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Cycle Day:15
TTC Cycle #:6
Ovulation and POAS dates: O-11/3(maybe?!) POAS-11/17
Baby #: 1, CP in August
Your plan this month: my first month on clomid, 50mg. BDing every other day 7-18. I use the CBFM, CBAD and wondfo just at night to see if I missed the spike in the morning. Currently on day 5 of high fertility, hoping peak comes tomorrow!
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@hellobeeboston, @boopers, @qbbride: Thanks all! It's great to hear success stories. I live in a pretty rural area so I don't have a community of friends who have done this before.

@mrstypea

@ashleyf21 kindred spirits! Glad I could find some support and feel a little more "normal"

CD 8 and fw should be starting this weekish! Ewcm has started and CP is softening and higher! My charting has been super frustrating these first three months due to oral temps not being accurate and illness around projected o so difficult to tell if I really have been o'ing or not. I've had at least one positive opk each month . Hoping for a clear pattern this month.

@mrsjyw hi! The CBFM takes a few months to get to know your body! I have had it all- no highs, just 1 day of peak and I've also had 7 days of high and no peak! I've been backing it up with the CBAD just to double check the monitor and have come across the same thing as you! I'm only on month 4 of the monitor and after having a CP in august it threw all my hormones off for a month so in still backing up w the digital in the mornings. How long have you been using it for?

So I ended up caving and testing last night. I'm a little cautious because its so faint at 19 DPO, but since I'm not 100% sure when I O'd, I guess the 19 DPO is really more of an estimate.

@Jennyg congrats!!!!

Last night I have my husband every pregnancy test in the house to hide from me until Friday! He asked me if I have a secret stash somewhere else hahaha! This way I won't get obsessive this week with them, being that it's too early anyways (I'm 6-7dpo)

@MrstypeA: Hi! Same situation! I used it one month and got our BFP with DS in 2012! This is my 4th month using while TTC #2! Cycle #2 ended in a CP! I've been using wondfos as backup and the last three months I'm pretty sure I O'ed right on with monitor peak days (CD17/18). This month I had some free CBAD opks so I used it a couple times and went from empty to solid smiley on CD17 (per usual and aligned with CM changes). But today is CD 20 and I'm still showing high on monitor and I can tell by the lines that my estrogen levels are low again and still don't see a strong LH surge line. I think maybe the monitor missed my surge?

@mrsjyw it probably missed it! Ugh. I have a feeling that's going to happen to me this month. I'm on CD 16 and high day 6. I've never had highs as early as I did this month but I assume it's from the clomid. I usually O around CD 17 but the early highs are throwing me off! What day are you going to POAS?

@MrstypeA: If I go by my "usual" O day, I was planning on testing 11/18 because that would be after the bleeding started with my CP. I can't handle the anxiety of seeing a BFP prior to that point. I think I'm going to test a few more days on the cbfm since I did ovulate late two years ago, but if it goes to low or just stays high. I'm going to quit and just keep saying my prayers for a miracle BFP after this wonky O cycle! Good luck to you!!!!

I think I'm out While AF hasn't arrived yet, I POAS yesterday on CD 27. BFN. I also spoke to my OB last week since I am on month #2 of clomid. My levels were not high and she has officially referred me on to a fertility doc next month if I'm not pregnant. I have an appointment set for November 20.

Good luck to everyone else this month and hope for a lot more BFP's. Not sure if I can even rollover to December, as I don't know what my new "plan" with the RE will be.

@JennyG: congrats! Hopefully your O date is off. If you got a BFN on Thursday then a BFP on Sunday night, I bet you ovulated later than you thought. Maybe you are only 9-10 dpo? (That's my guess)

@JennyG: Wow! Awesome! Congrats!

@JennyG: Congratulations! Is O pretty consistent for you?

@JennyG: Congrats!!

@raspberries: @lil owl: did you ladies get any confirmation of O? I'm in limbo land over here!!!! And it's driving me nuts. I'm so sick of BDing.... I think we're just going to call it quits and hope for luck or just get ready to move onto next month...

We're not actually TTC yet, but I'm frustrated and want to complain and don't think it's worth it's own thread. We're planning to start TTC again next month. That's how long the OB said to wait (actually, it's one extra cycle, now that I think about it, but we have a cruise booked in May and if we got pregnant this month I'd be too far along to go), and my cycles seem like they're regulating postpartum so I feel comfortable with not waiting any longer. I would even prefer to start this month, personally. But DH is more nervous, so he wants to have an actual appointment to get the all clear. I tried to make one with the midwives today, and turns out I can't get in this month. Their December schedule isn't up yet, so there's a good chance I'll be able to get in early in December, before I actually O, so it shouldn't hold us up. But it might, and I'm going to be really upset if it does. I totally understand that after everything DH has every right to be nervous. And I know that midwives and OB's give priority to pregnant patients, and there's frequently a wait for a non-urgent appointment. But I just really, really want to get the ball rolling on this and be able to move forward with our lives. I'm thinking about emailing the midwife and seeing if, given our history, we could get some priority on maybe getting worked in at some point sooner or something. Worst she can say is no, right? I'm also going to talk to DH about how important this is to me and get a feel for how strongly he feels that we need to have a pre-conception appointment, given that we've already waited the appropriate amount of time, our genetic testing all came back clear (thankfully), my cycles are settling down nicely (perfect 14 day luteal phase last month, thank you very much), I've been making dietary and lifestyle changes to improve my health, etc. I'm already trying to mentally prepare myself for the likelihood that we wont' get pregnant our first month trying this time (even though we have in the past twice), because I'm in such a hurry that I know I'll be devastated even if that's SO absurd given how long many women have to wait. But emotions don't always have to make rational sense, right?

Anyway, no point to this other than I'm frustrated and maybe I could get some positive thoughts and fingers crossed etc that we can get in and get the all clear asap? Thanks.

Also, congrats to the bfp's already this month! I totally stalk the poas threads just for the little pick me up I get seeing bfp's, even if they aren't mine!

@JennyG: congrats!