Cut off vs 1 at pos opk question

[JG60611]

So i know everyone says cutoffs dont sway/work well but im confused as to how having and attempt once at pos. Opk is different than a cut off? I did mine at pos. Opk and ovulated 1-2 days later so isnt that a cut off?


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[Abifasc]

It's kind of the same, but with cutoff don't you have sex every day before the "cut off"? Wih one attempt it's after an abstain or frequent release.

[bluebonnet22]

I think for traditional "cut-off" sways, you are supposed to do a 3-5 day cutoff. Traditionally 1-2 days before ovulation is your most fertile period and hypothetically people think that sways blue.

That being said, on this site the belief is that timing doesn't sway and the more important thing is that you do just one attempt.

[hotdogz&boyz]

No. What you did was one attempt at positive OPK. Your attempt falls directly in your fertile window and that increases your chances of pregnancy.

Cut-off is basically when you make an attempt on the very edges of your fertile window (2-3 days BEFORE a positive OPK) and it greatly decreases the chances of getting pregnant. And is also not thought to sway greatly. I personally can see how it *might* sway slightly pink only in that there are significantly less sperm to fertilize the egg. But not because of the original reasons believed by the Shettles method.

If only one attempt falls in the fertile window (or outside, in the case of cut-off) there is not a lot of difference in the two methods. Other than one is a LOT more likely to result in a pregnancy. Atomic does not advocate cut-off because it makes it VERY difficult to get pregnant. And when swaying and messing with BMI, you don't want to waste precious ovulating months with something not likely to get you pregnant.

[atomic sagebrush]

The reason I have people TTC at pos OPK is not because of any special quality of the day itself. It's because it's a high rate of conception and the easiest day to know that you can attempt and you're not too far from ovulation but neither have you missed it.

It's not a cutoff, it's considered boy timing by Shettles and IG. Cutoff is 2 or more days before ovulation. 1 day before ovulation, even 1 1/2 days, is supposedly boy timing according to those guys.