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Hi,

I know it's easier said than done but try not to worry, if you're stressing it could be delaying ovulation a bit. At least you know you're ovulating and that's a good sign.

When I was trying for our first, my cycles were getting longer and longer but it was much worse than yours, about 50-70 days long. CM would be fertile for a few days but then BBT wouldn't go up much so it was like my body kept trying to ovulate and wasn't managing. I was diagnosed with PCOS eventually but don't let that freak you out cause as I said, my cycles were way worse than yours and it was really obvious something was wrong. My point in bringing that up was just to say that we were TTC for a year (I only ovulated three times) and we conceived naturally, even with the long cycles and PCOS. So try not to worry; so long as you are ovulating, you could get pregnant any time. It could be something simple like stress making your cycles longer and it's something to keep an eye on but it's nothing to panic about. You're doing everything right.

I know what you mean about it being hard work, I don't understand how people can even get pregnant by accident when there's such a limited window and the chances are actually quite low! I always felt like it was some sort of horrible joke that I spent years carefully using contraception only to find that we didn't just immediately get pregnant after I stopped BC. It's frustrating but it'll happen hang in there!

@BabyBiggles, thanks for that! I don't know if you saw my intro post (it was a while ago - so may not have seen it), but menopause also runs extremely early in my family. Usually hits the females between 30-35 with my own mother at 33. Of course, that's an added layer of anxiety since I'll be 27 this year.

It's like you said, so much easier said than done to relax and not worry. I'm really trying!! Lol! As each month goes by, it gets a little harder, but I'm trying to just take it one day at a time.

Thanks for sharing your experience. ???? Hopefully things turn around for us soon.