TTC August 2026

[inkgirl]

So I'm pretty much put this month, giving up all hope its happening this month. I know August is still a week away but thought I'd start a thread for the August TTCers.
How's everyone doing?

I think if you can just cover all days you think then you've done your best! I miscalculated this month, which meant we ended up dtd a lot more than planned, poor husband had a 2 hour nap today!

Its a crazy time , waiting for 2 weeks on something that probably hasn't happened within a space of 12-24 hours yet we have to wait this long to find out

Welcome, sorry to hear its still negative, my my 2nd i had a positive at 9dpo but didnt get one with my 3rd till I was a week late

Welcome, theres still a chance so don't give up hope just yet

My lh strip hit just about 1, so peak today or tomorrow 🙂 fingers crossed if my cycles go back to 30 days ish that makes it nice and easy to know ovulation is roughly at the end of the month every month.

Thats great to hear

I know, there should be a way to find out earlier and for there to be different symptoms than leading to AF! 😂

Yay @Silverglass, glad you are coming up to your peak and will know where you are in cycle!

My opks seem to be all over the place. I had a positive on the 15th and still no AF didnt DTD around then so know if thats when i did in deed ovulate I can't be pregnant. This waiting game is driving me nuts lol

It may just be the picture, it’s a bit blurry but is the app definitely reading your strips right? It seems to be saying 0 on tests where I can see a second line?

That’s great! So glad it’s gone back up! It is such a pain when the tests are all over the place and you don’t know whether this is a super important day to dtd or not!

Thats what I'm confused about. The 2nd line is definitely there but dont understand why its reading 0. The test today I'm sure was negative as the line wasnt quite the same shade or as dark as the control line. I dont track temp so its harder to tell if ir when I ovulated

@inkgirl It’s definitely not reading it right then. For it to say 0 it should have no line at all. Maybe get the easy@home strips, I think the Premom app has an easier time reading them and they are pretty cheap.

Here is a picture of my tests from my February cycle, you can see how faint my lines are at 0.01!

I don't think it is to be honest. I'm currently using one step ones. Will try the ones youve mentioned

Ordered some easy@home tests. Let's see how i get on with these ones, hopefully gives me clearer answers

I find the easy@home ones really good so fingers crossed they work for you too. They are what the Premom app is designed to work with so they really should work better 🤞

Ohh that would make sense to why mine seem all over the place or just not reading it

I’m another fan of easy @ home, they got recommended to me by someone on a MN thread as I went through a 10 pack of clear blue digital ovulation and still hadn’t got my peak - switched to easy @ home, started testing 3 times a day, got a clear peak after a few more days and conceived that cycle!

Hope they work for you @inkgirl

Oh yeah definitely change! The one step pregnancy tests also had tons of false positives so recommend using the easy@home tests for those too

I suppose we pretty much did the SMEP which works for a lot of people! 5 times in the fertile window isn’t awful

Im going to try and hold out till monday to test again at 10dpo but I also have no self control. Im so worried I just won't be able to get pregnant now as I had a TAC placed in Feb and some people have said its taken them a lot longer to conceive since.

Thank you

That might explain the faint lines I had on them a few weeks ago and why they are now negative

Thats pretty good

I'm the same with testing. I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully it dosent take you long

Hey, I am joining from July thread and today is 3/4 dpo. I have been trying for No.2 since I got my first postpartum period towards the end of January. Now this is the 7th cycle. I was on vacation during my fertile week so I was too tired to dtd every day. However I managed to do it 2 days before the O day, then on the O day and the day after that. Hopefully we’ve caught the the egg. So I am just going to treat this cycle like the previous ones. Good luck to everyone here!