Articles & Expert Guides on Ovulation

Medically-reviewed expert guides, tips, real-life stories, and articles on Ovulation

How Many Eggs Does a Woman Have? Egg Count by Age Breakdown

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Tracking Cervical Mucus: Your Expert Guide

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How Long Does Ovulation Last?

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

12 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

9 Ovulation Symptoms: How to Track Your Cycle for Successful Conception

Tassia O'Callaghan

Ovulation Tests: How They Work & When to Use Them

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Can An Ovulation Test Detect Pregnancy?

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Bloating During Ovulation: What It Is and How to Help

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Can You Get Pregnant When You’re Not Ovulating?

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

What Does DPO Stand For & What Does It Mean in Fertility?

Tassia O'Callaghan

22 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

21 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

20 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

19 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

18 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

17 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

16 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

15 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

14 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

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13 DPO: Symptoms, Signs & What to Expect

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From the community

Peak day but burned out :(

We’ve been TTC for a while now. However this is only the second cycle that I am tracking LH/ovulation. A couple months ago I had a health issue which threw off my cycle a little bit. So I wasn’t certain if my LH would have a high peak this month. As you can see from my attached chart, my husband and I kept at it and had sex in the days leading up to CD14 which is when I thought I would ovulate, however here I am on CD18 with a dye stealer ovulation test (second photo attached), but with an incredibly burned out husband since we’ve had sex for 2 days in a row after only 1 day break following 4 more days of sex. But today is officially ovulation day and he is so tired the poor thing :( He is a free spirit and likes to keeps things spontaneous but has been such a team player with trying to time sex this cycle. It’s just come to a point where it feels cruel of me to ask him to do it again tonight. What would you do? Should we just count on the sperm from the last two days? Is there a point in having sex tomorrow in the hopes of catching the egg?

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If I had sex yesterday (Saturday) n my ovulation date is on Tuesday is it possible I could get pregnant?

Could this be like my ovulation is about to start from this ovulation test

I had my period on the 15 of march and my cycle is 23 days from the picture will be that I’m ovulating

EllaOne

I had a positive ovulation test yesterday and had unprotected sex the night before. I took the EllaOne pill last night. Has anyone had this before? Was it effective if you’d already seen the positive ovulation?

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Please please someone clarify if this test is positive. Im pretty sure it is but Im in disbelief at the minute I haven’t ovulated in 8 months. I feel like crying lol. When is the best time to have sex?

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I know this group is for pregnancy test but just want to double check this ovulation test is positive. I haven’t had a positive ovulation test in months and months I think Im gonna cry. When is best to have sex after a positive ovulation test and how likely is it to get pregnant?

Any ideas what’s happening with my temp?

Thought I had ovulated but now I’m not so sure, I didn’t record my temp on a couple of days because I’ve been unwell with a fever so it was a lot higher than it should of been

BBT

I had unprotected sex 2 day before my lh surge (I had a random late ovulation on CD 24). So obviously this wasn’t expected—I took plan B on Monday (54 ish hours after the act and on the day evening of my lh surge). My temp has been steadily rising the past 3 days—does that mean I ovulated or is this a plan B shift?

Also has anyone gotten pregnant 2 days before surge—I think I either ovulated late the night of my surge or very early the next day

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Based on my tests, when do we think ovulation would have been most likely? Does it look more like the 17th or 18th (yesterday). I had a lot of egg white/stretchy CM on the 17th but was a lot drier by yesterday.

What's going on?!?!

So I had spotting last month, Feb 19 to the 22nd and if it was a very light period.. which I've never had but im also breastfeeding. I should be somewhere a round getting my next period because I usually only have 23-27 day cycles. At most I've made it 28 days and by 29, I've missed my period. Today is cycle day 28 with the spotting. I've been taking ovulation tests since then and they have been light except the past few days. And today which I thought I would be getting some kind of bleeding/spotting and I've gotten an lh surge which is throwing me off. And I just tested lh again and its even darker. Would this be ovulation or early pregnancy or just my body being all over the place? I'll put the 1st Pic of ovulation from earlier with this post and post the most recent one which was just now in the comments..I need advice as this is the 1st time I've been able to breastfeed this long with my 2nd daughter.