IDoDis
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I was a in a bit of a time crunch with my first pregancy. Because DH and I are teachers, we wanted a spring baby. That way I could take off the last few weeks of school (using the sick leave I had saved up over the years), and then we'd both have all summer at home with the baby and not have to go back to work until the baby was almost 5 months old. So, I REALLY wanted an April baby. 
A few months prior to the "this is it - gotta conceive this month), I had been charting my ovulation the old fashioned way with an oral thermometer. I took my temp every morning right when I woke up, before I even stirred. I taped the thermometer to the headboard of the bed so that all I had to do was reach behind me, grab it and stick it in my mouth (make sure you shake it down the night before). If you move around too much, you cause your body temp to rise (it is lowest in the morning right as you wake up). Use this instead of the digital thermometers because the doc said they are more accurate on a consistent basis.
After 3 months, I could tell what my cycle was doing. Right when the spike happened with my temp, I knew I had just ovulated (which was about 2 weeks after the first day of my cycle). Prior to the spike, your temp will drop though -- this is when you ARE ovulating. Once the spike in the temp occurs, it is too late meaning you have already ovulated. The key here is to do "the baby dance" a couple of days prior to ovulation, and then again while you are ovulating (not after) just to give the egg some extra little guys to attach to it in case the others were by-passed.
Well, the month that I really WANTED to get pregant was very strange with my cycle. I didn't ovulate at the same time during the month like I had the 3 or 4 months prior, and the stress mounted because I was leaving town for a convention in Chicago! I was all stressed about not ovulating before my trip (which is probably why I hadn't ovulated). The night before I left town, DH and I did the baby dance anyway just in case. While I Chicago, I still did the whole temp. reading thing every morning. On the 5th day of my trip, my temp spiked, so I knew I had just ovulated. I was sooo bummed out because I thought we had totally missed the window of opportunity!
Welll, guess what?? Thos little guys can live in you for up to 5 days and that is what happened. So I ended up pregnant anyway due to our "just in case" event the night before I left town).
Our little joke has always been that I conceived our first child when I was 1/2 way across the country and had not been with DH for 5 days! When my period didn't come on time, I took a pregnancy test but it was negative. I tried another test a week later and it was positive. It took a week longer to show up on the test since I ovulated over a week late.
It worked like a charm when I got preg. w/ my DS. Less stress that time. We started trying a couple of months early so I wouldn't get stressed out and ended up with a February baby instead of April since I again got pregnant on the first try.
Try the thermometer method and look for the dip in temp. That is when you are fertile which is approx 2 weeks after the first day of your last period. Of course, your cycle can go awry like mine did if you stress too much about it.
Good luck!
A few months prior to the "this is it - gotta conceive this month), I had been charting my ovulation the old fashioned way with an oral thermometer. I took my temp every morning right when I woke up, before I even stirred. I taped the thermometer to the headboard of the bed so that all I had to do was reach behind me, grab it and stick it in my mouth (make sure you shake it down the night before). If you move around too much, you cause your body temp to rise (it is lowest in the morning right as you wake up). Use this instead of the digital thermometers because the doc said they are more accurate on a consistent basis.
After 3 months, I could tell what my cycle was doing. Right when the spike happened with my temp, I knew I had just ovulated (which was about 2 weeks after the first day of my cycle). Prior to the spike, your temp will drop though -- this is when you ARE ovulating. Once the spike in the temp occurs, it is too late meaning you have already ovulated. The key here is to do "the baby dance" a couple of days prior to ovulation, and then again while you are ovulating (not after) just to give the egg some extra little guys to attach to it in case the others were by-passed.
Well, the month that I really WANTED to get pregant was very strange with my cycle. I didn't ovulate at the same time during the month like I had the 3 or 4 months prior, and the stress mounted because I was leaving town for a convention in Chicago! I was all stressed about not ovulating before my trip (which is probably why I hadn't ovulated). The night before I left town, DH and I did the baby dance anyway just in case. While I Chicago, I still did the whole temp. reading thing every morning. On the 5th day of my trip, my temp spiked, so I knew I had just ovulated. I was sooo bummed out because I thought we had totally missed the window of opportunity!
Welll, guess what?? Thos little guys can live in you for up to 5 days and that is what happened. So I ended up pregnant anyway due to our "just in case" event the night before I left town).
Our little joke has always been that I conceived our first child when I was 1/2 way across the country and had not been with DH for 5 days! When my period didn't come on time, I took a pregnancy test but it was negative. I tried another test a week later and it was positive. It took a week longer to show up on the test since I ovulated over a week late.It worked like a charm when I got preg. w/ my DS. Less stress that time. We started trying a couple of months early so I wouldn't get stressed out and ended up with a February baby instead of April since I again got pregnant on the first try.
Try the thermometer method and look for the dip in temp. That is when you are fertile which is approx 2 weeks after the first day of your last period. Of course, your cycle can go awry like mine did if you stress too much about it.
Good luck!
to you and your dh.
and they have 5 kids but her sister and DH have none 
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to the robitussin too. I HATE cough syrup, but took it when we had tried for a few months with no success.....the first month I took robitussin we got pregnant with twins 
(I can't believe I am posting this on a Disney board!)
