TTC: Baby #2

I just took this 2 minutes ago is it positive?

Need some help figuring out what’s going on! My period is 2 days late so I took the clear blue rapid pregnancy test which was positive and then the digital test an hour or so later which was negative. Which do I believe? To be honest we missed ovulation in my last cycle so the last time we were intimate was 1st July and then I had a period albeit it was lighter than usual. Am I pregnant or not?

We have been trying for another baby since June 2025, we had our little boy in Feb 2023 and we just want another one soooo much. My period has arrived today yet again, I feel so hopeless. We are doing literally everything possible, I am soo scared that it’s not going to happen for us. I’ve tried to get an appointment with my GP but been told we don’t qualify for a fertility referral due to us having one child and it not being 2 years since we started trying for another. In all honesty I just wanted to talk to someone about it all and I don’t know have it looked into more? I keep feeling like something is wrong, to be honest I don’t even know why I’m writing this but I’m fed up of people constantly asking if we are going to have another child and when we do say we’ve been trying for a while we get the whole ‘well you’ve already got one’ etc, and do not get me wrong I feel the luckiest in the world to have our little boy, he is our everything. But that doesn’t take away the upset and failing feeling I get every single time my period shows up. Sorry for the long post, I just felt I needed to get something off my chest and I know this is a safe space 🤍

Hi everyone! I’m hoping for some insight because this cycle has been very different from my usual ones.

I’m currently CD18 and trying to figure out whether I already ovulated, am ovulating now, or if ovulation has been delayed.

Here’s my timeline:

• Period: July 19–22
• Intercourse: CD12, CD13, CD15, CD16
• I’ve been tracking with Easy@Home LH strips, BBT, Kegg, cervical mucus, and Premom.

LH progression:

• CD14: 0.39
• CD15 PM: 0.71
• CD16 AM: 0.62
• CD16 PM: 0.37
• CD17: 0.08
• CD18: still low

I never caught a true positive where the test line matched or exceeded the control.

BBT:

• CD15: 96.98°F
• CD16: 97.65°F
• CD17: 97.45°F
• CD18: 97.32°F

I had a spike, but then it gradually came down instead of continuing to rise, so I don’t know if this is a real thermal shift.

Cervical mucus:

• Egg white for a couple of days.
• Then watery.
• Now less noticeable.

I’ve also had some mild ovulation-type cramping.

One thing that may be relevant is that I’ve been sick with a pretty bad cold/sinus infection throughout my fertile window and have been taking plain Mucinex (guaifenesin).

My questions are:

1. Does this look like I probably had a short LH surge that I missed?
2. Could illness have delayed ovulation?
3. Does my BBT look like ovulation has happened, or would you expect a more obvious sustained rise?
4. If this were your chart, would you keep having intercourse or assume the fertile window has passed?

I’d really appreciate any thoughts from anyone who’s had a similar-looking cycle. Thanks!

Did you know you were pregnant before positive test and if so what made you think you were