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Got my BFN this morning - AF is around the corner. Hoping for a Christmas BFP! Good luck to everyone!

@mir777 sorry to hear! I will keep my fingers crossed for your Christmas BFP!!

Morning!

I love how positive and supportive everyone is on the forum too! It's nice to have a place to share these intimate life changes and struggles and not be judged or talked down to. I'm glad I found this site and hopped into the baby forums.

@mir777 - sorry to here about the BFN. I'm hoping for a Christmas baby for you and all of us!

Thank you Pearl and Flamingo - ill come back mid month to check in :)

Question!

I get my OPK tests today! What CD should I start testing on? I'm on CD 6 today. I assume today is too early? Should I start tomorrow on CD 7 or wait longer? Then should I test every other day until I start getting a positive? I'm exited about using them! Can you tell?! lol...

Pearl - I'd be testing if I were you because I have no self control when it comes to POAS LOL!!

Flamingo- Id start testing today, once a day until you start to notice a change the darkness of the line, then test twice daily.

I tested last night and got a positive, confirmed on digital, then tested again at 6am and 8am, each time the line got darker. O is 12-48 hours after the darkest line, so knowing that last night was not my darkest add about 12 hours to my estimated O. If you're BD every 2-3 days you'll hit it, but since I can't usually do that and was trying to sway I like to know exactly when my surge is.

@FlamingoGirl13. I got a months supply of OPKs and the box said to start on CD5 but I didn't start till CD7 and have been testing since. Once, I get a positive then I can stop testing all together and throw the tester out, but I think I will continue testing even after the fact.

Ladies, I am on CD10 and I have been having some blood in the cm. Is this even typical being this far in the cycle? I know you get some close to ovulation as that could be old blood being shed or it could be the egg being released. I know this sounds crazy, but what are the chances of still being pregnant even though you already had your full period? Slim to none I think but never know.

@callmecrazy haha yea the urge to test is getting stronger now but I am going to try and hold off until thanksgiving! i will be 11dpo at that point so we'll see. This morning i wasn't feeling very good. Tired, nauseous, hot flashes, dizzy BUT I have learned to not attribute any of this to being pregnant because even when i think i am experiencing symptoms i get a BFN. So im going to try and hold off a bit! plus tests are so expensive lol. i have 2 early response, 1 regular and one digital sitting in my bathroom drawer taunting me though LOL

@ callmecrazy & dragonfly - Thanks ladies! I'll start testing today! I only bought the digital ones with the two smiley faces so I don't have lines to track but if I need those I'll buy them for the next cycle.

@ dragonfly - I would go with your first option for blood in your cm. As long as you had your full normal period you can't be pregnant. Some women do have bleeding during pregnancy that can be hard to distinguish from AF. Did you take a pregnancy test at the end of your last cycle? Was AF normal for you this time?

@FlamingoGirl13. My OPKs are digital and it just gives me a yes and no and your right, no lines to make me go crazy. I did find 2 of my other previous dip tests.

Should I retest as I didn't test after AF finished as one wouldn't think they would be if they have their period. I believe it was a normal period and lasted the right amount of days but whose to say that a heavy bleed could also be pregnant. I only tested positive that one morning and the rest were all BFNs (even that night was BFN). My test is posted if you wanted to take a look but I think it's a evap more than anything but even then I wouldn't know what a evap would look like as that would be my first.