When do you need to buy maternity clothes? Now I am pregnant I have a million questions and queries about the next 9 months! One of those thoughts is maternity clothes. How quickly is my body going to change and by how much? I’m quite…
Pregnancy tests are the next decision challenge! We have been very careful in planning the timing of conception, attempting to give ourselves the best opportunity to get pregnant. Then you may have read about our premature ovulation incident on Dan’s blog. Despite this, there is…
After an initial negative pregnancy test on day 23 (8 or 9 days post ovulation) then the faint 2nd line incident on day 25, Dan and I discussed how it would be much clearer if the test result just said “pregnant” or “not pregnant”! Despite…

It’s been 10 days since our baby making activities and ever keen to write this month’s attempt off as ‘experience’ due to our issues with timing, we took a test just to confirm our suspicions that we were not pregnant after our first attempt. Oh,…

Since my earlier than expected ovulation day, there is a good chance that I could now be pregnant. I’ve been (im)patiently waiting to find out – it takes around 5-7 days after ovulation for the fertilized egg to travel down the fallopian tube and implant…

I’m on the 3rd month of using the Clearblue Fertility Monitor (CBFM) to monitor ovulation and my fertile window. Almost a year ago, I started tracking ovulation via my basal body temperature (BBT) and cervical mucus. I gave up with BBT due to fluctuations and…

It was panic stations this morning as Jen for some reason decided to ovulate 5 days early. 5 days! After umpteen months of monitoring body temperature and as a failsafe, using a fertility monitoring kit, we thought we were well prepared and able to predict…

Oh my gosh, I’m ovulating early! I have been monitoring my cycle very carefully for a while now and I’m now also using the Clearblue fertility monitor (CBFM) to track my ovulation. This way we will know the best time to try to make babies…
When are you most fertile needs to be answered with two trails of thought. Firstly, your most fertile time in life, of course age related. And then your most fertile point within your monthly cycle. When are you most fertile within your lifetime? So when…