Question about Ovulation

[TonyaW]

I just had a miscarriage a couple of weeks ago. So I am now ovulating I think. It seems impossible for me to chart because my son co-sleeps and he wakes up sometime between 6:30-7:30 to nurse. I usually nurse him at 7:30, but that doesn't keep him from waking and asking to nurse. I am unwilling to wake up any earlier just to take my temp because, then I will just wake up for the morning and lose more sleep.

Anyway, I want to know if I am ovulating based on symptoms. I know that stretchy, egg white mucous indicates the most fertile time. I have have had this kind of mucous for 3-4 days now, and today I have sore nipples and ovulation pain in both ovaries. So when I get the pain does that mean I am ovulating or have ovulated? What about the nipple soreness? I know that indicates ovulation, but at what point? I am curious.

Last time I got pregnant, I thought I was at least 5 days from ovulation based on mucous symptoms. I think I had sex 7-8 days into my cycle and I had a little wet mucous. I wasn't trying to get pregnant, but happily found out I was and then had a miscarriage at 2 months. I think I have a really long fertile cycle. It seems like I only have about 1 week where I can safely have sex. I am not trying to avoid pregnancy though except for this one cycle to give myself one cycle before TTC again in October.

[eirual]

For me, all of those symptoms happen a day or two before O (EWCM for 4-6 days before).

Have you tried temping? I find getting up to tend to DS, or hoisting him to nurse from one side to the other to nurse, even getting up to pee doesn't effect my temps so much as being fairly consistent with when I'm taking them (and even then they can be adjusted by .1 degree for every hour that you're off).

Don't let co-sleeping and tending to your DC discourage you from temp'ing if you otherwise want to do it. Some people are sensitive to movement, but others aren't- worth a try, I'd say.

[TonyaW]

It does seem that I am very sensitive to movement unfortunately. That is why I am giving up the temp thing. I was trying for about a week and my numbers were all over the place.

[eirual]

Originally Posted by TonyaW

It does seem that I am very sensitive to movement unfortunately. That is why I am giving up the temp thing. I was trying for about a week and my numbers were all over the place.

May I ask at what point in your cycle you tried? If it's right after AF temps can take some time to normalize, so it could have been a normal wonky week. It took me a couple months of charting to start seeing the pattern and to get consistent enough with everything that the data made sense. If it's something you're interested in, you should try just for the heck of it for a month or two if you're laying there anyhow and see if it levels out.

Maybe a dumb question too, but were you using a basal body thermometre specifically? Regular ones won't always read as consistently.