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Wed, 08/12/2009 - 11:25
Hi!
If you are charting and testing throughout your cycle....
What time of the morning do you take your temp?
What time of the day do you test for ovulation with your OPKs? Do you test more than once a day?
How soon after you ovulate and during your 2ww do you take a pregnancy test?
Me, I usually take my morning test between 6:00 am 6:30 am, if it is much later than that it seems to throw everything off. And, I am not very patient during the 2ww. I usually starting testing on 12pdo.
How about you?
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Hmm...I don't do BBT charting...Maybe if I'm still having problems after the 1 year mark.
OPKs - I used to test 1st thing in the a.m. (about 6), but the ones I got said to wait til the afternoon. But I feel like that doesn't give me and DH much of a warning.
As for the pregnancy tests, I want to take it 7-10 dpo, like it says I can...but I try to hold out. I'd rather get a BFN than have AF sneak up on me late, and give me that false hope.
Good luck - lots of baby dust, Elizabeth!
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***Jen***
I am taking it easy this month on testing to help my body do some relaxing but I usually temp around 7:10 in the am which is when I wake up for work. On the weekends this makes it difficult since I love to sleep in and after waking up to temp and trying to go back to sleep its not good quality sleep.
I usually use the OPK's during my lunch hour at noon, and sometimes again after work at 5pm. On some occassions however when we have all day activities planned like on weekends I am not able to test until we get home and one time that was at 11pm!! I knew I was set to have a positive that day and it was even that late!
As far as PG testing... oh boy not good at this. I've heard of so many women testing at 9 and 10 DPO with BFP's, so I usually test then... then around 12DPO then get fed up and vow not to test until AF day... this last cycle I vowed not to test until I knew AF wasn't going to show up. this cycle I will try to wait until 12DPO, then if BFN, not until I know AF is def. a no show.
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I don't chart BBT, but I do use OPK, and I test around 1pm. I try to hold off as long as possible during the 2ww, so I normally test around 12-13 DPO.
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Leslie, mom to 4 blessing, and TTC another one.
I take my temp early: at 4:30 am, because that is when I get up with DH to make him his coffee before he goes to work. I go back to bed, but only until I have to wake up for work at 6:00, so it doesn't give me enough uninterrupted sleep to be accurate, so I just do it at 4:30. And that actually works out better for the days I am off, because I just set my alarm for 4:30, take my temp, and since it is still so early, I usually don't have a problem falling back to sleep for a few hours. As far as OPKs, I use the clear blue easy fertility monitor with my fmu, and then use the opk later that evening, between 5 and 8 pm. I am really bad with the hpt, last month i think I took my first one at 8 dpo, and even though I tell myself each month that I will wait next time, I know that I won't, I have a sickness haha
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-Markelle
