when do you know ur ovulating?

Question

my period usually comes the same day every month bubt sometimes comes a day early or a day late. how would i calculate my ovulation day?

Answer 1

A woman ovulates about 2 weeks (usually 12-16 days) before her *next* period. You can *estimate* when you will ovulate, but you *cannot* compute it.

If you want to know when *you* are ovulating (rather than when some mythical "average" woman does, you need to chart signs of fertility.

Please read the book _Taking Charge of Your Fertility_ by Toni Weschler. It will explain how to do it. Skip all the fertility Web sites (they give this same average, and you can figure it out yourself by subtracting 14 days). Also, skip the ovulation predictor kits; they aren't as accurate as charting (which also has the advantage of being *free*!).

Answer 2

How To Know Ur Ovulating

Answer 3

If you're looking for it to be exact down to the day...your best bet is to buy the ovulation test kit from the store. They can get kind of pricey though if you use them often.

As a woman I can sometimes feel when I'm ovulating. I experience it as a kind of pain on the left or right side that lasts for a few minutes and then goes away. I didn't know what it was at first, but then realized I always got it around mid cycle.

But if you want to know exactly...go scientific. Get the strips.

Answer 4

well there are ovualtion kits you can try im doing them now and they are great !!! you buy them at the drug store or any shop that sells pregnancy stuff... you buy an ovulation kit for 5 days it comes with 5 peeing cups and 5 tests you do one test a day for 5 days at the same time every day.... it sort of looks like a pregnancy test but for ovualtion.... it comes up positive when you are at your highest and that means you are going to ovulate in 24 - 36 hours so you have sex on the day you get a positive and the day after....its worked for alot of women thats just an easier thing to try so that when you know you are most fertile you can plan a romantic evening and just enjoy the night instead of worrying the WHOLE month about making sure that you and your husband had sex on certain days so goodluck and for the future CONGRATS

Answer 5

You can tell by taking your temperature every morning before you get out of bed. You start temping the first day of your period. When you see a spike in your temp, then that means that you are ovulating or are about to. Some women feel a sharp pain during that time. Women with a "normal" 28 day cycle tend to ovulate around the 14th day of their cycle.

Answer 6

It is usually right in the middle of the cycle and for about 2-3 days. The best and easiest way (that worked for me) is to buy a cheap digital thermometer and put it next to your bed. Take your temperature, before you even sit up, each morning and then write it down. Once you see a change in your temperature, that will let you know the opportunity for conception is best.

One thing that can change your temperature is drinking alcohol the night before, so keep that in mind.

Good Luck

Answer 7

Buy an ovualtion test because it's hard to caluculate ovualtion yourself.But it usually starts 12-14 days after your period and last for 2-5 days

Answer 8

It's when you're temp goes up .. It's about 12 to thirteen days after your period. Maybe 16 or 17 days into your cycle.

Answer 9

I did lots of research on this back when I was triying to get pregnant and used all these methods. I found this article & thought it might be helpful.

The first day of a woman's period is 14 days after ovulation. The number of days between ovulation and the start of the next period is fairly consistent among all women. However, the opposite it not true. The number of days between the start of the period and the next ovulation varies quite a bit between women. It even varies from month to month for the same woman.

Counting days of the cycle is by far the easiest and least technical of all of the methods for tracking ovulation. But, it is really a retrospective indicator. It can tell any woman when her last ovulation was. But, it works well as a predictor for the next ovulation in women whose cycles are very regular. If the woman has a regular cycle, then this method can work for her. For example, if she has a perfect 30-day cycle, she will ovulate on day 16 (30-14=16). Day 1 is the first day of her next period.

Women with cycles that vary a bit in length, but are nevertheless roughly every 30 days or so can also get some utility from this method. She can record the first day of her period for 3 consecutive cycles. From this information, she can get a pretty good idea of the week when she will be ovulating the next month. Having sex at least every other day during that week is a good strategy, if she wants to get pregnant.

Women who frequently miss periods or have widely varying cycles will gain little information from this method.

Basal Body Temperature
Another way for a woman to know if she is ovulating is to keep a record of where she is in her menstrual cycle. The Basal Body Temperature test measures a change in temperature that occurs after ovulation, so it cannot predict when ovulation will occur in a given cycle. Yet by looking at records from a few cycles the test can reveal a pattern from which ovulation can be anticipated.

The best way to record and monitor body temperature is with a chart. This provides a good visual basis for determining ovulation:

a) Make sure that day one on the chart is the first day of menstruation
b) Every morning, before getting out of bed or going to the bathroom, the woman should take her temperature. A regular thermometer can be used, but special basal body thermometers should be available at the pharmacy if the woman wishes to use one. The same thermometer should be used every time.
c) Make note of any lack of sleep, drinking alcohol, fever, illness, or emotional stress. It is also helpful to describe the condition of any mucous or discharge.

Just after ovulation, there should be a rise of approximately 0.4-0.6 degrees Fahrenheit (about 0.2 degrees Celsius). The day of ovulation there will be a slight rise. The following two days will climb progressively higher. The rise on the day of ovulation is not distinguishable from the normal ups and downs in the entire pre-ovulatory phase. It is only recognized in retrospect when it forms an upward line with the two days afterward. The post-ovulatory tempertures remain at this new, higher level, until menses when they drop and start the cycle over again. Again, it is only useful when a woman tracks several of her cycles and (if they are regular) she will be able to determine when she will ovulate.

Cervical Mucous Monitoring
Another method for determining when ovulation occurs is through the cervical mucous monitoring test. This is the only method that will not require looking back to the past few cycles to analyze. It is based on examining the mucous that is normally secreted from the cervix in order to determine where the woman is in her cycle. The consistency changes during the cycle due to hormonal fluctuations. The key to this test is that the woman will actually have to get a sample of her cervical secretions (from the outer lips of her external genitalia) and stretch it between 2 of her fingers (the thumb and index finger) to test for the consistency.

Before Ovulation (low chance of pregnancy):The first few days following menstruation, there will be little or no discharge present. The woman should feel dryness around her vulva. During this time, she is usually not able to conceive.

Approaching Ovulation (chance of pregnancy):The first discharge that does appear should be moist or sticky and should be white or cream in color. In the finger test, the mucous should break easily. She will only be able to pull her fingers about 1 cm apart before it breaks. During this transition time, first the mucous will become cloudy and slightly stretchy during the finger test (this means that it will still break before the fingers are stretched all the way). As time progresses, the mucous will become greater in volume.

Right around ovulation (high chance of pregnancy): At this stage, mucous resembles egg whites. It is the thinnest, clearest and most abundant at this point in the cycle. Finger testing will allow the mucous to stretch quite a ways (several centimeters) before it breaks (if it breaks at all). ) The amount of this thin mucous will steadily increase until she experiences her 'mucous peak'. This is the last day of this period where the chance of conception is high. It is closely tied to ovulation. It is often only recognized in rertrospect. During this phase, the sperm's survival rate is higher. It can survive in cervical mucous for up to 72 hours, a significantly longer time than during the rest of the cycle.

Answer 10

For most women ovulation occures on the 14th day of your menstrual cycle but every women is different so it may not be the same for you.