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Started My Period-how Do I Track Fertile Days On 45 Day Cyc Posted: 12-07-06 22:45pm
My cycle is usually 28-31 days. Suddently
for the first time it has been 45 days.
What can I do to track it? Have sex
everyday? Or buy 45 ovulation sticks?
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meggan
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Posted: 12-08-06 01:52am
That is very hard, since you are
irregular. For normal fertility a woman
will ovulate about once a month( some more
than once). This normally happens about
14 days before your next period. For
example if your period is 28 days long you
will probably ovulate on day 14. 28 minus
14! To make sure there are sperm present
you should have sex on day 10- 16 after
the first day of your period. This will
help to increase your chances. I went
with this method and have been pregnant
twice this year. Unfortunately lost my
first baby!
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reneblack
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Posted: 12-08-06 01:54am
meggan
wrote:
that is very hard, since you
are irregular. For normal fertility a
woman will ovulate about once a month(
some more than once). This normally
happens about 14 days before your next
period. For example if your period is 28
days long you will probably ovulate on day
14. 28 minus 14! To make sure there
are sperm present you should have sex on
day 10- 16 after the first day of your
period. This will help to increase your
chances. I went with this method and
have been pregnant twice this year.
Unfortunately lost my first
baby!
i understand but, what about for
irregulars?
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Jules
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Posted: 12-08-06 02:16am
My advice would be to have sex every day,
or at least every other day, and it's
bound to fall on your fertile days. Not
a guarantee you will fall pregnant of
course but it'll increase your odds!
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Kia
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Posted: 12-08-06 03:06am
Every other day - it increases your
chances, every other day can lower the
sperm count due to how sperm is
produced.
It is very hard to track the cycle if you
are irregular, but if your cycle is
normally about 45 days then you could
expect ovulation to be about day 31 (ish)
so sex every other day from day 26 to day
33.
Charting your cervical mucus and your
basal body temperature can help you learn
when you ovulate.
Google "fertility friend" and they have
some fantastic tutorials on how to do this
and they also enable you to chart online.
If you chart your temp the site will
estimate when ovulation is for you too.
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Jules
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Posted: 12-08-06 03:46am
kia_breizzze
wrote:
every other day - it
increases your chances, every other day
can lower the sperm count due to how sperm
is produced.
ah good point! Yes, evry other day then
- don't wanna wear those bad boys out!
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reneblack
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Posted: 12-09-06 02:29am
kia_breizzze
wrote:
every other day - it
increases your chances, every other day
can lower the sperm count due to how sperm
is produced.
It is very hard to track the cycle if you
are irregular, but if your cycle is
normally about 45 days then you could
expect ovulation to be about day 31 (ish)
so sex every other day from day 26 to day
33.
Charting your cervical mucus and your
basal body temperature can help you learn
when you ovulate.
Google "fertility friend" and they have
some fantastic tutorials on how to do this
and they also enable you to chart online.
If you chart your temp the site will
estimate when ovulation is for you
too.
why dose every other day lower sperm
count? I thought it raises sperm count.
How do you prevent it from lowering sperm
count?
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Kia
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Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 12-09-06 09:03am
Sorry I mistyped.
Every day lowers the number and quality of
sperm.
Every other day increases the number and
quality of sperm.
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reneblack
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Yay!!!!!!!!! Posted: 12-09-06 22:59pm
Aw?---kai ...Thanks alot that really
helps! I can stress about
the littlest things which delays
everything.
I can stress about
the littlest things which delays
everything. 