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Women once had to take their temperature each day and manually check their cervical mucus in order to find out when they were most fertile. But, now we have the home ovulation test. These are just as easy to take as a home pregnancy test- just pee on a stick and a line appears when you’re ovulating. This has been a revolution in the way women trying to conceive can accurately pinpoint the exact time they are ovulating. There’s no more guessing based on the dates, no more temperature taking and no more buying expensive machinery. Yes, machinery. I once had a $150 ovulation machine that required the daily input of data.

The only problem with the newer home tests has been that the tests are usually as expensive as home pregnancy tests, but you need them far more often. If you’ve ever bought a pregnancy test, you know how pricey they can be. And if you have to use them a few times over the course of a month, the price gets pretty ridiculous. What I discovered is that tiny ovulation strips, the kind that medical clinics use, are available online for less than a dollar apiece. I got a pack of 20 home ovulation tests for about the price I would have paid for one at a drugstore. With a pack of 20, you can test over the course of a month or two and get a much more accurate view of when ovulation is occurring.

Another inexpensive ovulation testing option is the Answer Daily Ovulation Tracker. It’s a kit that provides 20 tests for about the price of two individual ovulation tests. With so many tests, you have a way to track the results and come up with the correct ovulation dates. Then it’s time to put away the tests and get to conceiving.

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