An ovulation chart is the best method to ensure that you can chart your own ovulation, so you can either make sure that you do, or do not, get pregnant. Although some people would love to go looking for an ovulation chart online or in a store, many would rather just do it themselves at home. In this article I will teach to make your very own ovulation chart.
If you are thinking what is an ovulation chart and what can it do to help me, then here it is:
Experts say that determining your ovulation cycle is the most important factor in getting pregnant. As a rule women tend to ovulate 14 days before their next period (I know this is the truth for e because I get a big pimple 14 days after my period). A normal cycle is between 23 and 35 days. This would be simple if it was not for the fact that few women have the exact same number of days within every cycle. Coupled (no pun intended, or maybe that was just a bad joke) with the fact that sperm can live for two to three days after intercourse and the egg only survives between 12 and 24 hours after a woman ovulates, the optimum time is between one to three days before ovulation.
An ovulation chart is necessary therefore to be able to track and thus predict your most fertile days. Now on to how to make the chart....
How to make an Ovulation Chart
If you are only interested in tracking your monthly periods (that is that you are perfectly regular) then it is just fine to just use your calendar. If you want to make a separate graph, then get yourself a piece of graph paper. On the graph paper make a column for your menstrual cycle days.
The first day of bleeding should be Day 1. The End of cycle is the last day before your period is to begin again. The horizontal lines should be to chart your basal temperature (body temperature of the body at rest). It is your choice if you want to buy a basal thermometer.
On the bottom of the chart there should be room to chart changes in cervical mucus (light discharge occurs before your period), Another good thing to document is how you are feeling, breast tenderness, mood-swings, trouble sleeping). It may help to also document how you are feeling on any day as depression can contribute to shifts in ovulation cycles.
Now you can look at all the signs and see that ideally you are fertile when the cervical mucus is most slippery. Your body temperature should increase a few days after the LH surge, and ovulation occurs just before. If all matches up then you have figured out your fertile days (Chart developed by Serdar H. Ural, M.D.).
I hope your ovulation chart helps you to best achieve your goals.
Good Luck and Enjoy Practicing!
Melly Schaum
Melly Schaum is a happily married thirty something mother who is blessed with a beautiful son and likes to know everything about everything, including the possibility of number two. You can check out her ovulation chart blog at [http://ovulationchart.blogspot.com]
