How to track your cycle Working out your fertility window can be helped by tracking your menstrual cycle. If your cycle is 28 days, ovulation should occur on day Therefore aim to have regular intercourse from 10 days after your period has started.
If your period is 35 days, then ovulation should occur at 21 days and intercourse should be from 17 days after your period started. Ovulation There are bodily signs that change over the month that can help you to identify if you have ovulated. Signs of ovulation Change in cervical mucus: Just before ovulation your cervical mucus changes to become clear and slippery, this is to allow the sperm to pass through the cervix. Changes in bodily hormones: Measuring a woman's luteinising hormone LH can help indicate ovulation, as the LH increases one to two days prior to ovulation.
LH can be measured in the urine and is the basis of commercial ovulation kits. These are the days you are most likely to get pregnant. A few days before ovulation, you may notice your vaginal mucus becomes clear, slick and slippery, and feels a bit like egg white. This is a sign that ovulation is about to happen.
You can use a predictor kit from a supermarket or pharmacy, to test your urine for signs of ovulation. If you start testing your urine a few days before the day you next expect to ovulate, a positive result means you are going to ovulate within the next 24 to 36 hours one to two days.
Ovulation is when a mature egg is released from the ovary. The egg then moves down the fallopian tube where it can be fertilised. If sperm are in the fallopian tube when the egg is released, there is a good chance that the egg will be fertilised, creating an embryo, which can grow into a baby.
Pregnancy is technically only possible if you have sex during the five days before ovulation or on the day of ovulation.
But the most fertile days are the three days leading up to and including ovulation. Having sex during this time gives you the best chance of getting pregnant. By hours after ovulation, a woman is no longer able to get pregnant during that menstrual cycle because the egg is no longer in the fallopian tube.
Knowing when you ovulate can help you plan for sex at the right time and improve your chance of getting pregnant. You can keep track of your menstrual cycles on a chart, in a diary, or on a free period-tracker app on your smartphone.
To work out the length of your menstrual cycle, record the first day you start bleeding first day of your period. This is day 1. The last day of your cycle is the day before your next period begins. A menstrual cycle starts on the day when a period starts day 1 and ends the day before the next period. They can vary between women and from one cycle to the next. Periods are not always regular. If you add the number of days in three cycles and divide the total number by three, it gives you your average cycle length.
Sarah tracked her last three menstrual cycles by counting the time from the first day of one period, to the day before the next period. This is the time of the month when you're most likely to get pregnant. It's unlikely that you'll get pregnant just after your period, although it can happen. It's important to remember that sperm can sometimes survive in the body for up to 7 days after you have sex.
This means it may be possible to get pregnant soon after your period finishes if you ovulate early, especially if you have a naturally short menstrual cycle. The moral of the story? Knowledge is power! Timing in life is pretty much everything, especially when it comes to getting or not getting! This includes:. Sounds simple enough, right? The hormones needed to sustain pregnancy, like progesterone, are very low at this time.
Even so, your body is already gearing up for your next fertile window. You may have a menstrual cycle that runs like a well-oiled machine, and then suddenly one month, ovulate a few days earlier or later than usual. You may even skip a month. There are tons of reasons for this. For one, until we figure out how to stop time, your age is changing.
Your weight may change, too, causing hormonal fluctuations to occur. Some women have medical conditions, like PCOS , which make ovulation super hard to predict.
Many women typically ovulate around 12 to 14 days after the first day of their last period, but some have a naturally short cycle. They may ovulate as soon as six days or so after the first day of their last period. It turns out those little swimmers can be pretty tricky, too. After ejaculation, sperm may survive inside your body for up to five whole days , and can fertilize an egg at any time during that window. As any woman with a calendar and a bunch of best friends will tell you, the amount of days each woman spends menstruating can vary a lot.
Your menstrual flow may start to diminish and lighten in color, or turn brown towards the end of your cycle.
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