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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.

Tracking ovulation

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Renren28 · 06/09/2023 09:23

Hi all, I’ve recently started tracking my ovulation. The two apps I use say I should ovulate tomorrow on cd19. I’ve tested the last 3 days using onestep opks and can’t see any line progression…here is a photo from cd16 to cd18. What do you think?

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LavenderSweetPea · 06/09/2023 17:24

Often people don't get 'line progression' with LH tests - it's more of a 'are they negative or positive' kind of thing. As none of these are positive, you should keep testing, but you might want to consider testing twice a day to make sure you catch your peak, it can be very quick and easy to miss.

Hkals · 06/09/2023 17:31

Hey all,
I am really hoping someone can possibly help me in my confusion of ovulation.
So according to my app I should have ovulated on or around 2/3 September.
I checked on the 2nd with a Clearblue and was negative and no flashing face which would indicate I was in my way to ovulation.
I then checked the next day and I had solid smiley face which would mean I was at my peak.
i was confused as to why no flashing face came up and so randomly decided to test again today and a flashing smiley face has appeared. But I should be out of ovulation stage by now. So not sure what this means

Renren28 · 06/09/2023 21:26

Thank you @LavenderSweetPea

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moosey89 · 06/09/2023 22:13

Hi @Hkals - so with the clearblue opk the flashing smiley shows oestrogen rising, and the static smiley shows the start of your LH peak, you tend to ovulate 24-36hrs after getting a static smiley. It sounds like you just had a quick oestrogen rise which is why it went straight to static as there wasn't a gradual rise.

It's why the instructions say once you get a static smiley don't test again as it's a 48hr window for your ovulation from that point. If you tested again the next day then that result would be unreliable.

Hkals · 06/09/2023 22:43

Thank you 🙂 it probably wasn’t the best idea to test again 🙁

moosey89 · 07/09/2023 07:37

@Hkals no worries - if you want to do twice a day testing then the strip opks like premom are what you want 😊

Renren28 · 07/09/2023 08:09

Are any of these positive? Meant to be today CD19

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LavenderSweetPea · 07/09/2023 09:50

I don't think so, but that last one does look darker. I always recommend using the premom app to scan them in and get a score. Takes some of the guessing out of it

Renren28 · 07/09/2023 10:32

Thank you @LavenderSweetPea. I will get the app, was always wondering how people get those measurements!

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cflowerx · 10/01/2024 15:26

Hi! I’m so confused… trying for baby no 2.

Monday I did a clear blue (purple ovulation test) this was day 10 of my cycle which I got a static smiley face… this was early than expected as according to my flo app I was expected to ovulate Friday. This afternoon I’ve taken all of these ovulation tests ( i did this with a different clear blue reader) I and got the following results.. pics below. We done it Monday and yesterday night and that was going to be it for the week but this has got me all confused?? Any help or advice would be appreciated

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