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My bd pattern isnt the greatest tbh as I missed Friday but we dtd cd 7,10,11,13,14,15, 17 twice which was my ovulation day so fingers crossed, 18 & 19, don’t know if I can be bothered to go again tonight or give him the night off ttc seems to take all the fun out of it

@alex that makes sense. Hopefully you have answers soon.

I'm over here throwing myself a pity party because my temp didn't spike today and I can't stand the thought of another AO cycle. My positive opk was cd20.

Kait After a positive opk what makes you think that you might have an AO cycle? I don’t think that you should have a big spike. You need just gradually elevated temps. If you had a pos opk I’m pretty sure you Od probably on cd20 if I’m interpreting correct based on what I see on your chart.

@alex unfortunately your body can gear up to O and have an LH surge but fail to O. Has happened to me before and I've seen it happen to people on other boards. Since my temp is still lower I'm wondering if I'll see another surge. Who knows though, hopefully you're right. Usually my post O temps are 98.3 and higher.

Kait Oh I didn’t know that! Well, hopefully that’s not the case for you and maybe tomorrow you’ll have more higher temps!!

Ew I feel weird in my stomach today. Eeek i'm trying not to get excited. Yesterday I had pinchy pains and yellow cm. Today I have pressure and dull cramps. I'm also feeling empty in my stomach. I'm 6-8dpo today. Pleeeeease don't let this be a bug or my body trolling me!

Hey @scuba how do you link your chart to your profile?

Here’s mine so far so I think I’m definitely 2DPO but I guess tomorrow’s temp will decide that.

Hey @hot, you have to go online on a computer and grab the code in FF and paste it into your signature in CCTP.

In CCTP go to account settings, edit profile. You want to add it to the signature and it will look something like [img]xxxxxx[img] In FF there is somewhere where it says share chart where you copy the chart code. xx

@hot Looks like you are definitely 2 dpo from your chart.
@kait I know sometimes people can get a positive opk and not ovulate but that doesn't mean it will be a AO for you. You can have an other surge and ovulate later and also some people don't really have the typical temperature pattern. My chart were pretty by the book when I was TTC for #1 but now I gave up temping because it is all over the map and impossible to read anything into it. I'm still pretty sure I O every cycle though (for many reasons including a CP a few month ago). So don't lose hope for this cycle!
@Anna hope your job search is going well
I am due to O on Thursday so I'll join you guys in the 2WW by the end of the week hopefully. I'm starting to have mild O cramps but surprisingly on the same side as last month. It usually alternates sides every cycle so that's unusual for me. I wish my DH was willing to BD more often to cover our bases. He says he really wants a third child but when I told him about the SMEP and told him it was supposed to be the optimal way to conceive he said "well the optimal way would be for us to be 10 years younger" and he wants to stick to every other day once I'm in my fertile week which means we only BD 2 or 3 times in my fertile time. I'm thinking that's probably lowering our chances quite a bit and I have to admit I'm a little upset my husband is not more enthusiastic about having sex with me!

@agatch I don't know what's going on. I have been following the pattern of positive opk one day, next day O and then the next day temp spike so this is just irritating me lol. I hope you're right though. I feel like for my AO cycles I haven't gotten a full surge, just light lines once or twice and then nothing happens after that. So I get worried that my body tries once and is done for that cycle. I'm sorry your DH isn't as into BDing when it's necessary. They just don't always get it. I think it's different when it's not your first baby too. Mine basically told me to tell him when we need to have sex and he'll do his best, but I doubt his attitude would be the same if we had kids to take care of. You can still do it if you get the right days!