If you’re a woman of reproductive age (and if you’re not on hormonal birth control), your body goes through some drastic cyclical changes in hormones every month. You may be aware of these changes (hello, pimples and cramps and mood swings) or you may have no idea, but either way, they are happening. What’s driving [...]
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 [...]
When does ovulation occur for you? This is one of the most important questions to answer if you want to get pregnant. Your chances of getting pregnant are highest when you have sex in the days just before ovulation. But how do you know when ovulation will occur? You can use online ovulation calculators to [...]
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 [...]
When you first started thinking about having a baby, the phrase "LH surge" probably didn't cross your mind. But if you've been trying to get pregnant for a few months, you start paying a lot closer attention to the vagaries of your hormone patterns each month. And luteinizing hormone, or LH, as it's commonly referred to, is [...]
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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