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How to Calculate Ovulation - Increase Your Chances of Getting Pregnant
By Taylor Martin

If you are trying or have been trying to get pregnant, then you understand how important it is to know when you are ovulating. Knowing your ovulation cycle can increase your chances of getting pregnant. There are several methods you can use to learn how to calculate ovulation.

Menstrual Cycle. For most women, ovulation occurs 14 day before their next period. If you have a 28-day cycle then you would ovulate on Day 14; similarly if you have a 30 day cycle, then Day 16 would be when you are ovulating. If you want to be more precise or you have irregular cycles, there are ovulation charts online to help you determine when you would be the most fertile.

BBT (Basal Body Temperature) Technique. The BBT technique uses a highly calibrated thermometer to chart your daily vaginal temperature. When you are ovulating, your vaginal temperature is slightly higher and a BBT thermometer can detect this. It is important to take your temperature at the same time every day, preferably when you first wake up in the morning before you get out of bed.

Monitoring your Cervical Mucus. Ovulation causes a change in the appearance and texture of your cervical mucus. Check with your fingertips - if the cervical mucus has an egg-white like consistency and stretches a few centimeters, then it indicates high fertility.

Ovulation Predictor Kit. Ovulation kits detects the surge in luteinizing hormones (LH) - the hormones that peaks at ovulation. You use an ovulation kit to test your urine near mid-cycle to determine an increase in LH level. If there is a LH surge, then that would be an optimal time to have intercourse as most women ovulate within 24-36 hours after a LH surge is detected.

Whichever method or methods you decide to use, it is important for you to know how to calculate ovulation if you want to get pregnant.

Learning how to calculate ovulation is one of many factors that can affect your chances of getting pregnant.

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