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How I Tracked My Fertility + Got Pregnant INSTANTLY
hi guys and welcome back to my channel
so today I am gonna show you how exactly
I tracked my fertility after coming off
birth control and how I got pregnant
pretty much straight away in my second
cycle of trying so the one thing that
you need to make tracking of fertility
so much easier is obviously ovulation
tests and I will link the product and
the box that I got off of Amazon in the
description below because it was
probably the best purchase with anything
to do with fertility so these came in a
box of quite a lot I can't remember the
exact number but I will link it down
below and it had a bunch of these and a
bunch of test pregnancy strips as well
so this is exactly how I laid it out I
started off with cycle number one after
coming off of birth control on the left
hand side I had the date and then I had
the cycle day right next to it so as you
can see each cycle starts at cycle day
one which is the first day of your
period so for me we weren't actually
trying this cycle this was just letting
my body go back to normal after coming
off of birth control so as you can see I
had a withdrawal bleed for pretty long
it wasn't a exact period it was just a
withdrawal bleed my body going back to
normal after coming off of the hormone
and then I started taking my ovulation
test strips which is what is inside this
packet so I started taking those every
day in the morning as soon as I woke up
and as you can see it got two cycle day
14 15 16 17 still no ovulation and it
was actually on cycle day 22 that I had
my ovulation day so the way that these
ovulation test strips work is that
you'll get two lines no matter if you're
ovulating or not so unlike a pregnancy
test where if you have two lines it's
likely that you are pregnant so with an
ovulation test strip two lines does not
necessarily mean you are ovulating
so the first line is the test line the
second line is the control line so when
your test line is actually darker than
your control line that is when you're at
peak time for ovulation so you're
actually not ovulating exactly right
then you're ovulating 12 to 24 hours
after you get that first pee
test I then just have a random pregnancy
test thrown in the mix right there and
that is what also came in the pregnancy
test pouch which is the little pink
pouch and that was just to make sure
that I wasn't actually already pregnant
so moving on to cycle number two this is
when we actually started trying to
conceive which is what TTC stands for as
you can see there was the date on this
side and cycle day 1 beginning and that
is when I had my period I then began
taking ovulation test strips beginning
around cycle day 8 just because I didn't
know when my body was actually ovulating
so I was sort of seeing what was
happening with my body right here and as
you can see I ovulated on cycle day at
13 this cycle well that's when I got my
peak which means I ov you lated around
12 to 24 hours after I got that peak
which is why here that's sort of like my
fertile zone between cycle day 13 14 and
15 and the reason there is so many
ovulation test strips is because I took
one every morning and one every night so
I could see exactly when I got my peak
so I got it on cycle day 13 in the
morning and then it was still pretty
dark at night but the next morning it
started to fade away which means I did
actually get my peak right on cycle day
13 so you don't have to take as many as
I did but I just wanted to see exactly
what was happening with my body
obviously then once you've got your peak
you only ovulate once every cycle so I
stopped taking them and that's when I
moved on to taking the pregnancy tests
so DP o stands for days past ovulation
and I did start taking pregnancy tests
really early you won't usually get a
line even if you are pregnant because
there's just not enough hormone and your
system to be able to tact it on the
strip you'll usually start seeing a line
around ten DPO but I was pretty eager as
you can see and I wanted to get a nice
sort of gradient so if it did show up in
it would get darker and darker every day
that you took a pregnancy test
however this cycle I didn't get pregnant
I did then end up getting my period so
from this cycle I now know that I of you
late around cycle day 14 and that my
cycle
is approximately 27 to 28 days long
moving on
to cycle number three of trying to
conceive so again I've got my period on
November 21st cycle day one and then the
same thing again started taking my
ovulation test strips once in the
morning and once at night and then I got
my peak on cycle day 14 so you do the
deed around here you can do it as soon
as you get that peak or you can do it 12
to 24 days after you can also do it
before but you obviously don't know if
you're ovulating because sperm does live
in your system for up to five days so if
you do it beforehand and then you
ovulate you could also get pregnant from
that I got my peak I ovulate 'add we did
the deed and I stopped taking the
ovulation test strips and moved on to
taking the pregnancy tests so again I
started at four DPO because I am eager
and just wanted to see that positive
line straightaway so that's when I
started taking them everyday in the
morning
straightaway in the morning you're gonna
get the best line if you take it in the
morning when your urine is pretty dense
and got the most hormone and as you can
see tend EPO there is a very very faint
line and that is the day I knew I was
pregnant on December 15th 2018 so after
I got my positive on one of these cheap
strips I then moved on to a more
expensive test so this was the first
pregnancy test that I took and there is
a very very faint line going down I did
take these about four months ago now
it's April and obviously I got pregnant
in December so these are pretty old but
as you can see I wrote on it 10 gpo so I
knew exactly when it was it came up with
a line I then took a clear blue digital
however it said not pregnant because
those tend to did not be able to detect
until about 12 to 13 or a year and
fourteen DPO and I was doing it at ten
dpo so instead I took a first response
which can detect that early and it came
up with a positive yes and that is how I
knew I was pregnant for sure I then
stopped taking a test but as you can see
the lines did get darker and they would
have continued to get darker
if I had taken them daily but this was
on 14 DPO just two days after this test
and as you can see it is pretty clear
that line is a lot darker and the
digital did come up same pregnant so
that is how I got pregnant so the reason
I made this video is because when I was
trying to get pregnant these odd types
of videos that I literally watched all
day every day just seeing how other
people were tracking their fertility and
I thought if any of you are trying maybe
you'd be interested in how I tracked
mine so if you are watching this video
and you are trying good luck to you and
I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll
see you in my next one
