I thought I had many symptoms of preg. tiredness, tension headaches, feeling dizzy, slightly nauseated here and there, weird feeling in lower abdomen, feeling both hungry and full, slight queasiness on empty stomach, bloated (or perhaps fat d/t eating a lot since before thanksgiving!), food aversion (over the phone one of my friends said she'd make roast beef & I almost gagged), increased urination + constipation + gassy - NO SORE BOOBS, NO SPOTTING - I THOUGHT all of these lasted between 11/30/11-12/07/11ish. I CURRENTLY only notice the tiredness, tension headaches, feeling slightly dizzy but NOTHING ELSE. And I'm afraid that some of the above were PHANTOM symptoms...me reading into EVERYTHING!
7.) So, according to my BD'ing (again) Nov. 27, 28, 29, 30 and Dec. 6, 10 - do you think I sort of hit my fertile period, whether or not it was during the peak? Now that I look back, we only managed to BD SIX times...grr
8.) I had initially planned on BD'ing at least every other day but too bad my travel took away possibly my most fertile day(s), and then DH's end-of-school busyness really didn't help. One time he came back home close to midnight. I somehow kept awake and as soon as he walked in told him to come on in and BD, totally caught him by surprise - he wasn't quite ready for it...lol
9.) I told myself that I would only use OPK, try to check CM, if this month fails a BFP...so I'm sort of waiting on spending that money to buy all of this online. I also currently don't have a preg. test - why are they so expensive?!!! Want to get the strips online from amazon and may have to order and ship to my MILs where we will be for a week for Christmas - Wed, 21 - Wed, 28.
10.) When is a good time to begin checking CM? When during the month do I use the OPK, daily until I see a surge?
11.) How long is your LH phase?
12.) I don't think we are in the same time zone!
13.) I wanted a
while in my 20's and not sure that's going to happen as I turn 30 in October '12!
Okay, I guess that's enough reading. Thanks for being so patient and helpful!
give it another few days and re-test. i got the first response tests with early detection, so fingers crossed.
nervous and scared. we have done all that we can and now it's literally the waiting game. I am also checking my BBT and today was day 1 of that. hoping things will spike up and stay that way!!
