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 [...]
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 [...]
Spotting before your period is one of the most common times that women notice bleeding outside of their normal menstrual cycle. There are many different reasons why you might experience spotting, but when it happens in the week before your period is due (during what is called the luteal phase) it is usually related to fluctuations [...]
If you're looking out for ovulation symptoms so you know when you're fertile, you might be dismayed to find that most signs aren't very obvious. Unlike other animals, our vulvas don't swell up, we don't go into heat, and we don't start emitting irresistible man-attracting perfume. So what's a girl to do if she wants [...]
About one in five women experience ovulation pain, a recurring monthly discomfort on either side of the abdomen. Many woman assume that the pain is associated with exactly when ovulation occurs, but surprisingly, this is not always the case; ovulation pain can happen at many points throughout the ovulation process. Sometimes, ovulation pain is referred [...]
What should you do if you're concerned that Ava isn't detecting your fertile window and ovulation accurately? This guide explains some of the most common reasons why this might happen: Step 1: Confirm the accuracy of your other cycle tracking method. The only way to confirm ovulation with 100% certainty is ultrasound. All other methods [...]
For some women, it's important that their birth control method does not suppress ovulation. The natural hormone process that comes with ovulation has all kinds of benefits, affecting everything from your mood to your skin to your long term bone and heart health. In evaluating various contraceptive methods, it's not always straightforward which ones suppress your [...]
If you use basal body temperature to track ovulation, then you know that your chart isn't always as easy to interpret as it should be. Sometimes you go to sleep feeling quite certain that you'll wake up to a temperature spike, but it just doesn't happen. If you don't see a rise when you thought [...]
As our friends at Clue recently wrote, there is a wide range of normal when it comes to menstrual cycles. Not all women have a textbook 28-day cycle, with ovulation on day 14. For some women, a 34 day cycle is perfectly healthy. For many women, cycle length changes from month to month. Much of this [...]
If you're trying to get pregnant, here's the first question you probably asked yourself: "when do you ovulate?" The primary reason why women want to know when they ovulate and how long it lasts is trying to get pregnant. But if getting pregnant is your goal, you should care more about the days before you ovulate. [...]