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Jackie was 38, and she was not trying to get pregnant when she bought her first pack of ovulation test strips.
She had lost a pregnancy that December. What she wanted in the months after was not a plan. It was information that her body was still doing what it was supposed to do. She had never tracked a cycle in her life. The loss is what sent her looking.
What the loss changed
“Experiencing a loss was very jarring and changed how I saw things. Pregnancy wasn’t guaranteed.”
That shift is the part a lot of women recognise. Not the grief itself, but what comes after it, when something you had assumed would just happen stops feeling certain. For Jackie it turned into a worry she could name.
“I worried after my miscarriage that something might be wrong. Maybe I couldn’t carry another baby. Maybe I waited too long.”
She was not trying yet. She was looking for information.
The strips came first, the app came with them
Jackie bought her ovulation test strips on Amazon, and the listing recommended the Premom app to read the results. That is how she found out about the easy@Home and Premom fertility tracking system.
“I love to learn and saw it as an opportunity to get to know my body and cycle better.”
What she could see once the tests were in one chart
She scanned her ovulation tests into the app, where the readings built into a pattern she could follow. Over a few cycles, she learned her luteal phase length and when her period was going to arrive. None of that changed her day-to-day, and she is honest about it. She calls it handy.
She added PdG strips to what she was already doing. The two tests answer different questions. An LH test picks up the surge that comes before ovulation, so it tells you ovulation is likely approaching. A PdG test is taken later in the cycle, and a positive result suggests ovulation has likely already happened. Logged together in Premom, the LH curve and the PdG result sit on one chart, which is what turned a stack of individual results into something she could read.
“It enabled me to see a very clear picture of when I would be ovulating and the best time to try again.”
Five months later, they decided to try
That was May 2026. She had several cycles of her own data behind her by then.
“…gave me the peace of mind that things were still working ‘as they should’.”
The nerves did not disappear when she got pregnant. She is clear about that too.
“I was nervous about trying again, and during my current pregnancy I remained detached for quite a while until it was very clear things were progressing as they should.”
The cycle they timed to her surge and her peak
Jackie caught her surge, then her peak. They tried on both of those days. Not on the day that had been predicted for ovulation.
That distinction is why the tests exist. A predicted ovulation day is an estimate built from cycle history. An LH test is reading what your hormones are doing in the cycle you are in.
“I got pregnant with this baby on my first cycle trying.”
What she’d tell a woman who’s scared she waited too long
Jackie is blunt about the noise she had absorbed by her late thirties.
“Do not go into this journey with any assumptions. Being in my late thirties, I have always been inundated with the warnings: ‘you’ll be high risk’, ‘but birth defects’, ‘don’t you want to be around for your kids?’, ‘better get on it, it could take a while at your age’ etc.”
“Age does not dictate what your personal experience will be. If you are worried you maybe missed the boat and are scared to try, there are plenty of women with stories like mine; it’s not too late if it’s something you really want.”
