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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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Can someone just summarize Taking Charge of Your Fertility in a paragraph? Don't want to take temperature or anything dramatic or labor-intensive. Thanks.
20 replies [ Reply | Watch | More+1. I pretty much knew when inwas ovulating for #2 w out doing anything (got preg in cycle just before we were going to start trying - ie, charting etc again) but NO WAY would I have known had I not done it w #1. Was so easy anyway. If your not willing to roll over and take your temp every morning before uou get out of bed in the morning and be more aware of the consistency of your own vaginal discharge, your probably nowhere near ready for a newborn yet anyway....
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then you don't want to use the book. fertility friend dot com has pretty good summary info
[ Reply | More ]Temping is really not "dramatic" or labor-intensive. I got the book, read it cursorily (the parts that applied to me, first time TTC), started temping, and got pregnant the first month trying - twice! Its really basic.
[ Reply | More ]1st time preg every time - what I did: sex every 3 days (sperm lives for 3 days) and sex every day when I saw the cervical mucus (egg whitey stuff) and peed on ovulation test strips to confirm... So se every day for about 3 days at that time (ovulation test always came back positive the day after the cervical mucus started, confirming ovulation). Totally hassle-free IMO.
[ Reply | More ]Sperm can live up to 5 days, but the best thing to do is have sex every other day if you are not going to do anything else. Btw, ovulation prediction tests do not confirm ovulation. They only tell you that you are gearing up to ovulate. Ovulation *usually* occurs within 24 hours of your first positive test. Therefore, it is expected to be positive the day *before* you ovulate. The only way you can confirm ovulation is by temping and it only tells you after the fact.
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when you go to the bathroom, start paying attention to the wet spot on your undies. if you have the TCOYF book already, go to the page with the pictures of cervical mucus. gross, yea, but informative actually. create a beautiful and lasting relationship with your mucus and get to know it really well. the rest will happen on its own...
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