How to Know When You Are Ovulating

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"How to know when you are ovulating. That is probably a question every woman has asked at one time or another. Most women think that you ovulate right in the middle of your menstrual cycle. Which is true if you have exactly a twenty-eight day menstrual cycle. But cycles can vary from twenty-one days to thirty-five days so the best way to tell when you are ovulating is fourteen days prior to the onset of your period. So if you have a thirty-five day cycle you will ovulate on thirty-five minus fourteen, which is day twenty-one. The optimum time then to have intercourse is two days prior to ovulation, and then every two days for eight days. Somethings can effect when you ovulate such as stress, life stresses, illness, especially major illnesses. The menstrual calendar can be a way that you can keep track of when you are ovulating. Looking at your body's own signals as far as the type of cervical mucous that is produced during the time of the month that you ovulate the cervical mucous is very stretchy like egg white, and if you were to stretch it between your fingers it would stretch between both fingers. Whereas the rest of the time of the month it has different characteristics. Another way to tell that you are ovulating is to use ovulation predictor kit, which are relatively inexpensive from the drug store. Another way that some women tell they are ovulating is to check their own cervix. Because at the time of the month that they are ovulating it is much softer, and lower in the pelvic area, and it is easier to reach. It is more frontwards. Whereas the rest of the cycle it is drawn up, and back towards the tail bone area."