wishing - just start checking it regularly you will learn what is soft/firm high/low it will change a little throughout the day but when mine is round O i cant reach it x also learn to check your cm
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wishing - just start checking it regularly you will learn what is soft/firm high/low it will change a little throughout the day but when mine is round O i cant reach it x also learn to check your cm
Morning girls!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by charlieispy
opks arnt getting much darker yet and no :) as of yet!!!
deaks hope you enjoy your getaway to cornawall. at least it will take your mind off the 2ww
petal - due date today! got my fingers crossed for you and will be thinking of you loads! You have to post pics of him asap!!!
Wishing - i have only just got the hang of my cervix this cycle and last cycle! I noticed last cycle that during ov it went extremely high and so soft it was really squidgey. This cycle it went the same softness again but i didn't notice it going as high. Height is tricky though and it could be that it went high and back in-between my checks or perhaps it just didn't go as high. TMI, but I have noticed and also read that your cervix can be prevented from going high if your bowel is quite full!! anyway it just shows that height is much more unreliable that texture/firmness! With mine if i am unsure if its soft then it probably isn't as when it is soft it feels very different! HTH's!
Petal - thinking of you today, hope little man doesn't keep you waiting too long!
I'm trying to read everyones posts... but its 9.30pm and my eyes are blurring.... I'm SOOoooooooo tired! Am starting to notice how tired I'm feeling. Also I ate a piece of cheese today... shortly after I was standing there doing the washing up and I thought... OMG... I feel decidedly queasy!! Kind of makes me a tiny bit happy... am I mad? :D
Anyways - hope you are all good. you'll have to forgive me... I'm going to bed.... 9.30 and I'm passing out...
noo don't worry, enjoy it! it's obviously meant to be :)Quote:
Originally Posted by charlieispy
would you say this test is a pos OPK? (both using the same pee, although I'd been holding it in literally all morning
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7496/cimg9716.jpg
Personally i would say that they are very nearly positive but not quite. Could you get hold of a smiley digi to check?Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Hi girls, thanks for all your messages :-) no sign of anything yet! yes, will defo post pics when i figure out how to do it, took me 7 months to sort out my ticker!!! LOL.
Maybe, i TOTALLY understand how you feel :-( when i found out ds3 was a boy at 16 weeks i was absoloutly devestated as you all probably remember, i felt cheated and wish i hadnt of bothered trying for a 3rd. The hardest thing by a million miles is the comments by others, i sometimes wish i had been open about the sex but whats done is done, im glad i know he's a boy, i dont think i could deal with the emotions at birth. I suggest you get some really good come back replies ready so you make the people saying stupid things feel bad and not you! Ive had quite a lot of hurtful things said to me and i wish i had the balls to snap back at them.
Anyway, my little boy is due today and i promise promise promise you that by the time your liitle man is due you will have no sadness at all, im soo suprised in myself at how different i feel from 20 weeks ago, even if i could change him into a girl right now, i wouldnt, i want my boy more than anything, if people want to feel sorry for me then let them, i feel sorry for them for being such idiots!!!!
As soon as i found out he was a boy i also started thinking and looking into PGD, i think this was my way of healing my sadness, ive had contact with some clinics in cyprus but im not so desperate to have a girl as i was 20 weeks ago, time is a great healer and if we ever choose to go down the pgd route it will be when the time is right, i did want to go next year but now im not so bothered, if it happens it happens.
Sorry to ramble on, just want to let you know im here for you and i feel you are living my life 20 weeks ago, it may not seem like it now but you WILL feel better soon.
Lots of hugs to you maybe x x x x
I really can't afford one at the moment... I'm using a CBFM and that's not picked up a peak (but I've had other cycles where it missed it too yet temps showed I did still OV)Quote:
Originally Posted by deaks66
the Tesco one does seem that the test line (on the left) is darker than the control on the right but I agree the IC is neg. Then again, ICs aren't the most reliable and I've only ever had a true pos on one a couple of times?
ok, well if i were you i would consider that a positive (especially if the line on the left of the tesco is the test line) and just keep testing every 4 hours (and don't drink too much). If it goes darker still then great, if it doesn't then you will know that was your positive. Are you attempting and if so, which timing method? i had to quit with the cutoffs as i just couldn't predict a fade in accurately. o+12 actually seems much easier!Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Petal, it was lovely to read your message just then and hear how happy and excited you sound! Its exactly how i felt when ds2 was due to be born! Drink fresh pineapple juice and lots of it!!!
I think I'll try thatQuote:
Originally Posted by deaks66
I had a def positive with an IC two days ago so no idea what my body is doing, I wouldn't be able to do a cutoff either if I wanted to... although studies like this have made me decide to focus getting pregnant and not on timing:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...99512073332301 (especially fig 4)
might try for O+12, though, as that fits in with a different study I read that suggests DTD when Oestrogen isn't the dominant hormone (i.e. very early in cycle, during LH surge, and after OV) so that would take us to early hours of the morning I think
we BDed yesterday morning, and also in the morning 2 days before that releasing and discarding 8-10hrs before each attempt to lower sperm count (as per this study: http://www.reproduction-online.org/c....full.pdf+html )
here's my chart BTW: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/296ced
has anyone watched "The great Sperm Race"? That show makes me wonder how any of us pink swayers can get pregnant!!
Just wandering if your urine was very diluted yesterday which cause the neg opk? how dark were the lines yesterday? looking at your chart, you had a dip yesterday which i would have said was ov but then again i think some ladies do get a pre LH surge dip.Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
don't think so.. I've been drinking the same amount as normal (i.e. not much - being dehydrated is drying up my CM too which is good because I'm not happy to take an antihistamine when BF)Quote:
Originally Posted by deaks66
hmmm well thats a tricky one! well the good thing is you aren't so bothered about timing so just keep dtd!!!
We are close in our cycles. I'm on CD 13 with OPKs not getting darker.. last two cycles I've had smiley on CD 14... FF chart seems all messed up this month saying I O'd CD 8- know thats not correct. I'm going to add my charts-need to look back on the thread where you were explaining how to do that!Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemisswilko
I was going to ask which side is the test side on the tesco OPK if its the same as the cheapie then DEF +++++ My cheapie OPK never got darker than that i will try and find the pic!!
Its really bizarre how ff has decided you ov day 8...its not like your temps have been consistently high!Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
yeah, that's right - same way around!Quote:
Originally Posted by charlieispy
lol yeah it is a good thing, I'm getting twinges in my lower-right abdomen. They're not painful, but have had them on and off for 2hrs, could that be ovulation pain? I've never felt it before.Quote:
Originally Posted by deaks66
How strange - I wonder if FF will update your chart again with another high temp. Have you had any EWCM?Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
ICs suck don't they? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by charlieispy
Yeah totally bizarre... no EWCM.. all neg opks... I'm hoping it updates with more temps and I'll keep taking the OPKs. What do most of you do with testing.. I have been doing regulars at 2 and 7pm and digitals at 9:30/10pm but have been doing a few more digitals just in case I go for 0+ I want to catch it right away
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php...type=1&theater
for anyone who needs cheering up my ds2 posing for a chrimbo card shot....i was only doing head shots hence the pants but he posed like this himself!
they all seem in the same sort-of range, fingers crossed it'll update
I do them at 12pm each day until I see them start to get darker - used to happen about 3 days before OV but this cycle has been about 5-6 days before, then I start doing them first thing in the morning (which usually gives me the best results actually), 12pm, and 7pm.
that link doesn't work for me, I guess you've set it to friends-only?Quote:
Originally Posted by charlieispy
Charlie- that bottom cheapie was the same day as the positives-I assume... wow maybe a dud or did that happen often?
no i never get good positives on cheapiesQuote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
awww Charlie - soooo cute!!
love that charlie...did make me laugh about his pants though!
can you believe this...i put a link to smog diet food on someones post on ig and its been deleted! are we not allowed to do that?!
Charlie-he's GORGEOUS!!!!... I just posted my plan on IG to get feedback -kept getting error messages it posted like 5 times LOL
bummer, been having a think and doing some research and it doesn't look like it was a great idea of mine to do an o+12 and o+14 attempt! apparently it raises your ph which i should have known! does anyone know how much by and whether the small lime douche i did after the first attempt will have compensated for this?! should have just stuck with the one attempt!
sorry hun I cant help but the fact you used lime will help x what was your PH after - did you track it? There are many things i could have done better on my sway but I dont think you can ever be 100% happy with your sway unless you hear GIRL!!
deaks- I did a lime douche the other day to test it out..it kept my ph low for 2 days.. I think no matter what we will all find something after to be hard on ourselves about
Hi all
Deaks I don't think you should worry too much as O would have been over not long after your O+14 so you only needed the ph to stay low for a short space of time. and if you added lime then i'm sure it would have been pretty low. I think a better way of thinking about it that you doubled your chances of getting pregnant! Which after all is the aim of the game:agree::). Your attempt did sound really good!
Charlie your DS is so sweet! I love the crown!! is that what you and the boys were making yesterday?
Chocolate. I didn't get periods until I stopped breastfeeding with both my boys. Then after feeding ds2 my cycles were all over the shop.
I actually got out today to see a friend and to soft play and town to get some winter clothes. Brrrr. It's been such a wash out this half term.
Maybe i'm another one that felt desperately sad after DS2's scan I only wanted two children and really felt cheated. But 20 weeks later and I was so at peace with it and loved him to bits. Boys are just so lovely. I'm very close to ds2 and he's a mummy's boy!
H&D are you attempting this cycle?
wishingforpink I hope your ds had a lovely birthday did he enjoy himself? I think DS2 would love legoland I think we'll take him next spring.
Indigo any news......?
Thanks ladies, don't know why Im beating myself up over it as my ph was down to 4.6max and I'm sure it would have actually been lower had I had a bigger sample to test as that always happens with me for some reason. Plus the lime douche will have had a good effect. Think I'm paranoid because I asked Tamara about it and she said she didn't have time to reply which made me think she has a long explanation of why it wasn't a good idea, otherwise she could have quickly replied something positive!
It seems that quite a few of us have had cheeky adorable mummies boys as ds2 or 3!
Had ovary/pelvis ache all day!
FX for you deaks x dont fret - well try not too - your sway was fab and your PH low x
indigo hope you have a BFP waiting for you x x
lavender - yes we decorated them yesterday the boys love crafts - so they made their own :D i love arts and crafts it is what i studied before ds1 - well Alevel art then BA photography so they have no choice!! We also love to bake so tomorrow off to food shop and we are making halloween treats over the weekend