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5 Ways to Predict Ovulation with PregPrep

| June 25, 2016

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PregPrep’s newest partnership is with the amazing team behind OvulationCalendar.com! They are offering this innovative platform on their website. Ovulation Calendar is so much more than just a calendar. It analyzes your personal cycle, health and lifestyle data, and helps you track your most fertile days to conceive faster.

Knowing when you ovulate is one of the most important factors when trying to conceive. Surprisingly, many women don’t know how to tell when they are ovulating and miss the window to get pregnant. Here are 5 ways to help pinpoint your ovulation day.

Keep an eye on the calendar. The average cycle lasts 28 days, counting from the first day of one period to the day before the next period. However, many women have irregular periods, causing their cycle to vary from 23 to even 35 days. By keeping a menstrual calendar for a few months, you can figure out what’s normal for you, because every woman is different.

Let your body do the talking. Your body will most likely send you a monthly reminder to let you know you’re ovulating—so pay attention. You will experience pain or a series of cramps in your lower abdominal area due to the release of the egg from your ovary.

Changes in cervical mucus. Keeping track of your cervical mucus is a good way to predict ovulation. Your cervical mucus increases in volume as you get closer to ovulation. It also becomes more slippery and stretchy.

Purchase a basal body thermometer. These help you track your basal body temperature, or BBT. Your BBT will reach its lowest point at ovulation and then rise immediately about a half a degree as soon as ovulation happens. You will have to chart your temperature for a few months first, so you are able to make an accurate calculation of when you will ovulate.

Purchase an ovulation predictor kit. Last, but certainly not least, you can track ovulation by purchasing a kit. These kits are able to pinpoint your date of ovulation in advance by looking at levels of LH, which is the last of the hormones to hit its peak before ovulation occurs. There are different kinds of ovulation predictor kits, and you can find out more about them here!


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