TTC Girl - June 2012

[suregena]

Does my chart still seem okay? Does it look like I most likely ovulated then, since my temp has remained rather consistently high?

[auroara78]

I think your chart looks OK but not sure why FF is not giving you "crosshairs" yet?

I *think* I see the BFP, but not entirely sure...its very faint but I do beleive i see the 2nd line...can't wait for you to test again over the weekend...if you are preggers, it should definitely darken!

[dramabird]

I think your chart looks OK but not sure why FF is not giving you "crosshairs" yet?

One possibility -- and it's just a guess, because FF can be so darn persnickety -- is that since you're still reporting fertile CM, it doesn't think you've O'd yet.

On my own cycle, I really just had creamy CM the day of ovulation ... but if I put that in there, it switches my crosshairs to a dotted line (suggesting that it's not really "sure" if I ovulated), even though my temps, OPKs and Clearblue Fertility monitor all confirm O ... oh, yeah, and the fact that I got pg. So I put in watery even though that's not really true, because I like how the solid line makes my chart look better. So it doesn't take much at all for FF to get moody and refuse to put in a solid crosshair or to put one in at all.

[suregena]

I did a fake temp input for tomorrow that was a bit higher than the current steady high temp and that gave me crosshairs immediately for the day I suspected I ovulated on. Ivecremoved the fake temp for tomorrow to bring my chart back to its present state, but that answers my question that they are waiting for my temp to get a little higher before there is a crosshairs. I'm just going to go with that date, then, for ovulation... was CD26 and so that makes me 7DPO?

[suregena]

One possibility -- and it's just a guess, because FF can be so darn persnickety -- is that since you're still reporting fertile CM, it doesn't think you've O'd yet.

On my own cycle, I really just had creamy CM the day of ovulation ... but if I put that in there, it switches my crosshairs to a dotted line (suggesting that it's not really "sure" if I ovulated), even though my temps, OPKs and Clearblue Fertility monitor all confirm O ... oh, yeah, and the fact that I got pg. So I put in watery even though that's not really true, because I like how the solid line makes my chart look better. So it doesn't take much at all for FF to get moody and refuse to put in a solid crosshair or to put one in at all.

ohhh, that's a thought! I'll take all that out post the day I suspected I ovulated and see if that helps, too.

[Mochagirl]

You can also try switching your ovulation detector to 'research' instead of 'advanced'. The month I conceived this little bean FF and I disagreed on my O date, but when I switched it to 'research' we agreed, so I left it that way.

[suregena]

Ah-HA! NOW after I switched it, like you suggested Mocha, it did the crosshairs!

Fertilityfriend is really complicated... haha.....

[Mochagirl]

Yeah - sometimes I find it funny we even use it because we all know our bodies and usually our own instincts are right about when we O'd so we end up changing data to try to make FF agree with what we know is right. I'm glad it gave you your crosshairs - now on to your BFP!

[suregena]

So I'm guessing my body TRIED to O on CD18 (when I would have if maybe I had stopped the vitex sooner? I stopped on CD16) maybe but it didn't work and then finally managed CD26. That's my thinking and I'm stickin' to it! :P

[mama2LB]

I've not seen your chart Suregena but if you're still reporting fertile cm, could that not be a pg sign? When I got my BFP with DS, that was my only symptom for ages, increased cm? - Just a thought! x