How To Know Your Ovulation Schedule
Once you have at least 8 months charted subtract 18 from the number of days in your shortest period to get your first fertile day in each cycle.
How to know your ovulation schedule. If you wish to start using clearblue ovulation tests before you know your cycle length we recommend that you start testing on day 10. Ovulation happens about 14 days before your period starts. You ve probably heard that ovulation occurs on day 14 of your cycle but that s not necessarily true. When you know your average menstrual cycle length you can work out when you ovulate.
If you have a regular menstrual cycle use our ovulation calendar to help you figure out when you ovulate so you know when to have sex to try to get pregnant once you have results sign in or sign up to save your calendar add notes and find out when to take a pregnancy test. In fact even women with 28 day menstrual cycles don t always ovulate on day 14. How we calculate your fertile days. Our ovulation calculator gives you the dates you re most likely to be fertile over the next several months.
To calculate your ovulation by tracking your cervical mucus keep a calendar and track your period and the length of time between each period for 8 12 months. Inexpensive early detection pregnancy tests and ovulation test kits can be purchased online from our corporate sponsor fairhaven health. First we estimate when you ll ovulate by counting back 14 days from the day you expect your next period. However without determining your cycle length it is possible that you may miss your lh surge because you have started testing too late or you may need to start a new pack to continue testing.
Each woman ovulates on her own schedule. Find out a date for your next period and when you could possibly receive a positive pregnancy test. Since it is so difficult to pin down exactly which day a woman ovulates we give you a 10 day window of when ovulation is most likely to occur.