Hey lovely,
Good luck on your TTC journey! We're month 4 on trying for our first & I've been using the Premom app. I really like it as you can track your ovulation sticks, periods, when you've DTD etc! Shows charts of your peaks from prev months to compare with this months - it's a really handy little app.
I also use easy@home ovulation strips from Amazon, £10 for a box of 50! Just don't stress yourself out with these, some people say give it 6 months of enjoying the every other day DTD & you'll be fine! Which is so true but I'm also a bit OCD with making sure my body is doing what it should be after a chemical pregnancy/early miscarriage at 5 weeks on month 2 of TTC - I never realised how common they are!! But I guess that's one of those things with testing before AF is due! Also everyone will tell you to buy a first response early response test if testing early (FRER - If youve not already seen those sorts of posts!) as they're the golden sticks everyone loves - to be fair, they're really sensitive!
Once you've had your first official period after coming off the pill, start doing 1 a day ovulation sticks (best in the afternoon/not first morning wee as surges normally happen in the afternoon!), until about day 12 maybe and then start doing 2 a day, (this is if you have a 28 day cycle) as normally you'd expect to ovulate around day 14 buttt of course everyone is different! I have a 35 day cycle and ovulate near enough bang on CD21 every month which is totally normal too!
Here's my ovulation strips from this month - from tomorrow I'll probably test 2/3 times a day until I see my LH surge and then I'm likely to ovulate 12-48 hours after that surge/peak! Then you're into the dreaded two week wait of symptom spotting all whilst every symptom is the same as the lovely AF arriving!
Hope I've not rambled on with a load of nonsense and completely confused you/repeated what you already know! Best of luck xx