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Southern: I guess it depends on how far along in your cycle you are. If you're only a few days in I don't think it matters. But if you're close to expected O, I would wait 'til next cycle. I've thought about temping vaginally, but never tried it. But for me I don't think it would work very good anymore since I wake up too much during the night. If the tempdrop wasn't so expensive, I would love to try it!

vintage: Yeah, it feels really good to be on the same page and know I always have his support. Even though he probably wouldn't agree with the POAS.

I am approx 13-14 dpo today and are just waiting for af to arrive. I have som slight spotting today, so I expect her to be here tonight or tomorrow. This time we'll probably have a much better chance of getting some more bd in since I only have 3 work days left before I have almost 3 weeks vacation. It's going to be so nice to just be home with my family.

Pandorica: I'm gonna see what happens this cycle. Maybe a little Christmas magic will happen since I ovulate close to Xmas.

Southern, go catch that egg! Hoping for some Christmas magic!
Pandorica, I know. If my partner knew how much time I spent squinting at lines, he would be quite concerned. ???? I caved and posted this mornings test on photos. I’m convincing myself I see something, even if it’s an evap. But it’s probably not even there to begin with... also discovered Reddit has a pregnancy test forum, in addition to looking at the gallery here. I need to hurry up and get a second line of my own so I can act right again!

Vintage: it's always hard for me to tell because I feel like the site eats the quality. But I feel like *something* wants to catch my eye. Hard to say though.

Southern, i felt that way too, but I just had | I took a frer this morning and if there had been anything on yesterday’s pregmate it definitely would have shown up on the frer... no luck. Like I said earlier, I’m just not feeling lucky this month. I’m just a POAS addict, I guess

Pandorica so sorry that af is on her way but I’m glad that a more positive cycle is combing! I’m sure you’ll be having lovely holidays!

Vintage I can also see something on your yesterday’s test for sure. Hopefully it will show up in frers too in few days. Don’t fell bad for being a POAS addict. We’ve all been there... there’s was a period in time for me that I started testing since 4dpo and I even tested after af came just to be sure it’s not another kind of bleeding. Believe me it can be very addictive and that’s why I stopped after a while... it was too much for me.

Southern fingers crossed for some magic to happen these holly days!! You got this!

Hberry good luck this cycle hun!

AFM I cannot really tell how many dpo I am since I was too busy and i lost track but I believe I’m around 3-4dpo. As I said not waiting much and I really want day to pass so I can go to a new cycle. I’m one week away from my bday. I will officially become 38 years old and it’s already too hard for me in such a mature age being still childless and still infertile... my wish is honestly to stop wishing for a child at this moment..

Vintage: it's still pretty early! I've seen a handful of people get shadows on the internet kind and nothing on frer til later. Fingers crossed for you!

Alex: I'm trying to keep from thinking about things after O this time. I may disappear from here during the TWW to try to keep busy and try not to think about it. When I got pregnant with my daughter I wasn't on the ttc boards, I wasn't focused on it. Who knows. Maybe it'll help. Maybe it won't. We'll see if I can actually stay off the internet lol!

Alex, I can’t imagine how you feel. I’m so sorry, and I wish you so much peace in the new year, however that looks.
Southern, I get needing a break! I didn’t even test this morning because I just... needed to be able to get up in the morning and not think about it for a second. I don’t think anything will have changed from yesterday and I just didn’t feel like squinting at a white screen. I might take a break next month just to recenter.

Vintage: sometimes a break is what we need. Just have sex for fun around the time you usually ovulate and hope for the best. I'm trying to not obsessively do OPKs. I wake at 630, temp and go back to sleep cause my kiddo is out of school so that means I get to stay in bed lol. I'm thinking I may not even do OPKs this month.

I was thinking of skipping OPKs this month too. I only have two left, so I might just do them the 13th and 14th just to be done, but I don’t think I’m buying more this month. Maybe just taking some time to feel healthy again, get on a better eating/sleeping/exercising schedule, and seeing how I feel in February. Routines have been shot this month, and I haven’t been taking the best care of myself.