TTC FIRST BABY - New cycle, let's go girls !

@pastelpink0 sorry to hear that hun. I hope you have better luck this cycle 💕

Ladies I think I caught my surge! does this mean I’ll ovulate tomorrow?

Morning ladies. I'm officially out of the running this month - AF arrived yesterday. But hey ho, onwards and upwards!

@sunsu I recommend using the Premom app because you can add tests every day and it keeps them neat so you can see the comparison and catch your ‘peak’ better.

here is mine so far

I started testing cycle day 10 because I tend to ovulate late. You can see the test line is not as strong as control line until tonight. So my surge may be happening now :) I will continue testing several times a day now to make sure

for some girls the test line gets gradually stronger, but for others like me it will be super faint until the actual surge. Girls with pcos generally have higher LH so the tests might look stronger overall, but the peak will still always be the visible most strong test.

Hi hun, you use ovulation tests pretty much every day until you see your peak. Some girls who know when they usually ovulate will start testing twice a day in that time period.

some signs that you may be entering this fertile week are egg white cervical mucus, and other signs like ovulation cramps, sometimes nausea, nipple pain etc.

positive test is when the test line is as strong as the control line, or stronger.

sometimes this doesn’t necessarily mean you ovulate, as the ovulation tests are only measuring ‘LH’ lutenising hormone. This hormone surges right before your egg is released. But sometimes it can surge and fail, so egg doesn’t actually release. The only real way to ‘confirm’ ovulation really happened is with BBT (basal body temperature) tracking. That, or if you get a period 12-14 days later.

but generally ovulation tests are reliable and if you get your ‘peak’ (the test line as strong or stronger) that means you’ll ovulate in about a day.

I hope that helps

Hi girls! I’m totally new to the ttc game and bought my first pack of ovulation tests today but am not really sure when to use them?? I have read through a lot of the threads but get a bit confused about the abbreviations and am embarrassed to ask as I should know this stuff?! Can anyone help advise what to do for the best chances? Wishing you all the best of luck in your journeys, it’s such a supportive feed and I have loved reading through it all xx

Do you have any other tests you could do?

Sounds like a late period from experience, sorry! Hope I'm wrong though!

Been TTC for 2 years - fertility consultant booked. Just wanted to send hugs as I know how consuming those little pee sticks become! Baby dust to everyone ❤️

I don’t have PCOS! I had a full internal scan last year when I was 35 to check my eggs etc as hubby and I still weren’t quite ready, defo no pcos

Hello all! I was posting on a September thread but can’t see an October one so here I am. 36, 37 next month trying for our first!

I’m so confused

We DTD a couple of times on flashing smiley day around the 26/09 which was the first time we tried and tried tracking it all. We had a wedding so didn’t wait for solid smiley day.

I have Flo and I’ve been tracking cycle all year just so I know where I am for many reasons, usually have a regular 30 day cycle

I’m now 5 days late. My boobs feel giant and last week I felt borderline narcoleptic. My peeing is also constant (completely unusual) and I have twinges not period pains.

i was going to wait until next week to do a test …but I’ve just done one because I have a work dinner and the races this week and it says negative

I’ve never been five days late for a period?!

I did it middle of the day (have drunk about 1LR water today). Was a clear blue one but a normal one not the how many weeks one.

Now I feel like a raging hypochondriac who now has a very late period?!

can you have a negative test?!

Writing this down feels better - but I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens this week! Whilst my boobs burst out of my bra.

Afternoon ladies ✨️

@Gemmaemilyx So sorry to hear that pal 😔 Let's make this month ours! 💪

@slothbat I scrolled away back to May in my flo app and my predicted ovulation has always been CD15-16, so it tells me to start tracking at CD10, and it's the same for this month. I tracked at CD5 for baseline, CD 8 today so I'll start tracking Tuesday too!

Hope everyone is having a great day!

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Thank you 🩷 I’m obviously upset but my lines didn’t get any stronger the next day, so I knew something was wrong. I’m just thankful it happened quickly and lines didn’t progress, so i didn’t have time to get too excited! Xxx

I'm sorry to hear that 😢 💐

Hey, I use premom app yes.
I think I missed my peak last month as well somehow. Even though I was testing lol.
I also use flo just to track my cycles.

Premom suggests ovulation on 22nd and Flo on 25th for this cycle.

Unfortunately I’m back and mine ended in a short lived chemical! 😢 CD 1 of cycle #2, unsure when ovulation will be this month. Good luck girls!

Yes I’ve loved it!! But I’ve also been like so what do I do 🤣 only tracked for 2 months but it seems to have taken over my life 😂

Hey! Welcome ☺️

Do you use the Premom app? That typically will signpost when to test based on data you’ve entered from previous cycles!

My cycle is usually anywhere between 34 and 44 days so this really threw me this month when it was 4 days early. Wasn't expecting it at all.
Definitely this month will be using OKP strips. Is this an option for you?
I'm currently day 8 but haven't started testing yet purely because I still find it difficult to get my head round it all so not sure when to test 😂

Morning @KT199 yeah last month I ovulated CD13 but that was the first month I had been tracking so will see this month what happens, has anyone else quite enjoyed this week of no testing and no symptom spotting 😂😂😂

Morning!

I will start testing about CD10 with OPK but CD8 with my clear blue advanced ☺️ I’m currently CD5! I normally ovulate CD14-16. I guess if it’s predicting you could ovulate CD12, then it lines up with mine! 🙂

Morning all! How are you? So this month I'm confused. I always have a 28 cycle then this month came on day 26. I keep a track of me period on an app and it's telling me to start ovulation testing from Tuesday?! Does this sound about right?

How is everyone feeling? Thinking most of you are ahead of me slightly so will you start OPK testing this week?