Chart Stalkers January 2008

[CB23]

Morning chart stalkers



KMAC your hubby does his own ironing? I am going to have to store that info to impart to my OH, he's great around the house but I have never seen him iron, and I hate it!

Trudy a valentines baby that would be good! It's great that your friend is being so sensitive and thoughtful about her new LO

Kaykav good luck with the agnus castus. Any signs that ovulation is approaching?

Bagpuss I found the tiredness of early pregnancy overwhelming I have to say, each day at work was a struggle, especially in the afternoons. How are you feeling otherwise?

Kitty what a day! Hope that today is a better one for you.

Choklatemonkey how long are your cycles normally? Are you close to ovulation now? I see what you mean about temps all similar, mine never looks like that

Chrissy I can't believe you broke your OH you wicked woman I hope you are leaving him in peace to recover for the crucial time.

Loola I bet you POAS'd again! And your chart says nausea for yesterday - tell us more!

Satch welcome

ROM pram envy I have bump envy Your prediction about your temp rising yesterday was correct - was the wine nice?

Littlelady how are you getting on with things?

Sookie I take it you're still on FAM? 11 dpo I have my fingers crossed for you!

Scones I get such a shock when I look at your charts before I remember you aren't charting temps. Hopefully the witch will pack her bags soon.

 

[CB23]

Blimey I'm exhausted now I hope I didn't miss anyone!

 

[choklatemunky]

CB23 - Well - so far theyve been around 29/30 days (although I had a weird one last month which was 26 or something but there was loads of spotting before AF so I am putting that down to it being a weird short cycle and not paying too much attention to it at the mo - I will if it happens again though.
I have a short luteal phase of 10 days (going by other fertility signs) but wanted to confirm that with charting to make sure I was reading things right, if ya know what I mean. I know that it might be that the pill is not totally out of my system yet so my cycle/luteal phase may change though.

I am wondering whether I should be concerned about my chart? When I did charting before (and Ill freely admit I didnt last very long doing it Im such a quitter!) I was waking up at all different times and recording my temp whenever I woke but FF couldnt tell anything from it....so I read up on the advice which says about taking temp at the same time versus taking it when you wake and it said it depended on your own body and unique systems as to which would be more correct, so I decided to try and take it at the same time 6.45 - which is what I have been doing this cycle. I have stilll been waking at stupid hours (4.30 this morning ) but have been temping later on, always at the same time 6.45 - which is before I get out of bed but obviously not as soon as I wake up.

I am wondering now, soon as I appear to just be doing a rather boring looking dot to dot on my chart, whether this was a good idea?

This morning I decided to do two temps - one when I woke and one at the 'normal' time. the one when I woke at 4.30 was 36.20 and the one at the default normal time (later but still before I got out of bed) was 36.65. I have put in the 'normal' one for now but really not sure whether this is gonna help me? I guess its a wait and see but does anyone think its worth doing two temps in the lead up to ov to see if one gives a clearer pattern than the other - that way at least I guess that I will be able to know which to do next month (should I have to ) to give me a proper chart.

??????

 

[Chrissy1]

Morning folks.... how are you all

choklatemunkey - I would say if possible for tge time being take both temps but moving for next month just use your waking temp. Even though you're still in bed of you're moving around or reading a book etc this could have an affect on your temp whereas your waking temp will be more accurate even if it's not at exactly the same time each day. If it makes life easier for you though take both.....it can't do any harm

CB23- My hubby does ALL the ironing in our house!! It's my most hated job so the first thing I assigned to him when we started living together was the ironing and he's been doing it ever since! He's such a good boy.

looks like it was pretty quiet on here yesterday....... I guess the spirit guides need a day off every now and again too.

I've just noticed that my next AF is due on valentines day!! How pants...... I guess I needn't bother buying any sexy undies for the night!

 

[choklatemunky]

Aww that is pants Chrissy - although you never know - maybe it won't turn up Thats what Im hoping about mine anyway!

 

[reallyoldmum]

Morning ladies just a quick one as I have resolved to spend more time working

Choklatemunky I think its a good sign to have nice stable temps - your hormones are obviously well balanced

CB23 even if I only have one glass of wine then my temp really jumps up - I've disregarded Sundays temp now as I know it was from the couple that I had..... my temp dropped this morning so we will see what happens - perhaps I am actually going to ov after all!!

Chrissy for valantines day but hey perhaps you wont be getting AF at all

Right back to work....... As if......

 

[choklatemunky]

ROM - Im starting to worry that I dont have any hormones! and worrying that this is the reason for my static temps! It could just be that its because of the timing of me taking them so I think I might try and run two charts - one for the time when I wake and one for the time when my alarm goes off each morning (as I am often awake before that as I said earlier) to see if oen gives a more 'readable' pattern than the other.

I bet now that I have started fretting about it Ill have mountain range temps from now on which will be just as silly!

 

[reallyoldmum]

you have hormones silly - as long as you have slept for 3 hours undisturbed I would take your first temp - thats what I do and I wake up at all sorts of times.....

Corr to update on me I've just peed on a opk and its very nearly + yay I recon I should ovulate today or tomorrow...... shame I cant do anything with it.....

 

[choklatemunky]

I know Im probably just being a muppet ROM!

It is a shame that you can't do anything with it, but just think you are a step closer to the end of this cycle! x

 

[Mildly]

Hi girls just checking in with you all

Hope you are all BDing and/or POASing I want to see all these predictions coming true very soon

FXed for everyone, hopefully I've hidden the fact that I haven't looked at any of your charts in a while I will soon, I promise

 

[CB23]

OMG 8 weeks 6 days already!!!!!!!! Mildly

 

[Mildly]

lol, I know, where did the time go? I had to move my ticker forward because they wouldn't accept my Ov based due date but there is only 3 days in it

Your chart is looking really promising CB Got any symptoms I can obsess over yet?

 

[Chrissy1]

Now don't laugh at me you lot guess what I'm doing...........I'm symptom spotting!!!

Nothing unusual in that you would think..........Nothing except that it's still about 3 days BEFORE I OVULATE!


I just laughed at myself when I went the loo and was thinking about how tired I feel today...I can't stop yawning, and how I feel a neauseous today. The first though that came into my head was...'ooohh they're symptoms ' I suddenly realised that I was due to OV any day now......

that should get a prize for earliest symptom spotter EVER!!!

I think I'm definatley obsessed with TTC now...as if I had any doubt before

 

[choklatemunky]

Now don't laugh at me you lot guess what I'm doing...........I'm symptom spotting!!!

Sorry - I know you said not to, but

I guess its just always in our minds what the symptoms are and we get over excited whenever we have any of them - until we realise that we cant be having 'symptoms' as its not even possible that we are PG!

Unless of course you are up for the 'virgin birth' theory - immaculate conception anyone - yes I'll take two please!!

Im not really sure what else to say other than... (sorry!)

 

[kmac]

Hi all

Yes Claire my DH does his own ironing! I set that condition before we moved in together - I saw how much laundry he had when he lived on his own... no thanks! I do my own, but I am more careful about hanging/folding so it keeps it to a minimum!

Ladies - please talk some sense into me!
I am getting in a tizz about this cycle already. It's only day 9.
I have not one hint of CM, at a push I'd say sticky but i might be imagining it. I have had visible lines on the opks (started early as no idea what happened last cycle) but today there is zilch.
I know if I am having a long cycle this is ok but last cycle I thought I wa maybe still waiting to ov then AF arrived! I'm convinced the same thing is going to happen again. I am starting to panic about my temps each morning - I even dream about it and wake up sweating!! This morning it went up a little which got me stressed right away!



Someone please slap me or something

Hope everyone is ok.
Loola have you tested yet???

 

[CazH]

Bloody thermometer is stuck at the POst Office no chance of collecting it for few days, will join you girls soon and get that BFP!

 

[CB23]

kmac no cervical mucus by day 9 is OK - I normally start mine just after. Try to stay calm, no two people get the same levels on the same days.

If you want to increase your cervical mucus they say:

drink lots of water - 2 litres a day
have a teaspoon of honey a day from the end of AF
drink grapefruit juice every day, golden grapefruit not pink

I have done all that this month and I think it really did increase.

With regard to the OPK's then you could be just building up to it - had you had a drink long before you used it etc. It could even just be a different amount of 'dye' stuff in the strip.

 

[CB23]

Mildly my chart looks the same as last month except that I missed the egg so I'm not getting my hopes up! And I don't have any symptoms but then I am just 6dpo.

Chrissy at you symptom spotting before ov, that is a record, we should enter you in the awards thingies!

 

[Bagpuss17]

all, wow it's busy on here.

CB23 - I'm feeling OK apart from the tiredness. Starting to feel the symptoms a bit more now. Don't worry that you missed the egg, sperm can survive for several days in the right conditions and you BD'd AM after getting a + on the opk so that's perfect timing. You've still got a really, really good chance of a BFP this month.

My DH irons too infact he does his share of everything around the house. He's a new man His mother did a fine job with him!

Hope you are all OK.

 

[scones]

Hiya Well I got my thermometer so I will start temping now! Im on cd4 so nearly at the end of af, I will be interested to see what happens with my temps.

What happens again? It goes up before ov?