Those who are "winging" it.

Just wondering...when you say you are just winging it and will just see what happens what exactly do you mean by that? Are you not using OPKs, checking CM, checking temps etc. Do you just whenever you feel like it and see what happens?

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when I run out of BCP we are just going to continue as normal except I wont be taking any more pills. We may do PNP at first but eventually we wiill just change nothing except that I wont be popping a pill each night. The only TTC thing we will be doing is charting my cycles. After a few months we will try timing DTD a little more and maybe start doing some of the things like raspberry tea, mucinex, whatnot. A few months after that we will go all out and do OPKs and whatever else we are supposed to be doing.

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we were winging it our first month....by that i mean i really didnt know when i was ovulating and was just trying to estimate based on what the charts said on mymonthlycycles.com. we did it around when they said i was most likely ovulating.

that didnt work so this month i bought opks and will use them. hopefully i have a better idea of when i ovulate

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The only thing I am doing is paying attention to my CM and ovulating

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i am off BC on the 20th

for the next month we'll PNP, come November we'll probably start having regular sex without withdrawal until i get pregnant (hopefully! fingers crossed!)

i know so many people who got pregnant from just having sex without bothering with anything else. i am not going to take my temp, chart cycles, buy any monitors, etc. unless i am not getting pregnant and/or not having normal cycles after a few months...

i actually asked my midwife if there was anything i should do and she said take the vitamins and have sex she said if i don't get pregnant in 6 months come back but she thinks we shoud be fine since we are both young and i am healthy as far as she can tell...

for awhile we thought maybe we'd try to gender sway but it's way too much work for me this is going to be our first baby and we both want to enjoy the process of making it if we can. i don't want to make any unecessary stress about it if we don't have to. of course if we aren't getting pregnant and we have to do things like chart, temp, use fertility monitors, take medications, we will do it - but i don't want to stat off on that foot if it's not necessary...

so for us winging it just means being reckless and hoping something comes out of it! i probably will want to have more sex around the time i think i am ovulating once November comes, but otherwise i think we have sex often enough for something to happen

Message edited 9/16/2010 11:01:31 AM.

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we are winging it in a way... i just make sure to on the days i am supposely ovulating. I am not checking my cm or temping or anything else. If i am not pg by the end of the year them we wil step on the game and start opk

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What I am doing for my body in relation to "winging" it.
I have been taking folic acid since March, just ended BCP & just had my first AF off BCP so I started my prenatal. I am going to start going back to the gym (never seemed to make it back after the HM ) and I am going to start cutting down on the amount of wine I drink a week and are cutting down on the junk food.

Now for the actual technical stuff
We are going to actually TTC after the New Year and as of right now, our version of "winging" it will be watching my O, using fertility friend, pre-seed and doing around the appropriate times. I think after 3 or 4 months if we have no luck we will prob, in addition to above, temp, do opk & try Deanna's plan for the following 3-4 months.....if still no luck (I not) we will prob start going to the doctor for some direction.

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Posted by Its4Real

we are winging it in a way... i just make sure to on the days i am supposely ovulating. I am not checking my cm or temping or anything else. If i am not pg by the end of the year them we wil step on the game and start opk

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Posted by Its4Real

we are winging it in a way... i just make sure to on the days i am supposely ovulating. I am not checking my cm or temping or anything else. If i am not pg by the end of the year them we wil step on the game and start opk

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I wrote down my cycle days and try to make sure to from day 11 on, but if it doesn't happen that night I don't freak out.

I don't use anything yet, I keep saying next cyle I'm going to use an ovulation kit but so far I haven't. we really aren't in a rush so I don't want to do all this work yet, I really want it to happen when its going to. in a few months I think I will start doing more if it doesn't happen. I don't want to stress about this at all, and if I start doing more I will get stressed. Its still fun

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For me "winging" it meant to just estimate my O date and around that. I didn't want to go crazy with OPK's or temping. I wanted to take the more carefree approach to TTC. I figured if this method didn't work for us for several months, we would start OPK's and temping. Thankfully I got preggo on our 2nd month trying.

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I came off of BCP in May and in August we starting BD'ing without being careful. We're just keeping to our normal schedule and whenever we feel like it. We'll stick to this for a few months before we try to plan it out a little better with OPKs or something.

But I am keeping track of my cycles...after just a couple of months, it's already helpful to look back and see what happened the month before (so I remember what's normal and I don't make myself crazy reading into every little thing, lol).

The only other thing I'm doing is taking a prenatal, which I started after I stopped the pill.

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Nature is forcing me to wing it b/c I have no idea what my body is doing. We shall see... good luck ladies!

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the only thing i do is plug in the date of my period on any online fertility website i find... it tells you what good dates to i put a few smiley faces on my calendar book and take it from there.

my first pregnancy, were werent necessarily trying but didnt prevent. i didnt even know when i was ovulating.

for my 2nd pregnancy ( which was miscarried) i thought i was supposed to ovulate the following week but when i looked online, we during a slightly fertile time and poof!

i am going to go into this with the same attitude.. just have recreational sex ( esp around the time of ovulating) and let it be...
if i see that 3/4 months pass, than maybe i will get a little anal about it..

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We winged it with our first. I wasn't taking BCP and we just used no protection. I didn't use OPK or check for CM. I did start taking a prenatal. We got lucky the first month of trying.

DH and I just started winging again this month. Kind of just "see what happens" I started taking Prenatals again.

To anwser you question a little better, winging it for us is when ever we feel like it and see what happens.

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Whatever happens happens... I don't temp, look at charts or anything like that... we just and have fun with it.

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We just whenever we want, no birth control used, no charting, no temping, no nothing.

I can't help but notice my CM changes though, so sometimes I know when to throw in an extra

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i didnt use OPK or tempting...i just checked for CM everyday ...and i am a believer that you dont need a lot to get pregnant. because i had sooooo little it was barely there and still got preggo (in first cycle of trying).