Trying to chart with no period

aenglish910
Since 11/2018aenglish910
Since 11/2018

November 4, 2018 at 11:58 amHi All. I am a mother of 4. I have been continuoisly nursing since December of 2012 when my son was born. I was still nursing, got pregnant the first time I ovulated. Then I had my daughter. I was still nursing her, she was 2, my period had still not come back. Then I find out i am pregnant with my 3rd son. He is now 1, I am still nursing, but I do not want to get pregnant again. How can I use FAM to predict my ovulation if I havent had a period yet? My son is 13 months and still nirses about twice during the day. I nurse him to put him to sleep. He sleeps for 3 hours, wakes up screaming, and then he nurses again. I'm thinking that since he breaks my sleep, this is one reason it takes my periods so long to return. All my children did the wake up in the middle of the night thing until they were about 2.

Thanks for the help!

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CassieLovesCha…
Since 10/2017CassieLovesCharting
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November 6, 2018 at 3:04 pmHi there aenglish910 - What fertile signs are you planning on tracking? You can always start charting and continue to chart in that cycle until you see a new cycle begin. This way you are getting in the habit of charting those signs daily and can see if you notice any of your fertile symptoms returning.

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aenglish910
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November 6, 2018 at 3:45 pmHi Cassie! Thank you for your response. I am tracking everything! I started tracking my temp and fluid about 5 days ago. I appreciate your response!

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CassieLovesCha…
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November 7, 2018 at 10:07 amYou're welcome! Feel free to reach out if any other questions comes up along the way :)

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Baird 1
Since 9/2018Baird 1
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November 12, 2018 at 11:58 amHi Cassie, on the same vein, my cycles also haven't returned but my Ovacue data is confusing to me. Would a cue peak be an elevated reading followed my two low readings? Or is it just any reading that is followedf by two lower readings? Would the low readings be lower than normal readings or just lower than the peak? Do they have to consecutively decreasing or just both numerically lower than the peak?

I can't really indentify any days on my chart which wouldn't be considered fertile. Please help! (When my cycles come they are pretty messed up, I've had 5 unexpected pregnancies using other natural fertility recognition systems so I'm very cautious)

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CassieLovesCha…
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November 12, 2018 at 2:53 pmHi there Baird_1 - A 'cue peak' is one elevated oral reading followed by two lower oral readings and can mean that you might be gearing up to ovulate in the next 5-7 days or so. There is no set value of numbers you are wanting to see as long as it's one elevated reading followed by two lower readings. They don't have to be consecutively decreasing as long as they are noth lower than the first higher value.

I was able to take a peak at your chart and it looks like you are just few days into this cycle. In your previous cycle, a good example of a 'cue peak is what you saw on CD 2/3/4 (way too early to be detected by the OvaCue). The one that the OvaCue picked up was on CD 5/6/7. It's tough to say if that was a true 'cue peak or no since that readings was missing on CD 7. But it's that overall 3 day trend you are looking for in those oral readings.

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Baird 1
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November 12, 2018 at 5:52 pmThanks Cassie, I think I might be failing to grasp how to identify cue peaks. Looking at chart #1 of mine (I have not had my period back, the chart was just getting a bit long to view) I can see days that fit critera of one high followed by two low readings on days 2/3/4, 5/6/7, 9/10/11, 12/13/14, 19/20/21, 26/27/28, 32/33/34, 35/36/37, 38/39/40, 44/45/46, 48/49/50, 50/51/52, 52/52/54

Given that I haven't had a period so have no reference point for the start of a cycle would I need to consider all of these days as possible cue peak? Some of them like the one starting on day 12 have a high followed by 2 lower days followed by more low days... Would that be a potential cue peak or do the readings need to go higher on the 4th day?

Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it.

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CassieLovesCha…
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November 13, 2018 at 9:44 amHi there Baird_1 - Those are all great examples of potential 'cue peaks'. Typcially you would want to see those 'cue peaks' followed by declining vaignal readings like you do on CD 28/29/30 or on CD 48/49/50. What those oral readings do on that 4th day, really isn't important. You are more so looking for those 'cue peak' trends over the course of 3 days.

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