How to track ovulation

[ALYFFAMAE]

Our vaginal discharge is also another indicator of when we are ovulating! Thin, clear, stretchy (similar to egg whites) vaginal discharge is a sign of being fertile

[tamsynraath]

Best way is to track your discharge. I struggled to get pregnant for a year and a half. I then started check my discharge and was pregnant within 3 months. Your body has amazing ways of communicating with you!😁😁

[jessiethrelkeld]

Cervical mucus, cervix length and feel. These are the most accurate- because it can change month to month. It’s so important for women to be educated about their bodies beyond the basics like this!

[andreaabate]

Everyone Please remember: This is good for general information, so people gain an understanding of how the body works. However, if you are trying to avoid or achieve pregnancy, you MUST use addition methods to gather information. This is because you won't know the length of a cycle UNTIL IT HAS ALREADY PASSED. This is why the old Rhythm Method often resulted in unexpected pregnancy. Use an ovulation predictor kit, which can measure the hormones in your urine in real time. Or use the sypmto-thermal method. Or any other way of determining your actual and present fertility. I just would hate for someone to rely on only this for either birth control and end up pregnant. Or for someone who is trying to get pregnant, wasting their efforts.

[carolinefpurcell]

Cervical mucus is also a good way to see when you're ovulating! I use a calendar and CM to track my cycle

[purplejoy]

The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is also a great tool to track your cycle/ovulation so you'll know exactly when you are ovulating. Toni Weschler has a very thorough book on the topic. The three primary fertility signs she covers are cervical fluid, waking temperature and cervical position. Her book is wonderful and if you are considering FAM definitely a vital tool.

[NerdyBookworm]

PCOS struggles. Super irregular cycles for me. It took 3 years of TTC with no success to get answers. Don’t be afraid to bring up questions and concerns with your provider if something seems off.

[kellymcdonell]

Best way to figure it out is use a cycle thermometer to check your temp everyday. I was a late ovulator with a wide range of cycle days. The best book for learning this was Take charge of your fertility.

[chiaradaniels]

Your cycle length is dependent on when you ovulate. Subtracting days and stuff will not give you your ovulation date. Most people do not have a luteal phase (the phase after ovulation before your period) of 14 days. Anywhere from 12 to 16 is normal. So instead, track your cervical mucus and temperature, get yourself a basal body thermometer, take your temp every morning at the same time before getting out of bed. When you are ovulating, you will notice egg white consistency mucus and the day after ovulation a shift in your temperature. Now you just have to wait until your period shows up, count the days from ovulation and you have the length of your luteal phase. This does not change, maybe once or twice a year by a day. But the follicular phase (the phase before ovulation) can change constantly, it's not set in stone. So if you want to know when your period shows up, you will need to track ovulation and count your luteal phase. Counting days on a calendar will not be accurate, only for a small amount of women.

[sonnemondsterne]

Not a safe way to contraception though. If you want to find out your fertile days to use that information for contraception or getting pregnant you'll have to track your cycle by measuring basal temperature and discharge/cervix. You'd have to do that for about 12 cycles and know what and how to do that in order to be safe. What's descirbed in the video is the calendar method which is not safe contraception. You'll need the symptothermal method in order to use the data reasonably.

[brittanygray]

Before I had babies my cycle length was 35 days long. I had no clue when I would ovulate, this is interesting info! Now after babies I am 28 days like clock work!

[hannahbaker]

Thank you for teaching people this! Not many people understand their cycles! I was always told you cant ovulate before cd 12, however i had 24 day cycles so i ovulate on day 9-10. People always said that's too early and that it doesnt work like that... Well I'm pregnant now so it definitely works like that😅

[claremizusawa]

Woah. I went to Catholic school and they actually taught us this but they called it “natural family planning” as a form of birth “control”(?). So it was locating the same data in the same way, but for different reasons 👀

[StephanieBogart]

Also, egg white type discharge is present. My luteal phase is SO short. About 2 days. Which makes it easy to get pregnant during your period like I did 😅. Well, technically the sperm stays alive in there until the next egg drops but still. And you’re more likely to have a girl if you have sex while on your period because the female sperms tend to live longer so they can hang out longer and wait for the egg. Our bodies are fascinating!

[numsidumsragitsch]

This is surprisingly inaccurate coming from a doctor. Granted, she does say "for most", but many people don't know what to do with averages when it comes to the individual. For more precise information you could track your inner body temperature. After egg release, your temperature will rise.

[Bloodreina-The]

So my length is 39

So 39-14=25 so I ovulate cycle day 25!!! ❤I LOVE THIS THANK YOU FOR BEING STRAIGHT FORWARD

[syedam.graham]

Or you can use your basil temp, as soon as that rises you have already ovulated. If you're regular it takes 2 or 3 months to be sure when it will be but there are a couple other things that can be seen by watching your daily basil temp. Recommended reading: Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

[MommaBeeb]

For those who want more knowledge about their cycles, I recommend finding the podcast and books from Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. She’s incredibly knowledgeable about how our cycles work and what we can learn about our health from tracking different things like BBT, cervical mucus, etc.

[xxey]

Sorry no offense intended but this is very misleading information. It would be better if you took this video down and changed it to include current knowledge/research. This kind of incorrect information could result in unwanted pregnancy for those watching who believe they are 'safely' outside the fertile window before, during and after ovulation. It could also prevent pregnancy and cause distress for those who believe they are repeatedly trying to conceive in the fertile window. Most people do not ovulate 14 days before their period. Some do but not enough that anyone should assume they do. I, like many women ovulate on days 7, 8, 9 or 10. My periods are always 27, 28, 29 or 30 days long. There are also many women who ovulate late in their cycle and they have periods anywhere from soon. What is now established in studies is that there is broad range. There are also all the conditions that result in a wide range of time spans for ovulation as well as between ovulation and menstruation. There are also the people who don't ovulate but still bleed. Your part 1 video is also incorrect. The video wants to teach people how to record a cycle but it doesn't. It shows a 27 day cycle but incorrectly states it's a 28 day cycle.

[ohdrey]

My mom was having problems conceiving with my brother, obgyn told her how to track her cycle, and her ovulation, two cycles later she was pregnant. I came later and was a surprise they weren’t trying for me at all! 😂