Many women use online ovulation calculators as a convenient way to figure out when to have sex to get pregnant. These calculators estimate your ovulation date based on the rule that ovulation occurs 14 days before your period starts, combined with your average cycle length. So if your cycle is usually 30 days, an ovulation calculator [...]
Getting pregnant is all about having sex during the fertile window. For the most part, if you know roughly when you ovulate, and you have sex in the days before that, it's hard to mess things up. But if you spend any time doing research about getting pregnant on the internet, you'll see that there [...]
Why Should You Care How Long Your LH Surge Lasts? If you're trying to get pregnant, you've probably developed a sudden new interest in monitoring the level of luteinizing hormone (LH) in your urine. LH is the hormone that tells your ovaries that it's time to release an egg. Just before ovulation, levels of LH surge. How [...]
Are you using a urine-based ovulation test to determine when you ovulate? Before you go through all that effort, it's important to make sure you're using it correctly. Here are answers to the most common questions about ovulation tests. What is an ovulation test? An ovulation test (also sometimes called an OPK, which stands for [...]
Ovulation isn't just something that happens randomly; it's the end of a long chain of complex hormonal events. Think about it like climbing a mountain. You don't just randomly find yourself at the top of the mountain. You need to hike all the way to the top. Ovulation is just like that. The graph below [...]
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