And when I say surprise, I mean SURPRISE. I know that ovulation dates can vary, but I'm a rock solid CD16 kind of girl. I could have shrugged at CD15, and I wouldn't have even blinked at CD17...but CD13?
Yup. CD13. 100%. Absolutely. Without a doubt.You might wonder why my crosshairs are dotted instead of the usual solid red line. Fertility Friend does this when your ovulation signs conflict - in my case, everything points to ovulation except for the negative OPKs. But even those have a good explanation.
If you look at the OPK tests on my BFP chart, I only had one day of positives; two days seems to be more common, judging by Fertility Friend charts. This makes me think that I probably just have a short LH surge; in this case, it might have simply lasted less than 24 hours, which isn't unheard of - I googled it this morning and came up with a ton of examples of this, and one that was even less than 21 hours. So if this cycle isn't successful, I think that next month I'm going to use the OPKs twice a day (morning and evening) and see if that catches the surge. Just out of curiosity.
I have to say, I'm glad we decided to start getting busy waaaay before I thought we'd actually need to - if I trusted my CD16 average and waited until CD14 or so to start, we'd have missed our chance completely! As it is, our timing wasn't bad - we only missed one day in the critical five day window.
So now it's on to the dreaded two week wait...wish me luck!
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