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@katrina2017 What do you mean by peak? Peak LH, or peak day of CM? The best days statistically for sex are the 3 days before ovulation day, and they're all about equal, and as long as you hit at least one, you've about maxed out your chances for the cycle and hitting more doesn't really increase...

@kristeen Yeah sorry, didn't mean to come off as irritable about it! I remember being taken aback by it when I saw it at first, too, but the reading I've done since then has convinced me that you can usually get within ~1 day with charting, though of course the more signs you add (BBT, CM, OPK)...

@wwjosh19 Beyond just insurance coverage, trying for 6 months (at 35, and a year under that) before pursuing fertility testing is the medical recommendation for a reason. Basically, at 35 there is a 71% chance that you will conceive in that 6 months (and 82% chance you would in a year), based on...

@dazzling1 If you look at this graph, your AMH is just a little below the median for your age. As others have said, it doesn't mean anything for your (unassisted) fertility in the present or even the next few years. The nurse is not well informed - a lot of even non-specialist doctors aren't...

@inchrist1 Many women do, yes, but many women are not able to. Before birth control existed, the average age women had their last baby was 40-41, so at 42-43 less than half are going to be able to have a baby. In this study only about half of women at that age who had a previous pregnancy have...

@kristeen This study has been discussed many times and they use an extremely restrictive definition of "temp rise" - it had to be 0.2-0.3 degrees Celsius (0.4-0.5 degrees F) above the average of the previous six temps. That is much more of a rise than FF or most FAM methods require, and means...

@mattfoltz According to this, your AMH would fall in the normal range for women ages 26-30, though the lower end of normal. In general, it tells you what you likely already knew from your family history, which is that you are likely to go through menopause on the earlier side. However, it...

@lightofislam Ovarian reserve does not correlate with current fertility, so you are no more or less likely to get pregnant right away than any other 35-year-old. It is about egg quantity, but fertility has to do with egg quality, and the two are uncorrelated even though they both correlate...

@kyredneck Yes, as I said in my comment, first pregnancy is later as well as last being earlier. But it means the average going from 23-25 to 27-30, not 40+. The reproductive technology causing that is birth control. ART can’t improve egg quality, which is the main limiting factor in fertility...

@infomommax The amount of reminding you did for this one appointment sounds absolutely exhausting to me - three separate times, in addition to making the appointment yourself?! The idea that he responded to that by blaming you for not reminding him again, even if he then retracted it, tells me...

@flyboy1818 The age women are at last birth has actually gotten drastically younger from historical norms - when you look at historical populations before the age of modern birth control, the average age women has their last child was 40-41 - meaning half were even older than that. So through...

@ahcadvocacy In this case it wasn't really about sex ed, it was more that the wife had been seriously obsessing over her (pretty normal) cycles, reading everything she could Google about fertility and TCOYF, temping and taking OPKs, taking zillions of supplements and teas, and every week she and...

@ahcadvocacy Oh man, such a missed pun opportunity in the title - heated questions, heated debates, hotly-contested issues?? But really, thanks for this! I have mentioned this before but I followed a couple on YouTube that was TTC with no luck for a year and were starting to see an RE for...

@tomcat4260 I always recommend this article on the data about age and fertility - the author delved into modern studies on the subject and herself had three healthy children between ages 35-40. Key excerpt: So overall, chances are pretty good. The disadvantage is that if you do fall into the...

@jgeral0172 Whoa, absolutely not - that is very much a misunderstanding and I think you confused "normal" with "average." 90% of couples conceive WITHIN a year. You qualify for an infertility diagnosis if you do not get pregnant within a year, which is why conceiving within a year is considered...

@pilgrim8926 I don't think you're going to find a calculator for this. Why don't you explain your variables and timeline? In general, it takes on average about 3 months of trying to conceive and plus 9 months of pregnancy makes a year. The medical recommendation is at least 18 months between...

@awright5 You absolutely do not need to go to the doctor for this. You should only go to the doctor if you go 60-90 days with no period. Having a one-off long cycle is not a sign of perimenopause, it's a sign of being a human woman! It is unusual not to have fluke cycles every once in a while...

@black_square Premom's readings are just trying to do what your eyes do, but your eyes do it better - trust your own judgment of what is positive and negative. The numbers make it feel more objective, but it's not. Most women ovulate within two days of the first positive OPK, not necessarily...