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 [...]
Most women don't pay much attention to vaginal discharge, except to get annoyed that it makes their underwear dirty. But your discharge plays an important role in increasing your chances of getting pregnant. Vaginal discharge changes changes throughout your menstrual cycle, and if you ignore these changes, you're missing out on important information that can [...]
When you're trying to get pregnant, what you really need is a fertility calendar: something that tells you the days when having sex is most likely to result in pregnancy. Of course, you could just have sex and hope it results in a baby, but unless you're having sex daily or every other day the [...]
Many women use online ovulation calculators as a convenient way cto 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 [...]
Can you get pregnant on your period? It depends on when ovulation occurs in your cycle. The day of ovulation varies from woman to woman, and in the same woman from cycle to cycle. You can only get pregnant from having sex on your period if you ovulate early in your cycle, or if your [...]
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. The spotting may come in the form of pink, red, or brown discharge that you notice in your underwear or when you wipe. There are many different reasons why you might experience spotting, but [...]
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 [...]
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