Our Journey – Step 2: Track Ovulation
Well, we started with tracking our ovulation… and quickly realised we had no idea what we were doing.
At first, we assumed it would be simple. Mark a few days on the calendar, wait for the magic to happen, right? Wrong. What even is a luteal phase? How long is a normal cycle? And why did my app say I was fertile on a Tuesday when Kat’s said Thursday?
We were deep in the data weeds before we knew it — BBT charts, cervical mucus checks, OPKs — the whole alphabet soup. And it felt overwhelming.
At that point, Kat was confused and a little frustrated. "How do people get pregnant by accident? This feels like trying to crack a code," she said one morning while trying to interpret her test strip.
It was trial and error. We bought the cheap test strips first — you know, the ones with the faint lines you have to squint at under good lighting. But they didn’t cut it. Half the time we weren’t even sure if we were reading them right. That’s when we decided to do something about it.
After our pregnancies, we reflected on how frustrating that part of the process had been — and we knew it didn’t have to be that way. That’s when we decided to source a manufacturer and develop our own: Ovulation Test Strips.
We made them wider, clearer, and easier to read, because we wanted women trying to conceive to have a better experience than we did. No more squinting or second-guessing. Just confidence in your results, right when you need it most. But then came the real game-changer: learning our own patterns. For me, I ovulated around Day 16, while Kat’s cycle was a bit shorter, around Day 12. Those few days made all the difference.
We learned not just the science, but to trust our intuition. Ovulation pain? Twinge noted. Extra fertile-looking discharge? Game time. We even made it a little ritual — testing together in the mornings, comparing results like nerds.
And this was the shift: it stopped being just about data. It became about connection — with our bodies, with each other, and with this new little dream we were growing.
Tracking ovulation wasn’t glamorous. It was messy, emotional, and sometimes annoying. But it gave us control in a process that can feel so out of your hands.
