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Need Help Determining Ovulation Date and Most Fertile Days?I needed help determining ovulation date too when I first got started. I thought my husband and I could just have sex often and would eventually get pregnant. Well, it can work that way, but in order to get pregnant faster we needed to focus more and find out the very best times to have intercourse in order to speed up the process.
"What is ovulation?"
Ovulation is the period of the menstrual cycle when the mature egg is released from its follicle in the ovary. This happens about midway (day 14 of a 28-day cycle) through the menstrual cycle, but varies from woman to woman, especially those with irregular cycles. "Do you have irregular cycles? How can you know?"
Well, the best way to tell if you have irregular cycles is to begin to track your cycles. The more tools you use to track your monthly cycles, the better you will be at determining ovulation date. This is absolutely crucial to timing baby-making sex, especially if you ovulate irregularly. "But when is ovulation? When does ovulation occur?"
I like to track my cycles by using a
basal thermometer
. This thermometer is different from the regular thermometer used to determine a fever. A basal thermometer is an ultra-sensitive thermometer that tracks your body's most minute temperature shift and helps you calculate ovulation.
Here is more information about charting your basal body temperature (BBT) and a free BBT chart you can print off. Another means I like for determining ovulation date is an ovulation predictor kit (OPK) . There are two kinds - the urine strips and also the saliva microscopes . The strips are like a pregnancy test stick, only they measure LH (or luteinizing hormone) instead of HCG (the pregnancy hormone). Also, here's a free ovulation calculator you can use. These are both GREAT ways to help you calculate date of ovulation. Also, some women get ovulation symptoms when their ovulation day is approaching or when ovulation is actually occurring. I will talk about three of the most common ovulation symptoms next. Cervical mucus during ovulation and approaching ovulation is one of the signs of ovulation and a great way to know that your most fertile days have arrived. Keep track of this and other symptoms on your ovulation calendar and/or BBT chart. The more you track, the clearer you will understand when your most fertile days are and the easier time you will have determining ovulation date. You should begin to see patterns after tracking for a couple months.
* Many times I will also have light spotting along with the cramping during ovulation. The bleeding during ovulation could be caused by a couple different things. One theory is that the egg bursting forth from the follicle caused the bleeding. Another theory is that the estrogen rise during ovulation caused the uterine lining to shed a bit and cause a little spotting. This along with the cramping sensation is apparently an excellent fertility sign and means you are ovulating good and strong. (HOORAY!!)
Check out this Free Online Ovulation Calculator.
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