Abundant EWCM day after Ovulation? Did I calculate Ovulation wrong?

Question

TTC never ceases to amaze me. Each cycle, my body would do something new to throw me off. This cycle, I used OPK, relied on CM and temping. I just learned that out of the 3, temping is probably the most reliable tool and I should have alerted myself to that. Anyhow, this is what happened this month. Take into account that hubby has low sperm count, low motility and low morphology, so we have to save the swimmers up 3 days before bding.

CD 9 = negative OPK, 97.4, sticky cm (sleeplessness may have caused the higher temp)

CD 10= negative OPK, 97.1, some ewcm.

CD11= negative OPK, 97.0, more ewcm. In retrospect, I believe I O’ed this day

CD12= positive OPK, 97.4, abundant ewcm. (BD’ed)

CD 13= still positive OPK, 97.6, dry.

I should have relied on the temp and see that with the dip on CD11, that estrogen was in full force and that was probably O day. Clearly, my temp was not in line with OPK and cm. My questions are:

1) How can OPK go positive on the day of O, doesn’t it go positive about 12 hours before O?

2) Why did I have the most ewcm the day after O?

3) Did I bd too late?

Answer 1

You ovulated on CD13. For sure. Which means that your BD timing is great!!!

My EWCM always dries up on the day of ovulation (I chart BBTs, so I know when I've ovulated) and when this cross-references with OPKs like it does for you, then you can pretty much guarantee that Ovulation was after the first day of +OPK and maybe even after the 2nd (ie: could have been on CD14, although I doubt that.)



In other words, you didn't have EWCM after ovulation after all, your timing was great, and you should take OPKs with a pinch of salt :) LOL. I bet your temps will be up tomorrow!

Good luck!!!