Woman’s fertile days
You can get pregnant on about 6 days each month: about 5 days before ovulation takes place and 1 day afterwards. To know when you can get pregnant, you need to know when you will have your next ovulation. This can be hard to predict.
How to calculate the day of ovulation
You can try to calculate the day of ovulation if your cycle lasts the same number of days each month. Ovulation happens about 14 days before the next menstrual period (beginning of a new cycle).
Example 1 - regular cycle of 28 days: the ovulation will take place around day 14 of your cycle. You can get pregnant about 5 days before the ovulation takes place and 1 day afterwards.
Example 2 - regular cycle of 23 days: the ovulation will take place around day 9 of your cycle. You can get pregnant about 5 days before the ovulation takes place and 1 day afterwards.
Example 3 - regular cycle of 34 days: the ovulation will take place around day 20 of your cycle. You can get pregnant about 5 days before the ovulation takes place and 1 day afterwards.
You can get pregnant five days before ovulation and one day after when having sexual intercourse. The ovulation is difficult to predict.
Symptoms of ovulation
If your cycle differs in length every month, you cannot predict when you will have your next ovulation. Pay attention to symptoms in your body that appear at the time of ovulation:
- You have more discharge from the vagina. The fluid looks a bit like egg white and is stringy;
- Your body temperature rises a little bit;
- The cervix rises and is more difficult to feel from your vagina. It has widened a little bit and feels softer.
Some women have a bit of abdominal pain (pain in the belly) during ovulation.
Contraception
If you do not have a desire to have children at the moment, use contraception.