Bad Eggs Podcast, Ep. 4: It's finally testing season, baby

Episode 1: 5 days past ovulation

Episode 2: 6 days past ovulation

Episode 3: 7 days past ovulation

It’s day 8 after ovulation, which means we’re finally in the window of time where it’s not totally impossible to get a positive pregnancy test (albeit still super unlikely, not that this will stop me from peeing on everything I can get my hands on).

The last few minutes of this episode is probably my clearest and strongest summary of the entire notion of testing early to detect a pregnancy, and here’s a little bit of what else is in this one:

• What are the best—and worst—pregnancy tests on the market according to the fertility girlies? (The best is this one. I’ll talk about why.)

• How tracking your temperature after ovulation can really fuck with your head for no good reason

• When does gathering data about your body around fertility change from helpful to a useless stressor?

• The finer points of tracking your body temperature for fertility

• What types of temperature chart patterns mean you’re pregnant and which mean you’re doomed? (Hint: they literally cannot tell you this.)

• Is this whole series even a good and healthy thing for me to do, or is it just another way to obsess over the outcome of this cycle? (Do not answer that.)