TTC BOY November Chit Chat Thread - All welcome!!

[Flava]

I am *trying* for 3-4 days abstinence. DH released last night and I am hoping to O within the next 3 days. As soon as I get a positive OPK will we BD and then most likely BD again 24ish hours later. It's hard to plan it if you don't the the exact day you will O.

yea i want to do the same but things always go bad for me ! the last 2 try was not so good so i really hope this time works out.

[Flava]

That's great. Hope the pains keep coming (I mean that in a good way!).

I have to buy some more opks. I only have 3 left. I bought some more from ebay last week but they still haven't arrived, grr. So I'm only using one a day now. How often is everyone else checking?

I check with the CB monitor on the morning and before O time I also use the smiley twice.

[Flava]

This is the second month x

Ok so now I am panicking!!!
Please look at my cycle so far:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/336025

I know you can get a small temp dip right before O... and i had one this morning... what if it rises tomorrow and I ovulate tonight sometime? Or do you think that won't happen?

To clarify (again, sorry guys to do this to you!!) LOW on the CBFM this morning. + OPK tonight @10pm (I seem to surge late at night going by the past cycles) Strong O pains since mid arvo and still going tonight. I had a small temp dip this morning.

Surely if I was going to ovulate say tonight the CBFM would have picked up on it, hey?

I also use the CB monitor so don't worry no O yet for sure. It goes peak before O and usually we get 2 peak and O is on the second peak or even after that! And temp can jump up and down a little like that that is nothing.

[Flava]

g2g BBL!

[LolaInLove]

Lola- I would try to do it O-1 and O but I never know when is O! Sometimes I get O 2 days after the first +opk other times 1 day after .
At first I wanted O-2 and O but O-2 did not worked out last month so Im thinking O-1 would be better.
I guess we all have this problems now.

Hmm....well, do you get a fade-in pattern on your opks? You could just bd once when it starts fading in, then just bd again about 18 hours after your 1st +opk. Or, don't know if you have tried this one yet, but you could just bd every other day straight through!

[LolaInLove]

Lola, have to share this with you!!! A friend of ours and her man have been having unprotected sex for 18 months now. They knew he was deemed infertile as he was a prem baby and it damaged his sperm. They have been saving for ivf and guess what they have just found out they are 12 weeks pregnant!!!!!

K, thanks for sharing that! I NEED to hear stories like this because this is what I really REALLY hope happens to us. Since I write grants for my job, I looked up grants for infertility, and found 3 foundations, but they give preference to couples with no children. So, yesterday, I got really excited then really bummed, and my DH was a big sweetpea and reminded me that we've made babies before and that we will also have a rich and wonderful life if we never have any because we have the girls. But I do hang very desperately onto the hope that we will conceive naturally and not have to worry about IVF.

[Hobbermittens]

This is the second month x

Ok so now I am panicking!!!
Please look at my cycle so far:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/336025

I know you can get a small temp dip right before O... and i had one this morning... what if it rises tomorrow and I ovulate tonight sometime? Or do you think that won't happen?

To clarify (again, sorry guys to do this to you!!) LOW on the CBFM this morning. + OPK tonight @10pm (I seem to surge late at night going by the past cycles) Strong O pains since mid arvo and still going tonight. I had a small temp dip this morning.

Surely if I was going to ovulate say tonight the CBFM would have picked up on it, hey?

I would go for it tonight! And then 24hrs later, etc. Good luck!

[Hobbermittens]

That's great. Hope the pains keep coming (I mean that in a good way!).

I have to buy some more opks. I only have 3 left. I bought some more from ebay last week but they still haven't arrived, grr. So I'm only using one a day now. How often is everyone else checking?

I was checking 3 times a day. Hope you O soon!! Good luck!

[Flava]

Hmm....well, do you get a fade-in pattern on your opks? You could just bd once when it starts fading in, then just bd again about 18 hours after your 1st +opk. Or, don't know if you have tried this one yet, but you could just bd every other day straight through!

I don't use opk's only the smiley test. I never used any and it's to late to order some anyway. I want DH to abstain 4 days this time so we are not doing the every other day thing. (well he will before the 4 day abst.)

[LolaInLove]

Hi ladies I just been reading about timing and ovulation, and I am so confused about when to do the dtd in december. I got a significant positive today and was saying to my hubby ooh I'm going to ovulate finally and hes like ok lets go make a baby, and I'm like nooo not yet next month!! lol
what is the overall recommended way to BD when you think you're about to ovulate? once 2 days before or or once 2 days in a row? I'm confused.....

Hey Bumblebee, you may have gotten responses already as I haven't read on yet, but I will throw my 2 cents in there and say that as far as timing goes, it's really up to you. Timing has been proven to NOT be a factor is swaying, and boys have been made in every timing pattern there is, so it just depends on what you think you and your DH can do, and what raises his sperm count the most. If you get a predictable pattern with your opks fading in and you are pretty confident that you know when you O after you get a +, then I *personally* think the best timing for high sperm count is every other day, so shoot for O-2 and then again on O day. (My doctor told me to dtd every other day, and that is the "prescribed" timing for best sperm count for guys with no sperm issues.) But you may choose to dtd every day, or do it right after you get a +opk and then again in 24 hours. Sorry if THIS is confusing, but point is you can really do what you like. Most women ovulate about 24 hours after their 1st +opk, so most try to at least dtd right around O time or right before it, so you should try to get at least one bd in (your "main one") about 12-18 hours after your 1st +opk. HTH!