Short notice sway?

[Mamafish17]

I’m reasonably sure I will ovulate on January 27. I haven’t been perfect about the LE diet. I’m vegetarian and a fairly light eater to begin with (but have two boys, so idk). Is there ***anything*** I can try to do in the next two weeks that will make any difference? I have long cycles so if this round fails, we’re stuck waiting another 7 weeks- ugh! But I’m really really really hoping our girl is coming soon.

[atomic sagebrush]

So you have long cycles and you're a vegetarian?? Do you generally eat a lot of carbs?? I wonder if you have some PCO-tendencies we could work on.

When it comes to the last minute, the best thing is to have one attempt. It's easy to do and controllable.

But I do think you might want to make some diet changes (going to whole grains, limiting sugar, ahving full fat dairy ONLY, no skim) starting right away.

[Mamafish17]

How close to the 27 should we get? Like the 22? My cycles have been 38 days for the last 4 (I’m 13 months postpartum) but every app says the 27 should be ovulation (and I *think* they are accurate because they’ve been dead on for when CD1 would be)

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm sorry I am not following what you are talking about at all, can you clarify?

[Mamafish17]

Sorry...I guess what I’m saying is, if we only dtd *once* in the cycle, and we *think* ovulation would be on the 27, should we do it on the 23rd?

[atomic sagebrush]

I can't recommend that, it would be very low chance of conception if you indeed ovulate on the 27th.

4 day cutoffs have been shown to have about 1 in 1000 chance of conception and timing doesn't sway anyway.

If you want to do timing, please stick to a 2 or 3 day cutoff max.