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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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TTC August 2026

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inkgirl · 22/07/2026 11:55

So I'm pretty much put this month, giving up all hope its happening this month. I know August is still a week away but thought I'd start a thread for the August TTCers.
How's everyone doing?

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Springcloud26 · 02/08/2026 15:34

I think I see a shadow of a line @NphysT! Fingers crossed for you x

HappyBlueDonkey · 02/08/2026 15:26

I’m undecided by those photos but can see what you can see also. I have everything crossed for you @NphysT you deserve this so much!

SophieP89 · 02/08/2026 15:04

@NphysT I can definitely see the line! 😊
Hopefully tomorrow it will be a little darker too, keep us updated x

NphysT · 02/08/2026 14:49

I know you can barely tell anything in the 1st pic but im kinda sure + hopeful that its clearer in rl

NphysT · 02/08/2026 14:46

I couldn't wait till tomorrow to test again. Tested just now so not 1st thing and I think I see a very very faint line. If I invert it, it looks more obvious but I now very suddenly terrified that I might actually be pregnant after convincing myself and my husband it definitely wasnt going to happen this month. Will test again tomorrow morning in hopes the line gets darker.

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inkgirl · 02/08/2026 10:25

3 weeks now ive been feeling sick and vomiting most days. During the night I was up 3 times running to the loo. Thank f* for en-suites
Got to wait another week before doctors will do testing. I'm hoping the feeling sick is from being anemic as its seems its definitely not pregnancy related

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inkgirl · 02/08/2026 10:22

Maybabe256 · 02/08/2026 09:38

Gosh this whole thing is so stressful. I cant dtd until tonight which I hope isnt too late. But I guess we need to start getting busy. I dont want to feel stressed!

Fingers crossed you get the chance.

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Springcloud26 · 02/08/2026 09:50

Maybabe256 · 02/08/2026 09:38

Gosh this whole thing is so stressful. I cant dtd until tonight which I hope isnt too late. But I guess we need to start getting busy. I dont want to feel stressed!

Good luck @Maybabe256 - I know what you mean about it being stressful trying to plan! I’m away from my partner next weekend and will have a gap of 4 days where can’t dtd. No idea if I’ll be in fertility window or not as can’t track lh this cycle, so will just have to cover what we can and 🤞.

As PPers said, your body could attempt ovulation more than once so keep testing. Do you have the strips where you can do 2-3 times a day? When I last tracked, as they started to rise I did mid-morning, afternoon and evening to catch the peak!

Maybabe256 · 02/08/2026 09:38

Gosh this whole thing is so stressful. I cant dtd until tonight which I hope isnt too late. But I guess we need to start getting busy. I dont want to feel stressed!

HelloDarknessmyoldfrenemy · 02/08/2026 09:16

Maybabe256 · 02/08/2026 08:13

Opk help please! My period has just finished (spotting day yday as it trailed off), cycle day 7 today. Felt a bit of an ovary twinge this morning so did an ovulation test and pregmate read it at 0.96. Surely I cant be heading towards ovulation already? So paranoid im going to miss it as I only took an ovulation test for the first time last month when it was literally positive and think we missed ovulation. My cycles are usually 30ish days or longer so ovulation tends to be around cd15. What would you do?

Some people can have an Lh pattern were it surges twice. So this would be a false peak and then you’d get a higher peak and actually ovulate at CD15. But I think this is more common in people with much longer cycles? Would definitely dtd now. But keep LH testing in case you have a two surge pattern!

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inkgirl · 02/08/2026 08:49

Maybabe256 · 02/08/2026 08:13

Opk help please! My period has just finished (spotting day yday as it trailed off), cycle day 7 today. Felt a bit of an ovary twinge this morning so did an ovulation test and pregmate read it at 0.96. Surely I cant be heading towards ovulation already? So paranoid im going to miss it as I only took an ovulation test for the first time last month when it was literally positive and think we missed ovulation. My cycles are usually 30ish days or longer so ovulation tends to be around cd15. What would you do?

Cycles can change.
I'd get baby dancing and keep to the ovulation tests

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Maybabe256 · 02/08/2026 08:13

Opk help please! My period has just finished (spotting day yday as it trailed off), cycle day 7 today. Felt a bit of an ovary twinge this morning so did an ovulation test and pregmate read it at 0.96. Surely I cant be heading towards ovulation already? So paranoid im going to miss it as I only took an ovulation test for the first time last month when it was literally positive and think we missed ovulation. My cycles are usually 30ish days or longer so ovulation tends to be around cd15. What would you do?

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 23:35

LucyCL · 01/08/2026 22:58

Hey, I am joining from July thread and today is 3/4 dpo. I have been trying for No.2 since I got my first postpartum period towards the end of January. Now this is the 7th cycle. I was on vacation during my fertile week so I was too tired to dtd every day. However I managed to do it 2 days before the O day, then on the O day and the day after that. Hopefully we’ve caught the the egg. So I am just going to treat this cycle like the previous ones. Good luck to everyone here!

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Welcome, i have my fingers crossed for you. We have a few here from the July thread. Every one here is lovely

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LucyCL · 01/08/2026 22:58

Hey, I am joining from July thread and today is 3/4 dpo. I have been trying for No.2 since I got my first postpartum period towards the end of January. Now this is the 7th cycle. I was on vacation during my fertile week so I was too tired to dtd every day. However I managed to do it 2 days before the O day, then on the O day and the day after that. Hopefully we’ve caught the the egg. So I am just going to treat this cycle like the previous ones. Good luck to everyone here!

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 22:39

NphysT · 01/08/2026 21:55

Im going to try and hold out till monday to test again at 10dpo but I also have no self control. Im so worried I just won't be able to get pregnant now as I had a TAC placed in Feb and some people have said its taken them a lot longer to conceive since.

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I'm the same with testing. I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully it dosent take you long

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 22:38

HappyBlueDonkey · 01/08/2026 21:48

I suppose we pretty much did the SMEP which works for a lot of people! 5 times in the fertile window isn’t awful

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Thats pretty good

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 22:37

Silverglass · 01/08/2026 20:56

Oh yeah definitely change! The one step pregnancy tests also had tons of false positives so recommend using the easy@home tests for those too

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That might explain the faint lines I had on them a few weeks ago and why they are now negative

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 22:36

Springcloud26 · 01/08/2026 20:09

I’m another fan of easy @ home, they got recommended to me by someone on a MN thread as I went through a 10 pack of clear blue digital ovulation and still hadn’t got my peak - switched to easy @ home, started testing 3 times a day, got a clear peak after a few more days and conceived that cycle!

Hope they work for you @inkgirl

Thank you

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NphysT · 01/08/2026 21:55

inkgirl · 01/08/2026 16:10

Welcome, sorry to hear its still negative, my my 2nd i had a positive at 9dpo but didnt get one with my 3rd till I was a week late

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Im going to try and hold out till monday to test again at 10dpo but I also have no self control. Im so worried I just won't be able to get pregnant now as I had a TAC placed in Feb and some people have said its taken them a lot longer to conceive since.

HappyBlueDonkey · 01/08/2026 21:48

inkgirl · 01/08/2026 16:11

Welcome, theres still a chance so don't give up hope just yet

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I suppose we pretty much did the SMEP which works for a lot of people! 5 times in the fertile window isn’t awful

Silverglass · 01/08/2026 20:56

inkgirl · 01/08/2026 19:49

Ohh that would make sense to why mine seem all over the place or just not reading it

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Oh yeah definitely change! The one step pregnancy tests also had tons of false positives so recommend using the easy@home tests for those too

Springcloud26 · 01/08/2026 20:09

I’m another fan of easy @ home, they got recommended to me by someone on a MN thread as I went through a 10 pack of clear blue digital ovulation and still hadn’t got my peak - switched to easy @ home, started testing 3 times a day, got a clear peak after a few more days and conceived that cycle!

Hope they work for you @inkgirl

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 19:49

HelloDarknessmyoldfrenemy · 01/08/2026 19:44

I find the easy@home ones really good so fingers crossed they work for you too. They are what the Premom app is designed to work with so they really should work better 🤞

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Ohh that would make sense to why mine seem all over the place or just not reading it

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HelloDarknessmyoldfrenemy · 01/08/2026 19:44

inkgirl · 01/08/2026 19:24

Ordered some easy@home tests. Let's see how i get on with these ones, hopefully gives me clearer answers

I find the easy@home ones really good so fingers crossed they work for you too. They are what the Premom app is designed to work with so they really should work better 🤞

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inkgirl · 01/08/2026 19:24

Ordered some easy@home tests. Let's see how i get on with these ones, hopefully gives me clearer answers

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