When to start ovulation testing
OVULATION TEST DOS & DONTS ... TTC TIPS & TRICKS
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today we are going to be talking
ovulation
tests do's and don'ts if you want to
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sure you also feel completely
overwhelmed
by all the ovulation tests and pregnancy
tests every single month it can be a lot
so i thought that this video might be
helpful to break down a few things that
you should do when it comes to ovulation
tests a few things that you
definitely shouldn't do and if you have
anything to add or if there's anything
that i missed
definitely leave it down in the comments
below first thing you should do is
read your test results within the
specified time frame
so i'm kind of guilty of this i will
multitask as
a lot of moms do i'll do something and
think okay i'll come back to it
in five ten minutes and it'll be fine
and i completely forget completely
forget and i did this
one time when i was testing for
ovulation i took the test and i thought
okay i'm not just gonna sit here for
three to five minutes which is what my
tests specified
that you could read the results after
three or five minutes and i thought okay
i'll i won't set a timer on my phone i'm
just gonna go
i'll fold the laundry it'll be fine i
completely forgot
and came back 30 minutes later of course
at that point the test isn't valid
anymore so make sure that you check the
directions of your specific test
when you're supposed to read the results
for me i use the easy at home
strip ovulation test they're super cheap
i get them on amazon i will link them
down below
but for those tests you're supposed to
read the results three to five minutes
after taking the test don't for
ovulation tests
is don't test first thing in the morning
and this is a really big one because for
pregnancy tests
you have the highest amount of
detectable hcg
in your urine first thing in the morning
and that's why especially if you're on
any ttc message boards you'll see the
like
fmu acronym running around like the
first morning urine
is huge in this community but for
ovulation tests you actually
get more lh detection in your urine in
the afternoon and evening
times speaking of afternoon and evening
something that you do want to do
is to test in the afternoon and evening
so a lot of chess will recommend
actually testing
twice a day because for some women that
lh
surge window so the time in which you
are experiencing that lh surge
indicating that you are going to ovulate
24 to 48 hours afterward is
very short and so testing twice a day
is a really nice way of making sure that
you don't miss that lh surge window
so the next one's a big one don't read
your ovulation test as a
positive if your test line is fainter
or lighter than your control line
so again in comparison to pregnancy
tests
when you get a really really faint test
line
in comparison to that very dark stable
control line
it means you're pregnant right it's the
most exciting thing i'm sure some of you
have watched those videos
where you've seen other women get really
really faint lines and it means
that they're pregnant however with an
ovulation test your test line has to be
as dark if not darker than your control
line for it to be a positive test
and that's a mistake that i made
especially in the beginning
was reading my ovulation test as
positive when i saw the faintest of
lines you always have a small amount of
lh present in your urine
and it's not until you have that surge
it's not until your test line and
control line are
as dark as one another that you are
actually going to experience ovulation
so
i hope that made sense but it's super
important
when deciphering your ovulation tests do
start testing before
your lh surge so to accurately pinpoint
when your lh search is
recommended to start testing a few days
before
you think you are ovulating so if you're
brand brand new to tracking your
ovulation i do recommend
joining some sort of tracking app period
tracking app fertility tracking app
i love ovia but there are so many out
there there's glow
clue i think there's one called candara
there's so many
and there's so many wonderful support
systems built into those apps
but when you are testing for ovulation
it's really
like i mentioned before easy to miss
that very small window so what i like to
do is the day after my period
is done i'll start testing for ovulation
obviously those first few days
right after my period is done i'll get
really really
light test lines but then i can see and
i made an ovulation test progressions
video and i will link that
down below but then i can start to see
the
test line getting darker and darker and
darker and darker until eventually it is
as dark as the control line and then i
know
that my lh surge is happening and i'm
going to be ovulating in the next like
12 to 48 hours-ish
don't use your test more than once this
sounds like a bit of an obvious one
but it is something just to put out
there you
cannot use your ovulation tests
more than once and i don't know of any
brands that
work any differently do baby dance or be
intimate with your partner
12 to 48 hours after you get your
positive ovulation tests
so your positive ovulation test is
indicating that
lh surge which means that your ovary is
going to release
that egg in the next 12 to 24 hours
everyone's a little bit different so
just to be safe
i would say start baby dancing right
away and
if you're able to you dance from the
time that you get your positive
ovulation tests and the day after
and just to be safe the day after that
too the last
don't is don't test at different times
every day
don't test one day at 10 a.m and the
next day at 2 p.m
the next day at 5 00 pm the next day at
1 pm
it's recommended when you are testing
for ovulation
that you test at the same time every day
and that ideally
again you're testing in the afternoon
slash evening times
and not first thing in the morning last
do is
do limit your fluid intake about two
hours before you take your ovulation
test this
is because if you drink too many fluids
right before you take your ovulation
test it can dilute
the lh in your urine and then can
obviously
give you a false positive or false
negative again this was something that i
didn't realize and didn't know
and it's very different than when you're
testing for pregnancy because when
you're testing for a pregnancy it's
almost like i'm going to drink a lot of
water so that i have to go to the
bathroom
but with ovulation tests you want to
make sure that you are not drinking a
lot of
water or fluids right before you take
your test because you don't
want those fluids to dilute the lh in
your urine
so just be aware two hours before you
want to test
just limit how much water you're
drinking those are all of my
do's and don'ts for ovulation tests
again if there's anything that i missed
or there's anything that you want to add
definitely leave it down in the comments
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