do you stop testing with opks after pos?

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Originally Posted by JenB17

Can I ask then, approx. for how long are you likely to get a +opk for?
When ttc this baby I was just going on cm as I hadn't had much luck with getting a +opk. So when I felt things were 'right' we dtd. I tested the next day and it was +opk, lol! However, I really that this + actually came day after O. Is that likely? Could I still get a +opk the day after O?

When I try to work out conception dates (knowing we only had 1x attempt) it seems that we could only really have conceived on the actual night of dtd (O day). I could be wrong though - just curious! Hope this makes sense?!

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it is very common and normal to have 2 days in a row of positive OPKs, and not uncommon to have 3 days or more. And since you can O 1, 2, 3 or more days after a positive, it is very possible to still have positives after you've Oed.

It is

Thanks ladies-all very interesting!
And 'yes' I am expecting my third (and final!) little bundle Steph ��.
Xx

Congrats :) hope it's going well

Congrats JenB17.

Congrats Jen!

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Originally Posted by JenB17

Can I ask then, approx. for how long are you likely to get a +opk for?
When ttc this baby I was just going on cm as I hadn't had much luck with getting a +opk. So when I felt things were 'right' we dtd. I tested the next day and it was +opk, lol! However, I really that this + actually came day after O. Is that likely? Could I still get a +opk the day after O?

When I try to work out conception dates (knowing we only had 1x attempt) it seems that we could only really have conceived on the actual night of dtd (O day). I could be wrong though - just curious! Hope this makes sense?!

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Pos OPK come before O, not afterwards.

What makes you say you could only have conceived that day? Sperm can stay alive for days after deposit.

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Originally Posted by maidentomother

it is very common and normal to have 2 days in a row of positive OPKs, and not uncommon to have 3 days or more. And since you can O 1, 2, 3 or more days after a positive, it is very possible to still have positives after you've Oed.

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I agree but it was her first positive, which leads me to believe she had not ovualted when she got it. :)

Sometimes the surge takes awhile to clear so you can still get pos after ovulation, but usually it begins before ovulation.

I guess its always going to be super hard to pinpoint the exact day of conception as without knowing exactly when O took place, how do you really know?

I wasn't getting anywhere with the Opks so gave up using them for a few days and just used other telltale signs to approximate a good time to dtd - just so happens that I was able to take a test the next day and got a +opk. If I did take it the day before then it 'could' have been positive then too or maybe the day before that - Im really not sure.

What made me think that I must have conceived on a particular day is that based on the due date I have been given I have been using online calculators to give me an approx. date of conception. Almost all of them are telling me a few days BEFORE when we actually dtd!! So I have just assumed that it must have been pretty much within 24hrs of dtd. Does that make any sense, lol?

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Yes exactly, and studies have shown even people with a high level of expertise get the day of ovualtion wrong betwen 30-60% of the time

The online due date calculators are barely for anything more than fun LOL. I would not take them at all seriously.

ok, thanks Atomic :)