Ovulation calendar for conception: calculator of the most appropriate days
A woman who seriously thought about becoming a mother will be helped in this by an individual ovulation calendar, because conception is known to be most likely during this period. Calculate the day of ovulation, correctly recognize your feelings and achieve the cherished goal will help you with our calculator. It works completely free of charge.
What it is?
The ovulation calculator is a special program that allows you to calculate as accurately as possible the days of the month that are most suitable for conceiving a baby. When such programs were absent in nature, women used the usual calendar. However, to calculate the day of ovulation, they had to work hard, make the necessary calculations, enter the data in the table.
Now everything is much easier. Simply specify the first day of menstruation and the duration of its menstrual cycle. The program will calculate and mark in the calendar with different colors unfavorable days, in which conception is unlikely, days in which conception is possible and the day of ovulation, in which conception is most likely. Then the woman will only follow these recommendations.
In days that are considered favorable for conception, unprotected sex is recommended.
Why do you need a calculation?
The ovulation calendar and calculator allow you to correctly calculate the periods in which the chances of conception increase. This will allow a couple who wants to become parents, save a lot of nerves and moral strength, because the “ineffectual” cycles, in which all the efforts of the spouses are “wasted”, deliver a lot of unpleasant emotions. In each cycle there are days in which it is impossible to conceive a child, no matter how much the spouse wants it. Calculation by monthly will allow to determine such days with great accuracy and direct efforts for a more favorable period.
It should be understood that relying solely on the results of calculator calculations is not worth it. Nature can make its own “adjustments”, the cycle can shift, hormonal failure can occur, a woman can be in a state of severe stress, get sick. And then the chances of conception will decrease. It is convenient to use the calculator, a woman can print out the results and carry them with her in her purse or take it on vacation so as not to get confused and forget about an important day.
With the help of a calculator, you can also calculate the calendar for several months in advance. However, if a “failure” occurs in one of the months, for example, the date of the beginning of the monthly period is shifted, you should definitely adjust the calendar by conducting new calculations.
The calendar and calculator are useful for those who are not planning a pregnancy yet. It is advisable for each woman to follow her own cycle in order to notice violations that occur in time and consult a doctor, because many diseases are accompanied by a violation of the female cycle.
You can use the calendar to protect yourself. We are not talking about determining favorable and unfavorable days for conceiving, in order to use interrupted sexual intercourse in them.This method is considered extremely unreliable, because the cycle of a woman is an unstable thing. It is about planning the use of contraceptives.
How does the calculator work?
Most often, the basis of the calculator is based on simple mathematical algorithms that save a woman from having to count on her own. To get the most accurate calendar, a woman needs to correctly enter all the required input data into it.
The first day of menstruation. There are usually no difficulties with this parameter, especially for women who watch their cycle and plan pregnancy. If you don’t remember the exact date, you shouldn’t make calculations right now. Wait for the onset of menstruation and use the calculator on the very first day.
The duration of the menstrual cycle. This parameter is quite individual. To calculate how long your cycle is, you need to count the number of days between the first day of menstruation last month and the first day of menstruation in a given cycle. The "gold" standard of gynecology - 28 days. Most women have such a cycle. But 29 days and 30 days are not pathologies, but standard variants. If the cycle lasts more than 33-35 days, it is better to first consult with the gynecologist, because it is possible that there are hormonal disorders in the woman’s body.
Regularity. For correct calculations, it is important that the woman's menstruation is regular. This does not mean that the monthly should come "day to day", although this is an ideal option. Variations of no more than 1-2 days are permissible.
Duration of menstruation. This parameter reflects how many days pass from the start of menstruation to its end (inclusive). Usually in women, menstruation can last from 3 to 7 days. This is considered a normal indicator.
It is important that the duration remains unchanged for the last 4-5 cycles. If in one cycle the periods lasted 4 days, and in the other - 7 days, you should consult with your doctor.
If all parameters are reliably known, you can start the calculations.
What shows?
After entering the required data, the calculator displays the result graphically. This is a calendar table in which the month is divided into periods, which in turn are marked with different colors. What are these periods?
- Follicular This phase begins after the end of menstruation and lasts until ovulation. Sex during this period is considered safe, the exception is the last three days before ovulation, they are already marked with a different color.
- Ovulatory. This period includes three days before ovulation, ovulation and two days after it. Thus, conception is most likely in these six days. Planning pregnancy need to pay attention to them.
- Luteal. During this period of the cycle, conception is almost impossible. The exception is the first two days that immediately follow ovulation. The rest of the time sex is also considered safe. This phase lasts for all women, regardless of personal characteristics, for two weeks or 14 days. If the date of the month is shifted by 2 days, it means that ovulation occurred precisely on these two days, since the length of the luteal period is constant.
- Menstrual. This period is the most unfavorable for conception, the period of intensive discharge of shells and blood.
The convenience of the calendar received from the calculations is that the woman does not need to calculate anything in her mind, she will always have a ready table before her eyes.
How does ovulation occur?
To use the calculator and create your own conception calendar, a woman needs to understand well what processes occur in her body during one menstrual cycle and why ovulation is the most favorable time for conceiving a baby.
After menstruation in the ovary begins the process of maturation of the follicle.Under the influence of certain hormones, several follicles grow, but only one of them is destined to become dominant, one that can enable a woman to become a mother. By the middle of the cycle, the follicle becomes large and bursts. From it comes a mature egg ready for fertilization. This process is called ovulation.
After exiting the follicle, the female reproductive cell enters the fallopian tube, where it is patiently, but not for long, waiting for a meeting with the male reproductive cell, the spermatozoon. Fertilization, therefore, occurs precisely in the fallopian tube, from which the fertilized egg begins to move into the uterus, where the embryo is fixed and begins to develop.
This day falls in the middle of the cycle. If a woman has the entire menstrual cycle for 28 days, then you can wait for ovulation for 14 days from the first day of your period. If the cycle lasts 30 days, then ovulation usually occurs on the 15th day. That is why the duration of the menstrual cycle is entered into the calculator as the initial data.
After the release of the egg (this process usually occurs within an hour or an hour and a half), the fertility of the female germ cell lasts approximately two days. However, sperm also have a certain endurance and "patience." Getting into the female genital tract, male sex cells can wait for the egg to come out. That is why Favorable days for conception is not only the day of ovulation, but also a few days before and a couple of days after it.
If conception did not take place on favorable days, the egg cell dies on the third day after it leaves the follicle, and after 10-11 days the next menstruation begins.
Symptoms and signs of ovulation
A calendar and a calculator can only indicate the direction in which a woman should move, but in no way cancel self-control. Many women claim they can feel their ovulation. This phenomenon in medicine has been called "ovulatory syndrome." Therefore, in the days that are marked in the calculator as the most favorable for conception, a woman should pay attention to some changes in her well-being.
Stomach ache. Most often it hurts from the side where the follicle breaks. If the egg came out in the right fallopian tube, then the discomfort in the lower abdomen will be on the right, if in the left - then on the left.
Basal temperature rises. During ovulation, the basal temperature rises by almost half a degree due to the production of progesterone in the body. Women who change it every day will definitely pay attention to the “jump”, which on the chart will look like a peak.
Allotment. Discharge from the genital tract in the period immediately preceding ovulation, during and after it become more abundant and "stingy". Often women compare their consistency with egg white.
Change in breast sensitivity. The nipples of the woman become more intense and sensitive. This is due to a change in the hormonal background that accompanies the ovulation period.
Increase libido. Sexual appetites of the woman on the threshold and during an ovulation grow. So nature itself tells what time is most favorable and desirable for conceiving a child.
There is a considerable percentage of women who do not feel any unusual symptoms during the ovulation period. And if they also have an irregular menstrual cycle, then it will be quite difficult to “catch” ovulation. A calculator and an individual calendar in this case will help determine the period during which a woman should preferably take ovulation tests or visit the ultrasound room to determine the stage of maturation of the follicle.
In extreme cases, you can donate blood for hormones, which will also tell you which phase of the cycle the woman is in. All this will help not to miss the right day and increase the probability of conceiving a baby.
Gender Planning
Some calculators not only determine the days favorable for unprotected sexual intercourse, but also allow a woman to find out what sex a child can conceive on a given day. Such calculators are based on the simple rules of genetics and the understanding that the sex of a child depends solely on the man and in no way depends on the woman, no matter how much the fair sex would want it.
There are two types of spermatozoa: those carrying the genetic set XX and those carrying the set XY. If the egg cell is fertilized by a male reproductive cell, carrier XX, then a girl will be born, and there can be no other way of developing events. If the sperm carrier XY is the first to “get” to the egg cell and penetrate through its membranes, then a boy will be born.
There is a popular belief that sperm with a set of XXs live longer, they are able to wait for an egg cell without losing their ability to fertilize. And XY cells are faster, agile, fast, but less durable. That is why the calculators in the calculation results show that the probability of conceiving a girl is higher if the PA (sexual intercourse) takes place on the days before ovulation. The chances of conceiving boys, according to such calculators, are higher if sexual intercourse is carried out directly on the day of ovulation or within 48 hours after it.
Medicine looks a bit skeptical about it. There is no evidence that spermatozoa, which are carriers of different sex chromosomes, differ in life expectancy. From the point of view of science, the male reproductive cell lives for about 3 days, regardless of its chromosome set.
Therefore, to plan the sex of the child through the conception calculator is unscientific, but in 50% of cases, women manage to conceive a child of the nominal sex of which they dreamed. With any calculation, the chances of having a boy or girl on any of the auspicious days is exactly 50/50.
American scientists from North Carolina argue that the relationship between sex and time of conception does exist, but so far they have not provided any convincing evidence of this, and therefore the traditional view of the medical profession on this issue has not changed.
How to increase the chances of conception
The calculator will only help you to know which days of the current month conception is most likely. But to increase the chances of conceiving a woman and a man should independently. A few days before ovulation, it is better to temporarily suspend intimate relationships, take a short pause. So male sperm will be more "productive", but too long abstinence is not the best way affects its reproductive properties.
Three months before the cycle in which the couple plan to conceive a child, a man should start taking special vitamin complexes rich in zinc and selenium, as well as folic acid. A woman can take vitamins and folic acid in 2 months. Such terms are due to the duration of the sperm update - it is quite long.
It is advisable to visit a doctor and get tested for common sexually transmitted infections in order not to deal with their treatment after conception, when the drugs, and the infectious agent, will be extremely dangerous for the child.
A woman needs to put her weight in order. With underweight, as well as with overweight chances of conception are significantly reduced up to the inability to conceive a child even during the period of ovulation.
Who is not suitable calculator?
The calculator can do little to help women with irregular menstrual cycles, inflammatory diseases of the reproductive system, hormonal disorders, thyroid diseases, because they ovulation can occur regardless of the calculations later or earlier, or may not occur at all. When planning pregnancy, it is better for such women to turn to specialists - a gynecologist, a fertility specialist, an endocrinologist.They will do the necessary tests, if necessary, stimulate ovulation, increasing the chances of the couple having a daughter or son.
But if you still want to try to conceive yourself with an irregular cycle, you can fill out the form to send, choosing the shortest of their last cycles. Then the calendar will mark the date of the earliest possible ovulation for this woman.
The calculator is not suitable for women who are planning to use assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF or intrauterine insemination.
With different types of infertility, the reason for not being able to conceive a baby is itself hidden in various factors. Therefore, in this case, the doctor chooses a favorable time for the collection of the egg, for its fertilization, taking into account the individual characteristics of the health status of the woman and her sexual partner.
How to determine ovulation, see the following video.