TTC - July 2026

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Moving from the June thread, baby dust to all!

@Maybabe256 I use the easy@home strips with the Premom app. It’s free and really easy to use. You can take a picture of your ovulation test and it will give you a number based on how dark it is compared to the control line. Over 1 means it positive. I’ll try to attach a photo.

@HelloDarknessmyoldfrenemy ahh thanks so much! And so you also track ovulation? Because peak opk doesnt necessarily mean ovulation has happened right, just that its going to?

I don’t also BBT as I’m still up multiple times a night with my 2 year old so wouldn’t be very accurate i think. Are you BBTing? I find the charts really interesting!

And yes, you are right, Lh peak doesn’t confirm ovulation but whenever I’ve had a result over 1 I have ovulated. So it’s pretty accurate for me. And the egg is released 12-36 hours after the peak so the app putting ovulation as the following day seems fair.

I also record cervical mucus which has now dried up so I’m pretty certain it has worked this time! It’s been a long 70 days 😂 the other times I thought I might have ovulated, with a big surge on the Lh tests (but never over 1) my cervical mucus never dried up, it stayed wet/ EWCM, so it was always more hope that I ovulated than expectation. It’s just been such a long cycle I’ve been clutching at straws for ovulation to occur!

I'm in the TWW. 7dpo today, cycle 9 of trying for number 1 with nothing to show for it except a chemical on cycle 3. Had some brown EWCM 5/6dpo so would love to think that was implantation bleeding but trollgesterone gives me new pregnancy symptoms every month so who knows. I'm currently having what feels like ovulation pain but I've had that before and it was nothing. I've kept a track of previous symptoms in the tww so I can reality check myself when I get them again.

Im now 11 dpo and due my period Thursday, thought I saw a shadow on a test yesterday, but was wishful thinking, tests are negative this morning 😭 so I’m pretty sure I’m out.

On to the next cycle!

Hi, thought I’d join. Cycle day 10 - first one ttc baby number 2. 5 year gap and a new partner

Guys, would you input a withdrawal bleed in your apps as spotting or a period? Just curious on anyone's thoughts

I’d probably input it as spotting. As it’s not a true period which the app can use to guesstimate ovulation from?

How are your Lh tests looking now? How are you feeling?

Still bleeding and cramping. Last opk test I done was the 27th and it was a strong negative 😅 0 lh level. I might do one later today to see.

I annoyingly use 3 different apps:
Clue - mainly used for period tracking but it says ovulation 15th July.
Premom - Expected ODay 25th July
Fertility Friend - Expected ODay 8th July

Looks like you DTD on the right days 🤞🏻 ✨️

Hey all! Ttc third baby, think I ovulated 23rd! Not sure if that makes me 6 or 7dpo? DTD 21st, 22ns and 23rd Lot of pressure on this cycle as husband has said this is the last 😭 I have pcos and have recently lost 6 stone, he has varicocele and hydrocele, our chances aren't great but no one gets how much it is affecting my mood.

Wow, that is quite the variety of ovulation dates @TheUniqueMember !! I guess all you can do is keep taking ovulation tests and dtd. I find it very difficult not knowing when I’m going to ovulated. Definitely makes me more obsessive as trying not to miss it! I am a bit of a POAS addict 😬 hope it happens for you soon!

Hi! Congratulations on the weight loss, that is very impressive! I also have PCOS, nice to see a fellow sufferer here! Sorry to hear your husband doesn’t want to keep trying. That must be very tough. Fingers crossed for you 🤞

Funnily all the apps have been filled with same information even before I was on my patch so it's weird how they differ haha!

Yes it's the constant thinking if your body is doing what it should! I do BBT as well but not sure how reliable mine are as they're never the exact same time plus my DD has been waking up from the heat recently so I couldn't take mine this morning as I didn't have enough sleep 🙃

Hiya all, ttc my second baby after struggling with infertility and endometriosis with conceiving my first.

June was our first month ttc but I’m definitely out (just had a negative test done at a GP appt and feeling all the symptoms!). Expecting AF tomorrow. It’s a lot more triggering than I thought it’d be :(

here’s to a successful July for us all ✨✨

Hi all can I join in. I’m trying for no.2. I’ve just started using opks for the first time but I’m not having much luck with them, I think I’m going into my 2 week wait in the next few days, but I really don’t know so will just keep testing for now.
If it doesn’t work this month I’m going to try BBT next month but I’m up a lot with dc1 still so I’m not sure it’ll be very accurate.

My LH levels have risen... very very slowly. On the 27th it was 0 and today it is 0.03..... that's a good sign right? 😅

You got to keep going with the opk so they find your pattern. Are you using an app to upload them to? I recommend premom

I'm sorry to hear about your struggles with your first DC! I have my fingers crossed that it won't be as hard this time🤞🏻

Let us all have a BFP in July ✨️

AF just arrived so officially back in for July on day 1 today

How long ago exactly did you stop taking contraception? Maybe the hormones are still working their way out of your system and that is why your levels were 0 and now slowly increasing? But I’m just guessing, no answers really! Probably totally wrong! My Lh seems to hang around 0.2 normally but I don’t know what is average for most people.

My period is due on DH's birthday so really hoping it doesn't come this month or I'm on to cycle 10 TTC #1. We've said if it doesn't happen soon we will contact GP for a fertility referral in August becuase September will mark one year. I've ordered some easy at home tests. Wasn't going to reorder my ICs but couldn't resist. I'm 9dpo tomorrow. Would it be crazy to POAS in the morning? I can normally resist a bit longer but after brown spotting at 6dpo I'm thinking maybe that was implantation. Also thinking I could just be delulu lol.

Yes I assumed that's why they're 0! As they were never that low before the patch but now there rising slowly so that makes me more hopeful that something is happen. I removed my patch on the 23rd. Withdrawal bleed 26th - still continuing.

It does makes sense as a theory! Fingers crossed your hormones will go back to normal soon. 6 days ago is very early days still.

Hi all, crossing over from the June TWW thread. I’m only CD3 but my cycles can be on the shorter side so I’m going to try OPKs this month.

What day does everyone start testing? My Flo app suggests my fertile window starts from CD9 so would you start OPKs then or before? We were lucky enough to conceive on cycle 1 for both our DC so this is very new! Nice to see some others trying for DC3, makes me feel less crazy as most people I know have stopped at 2.

@Bumblebeemee haha I agree. I feel so crazy for going for no.3. Its taken me quite a while to feel ready to give up the relative calm of 2 🤣