Which ovulation kit?

[Rockinghorse123]

Hello. Just starting TTC #2. Never used a kit with ds but have heard excellent reports from friends about them.

A quick Google search tells me there are loads of different kinds ranging from £20-£200!

Any recommendations?

What are your periods like generally speaking nowadays?.

If your periods are irregular in nature these are really best avoided in the first instance.

Quite regular really. I was on depo before ds and it took about a year after for them to come back then another couple of month to regulate but since ds only been on mini pill and they were regular but light whilst taking it.

Stopped taking pill after I finished my last pack around mid June time and periods have carried on regularly just heavier.

Do you think I'm better just to guess ovulation roughly myself and see how I go?

I would see how things go and not use the kits; they can put undue pressure on women as well to conceive.

Self predicting ovulation is nigh on impossible even with use of such kits and these can be wrong anyway. Have sex as and when you feel like it throughout the cycle and do not go down the route of timing of intercourse.

Thank you! That's what we did with ds but I'm Just impatient!you're right though I will let nature take its course!

I would recommend the clearblue fertility monitor, we have a thread here on MN. After TTC for 12 months I felt that some control would help reduce my anxiety problems over whether I was oving or not and when the best time was. The cheaper OPKs are often inaccurate, vague and require a fair bit of work on your part in terms of charting.

I would however enjoy TTC for as long as you can before resorting to using anything though, to buy the monitor and one box of the sticks cost me £120! Best thing maybe to do would be to just enjoy DTD. Financially speaking it's not worth investing unless you start dropping into the 10% that take more than 12 months or so.