So.... How'd you do it? (Conception stories anyone? Rated G, of course!)

[HoneyTree]

Another mama's post got me curious.

I had just read Taking Charge of Your Fertility was charting for three months, and was totally enamored with my body's amazing changes and signs that fertility was coming and going. But I wasn't exactly strict about applying what I was learning to birth control, per say. I was more noticing and recording and thinking, Wow! Isn't this COOL? And since all three months my fertility signs and the number of days before ovulation were different, it was a little guesswork and a little chance mixed with being a little swept-up-and-in-love and not inviting the backup method to the party. The next day my temperature spiked and the countdown began :shy .

[StrawberryFields]

I still can't believe we conceived on the first try!

I did the Shettles Method for TTC a girl by observing my cervical changes and using a saliva fertility monitor. I set the cut off when I started seeing transitional ferning on the monitor and that ended up to be about 4 days before Ovulation. I took Cal/Mag and Cranberry supplements. I really thought a 4 day cutoff was pushing it and I was going to move it up to 3 days the next month but surprise! I guess the 4 day cutoff was fine after all!

[DDNemo]

Postive :+ on the first try here too! And its my first pregnancy!

I have been charting for about a year using TCOYF. I have been trying to get used to the idea of maybe having a baby. lol Charting and getting to really know your body is sooo cool. I had a 10 day LP once I quit drinking caffine, and I was a little worried about conciving. But my cycle was very regular, and the temps were obvious and easy for me to read, and I always had good CM.

Dh and I have been going back and forth about starting now or not.. and we decided to just go for it, thinking it might take a few months. We were on a nice vacation in Italy, my mother was with us and she gave us some time alone in the hotel room to "start working on her grandbaby." Well it worked; that was May 21st or so....

I'm so excited.

[Carlito's_wife]

I have been trying TTC for a while. About 8 months I guess. Last month I finally said screw it we're gonna do things my way. Used an OPK and DTD like crazy about 3 days before I O'ed to about 3 days after every single day 3-5 times. Some said it was too much and healthy sperm couldn't be made so quickley. I even read on some medical site that you should wait 24 hours in between each time when TTC. But I knew it would work because it did last time I got PG. And here I am. I used the"DTD like rabbits" method. Worked great for me. :lol

Before this month I was just charting and using OPK's. But we weren't DTD nearly as much as I made him last month.

[loraxc]

We also got knocked up on our first real try. :bag: I don't want to sound smug about it--I know so many people who've struggled. DD was also a first-try baby, though. We just seem to be fertile.

Last time I was charting and we were very diligent. ;) This time I was just watching my fertile signs and we took a guess and went for it.

[aslmere]

No need to really try here either.. though I was reading about charting "just in case"
I should have known better.. I am fertile freaking myrtle!

I had my IUD removed on May first. Tested faintly positive on May 24th. Looks like I concieved on the 13th.
I totally thought it wouldn't be this month. My LMP was April 10th...so it really shouldn't have been, but I guess the removal of a foreign object messed up the cycle a little bit.

Though the ARNP at my OB's office knew me better than that... she removed the IUD and then said 'see you in a few weeks!' :lol
Though she had the through in the standard "it often takes 6 months to concieive"

[azyre]

I'd finally got him to agree to TTC next month and then I got a "suprise" one night - knew I was getting close to O and then pretty sure I did sometime 2 to 3 days later. Thought it might have been too late but it wasn't :) I'm betting on another girl :D

I am aware of when I O without charting, my cm makes it obvious and has since I was about 10 years old and started menstruating! My cycle length varies but my luteal phase is reliable, so i've used ovulation to know when my period is coming for a long time :)

Very very thankful it didn't take long, because I've been waiting for him to come around for awhile :) I consider that my ttc phase included a lot of protected sex and arguments across months and 1 month of the opposite ;)

[noordinaryspider]

I'm all about G rated conception stories; I used an Instead cup and a needleless syringe.

:lol

I've been TTC with known donors off and on for over a year. It's been a major roller coaster ride. Last Christmas, my teenaged son ran away from home and the following day :af came despite the faint second line that only ds and I had seen. I don't honestly know whether it was a chemical pg or if we had been imagining the faint positive. Whether it was the stress from losing my little boy or my hormones being out of whack from a chemical pg, my cycles went totally wacky after that; I had ben able to predict :af's arrival down to the hour before.

Without getting into too much detail about ds's situation, it began to look like TTC would be a bad idea and also like Menopause was catching up with me; I felt like I had lost two children in rapid succession. It didn't help that dd turned 18 and suddenly I wasn't a mother any more, much less a dedicated experienced crunchy homeschooling homebirthing extended breastfeeding babywearing single mama, I was just a chronically unemployed bum.

One problem I had been having with TTC prior to my world falling apart is that I don't exactly produce a lot of EWCM. One day out of the blue I found a huge gob of it on the TP and then almost immediately received an email from my most promising donor asking me if I was ready to try again. He had no idea what had happened with ds or with my charts.

We made tenative plans at another attempt. I wound up with the first perfectly normal cycle since ds left, looked at the calendar and started feeling all woo-wooo when I realized that the best insem date, assuming that I was FINALLY getting back to my normal pattern, would be on Mother's Day. I must have asked KD a dozen times if he was SURE it was okay and that he didn't need to spend that day with his own mother. He said it was fine, so I popped the money order for his travel expenses in the mail and waited for :af.

She didn't show.

I called KD to let him know that I hoped to reschedule, but since he is only available on weekends because of his work schedule, I wasn't very hopeful and I was disappointed that it totally threw off the timing for Shettles.

:af kept away for exactly one week. I didn't know what to make of my chart, but my intuition told me to hold off on the first insem (after KD had abstained for three days to build up a strong supply of healthy swimmers) until Saturday instead of doing it on Friday. We did one AM and one PM insem.

TBH, the way my life had been going I expected KD to pocket the money order and not show. It just didn't seem possible that anything good could happen in this world. I was amazed that he actually showed up, did what he said he was going to do, was respectful, and did not rape or murder me and dd.

It was too hard to actually believe I could finally get pregnant, I just wanted to enjoy the familiar routine of TTC and remember a time when I was a strong woman and life was full of possibility. I didn't use progesterone creme or any of the post-O supplements I normally use because I did not want to feel physically sick during my 2ww.

Two days after the insem, my temps did their characteristic (from when my charts made any sense) pre-O dip and then went up nicely and stayed up. Five days after O, I unexpectedly ran into an old friend I hadn't seen in six years or spoken to in two years. He hadn't known that I was TTC as a SMC and was very excited for me. At one point he put his head down to my belly and I don't know what he said to my kid, but she definitely sat up and took notice because I started feeling implantation cramping as soon as we got home.

I was kind of distracted by this unexpected reunion and suddenly I realized that I only had three more days left of my 2WW and then it would all be over, since I had pretty much decided that I couldn't keep trying with dd's tuition expenses and ds's therapy expenses (he does not live with me, but I do pay for him to see a MFT when he is willing to go) piling up and me only making minimum wage.

Yesterday I had a REALLY grumpy day; my friend had not returned my calls and all I wanted to do was find him and talk about why we had stopped writing each other and let him know that I wanted a fresh start. The house was filthy and there wasn't much to eat, so I really needed to stay home and cook and clean when all I wanted to do was hop on my bicycle in the warm sunshine and pedal the 6-7 miles to the town where my friend lives. I was also jealous of everyone on the TTC boards who was getting BFPs.

It was too late to make it to the dollar store, but Long's had generic digitals on sale, so I bought a two-pack. I was so grumpy that I didn't even have the sense not to waste a test after reading the instructions that said it was only 57% effective when used 3 days before :af was due and to make matters even worse, I not only didn't wait for FMU, but I had a fairly empty bladder and had been thirsty and drinking tea all day so it wasn't very concentrated.

I was in total shock when the test unmistakeably read "Pregnant" and so did the other one at about 2 AM the next morning.

[flapjack]

OK; first of all, the bean is known as Serbia because I ovulated the day of the Eurovision song contest and our timing was pretty good this month.
We've been trying now for about a year with degrees of seriousness. I miscarried in September (August?) at 8 weeks and then again in February and started charting after that. Last month, like noordinaryspider, I got a faint line on a test and then AF came and I started testing negative.
This month, I KNEW it was going to be the month when we went to a science museum with a fantastic interactive display about pregnancy, and birth, and how big the baby was at each stage. We talked with the boys about how big our twins were when they were born, versus how big they should have been and it was a fantastic, healing, cathartic, hopeful experience for all of us. It also showed the first hours after conception, which was the image I carried with me and visualised.
I was working with my body (EPO, green tea and carrots) to try and increase the amount of CM, but it didn't seem to be working. The week before O, I actually fainted twice- I still have no idea what was going on or why that happened. BDing was timed pretty well- until I had a FLOOD of CM on the Friday evening and erm, nothing happened. I was drying up on the Saturday- O day- and DTD for us, not for a baby. It was worth it ;)
Sunday my temperature rose.
Tuesday Skye got chicken pox.
I was feeling nauseous all week.
By Thursday, it was so bad I had to put my sea bands on- there's a picture of me in the local paper for Breastfeeding Awareness Week where I literally look green. Friday I started throwing up. Saturday I couldn't move, I was so exhausted. The nausea started getting better from this point, though.
I got a very faint line on the Tuesday following (10dpo) and another one on the Thursday afternoon. The rest, as they say, is history.

[Jezzy]

We had been ttc for 8 months. I was going to give up for a while after this month. It was just to stressful. After 6 months with one doc she told me to give up and I got really mad. How could she. I made an appointment with another. I told him my story and he said there is something missing, and gave me the things that I need to trigger ovulation. It didn't work the first time around, but it did the second.!

I *knew* that it was going to work this time. I was talking to my sister on the 27th of April, I was walking around in my yard and looked down and saw something shiny on the ground. I picked it up and it was a dime! May seem silly to get excited over that, but it was an american dime ( I will make a long story as short as I can ) in 1997 I asked God for a sign that my grandpa (my hero) would make it through his quintuple bypass.I asked to find a rusty dime on the ground. That evening I found a rusty dime on the ground. The dime that I found here (remember I am in Germany) was printed in 1997. I found that as a hug from my grandpa ( passed 3 years ago) I felt he was letting me know that it was going to work this time. I have no idea how the dime got out in my yard. That is why I knew how this was going to be the cycle for us, and it was.

noordinaryspider
How are you feeling? I hope that you are doing great! I have a question for you if it isn't to personal. Your doner is known. Will he be a part of the babies life? I think that is amazing!

[flapjack]

Oh- I forgot to say. If you look at my chart, it's almost an exact mirror of my chart when I conceived with Skye (the Feb98 line) How weird is that?

[Jlcampbellkidz]

I had been having reg. 26 day cycles since the last miscarriage 4moths ago. Wasn't seeing my normal CM and almost thought I wasn't ov. at all. But we also were not TTC. every month I would mark off the day on the calendar that I thought we would be fertile and tell DH he wasn't getting any :lol This month it should have been Mothers day. So just out of fun for us we DTD on the 15th 3 days after I thought I had Ov. Waited for my cycle to show up last Friday and Nothing. Saturday came and went and I was feeling a bit nautious and my breast were sore. Sunday came and again, felt sore boobs and sick. Monday my friend asked if I wanted to go to the water park, I said no because I was sure my cycle was about to start. She being the very close friend that she is asked how I was feelign and i described what the last few days had been like. She suggested taking a prego test. I only had one in the cabinet so I waited a few hours hoping to build up my pee. The line was so faint I had to ask my kids babysitter what she saw. She said she saw a really light plus sign. I took another test the next morning and still light but more definate. Went to the speciallty doc the same day and now on a progesterone supp. all my levels are rising and we are getting very excited.
All but one of my children have been concieved while not trying to concieve:o

I guess we like surprises. I am extatic. Thought we would be trying next year in the spring. Guess not. Instead we will be loving on a new little one. Really wondering what this one will look like. All three of my girls have different color hair, skin, and eyes. Yes all the same DH.:lol

[Mama2-4]

Great stories! I am not quite sure how this happened for us! It was a complete surprise and I have had much difficulty ttc our last 2 babies, several miscarriages, a ruptured ectopic, and also took clomid! So, although we have been planning another baby, this was quite a surprise!
Andrea

[SeaDoula]

Dp and I have been using TCOYF for about 6-7 months as birth control. Normally if we have sex we'd use a condom while I am fertile, and this time we didn't. Dp thinks the whole idea of my being pregnant is sexy, haha, and so while we were ahem, doing our thang he basically said, "lets make a little babe of our own" and so we didn't use a condom for 3 days during my fertile period, which including the day I ovulated.

I tested on the day I was supposed to get my period, just having a hunch and I got a :+

It was sort of a...in the heat of the moment ttc, haha. And I am a Taurus, normally I am so practical and plan things out...leave it to the Aries, always charging into situations.

We are very excited though! I also found out 2 other women at my work are due within 1-2 weeks of me (both of them, how crazy!!)

[HoneyTree]

SeaDoula, my hubby's an Aries, too. Don't you just love their impulsiveness? I'm a Sagittarius, so the charge-ahead, worries-be-damned attitude with this babymaking was well covered!

It's crazy how many of us were charting. I honestly had no idea how popular it was, even for MDC. A lot of us seemed to have moments of knowing or intuitive feelings about our pregnancies, too. I just love being a mama... :love

[flapjack]

:lol My GP thinks charting is nuts. Or at least, she did until I explained that my average cycle lasts anywhere from 4.5-9 weeks, and then she started to see the benefits.
SeaDoula, I'm a Taurus too and frankly, I hate planning pregnancies. I plan everything else in life, but I really prefer leaving my fertility up to chance.

[SeaDoula]

SeaDoula, my hubby's an Aries, too. Don't you just love their impulsiveness? I'm a Sagittarius, so the charge-ahead, worries-be-damned attitude with this babymaking was well covered!

It's crazy how many of us were charting. I honestly had no idea how popular it was, even for MDC. A lot of us seemed to have moments of knowing or intuitive feelings about our pregnancies, too. I just love being a mama... :love

You know, I love how impulsive he is because I can be very routine and get bored easily, so we always have fun together. His impulsiveness has been known to get him into trouble, but I love him anyway! :p

I've found that TCOYF is pretty popular, a woman at work used it purely to get pregnant because she had been trying for so long. It worked & she has two little ones. I also live in seattle though, most everyone here is a little er...different, heh. It is funny that a lot of women on here use charting though, I think it's great!

[mom3b1?]

We were NOT trying. This is one of those old-age surprise babies. I'd had a string of fairly regular periods, an oddity for me. I think it's because off all the eggs my ovaries are dumping as they prepare to retire. I've done the reproductive endocrinology thing, the charting, clomid and so on for previous babies. I used to have rare periods, because my hormone levels were never up to snuff. Clomid helped a lot. It's very miraculous that I have the three boys I have.

This baby just snuck up on us. We thought we were too old, and got sloppy with the preventative measures. Daddy is ecstatic. This is his first.

Kiley

[phillybama]

We had been trying for 2 months, but the lucky cycle was the one where I charted. We timed BD perfectly--although my most fertile days were the ones when my in-laws (MIL, FIL, BIL, and his girlfriend) were staying with us for a visit. Needless to say, we were very quiet! :lol

Hoping this baby sticks! :sticky

[ColesMommy]

:lol My GP thinks charting is nuts. Or at least, she did until I explained that my average cycle lasts anywhere from 4.5-9 weeks, and then she started to see the benefits.


I have a friend that is ttc right now and she's desperate for a girl (she currently has 2 boys). She was talking to me a little bit about timing for a girl but she was only using the length of her cycle to guess which days they should be trying for a girl so I mentioned charting. She said, "I'm not that desperate yet!" She isn't pregnant yet.

With Cole, I started charting a few months before he was concieved just to see what my cycles were doing since stopping the pill. My dh wasn't sure that he was quite ready to be a daddy so I let him know when I was fertile and left the rest up to him. I guess he was feeling generous on my birthday because we didn't use any protection and I got pregnant.

With this one, we had talked about ttc when Cole was about 2. Last summer, my grandma found a lump in her breast and what we initially thought was a small, operable tumor was actually one sign of the full blown cancer that had invaded nearly all of her body. By the end of Febuary, treatment was no longer an option and we enlisted hospice services to help us care for her through the end of her life. I was basically living at her house for the last couple of weeks of her life and taking the pill fell by the wayside so a couple of days after her funeral, I talked to dh about staying off of the pill and he agreed.

Since I'm not a morning person and I don't get up until Cole makes me, I wasn't taking temps, just observing CM. I used to have a totally reliable 28 day cycle but my CM was throwing me off a bit because it didn't seem like I was ovulating when I thought I should. Also, my first cycle was 30 days long. I bought an OPK and got pregnant my first cycle using it. That was my Mother's Day present!

[Greeneyes0506]

We weren't trying at all!

We went to visit DH's sister for a week and since we didn't have condoms we did the "pull and pray". I guess we didn't pray hard enough:lol

[eilonwy]

I pay attention to my cycles (NFP style) but haven't been charting because my son thinks thermometers are toys. We've always known anyway-- when one or both of us becomes very interested, it's a sign of fertility. :lol

Trouble is, the kids got sick this month-- green barfing nasties. Bella couldn't hold down anything but breastmilk, and BeanBean (who was down to nursing maybe once a month) nursed half a dozen times. I was expecting AF to be late and/or light as a result, and I was also expecting this to be an infertile cycle. Turns out I was wrong. :dizzy: This baby is far from planned... we were hoping to get Mike snipped before the end of the year. :guilty:

[LoveChild421]

We weren't trying at all!

We went to visit DH's sister for a week and since we didn't have condoms we did the "pull and pray". I guess we didn't pray hard enough:lol

:lol In my case it was a matter of him not "pulling" hard enough :duck: Believe me I did the praying part!

[Miss Blue]

This babe fits our pattern of irresponsible condom use! The key to condoms is to actually USE them during fertile times...

DD #1 was definitely planned--first try
DD#2 was a mother's day gift in 2003, not planned
DD#3 was a big surprise after MONTHS of faithful condom use, except for once or twice!

We were surprised to find out that I was expecting but DH and I are both happy. We had been talking about expanding our family, but I thought it would be via foster care and adoption rather than another pregnancy. Guess we'll postpone that for a while.

[eilonwy]

This babe fits our pattern of irresponsible condom use! The key to condoms is to actually USE them during fertile times...

:laugh: OMG, I so relate. :lol

For me, it breaks down thusly:

#1-- Neither planned nor unplanned, nor even much of a surprise. I told my husband, "Tonight is not the night to forget the diaphragm. If you're not prepared to be a father, I suggest you take a cold shower RIGHT NOW."

#2-- Fully planned, charted for 4 cycles and got pregnant the first time we actually managed to get everything right. :lol

#3-- Surprise, a bit early. We'd been planning to try a few months later anyway.

#4-- :bigeyes: :yikes: Complete surprise. This one is the only actual "accident." :duck: I'm still kind of in shock...

[noordinaryspider]

My first three pregnancies were all the result of irresponsible condom use.

Big dd has been quite receptive to learning about charting to avoid and I think I'm going to be very supportive of her continuing to learn and make a big production about handing down my BBT as soon as I'm satisfied with these lovely high temps. Yup, yup, yup. Don't need any grandbabies right now.

[flapjack]

Hah, I can beat that.
1. conceived whilst using the pill correctly. Ectopic. (remember this bit- reduced fertility,theoretically...)
2. Another pill baby, another early end to pregnancy.
2 conceived whilst using the pill with a teeny tiny glitch- dtd the night before I was sick three hours after taking my pill. Fortyone weeks three days after the accident, Alex was born
3. diaphragm. Didn't think I was fertile, cervix was funny. Born at 24 weeks.
4. condom (didn't burst ) Born at 36 weeks from only likely conception date.
5. FAM glitch, wanted a baby soon, miscarried at 5 weeks.
6. Charted, caught the egg first time :lol She's now 18 months old!
7 was a happy accident, weren't trying to do anything. 5 week miscarriage. Same with 8, but lost at 6 weeks. 9 was my twins, miscarried at 11 weeks (and very much planned, but not the maths) and 10 was last month, another very early miscarriage. And NOW this planned and wanted little one, after four months of serious trying.

So yeah. Don't complain about hyperfertility, because one day mama nature might just come and bite you in the butt :lol I wouldn't have it any other way, though.

[eilonwy]

So yeah. Don't complain about hyperfertility, because one day mama nature might just come and bite you in the butt :lol I wouldn't have it any other way, though.

I've always felt guilty complaining about it, but... I feel like Mother Nature *is* biting me in the butt. :guilty: :bag:

I feel guilty complaining about a lot of things. Third trimester miseries can drive me insane, but I always feel bad when I think of women who have a hard time carrying that far, who'd give anything to get to the third trimester at all... :guilty:

[flapjack]

Yeah. This spate of miscarriages has taught me a lot- before I was miss smug, stuck-up, "look at me I have 14lb babies at home with nothing stronger then entonox and you can do it too". It's given me a heck of a lot of tolerance and understanding for others, never a bad thing- and brought it home how much of a miracle each and every one of my kids are. I mean, think about it. One sperm, one egg and you make a person? How freaky is that?
If someone can bump this thread back up on or around the 10th of February, if this baby makes it, I'll be really grateful. At that point, I reckon I'll just about be fed up enough to consider DIY caesarean, and still have another 2-4 days to go.
Noordinaryspider, I just had to have the conversation about what testicles are for :bag: It could have been worse, but I have this overwhelming urge to giggle. Somehow, he's been through a million and one conversations about where babies come from and not actually realised that boys are involved in the process too :o

[Nature]

We've been not preventing/not trying. In fact, I've never prevented. I just naturally space children I guess. Course, tandem nursing helps hold off the ovulation a bit. I've had AF back for about 6 months, so thats about how long it took to get pregnant. Though honestly.... some of those months were not very "active" if you know what I mean. :lol We did want to get pregnant though, and because I'm nursing I POAS every month to be sure and was kinda bummed at the negatives. This was the first month I didn't jump at the chance to test. In fact, I went nearly 2 weeks past my missed AF before I got the idea to test. No idea I was even pregnant. I thought the tiredness was because of all the cleaning I've been doing for housing inspections and code enforcement inspections. Surprise! :lol

[eilonwy]

We've been not preventing/not trying. In fact, I've never prevented. I just naturally space children I guess. Course, tandem nursing helps hold off the ovulation a bit.


:lol Lucky you. I'd been tandem nursing for 13 months when i got pregnant with Bella. Of course, AF came back at *four* months pp. (It was only three weeks after Bean was born, and yes, he was exclusively breastfed. :lol)

[GracesMama]

I used an ovulation predictor test with my first baby and the second month I was pregnant. I'm barely pregnant with #2, and we did the same thing, only we were pregnant after the first month.

[newmommy27]

2 cycles ago we essentially gave up with temping, OPK testing, and checking cervical fluid. We decided to just have sex every other say from day 8 till day 22. I was finding that TTC was really stressing me out and not allowing us to really enjoy the journey...and honestly I have a super high sex drive so sex every other day serves me well. I also elevated hips for 45 min after sex and after that i would put in my Diva Cup to keep the boys in...We were also using Pre-Seed.

so that's it...we had a really fun few weeks and now we are thrilled to have a belly bean :wink

[frontierpsych]

G rated?

DH put his _____ in my ______ .

:D

[eilonwy]

G rated?

DH put his _____ in my ______ .

:D

:spitdrink: :laugh:

[bloominmamas]

We'd been trying for about 3 cycles without luck and I have been having super short cycles for me (25/26 days) and so I decided to start trying pretty right after flow ended and go every other day til the next cycle. Of course half way through the cycle dh and I decided to wait til next winter to ttc again and now we are pregnant. We happy and excited, it's just finances have changed in the past month that will make things a bit more stressful than if we were able to wait til next year.

[ksera05]

G rated?

DH put his _____ in my ______ .

:D

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[naturallia]

Hi girls! I'm joining you here. Here's my story-

I ttc for 8 months with this one and we just got a BFP yesterday.
My DS will be 1 year old on July 15.

So that'll make them 19 months apart, I think. Maybe 18 or 20 if I go early or late.

I also have a 8 year old DS that my ex- has custody of and my ex and I had 7 baby angels.

This is my DH's second baby- DS is his first.

[Dov'sMom]

Not exactly trying, but not doing anything to prevent it, either.

However, because I only had one period after DS was born, I really have no idea how far along this period is. Maybe one of you ladies can help: I started to bleed 36 days after my last full period. I assumed it was a period, but the bleeding stopped after two days, and then I spotted on and off for almost two weeks. I took a pregnancy test as soon as the bleeding stopped because that's what happened last time, but it was negative. I POAS every day of the next week, all negative. Then I stopped, figuring I was having a weird period because it was so soon post partum. Until I got pregnant w/ DS, I never went more than 30 days from first day to first day (usually more like 26) so I figured if I had gotten pregnant it would show already. Then at 48 days post period, when the bleeding had finally stopped, I had another gush of blood and sudden exhaustion and I POAS again -- positive. I must have taken another 10 tests over the next week because I didn't believe it, but they were all positive.

I am thrilled. DH is worried, because he doesn't have a job yet. I say: look, your parents are desparate for grandchildren, which only you are providing. If we have six children in close succession and I can't work and you haven't found a job yet, they'll pay for food. I even looked up my MIL and asked her point blank, just for fun :lol.

[ellymay]

I was temping for 3cycles the first cycle I didn't O though ff said I did looking at my temps I didn't and anyways I think that helped me BIG time was to temp and see when my temps went up so the 2nd cycle I had an O cycle I knew which day and what pattern to look for in my temps. We only dtd the day of O so we really didn't think we'd catch it but I think it helped that we dtd that night and I didn't get up till the next morning so I think that helped things to stay in. Also I was taking B6 to legthen my LP and it worked the first cycle taking 100mg :).

[LawrenceDoula]

I think twice in one day did the trick for us!

[miss_honeyb]

I was totally enamored with my body's amazing changes and signs that fertility was coming and going. But I wasn't exactly strict about applying what I was learning to birth control, per say....The next day my temperature spiked and the countdown began :shy .

This was us, too. I've been charting for 3 1/2 years so I know my cycle really well and we're not as rigid with following the "rules" as we could be. The "night to remember" :wink :heartbeat happened 3 days before my temp shift, so I thought we were in the clear. But then the temps kept going up... and my normal luteal phase of 14 days passed... and on day 19 I thought it was time to take the test! :+

The rest is history!

[HappyFox05]

We weren't trying - we were actually using spermicide and frequency (keeps the count down - plus, we kinda love each other & everything) and keeping an eye on the calendar to keep from getting pregnant. So it was a total surprise. I was very tempted to be angry & upset...until I saw all the threads about people working so hard TTC. That, & some prayer, made me grateful. Keep trying, mommas-to-be!

[Avarie]

Well, I had my first PP AF in February and had three more regular cycles after that. We had decided to wait for TTC until next January / February, but I guess we weren't careful enough. We weren't really trying, but we certainly weren't trying to avoid it! At least, not hard enough. I have a very regular cycle and thought we were "safe", but I guess not! My LMP was about 5/2, which gives me an EDD of 2/6/08.

[bloominmamas]

Well, I had my first PP AF in February and had three more regular cycles after that. We had decided to wait for TTC until next January / February, but I guess we weren't careful enough. We weren't really trying, but we certainly weren't trying to avoid it! At least, not hard enough. I have a very regular cycle and thought we were "safe", but I guess not! My LMP was about 5/2, which gives me an EDD of 2/6/08.

Yay! Another 2/6 edd!! Congrats:jumpers: