This is my first time TTC and I am on cycle 1 after stopping the pill, CD17 today. I have been trying to track my temperature and doing ovulation tests since CD7 and I don't think I have been doing it correctly in the beginning. I didn't know that you had to hold your pee and test in the middle of the day for the OPKs so the first couple of days my pee was way too diluted. I had some almost positives on CD 9 and 10 and then again on CD 12, but never a positive (but this might be because I just drank way too many liquids and didn't hold enough).
I have been taking my temperature first thing when I wake up, but it's not always at the same time (between 7 and 9am). I had a spike on CD9 and CD13. Fertility Friend predicted my Ovulation to be on CD 15, but then suddenly moved it back to have already happened on CD12... and then this morning when I woke up my temperature had dropped again so it removed the O-day completely. Which leaves me super confused. My ovulation tests have been negative (almost no line) the past few days, so I feel like maybe I missed an early ovulation due to not doing them correctly? But shouldn't my temperature consistently be going up then?
I also have been tracking CM and it has been egg-white for the last 4 days, yet no positive OPK-tests. We have been Dtd every day, but I guess it doesn't matter if I am not ovulating.. It's just all not really adding up and I don't know if I should expect it to still happen? If it already happened, shouldn't my temperature be up and my CM dry? Also should I take my temperature first thing upon waking up even if it is early, or at the same time, even tho I have already been awake?
Help please and thank you in advance!