What is ovulation, probably, every adult woman knows. For those who just heard about this, but can not understand what it is, we will try to explain in more detailed and accessible words. If you are serious about becoming a mother, then it is ovulation, or rather, knowledge, when it comes to you, will help in the implementation of your plans.
In simpler terms, this is the same period of the menstrual cycle when the egg leaves free swimming from the ovary, thereby becoming open and accessible for fertilization. Typically, this happens on the 13-14 day of your menstrual cycle, but the time can vary plus or minus a couple of days, depending on the number of days of your cycle.
Monthly your body and body are preparing for a possible pregnancy. One egg leaves and begins its journey down the fallopian tube to the uterus itself. If the egg remains unfertilized, it simply leaves the body with menstruation.
Signs of ovulation and conception
In order to determine your days of ovulation, it is not enough just to count down when there are 14 days from the beginning of the menstrual cycle. In this case, you need to apply a little more effort.
You can resort to different ways of determining the day of ovulation. There are both personal and general ways of determining the signs of ovulation. To the general concern various laboratory researches and US, but also they not always can help or assist you. If you want to increase the likelihood of conception on the day of ovulation, it is better to resort to personal calculations.
One of the simplest ways is to monitor your body's signals. As a rule, a few days before ovulation, light pain in the abdomen and lower back begins. In addition, the discharge increases, and their consistency becomes thicker and whiter.
The next method will take you a little more time and require some care and effort. The method itself is a little uncomfortable, but it helps to correctly calculate the day of ovulation - by measuring the rectal temperature. For this, every morning, at the same time, you need to measure the rectal temperature before you get out of bed. Record all the results in a graph. When you notice a sharp temperature jump, this will mean the day of ovulation.
If you want an easier, but accurate way, then in this case you can resort to special tests that are sold in any pharmacy. They are done on the same principle as the pregnancy test, with the difference that by them you determine the highest level of hormones. Do this test in the middle of your cycle, for several days. That's why the package usually contains several tests.
Conception of the child and ovulation
Concerning the most favorable days for ovulation, there is much debate, but it has long been investigated - which days are more suitable for this. To be clearer, you need to know that the egg itself after the release lives for a maximum of 24 hours, and the life span of spermatozoa is 3-4 days.
Proceeding from this it is obvious that the highest probability of conception on the day of ovulation. If sexual contact occurred 1-3 days before
But the probability of conception before ovulation, which is more than 4 days, is almost zero. The same concerns the probability of conception after ovulation, when the ovum has already died. In this case, since you did not have time, you will have to wait for the next ovulation. And this time, more carefully prepare and accurately calculate this significant event for the sexual system of women.