Predict Your Ovulation and Boost Your Fertility

There is a certain window of time each month when a woman can get pregnant. This period of time occurs during ovulation and fertility chances are high.

Tracking ovulation has been proven to be a good way to increase the chances of getting pregnant. Women who track their ovulation and menstrual cycle also have the advantage of being more aware of their body.

This means that if there are fertility problems she will be more likely to realize them and get treatment to cure them than a woman who does not do ovulation tracking.

How Ovulation Works

Ovulation is the term for the phase of the menstrual cycle when the fallopian tubes release an egg. It is at this phase of the menstrual cycle when a woman can become pregnant. During ovulation, a woman experiences many changes within her body.

These changes can feel very slight and in many cases are not even noticeable by a woman under normal circumstances. That is because she is not looking for changes. When a woman is tracking ovulation, it is often these changes that help her to determine when she is ovulating.

Ovulation is not completely clear, though. Many women have irregular cycles. Some women may have a 28-day cycle one month and the next month she may have a 31-day cycle. The body is often unpredictable like that.

The causes of irregular cycles include stress, increased physical activity, illness or can be a sign of an underlying medical condition. Irregular cycles can also be completely normal. Regardless, this can make the job of tracking ovulation difficult.

Overcoming Hurdles

It is very important that a woman who is tracking her ovulation in order to increase her fertility, is very specific and carefully with whatever method she uses. It is often a good idea to use several methods of ovulation tracking just to ensure all information is correct. Practice does help. The longer a woman tracks her ovulation, the less likely chance of her making a mistake.

For a beginner, though, being precise is important. Exact notes should be kept and great care taken to ensure that all signs of ovulation are caught. It also helps to learn as much and possible about the menstrual cycle, especially ovulation. It is also helpful to keep in mind that ovulation usually occurs two weeks prior to menstruation.

Methods of Predicting Ovulation

There are many ways to predict ovulation. Some methods are more popular than others. All can be done in the privacy in your own home. Most are methods that can be done by anyone as they simply involve counting and noting body changes.

Counting the days of your menstrual cycle is a common practice to predicting fertility. The menstrual cycle begins on the first day of bleeding. Count from the first day to the first day of your next period.

You will need to do this for a few months in order to see if a pattern develops. If you have a regular cycle then you can determine that ovulation occurs around the eleventh to the fourteenth of your cycle. This is fine for women who have regular cycles.

Another method that is more accurate and better for those who have irregular cycles is tracking body changes.

Common signs that your body is ovulating include tenderness in the breasts, increased vaginal secretions, pain in the abdomen and an increase in body temperature.

Most women who use this method will monitor their temperature everyday to see when it rises. At that point, they will look for other signs to determine ovulation.

These two methods are the most common way that women can track ovulation and fertility issues can disappear. When a woman is more aware of her menstrual cycle and can determine ovulation it makes it much easier to conceive.