First month TTC and confused

Hello. This is my first month TTC baby #3 (my last pregnancy was 8 years ago). I’ve been using natural cycles on and off for the last year and I just came off the mini pill on 6 March, which is also when my withdrawal bleed/period last started. My cycles average around 23-28 days when I wasn’t on the pill and very irregular when I was.. Natural cycles says waiting to confirm ovulation for Monday but still no confirmation as you can see and fertility friend is confusing me too (FF chart in comments).. I just don’t understand the charts and really need help understanding them. I had dull cramping all of last weekend as well as sore breasts and yesterday cramping started again, along with CM, so am I still waiting to ovulate? All of my OPKs have been negative - I got strong negatives last Friday, Sunday and 2 yesterday but back to light negatives straight after them. I’m so confused and frustrated. Please help haha. Thanks in advance :)
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If you've just come off your pill it's likely this cycle will be totally out of whack while the hormones come out your system hence the erratic temps You've not ovulated yet, and being honest my advice would be to scrap this "cycle", let your body regulate itself and start when you have your first proper period (bleeding after stopping BC isn't a normal period, it's withdrawl from the hormones)

So I don’t really understand your charting system but I know that when you come off the pill it can take at least 3 months for your body to start having a normal cycle again. Are you taking ovulation test strips? That could be helpful. I don’t see an obvious sign of ovulation with your body temperature either, but maybe I’ve forgotten how to read it well (it’s been a while). I recommend the premama ovulation test strips. They also have an app that keeps photos of the strips and tells you if you ovulated (it reads them for you which is super convenient)

Are you taking your temp first thing in the morning? I reviewed the temp system I learned and I don’t see an obvious ovulation.

@Heather I thought that might be the case but thought worth a try whilst learning how to track etc. We’ve BD a lot in the last week so giving it a rest now and will try again next month. Thank you

@Lyn thanks. Yeah taking opk’s daily, sometimes twice a day and have had really dark negatives then drops back to really light. Think I’ll go with digital OPK next month, find the strips so confusing to read

@SR. You might have a cycle where you don't ovulate due to just stopping your BC x

@Lyn yeah as soon as I wake up, around 6am everyday

@Dee thanks so much, I’ll keep going and see what happens

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