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When Do You Ovulate? 8 Crucial Facts About Ovulation Timing

Crucial ovulation timing

When do you ovulate? Not many women know the exact answer to this question, especially if previously they haven’t tried to monitor their ovulation, using basal body temperature charts, ovulation tests or other methods of fertility days detection. Meanwhile, the question is crucial for every woman, since the precise answer to it plays a crucial role in pregnancy planning. Naturally you can conceive a baby only during specific days, and they are associated with ovulation. You can understand how to detect those days and use them to your benefit.

Which Days of Your Cycle Can You Get Pregnant?

The ovum is ready for impregnation only directly after ovulation. However, the favorable time for conception lasts longer. Sperm cells can survive in the female organism for about 5 days and even longer in rare cases. As a result, the most favorable days for getting pregnant are 5 days before ovulation and 12-15 hours after it. You can conceive a baby within these days, yet the ovulation day presents you the highest chances.

Women also wonder whether they can get pregnant during menstruation. It can be definitely said that pregnancy is impossible during the first days of menstruation when there’s much blood in the vagina. The blood creates an acidic medium, unfavorable for sperm cells. However, if menstruation lasts longer than usually, during its last days conception is possible, especially in case of early ovulation in this cycle and active sperm cells. Example: an intercourse on the 7th day of period may lead to pregnancy if ovulation occurs on the 10th day of menstrual cycle.

When Do You Ovulate? What Should Every Woman Know About Ovulation?

  1. The duration of menstrual cycle is calculated from the 1st day of one menstruation till the 1st day of the next menstruation. Most women have cycles between 28 and 32 days. But there are women with shorter and longer cycles, for example, 21 days or 35 days.
  2. In most women ovulation takes place approximately between the 11th and 21st day of menstrual cycle or 12-16 days prior to the next menstruation.
  3. Ovulation doesn’t always occur in the middle of the cycle. It can happen in the middle, if your cycle is 28 days. The duration of the 1st phase of menstrual cycle can be different in different women. And the 2nd phase normally lasts between 12 and 14 days. Thus, if your cycle is 33 days, ovulation may occur on the 19-20th day. For women with a 24-day cycle it will be the 10th day.
  4. Irregular ovulation usually happens in women, whose cycle lasts less than 24 days. Besides, for women with cycles, longer than 35 days, it’s also difficult to determine the most fertile days.
  5. There is a widespread belief that in most women ovulation takes place on the 14th day of the cycle. This is not quite true. Every women doesn’t always ovulate on the same day every cycle. For example, in March you have ovulation on the 12th day and in April on the 15th.
  6. In healthy women during some cycles (1-3 times per year) the ovaries “take a break” and don’t produce an ovum ready for impregnation. Such cycles are called anovulatory. Only if ovulation doesn’t occur systematically, there’s enough ground to suspect infertility.
  7. There are cases when 2 ovulations occur during one cycle. This phenomenon is possible as a result of irregular sex life or due to stresses.
  8. The ovulation rhythm changes during the next 3 months after abortion, within a year after delivery and after a woman reaches the age of 40 and her organism begins to prepare for menopause.

When Does Ovulation Occur & How Does Your Body Know It’s the Time?

Maturing of the ovum until the moment it ruptures the follicle of the ovary, where it stays, lasts 8-30 days but usually 2 weeks. The factor conditioning the terms of this process is the time your organism needs to reach the maximum level of estrogen. A high content of estrogen triggers the rise in luteo-stimulating hormone that induces the ovum to rupture the follicle wall within a day or two after the sharp increase in the level of the mentioned hormone. In the middle of the cycle, approximately 12 days after the beginning of your last menstruation, the pituitary causes a release of a big amount of luteinizing hormone, and 36 hours afterwards ovulation occurs.

When does ovulation occur? If you want to know the answer relevant for yourself, you should use at least one method of ovulation detection and apply it for a couple of months in a row to get more reliable results. They will help you to plan a desirable pregnancy. As for natural contraception, the usage of these methods can’t be recommended for the highest percentage of guarantee.