Thank you Lexie :)
Amber, your most fertile days are the 3 days prior to ovulation, about the time ewcm appears. Once your OPK turns positive, you will ovulate the next day only that one time and can only fertilized for that day until your period arrives 14 days later unless pregnant. To learn more about the menstrual cycle, search the word "pituitary" and find a post I started.
Even when doing things right, only 1 out 5 couples per month will wind up being pregnant..everyone just has to hang in there and it will happen to at least 85% of all couples by a years time. If after this, then we REs are here to help you start a family.
Amber, your most fertile days are the 3 days prior to ovulation, about the time ewcm appears. Once your OPK turns positive, you will ovulate the next day only that one time and can only fertilized for that day until your period arrives 14 days later unless pregnant. To learn more about the menstrual cycle, search the word "pituitary" and find a post I started.
Even when doing things right, only 1 out 5 couples per month will wind up being pregnant..everyone just has to hang in there and it will happen to at least 85% of all couples by a years time. If after this, then we REs are here to help you start a family.
September 17, 2007
Ovulation, by its definition, means the release of the egg. Once that egg is released, at least from what I've read, it only has a 12-hour fertilizing capacity, but it can live up to 24 hours. I know how you feel when you use OPK and still don't get pregnant. I've been there. But after I used OPK in conjunction with the BBT, it was clear when I actually ovulated the day before the temperature shift in my chart. I would still have positive OPKs even after I have ovulated already. Try using BBT together with OPKs. It's so much easier to pinpoint when that egg has been released. I'm sure Dr. Q has more to share with you. I hope this helps! :-)