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post #21 of 37
2/19/13 at 11:07pm
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Do you have a chart linky, lactatinggurl?

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post #22 of 37
2/19/13 at 11:10pm
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mt_gooseberry, I tink you're silly to be whining about lactational amenorrhea wink1.gif ...unless you want to conceive soon, in which case I understand why you would be itching to get your cycle back.
post #23 of 37
2/20/13 at 9:02am
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So when you have an ambiguous temperature shift (it went above my cover line, back below, and then back up and stayed up) do you count the first shift as actually ovulating?

... but you know what I'm going to say... Wait for the sustained thermal shift... unless you want to bend the rules and increase your chances of getting pregnant... your choice! But the rules are pretty much about sustained thermal shift, though if peak day was before the temp rise, you could count three non-consecutive days of post-peak thermal shift by CCL's rules.

post #24 of 37
2/20/13 at 10:43am
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So when you have an ambiguous temperature shift (it went above my cover line, back below, and then back up and stayed up) do you count the first shift as actually ovulating?

 

I tend to count the latter dip, too, just to be safe. thumb.gif If there's no fertile mucus around the second dip, maaaayybbee...

 

The first cycle off BC, I ovulated around CD12.  Now every month I notice a dip and fertile mucus around that time, but I don't actually ovulate until CD 18 (another dip, more fertile mucus).  After the first dip, my temps hover around coverline, but after the second, they go way up.

post #25 of 37
2/22/13 at 11:43am

Does anyone have experience or knowledge about green tea affecting charting? I've read that as little as one cup a day can lower estrogen - is that true?  

 

I'm curious because this month, I quit coffee cold turkey, but started drinking green tea (1-2 cups a day) instead.  I definitely had a really weird charting month, with way less EWCM.

post #26 of 37
2/23/13 at 12:32pm

Usually green tea is reported to increase CM, not decrease.

post #27 of 37
2/23/13 at 1:31pm

I've read that, too!  Which is why I was so confused.  I figured that must mean it increases estrogen (something I think I could use as a nursing-round-the-clock mom), but found that it's actually documented to do the opposite!  How can it lower estrogen AND increase CM? dizzy.gif

post #28 of 37
2/24/13 at 11:04am

Hi Mama's-

 

I was here until I conceived last May.  I'm 2 weeks pp w/ my new baby boy and the bleeding has eased up so I figured I'd start charting today so that I can get a bit of a start instead of trying to start cold turkey 6 weeks out and then have to deal w/ abstinence....

 

I've used LAM successfully for 6 months w/ my last 4 babies, but for some reason am paranoid that this time around i might cycle early and not know it.  (labor was not easy and i'm a little PTSD i'm afraid!)

 

i'm exclusively breastfeeding, pumping for a local mom w/ IGT, have 5 little ones 7 and under and use the Creighton Model (suggested by mt_gooseberry and a couple of other moms here when i was last lurking) for NFP.

 

and since i decided to chart, i decided to come back here and get the support of other mamas b/c that was incredibly helpful last time!!!

 

blessings and peace-

post #29 of 37
2/24/13 at 4:20pm

Pickle, I'm seeing claims both ways. A lot of fertility teas include green tee for its antioxidant properties, but then I'm also seeing references to the study that I'm guessing you're talking about that shows that daily/weekly green tea consumption lowers estrogen. My own experience is marred by too many confounding factors to say much of anything. Before having any children, I had scant mucus, pretty much all the time the same thing, and hardly any EWCM, but after going on an anti-candida diet, I was able to get just a couple days of EWCM enough to conceive. By the time my cycles came back 2.5 years after conceiving my DD, I was older, my diet was completely different, including drinking green-tea kombucha, and a lot of aspects of my life were different, and I had only a couple dry days after my period followed by less-fertile type mucus for weeks (with delayed ovulation, I assumed caused by breastfeeding), and then a week of more-fertile type mucus before ovulation. Looking at my chart, I could have counted myself fertile only in the presence of more-fertile type mucus and never gotten pregnant during the 6 cycles I CTAed before TTC my son.

post #30 of 37
2/24/13 at 4:22pm

HouseofPeace, were you here previously under a different name? Your picture looks familiar. Welcome back!

post #31 of 37
2/25/13 at 8:37am
Do any of you take folic acid, even though you are TTA? I have been taking pre/postnatal vitamins, I will run out this week. I have regular multivitamins and am wondering if I should grab some folic acid, "just in case". (2 of my babies were surprises, I am only a little paranoid wink1.gif )
post #32 of 37
2/25/13 at 10:46am

owlhowl, I do not take folic acid even when I am TTC, but I make sure to always get enough folate. Especially for women with certain genes, folic acid is not as well processed and used as folate, and it interferes with the body's absorption of folate. That aside, I do think that it is good to keep one's body prepared to conceive at all times, and that is one thing that I love about NFP.

post #33 of 37
2/25/13 at 12:47pm

yes- i was here under my real name and then went to a DDC's and realized i wanted more privacy so changed to this name.  kept the pic so it would be somewhat familiar!

post #34 of 37
3/6/13 at 8:00pm

TMI, but I just saw a tiny drop of red, on the cusp of 18 dpo, so coming here to party! Whoo-hoo! thumbsup.gif Was starting to seem a little curious...especially because my temp dipped at 14 dpo, then shot back up. shrug.gif

 

PS - anyone starting a thread for March?

post #35 of 37
3/7/13 at 4:30am

Hello my name is star I'm new here. I'm very confuse can someone please take a look at my chart

on Mar 2 I had a temp dip follwed by cramping & spotting I'm not sure what to make of this, but

since March I've had constant cramps on both side of my ovaries I dont know if this is normal I

had a really bad painful ovulation & I had some spotting as well. I know that you guys are very

experience thank you'll in advance.....

[url=http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/42e97b]My Ovulation Chart[/url]
post #36 of 37
3/20/13 at 11:02am

http://www.mothering.com/community/t/1380111/charting-to-avoid-spring-2013

 

I started a new thread, just in case anyone is still interested!

post #37 of 37
3/20/13 at 12:22pm
Thank you....
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