Getting Pregnant

I’d already gone online to check approximately when I ovulated each cycle, and since my period was regular - varying by just a day or two each cycle - I knew that around 14 days before the date my period was due, I was probably ovulating. We made sure that we did the deed more often around this time, but we were getting intimate regularly throughout the month so we were certainly maximising our chance of conceiving anyway.

But after six months, I thought I’d get a bit more scientific, and after getting advice from someone who’s wife had had trouble conceiving (finally, someone else!) I bought an ovulation test kit from the supermarket and began peeing on sticks.

Actually, the first kind of kit I used involved peeing in a cup and dipping a stick inside. One pink line for the control, and another line that got darker as I was closer to ovulation - and when it was darker than the control line, then according to the instructions, I would ovulate within the next 24-36 hours. It was easy to use and only involved testing myself for about 5 days a month, starting from about the 9th day of my cycle and continuing until it detected ovulation.

The good news was that it looked like I was ovulating at around the right time, and we’d been “doing it right” all along. This was better than finding out that I didn’t ovulate, but not especially helpful. So we just continued on as we were …

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