Ovulation test question

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Probably a very stupid question, but I read the paper in the ovulation test kit, and still didn't get it, so...

We will hopefully start to TTC soon. We already have DD, and would like to try for a boy this time. (No problem if another DD, though)

So I would like to wait until ovulation, and jump DH right afterwards. From what I understand, ovulation kit shows the increase in hormone levels 1-2 days before ovulation, which is not much use to me.

Does anyone know how I can use the ovulation kit to know when I have already ovulated?

You can't use an OPK to confirm that you have ovulated after the fact.

An OPK can only tell you that an LH surge is happening, which means that ovulation usually follows within 36 hours of first detecting the surge. (subject to all the usual caveats about women who have more than one LH surge and the possibility of having a surge which is not followed by ovulation).

The best days to conceive are said to be the two days before ovulation and the day of ovulation itself, and it is these days which women hope to identify by using OPKs. But they won't tell you anything more subtle than that.

You might want to do some research on the Shettles Method, although whether you could practice it armed only with OPKs I do not know.

Lulabelle, according to TCOYF, many women experience their "peak day" (i.e. the last day of fertile cm) on the day before ovulation. If I had to guess I would say it is possible that you are or have ovulated today.

If you want to conceive a boy, have sex just before and during ovulation.

I would really recommend a book called Taking Charge of Your Fertility. It will teach you things about your body your never knew. A very interesting and helpful read imo.

Yes Lulabelle, to get pregnant ideally you need to have sex in the couple of days before you ovulate or the day on which you ovulate.

OPKs aim to predict ovulation and many women ovulate within 36 hours of getting a positive test.

Therefore if you have sex the day you get a positive OPK and the next day you are in with a chance, assuming that you do then ovulate.

I agree with Iliketomoveitmoveit, a copy of Taking Charge of Your Fertility is likely to be money well spent.

We hear male sperm gets there faster but how much faster? If we are talking about an hour or two, then for a boy, I should attack DH after ovulation, it seems.

Have sex the day after just to sure as well.

In fact to be perfectly honest sex every other day from the end of your period to when you are next due on is your best bet.

Then you can save the money on the OPK's & buy champagne instead

Yes, but that maximises chances for a baby, not for a boy.

sex after O is futile for conception.

That is not what we learned in biology class.

Just like sperm, egg lives a while as well.

Egg lives about a day, apparently.

The egg survives for 12 hours, sometimes longer, then it dies unless fertilised. The sperm needs to be waiting in the tubes to meet the egg and it takes hours for the sperm to swim that far, therefore sex after confirmed O is pointless because by the time the sperm get there the egg will be dead.

this explains it all rather well

Taking Charge Of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler is a very good book.