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Ovulation Predictor Kits – Find Your Window of Opportunity For Conception

Comments: 0September 22nd, 2011 by admin



Determining when you ovulate is made easier with the use of ovulation predictor kits — or ‘OPK’s’ for short. Of course, ovulation is essential for conception to occur!

Ovulation occurs when a ripe egg is released. Ideally for conception to occur, sperm should be ready and waiting for that egg — or at least arrive before the egg is gone. Using OPK’s helps to determine when ovulation will most likely occur during your cycle.

How Ovulation Predictor Kits Work

The egg is forced out of the fallopian tube with the assistance of a hormone, called luteinizing hormone (or LH). LH surges just before ovulation, and OPK’s detect this surge. Thus, if an LH surge is detected, ovulation will most likely occur within 12-36 hours.

Unlike charting your basal body temperature or cervical mucous, these kits PREDICT ovulation. Charting simply tells you that ovulation has just taken place. Charting is effective when it’s done for a few consecutive months to give an indication of what day during a woman’s cycle ovulation occurs.

Tips On Using Ovulation Predictor Kits

– It’s helpful to test daily at the same time every day, preferably in the early afternoon. If, for example, you measure one day in the morning, and then not until the late afternoon the next day, more than 24 has passed. The LH surge doesn’t last very long, so you may actually miss the surge if you let more than 24 hours pass;

– Test in the early afternoon – around 2pm is best. LH is usually produced in the morning, so you will be more likely to detect the LH surge in the afternoon;

– Start testing with ovulation predictor kits on approximately Day 8 of your cycle. If your cycle is long — such as 32 days or more — start testing around Day 11 or so. If your cycle is short — such as 21 days — start testing around Day 5. This will minimize the risk of missing the surge of LH.

Optimize Your Chances Of Getting Pregnant!

Don’t forget that once the LH surge is detected, ovulation will most likely occur within 12-36 hours.

This ovulation “window” is short — the unfertilized egg generally has a 24-hour life-span — and only happens once a month. It’s imperative to take advantage of this opportunity and have sex within this time frame.

Please note that it is possible not to ovulate on a given month, despite detecting an LH surge. Ovulation doesn’t necessarily happen every cycle. Also, there may be some women who don’t ovulate at all. This is something that should be followed up with a doctor.

Maximizing Chances of Conception With OPK’s

– If you start testing on Day 8, start having sex on Day 6 – a couple of days beforehand;

– Have sex every other day until your OPK turns positive. This will give your partner’s sperm a couple of days to build back up the next time you have intercourse, and it won’t dry out your cervical mucous;

– Start having sex every day for 3 days straight days once the LH surge is detected.

If you have intercourse just before you ovulate, sperm will already be present in your body when the egg is released. This is optimal for conception!

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Ovulation And Conception

Comments: 0May 25th, 2010 by admin



Conception and Ovulation are two sides of same coin and a crucial stage in the delicate balance of hormonal system, sperm production and pregnancy. A man produces sperm every day, while women ovulate only once during an ovulation cycle. In this short time period of 7 to 21 days, the egg is fertilized or destroyed, and conception takes place.

During Conception several eggs are released by both ovaries. Ovulation is triggered by the body releasing luteinizing hormone, or LH. If sperm is successful in fertilizing the egg, it results in a series of cell divisions increasing in number every 14 to 18 hours. The embryo, containing about 50 to 100 cells, reaches the uterus about five days after ovulation. It then expands and hatches through the accompanying eggshell to implant and replicate.

Timing the cycle from Ovulation to Conception is important, in that women sometimes are too stressed out or physically unfit to go through with the process. A woman’s emotional and physical health plays a major role in her productivity quotient. To test this quotient, instruments such as Fertility Monitors, Ferning Microscopes or basal body thermometers are useful. Sometimes these tests or instruments prove ineffective if women are going through menopause symptoms, impaired liver or kidney function or polycystic ovarian syndrome. Certain antibiotics, like tetracyclines, affect a woman’s cycle of hormonal contraception, fertility treatments or hormone replacement therapy. Equally important is the timing of birth control pills. Traveling, change of jobs, illness, weight loss or vigorous exercising can affect Ovulation.

On occasions, such as sex during fertile time, some women do not conceive immediately, or the egg does not implant even with Ovulation. The problem is the timing of intercourse, since Conception takes place with Ovulation and it is spoiled by hard work, stress or problems. So plan sex on the day of ovulation or, at most, two days before it, taking into account that men need up to two days to regenerate their sperm reserves. Strategize Conception and Ovulation by maintaining an Ovulation calendar to predict fertile dates, end of menstrual cycle and possible due dates.

Ovulation and Conception are major issues in a woman’s life, Conception is more likely to be successful if a woman maintains a calm attitude through activities and diet that enhance fertility.

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Ovulation and Conception

Comments: 0July 26th, 2009 by admin



Trying to conceive is not only a matter of what you do, it’s also a question of “when you do it” and during ovulation is the best time to conceive. This is because the female body is not constantly fertile all the time. Instead, every healthy woman goes through what is known as the fertility cycle, which begins when she starts her period.

A period occurs when the body sheds the lining of the womb that was prepared to accommodate a fertilised ovum (egg). If pregnancy does not occur, this lining is shed in the form of the bleeding that occurs during a period. Once that lining has been shed, the body builds itself up for the next possible pregnancy.

About fourteen days before the next period begins, which is about mid-way during the average cycle, ovulation occurs when an egg is released by the ovaries. If this egg is fertilised through sexual intercourse during this time, it will become embedded in the lining of the womb (which will have regrown by then) and will develop into a pregnancy. Therefore, if you are trying to get pregnant, you should schedule most of your lovemaking to occur during this most fertile time.

Ovulation Calendar

t is not always easy to work out when you are ovulating. Although some women’s periods work like clockwork, that is not true for most people. Therefore, you might need some help. To be more accurate, you use an ovulation calendar.

To use an ovulation calender correctly you need to be familiar with your own body, and many young women, for a variety of reasons, are not, or their periods are so irregular so you need to understand the symptoms of ovulation.

Ovulation Signs

To discover when your ovulation days fall, there are certain physical signs that you can look for:

Raised basal temperature. When you ovulate, your temperature rises 0.4 degrees or more, and this stays constant until the end of your cycle, when you menstruate again. Start taking your temperature with a sensitive thermometer from the first day of your period onwards, and after a couple of cycles you will be able to chart your ovulation period. Changes in the shape of your cervix. If you have never had a baby before, this might not be so easy to find, but by inserting a finger carefully into the vagina you can feel it there. At ovulation, it is softer and wetter than usual. Changes in cervical mucus. At this time, your cervical mucus becomes thinner, clearer, and more slippery than at any other time in your cycle. Other symptoms – some women actually feel a slight pain at ovulation. In time, you may feel it too as you get to know your body. Others, though rare, even experience slight breakthrough bleeding.

Sex is not a Chore for Conception

Remember: when you are trying to conceive, don’t only schedule sex on ovulation days. This could turn it into a dull chore with only one objective in mind. Although it is obviously better to be together as much as possible at the most fertile times, just think of it as a time to show each other extra love, and continue to be as spontaneous as you can. Hopefully, you will conceive a baby, and if you don’t, at least enjoy the extra closeness and love that you have with your partner.

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