Menstrual Cycle Question????

Pick up the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler. It has a wealth of information about these amazing bodies of ours. It will teach you how to track your ovulation cycles (much more important than your MC when trying to conceive, as it can change monthly). You can track your temperature daily - it will go up on the day you ovulate and stay high until your period starts, so get busy on the day it goes up and for a week or so after. You can also track your mucus like Lesley said, and it is so obvious once you figure out what to look for. Or you can pick up one of the many different types of ovulation predictors, but it is cheaper and easier if you learn your own body's signals. It is all explained in the book. Best wishes to you both!

It's a great book! You really have to find out when you ovulate, cycle length means very little on it's own. When I tracked my temps I found that I ovulated around day 18 of my 29 day cycle. The average information out there says i'd ovulate at day 15--which could have resulted in missed opportunities. You also need at least 10 days between ovulation and the end of your cycle to maintain a pregnancy. It's very important to know if yours is shorter.
If you decide to get medical help it will come much faster if you have charted your cycle and can show a doctor what's going on.
Those websites can be very helpful, but the less information you plug in the more it's just a calculation based on averages--not necessarily on you.

I second Margie L., pick up the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Just because your cycle is a certain length, doesn't mean that you ovulate at a certain timing within the cycle. I found that I ovulated earlier and had a 28 day cycle. I just started my ovulation earlier in the cycle and the timing between ovulation and period was longer.

Taking Charge of Your Fertility has you pay attention to many markers of ovulation that your body is experiences, not just calculations. Why do you think due dates are rarely correct. They use a certain number of days and calculate everyone the same. I knew the date I conceived and still they made the calculation. It didn't make sense to me.

That website probably used a general calculator to average your cycles. I'd stick to the old fashioned way of counting from day #1 of a period to day #1 of the next.

When we were ttc my hubby and I had sex on day 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 - just to be sure ;) Another thing that was very helpful to me was to keep track of cervical mucus (I know, ewww). When you ovulate it should increase and be kind of stretchy between your fingers. You'll notice when you wipe after you pee.

The key is to (try to) relax and enjoy yourselves. Stress is not condusive to conception!