How to calculate your ovulation and fertile days.

How to calculate ovulation and fertile days, here we go.

First you need to know your cycle length before you can know your likely ovulation day. 

Note that a normal cycle length ranges between 21-35 days, anything below 21 days or above 35 days is abnormal,

To know your cycle length (that is how many days it takes before you see your menstrual period) you start counting from the FIRST day you saw blood to the last day before you see blood of your next period.

Example

If your period started today, 9th June and that of July started maybe on 5th July.

If you count from 9th June to 4th July, you have 26days, so 26days is your cycle length

It might not be 26 days for every month but always count from the FIRST day of an existing period to last day of the next one to get your cycle length.

When you can accurately calculate your cycle length, you can then be able to know when to likely ovulate and also your fertile window.

To calculate ovulation/fertile days after you have known your cycle length which can be anything between 21-35 days. 

ALWAYS USE 14 as a constant factor

Example

If the cycle length is 33 days,

You do 33-14

If your cycle length is 29days

You do 29-14 

So whatever your cycle length,you subtract 14 from it.

Your fertile window is 5 days before the ovulation day & a day after (7 days altogether).

To illustrate better,

If your period started today, 9th June and you have already calculated your cycle length to be 26days, 

applying the 14 factor to calculate ovulation (26-14=12) you are likely to ovulate on 20th June (counting 12 days from 9th June which is the first day your period started) and fertile window will be 15th 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th & 21st June (that is five days before ovulation day & a day after).

Note

Having an irregular period does not mean you are not ovulating so also having a regular period does not guarantee ovulation has occurred.

What are the other signs of ovulation to watch out for?

- Tender nipples

- Abdominal pain/cramps 

- Urge for intimacy 

- High temperature

- Cervical mucor etc

Everyone experience different signs, so because you don't experience what others don't experience doesn't mean you're not ovulating because most people think cervical mucor is the only way to know if they are ovulating or the only sign that ovulation has occurred.

Personally, I haven't seen cervical mucor in a long time.I usually have serious one sided cramp from where am ovulating.

Other means to monitor ovulation is through ultrasound scan and ovulation monitor.

We will continue to talk about ovulation all through other days .