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Conception

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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Clearblue ovulation tests - advice

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cat8986 · 01/02/2021 22:44

After using easy@home opk the last couple of months, I decided to bite the bullet and spend a little more on the Clearblue digital.

Although I was getting on okay with the IC, I wanted to try something a little more straightforward to take the guess work out of finding my peak, and only using them once a day sounded easier too!

I’ve only just placed the order for them but keen to know how everyone else found them? At what time of the day do you test? When you get your peak, does that mean that’s the day you’re ovulating or the day after will be when you ovulate?

Thanks in advance!

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Amz6219 · 01/02/2021 22:50

I think they’re brilliant, fallen pregnant twice very quickly using them. Tried cheapie ones alongside them this month but don’t think I will again because they’re too stressful!

I test first thing just once a day, my days of flashing smiley varies but usually around 2-4 days and we DTD every other day when flashing, then day of peak (static) and the next day x

SatsumasOrClementines · 02/02/2021 09:10

I’m no expert so don’t want to give advice incase it’s wrong but I think it says on the test leaflet that once you get your peak that means you’re likely to ovulate 24-36 hours after.

Apparently the egg is there for 24hours but sperm can live for a bit longer so maybe it makes sense to DTD a few times across this peak time so that there’s always sperm waiting to meet the egg iyswim?

RoxyJade123 · 02/02/2021 09:20

I was trying to get a have on my cycle with clear blue. Very good. But said I was ovulating yesterday evening but not today?

SatsumasOrClementines · 02/02/2021 09:32

@RoxyJade123 do you mean you got a static smiley or a flashing smiley?

RoxyJade123 · 02/02/2021 09:35

I got the static smiley. So we were meant to be trying in a few months but we had unprotected sex yesterday and the day before and last night I thought I'd check in case I got my dates wrong and got a static smiley. So I checked again this morning and I am not ovulating. Just confused

vickidaisy · 02/02/2021 09:40

@RoxyJade123

Once the static smiley is displayed it classes this as the end of your testing, so any new tests it will use as a baseline level for beginning the process again - therefore giving you the blank symbol. That's why static is displayed for 48 hours and it says don't test again. If you got the static then leave it there and you're good to go. x

RoxyJade123 · 02/02/2021 09:47

Thank you for you advice. I didn't know I could get a flashing one. I am now wondering if I should do a pregnancy test in a few weeks.

SatsumasOrClementines · 02/02/2021 10:24

last night I thought I'd check in case I got my dates wrong and got a static smiley. So I checked again this morning and I am not ovulating.
You are still ovulating, the test has finished for the month once you get the static so you won’t be able to test anymore.

I am now wondering if I should do a pregnancy test in a few weeks.
Static means you’re due to ovulate so if you DTD the day before/of then it is possible that the sperm could still be there when the egg released. But it depends on the sperm and on specific timings. No reason why you shouldn’t take a test, especially if you wait until your period would be due.

sarahc336 · 02/02/2021 12:21

They're well worth the money, got pregnant the first cycle using the (e fed in Mc) then 4th cycle later. I was shocked to realise I was ovulating at a different time to what I initially thought so I'd defo recommend them x

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