How To Find Your Ovulation Cycle
Use this calculator to see when you may be ovulating to help find your most fertile days.
How to find your ovulation cycle. Ovulation is the name of the process that happens usually once in every menstrual cycle when hormone changes trigger an ovary to release an egg. Have sex during the two or three days before you ovulate. This calculator gives approximate ovulation dates and fertile times for women who have regular periods. Menstrual periods are different from woman to woman and month to month.
Ovulation usually happens 12 to 16 days before your next period starts. The length of your menstrual cycle is the number of days from the first day of bleeding in your last period to the first day of bleeding in your next. Regular periods mean having a period every 21 to 35 days fertility charting basal temperature tracking and purchased ovulation test kits can also be used to help predict a woman s fertile times. See your doctor kick unhealthy habits and start taking folic acid before you start trying.
Your next step is to begin watching for early pregnancy symptoms. Subtract eleven days from the total number of days to find the last fertile day in your cycle. Calculate your cycle by counting from the first day of your period to the day before the next first day. For example if your longest cycle lasted 31 days your last potentially fertile day in each cycle would be the 20th day in the cycle 31 11 20.
Find out when you ll ovulate using our calculator an ovulation predictor kit or by tracking your symptoms. If you have shorter cycles say 21 days ovulation happens around day 7 and your most fertile days are days 5 6 and 7. View and print an ovulation calendar to better understand your menstruation cycle and ovulation. If your average menstrual cycle is 35 days ovulation happens around day 21 and your most fertile days are days 19 20 and 21.
You can only become pregnant if a sperm fertilises an egg. Our ovulation calculator will give you a general guide to help you track your ovulation. Note that the more regular your cycle duration is the more effective this method will be. To calculate your fertile window you need to determine what day you ovulate.
Sex position and female orgasm don t affect your chances of getting pregnant. To do this you need to know the length of your menstrual cycle which tends to vary from 23 to 35 days. But as with everything pregnancy related there s a wide range of normal here since cycles can last anywhere from 23 to 35 days and even your own cycle and time of ovulation may vary slightly from month.