Ovulation Calendar

If you are trying to achieve pregnancy, an ovulation calendar could be the very thing you need to help you achieve your goal of making a baby. There are many websites that have them and they are easy to use. You simply type in the date of the first day of your last menstrual period and it will show you the day that you can expect to be ovulating. That would be the day to aim for having intercourse to try to become pregnant. In addition, it is good to also have relations on the days leading up to ovulation and the day after because the date suggested may not be the actual day that the egg is released and you want to make sure that you cover all bases.

An ovulation calendar can help women to avoid pregnancy also, although it is not a fool-proof birth control method and should be used in conjunction with another form of protection such as a condom. It is interesting to see the patterns that a woman's cycle follows, however many women experience erratic menstrual cycles and therefore may not be ovulating regularly. In general, a menstrual cycle lasts between twenty eight to thirty days, give or take a day or two. Sometimes stress affects the timing of a woman's period. And trying to have a baby can be a stressful time. Your period may be late one month and you may be convinced that you are in fact expecting, only to find out a few days later that your cycle has started again and you must try again.