timing...O+12/cutoff...

[ficus]

Is timing really that important? If so, which method is best? How do I determine the exact time of ovulation? I have ovulation test kits, but they just indicate that it is likely to happen in the next 36-24 hours (I think)....do the lines get darker closer to O time?
My periods haven't returned yet after having ds2 (10 months ago!), so I can't try out the tests yet, and my bbt hasn't changed from 36.50!
Argh, why is all of this swaying stuff so hard? lol

[atomic sagebrush]

No, timing is not important and most of us have dropped it. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gender-swaying-general-discussion/7691-trouble-timing.html

You can't pinpoint O any closer than that. All the rest of it is totally guesswork and I personally believe (after being on IG and here since 2008) that many people who swear they had a certain timing are completely guessing and are probably wrong.

I got my DD by DTD late at night the day before O day (Shettles boy timing) after getting 3 of my 4 sons with cutoffs. Mine was confirmed by ultrasound so I'm not completely guessing LOL. :)

All timing does is stress you out and raise your testosterone.

[ficus]

Thank you very much atomic! :running:
That is pretty much what I was thinking! I think mine will be really hard to pinpoint anyway, so much to my husbands joy, I think we will try having sex frequently.....

[desperate4blue]

No, timing is not important and most of us have dropped it. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gender-swaying-general-discussion/7691-trouble-timing.html

You can't pinpoint O any closer than that. All the rest of it is totally guesswork and I personally believe (after being on IG and here since 2008) that many people who swear they had a certain timing are completely guessing and are probably wrong.

I got my DD by DTD late at night the day before O day (Shettles boy timing) after getting 3 of my 4 sons with cutoffs. Mine was confirmed by ultrasound so I'm not completely guessing LOL. :)

All timing does is stress you out and raise your testosterone.

Hi atomic

What do you mean by cutoff? Please advisr kindly?

[atomic sagebrush]

Some blue swayers refer to "cutoff" meaning, "I cut my husband off of sex except for every 2-4 days", a frequency pattern of every 2-4 days. This sways blue.

Some blue swayers and ALL pink swayers refer to "cutoff" as meaning, "We stopped having sex 2-3 days before I ovulated." This was the way I was using the word. This is called a Shettles cutoff.

When I got my boys, we were having sex every 2-4 days in perfect boy frequency and then I stopped having intercourse a few days before I ovulated. With one of my sons I was trying not to get pg and so stopped before I thought I would ovulate, with one of my sons we were TTC but my husband changed his mind at the last minute and we stopped before I thought I would ovulate, and with my 3rd son I was trying for Shettles cutoff and stopped having sex 3 days before ovulation. (my 4th son was a sneak attack and I don't know what my timing was with him).

All 4 of my boys were from regular release every 2-4 days and with 3 of the 4 I did NOT have sex on my O day or even the day before. Shettles timing does not work.