Opinions on my chart please?????

mom2fussy · 11-07-2009, 12:02 PM

This is my first month charting, and I have no clue if I've ovulated yet or am about to???

A few notes:
My cycle is always 30-32 days long - usually 31 days. I missed taking my temp on Thurs, so there's a gap there. I'm sure the high temp on Fri 10/30 is at least partly due to alcohol consumption the night before. I've been using an OPK once or twice a day since Monday afternoon - all very negative.

My CM just doesn't seem to match the temps...? I'm not even 100% sure if today's CM is really WCM, because there's not much & it might just be DH's "leftovers"...

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2a8d90

Thanks!!!

notjustmamie · 11-07-2009, 12:55 PM

It looks like you haven't O'd yet. Just going by your cycle length doesn't necessarily tell you when you O--maybe your LP is a bit short. Also, it's VERY VERY common to have wonky cycles the first couple of months you chart.

Hang in there. It does get easier. It's also good to only try to analyze things every few days to a week, rather than every day. Temps and other signs can simply be too erratic to see the patterns when you're looking every day.

Good luck and happy charting!

mom2fussy · 11-07-2009, 01:47 PM

Thanks.
We've been TTC for 6 months (DTD for about a week around the "right" time & watching CM), but DH wasn't ready to start in on the OPK's, BBT, etc. until this month.

Today is CD17 - so if I O'd tomorrow, that would still give me an LP of 14 days if my cycle was 32 days long. So this is about when I "should" be ovulating anyway...

HulaJenn · 11-07-2009, 02:15 PM

You can't say for sure until you have the 3 days of sustained high temps. And I don't put much faith in OPKs. It is very easy to miss the LH surge and be mislead by O date. Plus it doesn't pinpoint O, only says that it SHOULD happen from 12-48 hours from the positive result. You can still have a surge and not O as well. So keep watching CM and DTD and temping. Once you get the hang of it and get a couple months down it gets easier . Although hopefully you won't need to if you are pg this cycle! Good luck!