Knowing when you are ovulating is important when trying to conceive. It allows you to make sure that you are focusing your attention and your, ahem, energy on the right days. The fertile window for women each month is actually quite narrow, and knowing when you ovulate is the best way to make sure that you optimize your chances to conceive each month.
Most women have a fertile window of approximately six days each cycle, since sperm can often survive up to five days in a woman's cervical fluid. But since your egg can only survive up to 24 hours, it's important to know what these five days are before you ovulate. Therefore, a woman's most fertile days are the three days before and including ovulation day.
Ovulation signals the moment that your ovary releases your egg. So, what are the symptoms that can clue you in on the day that you ovulate?
Ovulation Kits
Ovulation Kits are urine or saliva-based tests that, with the help of technology, form a great and valuable sign that you are ovulating. Urine tests identify the LH hormone surge that occurs in the body within 18-36 hours prior to ovulation. So when you’re able to pinpoint that surge, you know that ovulation will be occurring within 1-2 days.
To have a success OPK reading, test in the days before you expect to be fertile, continuing until you get your first positive result. First morning urine can be helpful since the hormone is more concentrated, but some REs advise to test in the evening as well, as some women have much shorter LH surges. If the test reads positive, it’s a good time to get horizontal.
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