June Bugs! TTC in June!

[odd]

Steph, if that's not perfect timing, don't know what is..fx for u

[odd]

Good luck mumof6. Hope we all get our march bundles

[Jamie86]

Ugh I'm on CD 19 and still no positive OPK. I did have one rogue cycle almost a year ago that was 35 days so maybe that's happening again but the norm for me is 28-30 occasionally going 31-32. My tests aren't getting any darker either the darkest I had was on CD 13 but then it went back to being really light the next day. I have been using the IC strips as well as the clearblue smiley face ovulation test. I'm wondering if I missed it. I haven't been tracking ovulation as closely the past few months but when I did I always had positive OPKs for 2 days so I assumed I couldn't miss it. Has anyone had experience with this type of thing?

[stephk]

Odd - thank you, I'm just paranoid because I've had no thermal shift (looks like I'm a slow riser) and I had copious amounts of ewcm yesterday. Can't do anything about it now of course! Glad you are progressing well and fingers crossed this is your pink sticky one

[stephk]

Jamie - sometimes diet, exercise, travelling, stress etc might delay O. Or have you started any supps recently?

[Jamie86]

I started taking folic acid and aspirin a few weeks ago but those usually don't cause a change for me (not to say it couldn't now). The diet I'm currently doing I've been following since March. No travel and my stress is about where it usually is (I have an anxiety disorder so my stress is usually pretty high related to that). Although I guess now I might be delaying O by being stressed about O. I've been diffusing lavender all throughout my house and trying to relax more so maybe that will help. I'm wondering if maybe I missed O like perhaps something's changed and I will have to be more carful to know when it is happening. I only say that because I know some people who say they can miss O if they don't test twice a day and I never had that issue before but I know cycles change with time.

[stephk]

Yes I would have missed O last month if I hadn't tested twice. Different matter this month though! Are you BD every 4 days? If so you would be covered if you had missed O?

[Jamie86]

No we have only BD twice (CD 9 and CD 16). I was trying to do the same thing I did to conceive my DD which was one attempt at O so we've been waiting on O to BD. We BD on CD 9 because I thought that would be too early to affect anything and then again on CD 16 because we had a babysitter and I thought if I didn't O that day it would be the next. If we did miss it it's no big deal, we just decided to start trying at the beginning of June (been debating for months when to). Although at this point I just want to know where I stand and when to expect AF

[stephk]

Ok so as you are on CD19 today, keep testing and BD tomorrow - then you have all bases covered

[Jamie86]

Thanks! After I wrote it I was thinking I almost have it covered with those two and I hadn't thought of that before. Let's just hope my littles will go to sleep so we can BD! I just got the "advanced" clear blue ovulation test in the mail that is suppose to detect better it says it "gives 2 more days" than the other test so maybe that will help get it figured out.