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How to Know when you are Ovulating

DKrunner | Sep 25, 2009 |

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Knowing your ovulation cycle can help you decipher the times in which your body is most fertile. This is especially helpful when trying to become pregnant, and it can even be an aid in avoiding pregnancy. There are many different symptoms that signify that you are ovulating.

To know when you are ovulating, create an ovulation calendar. If you have been recording at least 3 months of your periods on a calendar, you can use that data to build yourself an ovulation calendar; if you haven't been tracking your cycles, start now.

Estimate at the average date in which your period ends. Take that date, and add 14 days onto it; that calendar day and the 2 days before and after will likely be when you are ovulating. By determining when you are ovulating, you are also establishing your most fertile timeframe. If you are trying to get pregnant, those few days are the ones where you want to try particularly hard.

Take your basil metabolic temperature. There is no magic internal temperature that ensures that you are in fact ovulating, but if your temperature is suddenly jumps higher than it usually is for a few days in between your periods, you may be ovulating.

Many women can feel their bodies ovulating. Sometimes ovulation can feel like a mild case of cramps. There may be a little bit of bloating and other physical symptoms which are usually associated with menstrual onset. The onset is usually in the middle of the cycle; again, roughly 14 days after the end of the period.

There are also a plethora of tests which can help you pinpoint when you are ovulating. There are mucus tests, urine tests, saliva tests, etc. A combination of the ovulation calendar and store bought tests should give you an excellent way of figuring out when you are ovulating.