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The Answer to When Does Ovulation Occur

Comments: 0August 18th, 2011 by admin



Many women wonder “when does ovulation occur?” If you are planning to get pregnant, you have to know when you are ovulating. In a fertile cycle, one egg is released from your ovary every month. The egg moves into your fallopian tube waiting to be fertilized by the sperm. This is when ovulation occurs. Once the egg is fertilized with sperm, it goes into the uterus for implantation. You will then become pregnant.

There are many ways to determine when your ovulation occurs. You can watch the calendar or observe your natural body fertility signals.

Signs of Ovulation

Some signs of ovulation include abdomen pain, spotting, headaches, bloating or breast pain during ovulation.

Ovulation Calendar

Most women have an average 28-day menstrual cycle and most ovulate 14 days before the next menstrual cycle starts. In this case, ovulation occurs on around day 14. If you have a 23-day cycle, you ovulate on day 9. If you have 34-day cycle, you ovulate on day 20. Some factors like your diet, stress, medication or other problems can cause hormone imbalance resulting in irregular menstrual cycles. Therefore, figuring out when you are ovulating using calendars may not be accurate.

Cervical Mucus

Just before ovulation, your cervical mucus increases and becomes clear, thin and stretchy. This makes it easier for the sperm to get through to the uterus. The consistency of your mucus remains the same for a few days until ovulation.

After ovulation, your mucus becomes thick and cloudy or may disappear altogether.

Basal Body Temperature (BBT)

Measure your body temperature every morning before you get out of bed. Record the temperature in a bbt chart. You can create your own using graph paper. Join the dots so that you can see the graph. You’ll notice that at some point, there is a drop in temperature, followed by a rise in temperature for a few days. The drop in temperature indicates that you are going to ovulate. The increase in temperature is the result of an increase in your level of progesterone hormones after ovulation.

Feeling Your Cervix

There are changes in your cervix at different time of the month. You can put your finger into your vagina to feel your cervix. Around ovulation, your cervix becomes softer and slightly open. It also moves to a lower position.

Ovulation Prediction Kits Or Ovulation Monitors

You can also use ovulation prediction kits or ovulation monitors to help you to determine when your ovulation occurs.

These are more expensive but it’s more accurate and less time consuming. You can get these in the drugstore.

What Happens During Ovulation?

If you are trying to conceive, having sex at the right time is very important. When you ovulate, your egg has to be fertilized by a man’s sperm within 24 hours. Sperm can live up to 4 days. As such, you need to have sexual intercourse few days before ovulation or on the day of your ovulation if you want to get pregnant. It is best to have sex every other day and every day just before ovulation until a few days after ovulation.

How Woman Gets Pregnant?

Having sexual intercourse when ovulation occurs does not mean that you will definitely get pregnant. There must be no abnormalities in the egg and the sperm. Your body must be able to produce a proper balance of estrogen and progesterone. The fallopian tubes must not be blocked. The uterine lining must be healthy and receptive to embryo implantation.

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Make Your Own Ovulation Chart

Comments: 0May 18th, 2010 by admin

An ovulation chart is the best method to ensure that you can chart your own ovulation, so you can either make sure that you do, or do not, get pregnant. Although some people would love to go looking for an ovulation chart online or in a store, many would rather just do it themselves at home. In this article I will teach to make your very own ovulation chart.

If you are thinking what is an ovulation chart and what can it do to help me, then here it is:

Experts say that determining your ovulation cycle is the most important factor in getting pregnant. As a rule women tend to ovulate 14 days before their next period (I know this is the truth for e because I get a big pimple 14 days after my period). A normal cycle is between 23 and 35 days. This would be simple if it was not for the fact that few women have the exact same number of days within every cycle. Coupled (no pun intended, or maybe that was just a bad joke) with the fact that sperm can live for two to three days after intercourse and the egg only survives between 12 and 24 hours after a woman ovulates, the optimum time is between one to three days before ovulation.

An ovulation chart is necessary therefore to be able to track and thus predict your most fertile days. Now on to how to make the chart….

How to make an Ovulation Chart

If you are only interested in tracking your monthly periods (that is that you are perfectly regular) then it is just fine to just use your calendar. If you want to make a separate graph, then get yourself a piece of graph paper. On the graph paper make a column for your menstrual cycle days.

The first day of bleeding should be Day 1. The End of cycle is the last day before your period is to begin again. The horizontal lines should be to chart your basal temperature (body temperature of the body at rest). It is your choice if you want to buy a basal thermometer.

On the bottom of the chart there should be room to chart changes in cervical mucus (light discharge occurs before your period), Another good thing to document is how you are feeling, breast tenderness, mood-swings, trouble sleeping). It may help to also document how you are feeling on any day as depression can contribute to shifts in ovulation cycles.

Now you can look at all the signs and see that ideally you are fertile when the cervical mucus is most slippery. Your body temperature should increase a few days after the LH surge, and ovulation occurs just before. If all matches up then you have figured out your fertile days (Chart developed by Serdar H. Ural, M.D.).

I hope your ovulation chart helps you to best achieve your goals.

Good Luck and Enjoy Practicing!

Melly Schaum

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Pregnancy Tips – How to Conceive

Comments: 0August 16th, 2009 by admin



It seems that every couple should already know how to conceive and yet frustration sinks in when they keep on failing to get pregnant. The timing of intercourse must be optimized to coincide with ovulation so that conception can take place. Even then, there is only about 30% chance that the sperm cell will be able to survive the journey to reach the egg and fertilize it.

To determine the best days to conceive, you have to find out how long your menstrual cycle is. Most women have a 28 day cycle, and their ovulation period takes place on day 14 of the cycle. However, some women have a longer or shorter cycle and it can be more difficult determining the best day to have intercourse in order to get pregnant.

If you want to tell exactly when you will ovulate, you can use an ovulation detection kit that you can buy at a drugstore. This will tell you the best time to have sex so that you will be able to have a baby.

A very important thing to consider is the survival of the sperm inside the woman’s body. Sperm cells can survive for up to five days under the best conditions. The woman’s cervical mucus plays a very important role in the sperm’s survival.

When a woman is approaching her ovulation period, her cervical mucus will become wet, slippery, opaque and stretchy. This kind of cervical mucus provides a healthy environment for the sperm to survive for a few days.

The best time to have sex and get pregnant is during the three days before ovulation and on the day of ovulation itself.

Knowing when and how to conceive is not difficult. You should observe your body closely and see the changes taking place in it. Find out when your ovulation day takes place by using an ovulation detection kit or observing the appearance of your cervical mucus. With the right timing, you will be able to succeed in getting pregnant fast.

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Ovulation Calculators and Ovulation Symptoms

Comments: 0June 30th, 2009 by admin



Women’s body is an amazing combination of natural phenomena and processes that cannot be defined or completely explained by science, yet. All women are different; some have a menstrual cycle every twenty two days, some of them may have every thirty or even more days. You cannot expect to use the same methods so as to detect what is happening in the bodies of all women, because if you do, chances are that you will fail.

Women tend to check and calculate their fertility days when they want to get pregnant. Some women use charts or calculators so as to predict their fertile days, although a pregnancy ovulation calculator is not always a feasible method. The fertile days and ovulation processes are a way too personal issue. Women might discuss this issue with each other and still discover some details or learn some information, of which they were not aware.

According to gynecologists’, using an ovulation prediction calculator is not an accurate solution, unless you combine it with some other observations and data. For instance, many women tend to measure their basal temperature, or check the density and the quality of the cervical mucus, because these two are the main indicators of the ovulation period. If you want to check and predict your ovulation dates, you should use one of the online ovulation calculators combined with an ovulation chart, where you will be recording the changes and differences of the cervical mucus.

This conjunction of methods will help you determine the exact days of your ovulation – or at least in a much better way. In any case though, you should remember that in most cases a pregnancy can occur completely unexpectedly. You might be monitoring and calculating days and dates for months, and when you give up these methods and these procedures you might get pregnant easier. Do not underestimate the influence of stress and anxiety in your effort to get pregnant.

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Ovulation Calendar Choices – Find The Best For You

Comments: 0February 17th, 2009 by admin



If you are woman trying to find your online ovulation calendar, you could start with a google search and get lots of results. This summary of ovulation calendars will help you cut to the chase and make an informed decision quickly.

First let’s review three techniques for determining when ovulation occurs:

1) Calendar method:
This method uses the starting date of the woman’s period and the cycle length. Assuming a regular cycle, ovulation occurs 14 days before the next period date. It’s the simplest of methods that works reasonably well for a majority of women. It does not work too well for women with irregular cycles.

2) Basal temperature:

During the days prior to ovulation, a rise in the level of luteinizing hormone LH causes a slight drop in body temperature. When ovulation occurs, the body temperature goes up. A basal thermometer is accurate enough to detect the changes in body temperature and can be used to determine when ovulation occurs. It’s more accurate than the calendar method but of course it comes with the price of having to remember to measure the temperature every morning. The biggest change in temperature is noticeable when ovulation has occurred, meaning a woman may not know about her most fertile days until after the fact.

3) Cervical Mucus (CM)

During the days prior to ovulation, the cervical mucus thins as its pH level rises. The thinner mucus allows the sperms to pass through the cervix and reach the fallopian tubes, where they wait for an ovum to be released. Shortly after ovulation the mucus reverts to being thicker again. So by performing daily checks of the cervical mucus, a woman can detect how fertile she is.

Now let’s take a look at the tools you are most likely to find when searching for it on the internet. Most of the sites offer the calendar method which requires the minimum effort for the user. I grouped the sites into two main categories. Category one is sites that use the calendar method only. Category two is sites that use a mix of methods, category, basal temperature and cervical mucus. Finally, a third category lists a few offerings for download to a desktop or PDA.


CALENDAR METHOD: WEB


The following are free and don’t require registration:

pregnancy.about.com americanpregnancy.org marchofdimes.com ibabydust.com babyhopes.com babycenter.com yourdays.com is free but requires registration.

CALENDAR METHOD: WIRELESS


LadyTimer.com is the only ovulation calendar choice for women who prefer to use their cell phone. Ladytimer is free with registration.

MULTIPLE METHODS (Calendar, Temperature, CM):


Cyclepage.com used to be a pay site, but now it is free with signup required. Webmd.com offers the calendar based ovulation calendar free. They charge $20 per month for the extended service version. MyMonthlyCycles.com is free with a somewhat lengthy signup requirement. In return the member gets to see cute little rabbit pictures on the calendar showing fertile days. FertilityFriend.com and FertileDays are the same. Basic charts are free with signup required, and they promote a paid VIP services. I couldn’t find any contact info on their site, which also seemed to generate user complaints on reviews on Epinions.com Ivillage.com offers the fertility planner at 8$ per month with initial free trial.

There are also many downloadable ovulation calendars for your desktop or PDA, way too many to attempt to produce a complete list.
Here is a short list:
Idreamofbaby.com is free fertility software iKonceive costs around $30 ovulation-calendar.com costs around $30

Hopefully this summary of popular available ovulation calendars will help you find your best option.

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