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writes:Hey all, Firstly, this post is for other women out there. Men may find it disturbing.I'm 28, almost 29. I have polycystic ovary syndrome, well, I have symptoms of PCOS (chin hair, inbalanced hormones levels etc). My gyno diagnosed me with it a few years back. I don't have any cysts on my ovaries, just a few extra follicles.Anyway. I'm only very slightly over the weight I should be for my height, so I'm not concerned about that. But I always worry that when I want to have children within the next couple of years, that the PCOS will affect my chances. It scares me to death.I have a question about ovulation. I'm wondering how you can tell exactly that you actually OVULATE? My cycle happens around every 5-5.5 weeks. It's not exact. But about every 17 days after the first day of my period, I have a week where I get increased lubrication down there. It's very noticeable. This white egg yolk-type consistancy that falls out of me. Lots of it. It changes in consistency over the week from thin to more thick etc. I know that's a normal sign, but is that enough to go on alone? Because I get this every cycle around the same time, can I be confident that I will be able to conceive when I want to? I don't know how great a sign this is.If you could let me know, that would be so appreciated.
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reader, desirewhitefire  +, writes (18 October 2011):
 I also have PCOS...I have all the goodies that come along with it too, like the facial hair, extra thick leg hair, cysts on my ovaries, elevated hormones, etc...you get the picture I'm sure. I am overweight. Not just a little, I've got a good bit extra around my middle, lol. (5'7 and wear a size 17 jeans...I will not post my wieght, lol.) I have been pregnant four times, carried two through birth, two were lost. I was 20 for the first miscarriage, 22 for the first full term baby, 24 for the second full term baby, and 24 again for the last miscarriage. The last miscarriage can be blamed on me not having waited long enough to get pregnant again after delivering. The first one was for unknown reasons. I kind of want to try to having another baby, and I'm 28 right now. I did have problems with breastfeeding both my kids. The first time was horrible and I had a meltdown in the kitchen at 3 in the morning when I couldn't get any milk out when my son was a couple weeks old. I carried on with the breastfeeding with him for a couple months until I threw the towel in. The second time it was easier because I kind of knew what I was doing, and I did all sorts of stuff to increase milk production. The troubles with breastfeeding are associated with PCOS. Anyways, not to make you paranoid anymore than you already are, but if you want children then you need to start now. The first time I was pregnant was bad timing for me anyway and the miscarriage wasn't a horrible thing for me to go through. But my boyfriend and I had been having sex for 4 years up to that point and we used the pull and pray method. When my husband and I were married we immediately started trying, and I didn't get pregnant for a year. The third pregnancy took two years. The fourth pregnancy was kind of like a fluke...I have no clue how I got pregnant so fast but I'm suspecting that it had something to do with all the stuff I was taking to increase milk production...who knows. Anyways, the point I'm trying to make is I didn't keep track of my ovulation, and yeah, I lost a couple pregnancies, but I also carried two healthy healthy 8 pound babies all the way through. The only advice I can give you, from personal experience, is to have sex often and relax. Sounds good to me, right? And also, you are the most fertile when your discharge is thin and slippery, almost watery. It's like that so the sperm can easily swim through. If you can imagine a sperm fighting it's way though your discharge to get to your egg and it actually making it (it's not a hard visual if you think a little about it) then you are fertile. If your partner has an easy time of entering you and it feels extra nice to him (yes, I have been told at times of fertility the sex feels better to my husband) then keep at it until the stage of fertility has passed. I can't press that enough...just having sex for the supposed three days of fertility in a woman's cycle isn't going to guarantee a pregnancy. You have to have sex three or four times a week consistently, unless you're menstruating, of course. A woman can be fertile at odd times in her cycle too, so just keep that in mind.
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reader, person12345  +, writes (17 October 2011):
 I second baby comp. I've heard amazing things about it both as a way to get pregnant and to definitely not get pregnant.
And you're dead on about the discharge, the first two days of extremely heavy discharge generally signals the release of an egg. I've read that this is actually an incredibly accurate way to tell if you do it right, a lot of people who use the fertility planning method of birth control use this as a marker.
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reader, chigirl  +, writes (17 October 2011):
 Not to run a commercial on you, but have you ever heard of the baby-comp or lady-comp? It goes under various names. It's a small computer-kind of thing that takes your temperature every morning and then calculates when you will ovulate. It tells you the safe times you can have unprotected sex without getting pregnant (although nothing is 100% and alterations in your body temperature may impact this), but that's not the main purpose of this computer. The main purpose is that it calculates when you ovulate so it can tell you exactly what days you are at your most fertile.
Here's a link so you can investigate this product some more. I am sure they have an Irish site for this product as well, just do a google search. Each country has their own brand for the essential same product.
http://www.raxmedical.com/babycomp.php
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