What is ovulation?

Ovulation is when one or more eggs are released from one of your ovaries. This happens toward the end of the time you're fertile between periods.

Each month, between 15 and 20 eggs mature inside your ovaries. The ripest egg is released and swept into one of your fallopian tubes. Your fallopian tubes connect your ovaries to your uterus (womb).

Your ovaries do not necessarily take it in turns to release an egg. It happens quite randomly.
How does ovulation influence when I can get pregnant?

To become pregnant naturally, one of your eggs and your partner's sperm have to meet in your fallopian tube. Your egg survives no more than 24 hours after you've ovulated. So the meeting of egg and sperm has to occur within this time.

However, sperm can survive for up to seven days. They'll happily live in your vagina, uterus or fallopian tubes for this length of time.

This means that you don't have to time sex to the exact moment you ovulate to get pregnant. You actually have a fertile window of about six days.

This window includes the five days before and the day of ovulation itself. So, if you have sex at some time during your fertile window, your freshly ovulated egg could meet live, healthy sperm and be fertilised.
How can I tell when I'm most fertile?

The simplest way to work out your most fertile time is to note down the length of your menstrual cycle. Then look out for signs of hormonal and physical changes in your body.

You'll start to notice signs that you're fertile about five days before you ovulate. Ovulation usually occurs between 12 and 14 days before your period starts. This is an average, so it could be a couple of days earlier or later.

For example, say you have a regular 28-day menstrual cycle. Count the first day of your period as day one. Your fertile window is likely to be around days 12 to 17.

However, a lot of women have an irregular cycle. If your cycle is irregular, ovulation may occur a week earlier or later from one month to the next.

Working out your fertile window using your cycle dates alone is an inexact science. This is why learning to spot your body's fertile signs can help. These include:

Changes in cervical mucus
Cervical mucus is the discharge that you see in your knickers or on toilet tissue when you go for a wee.

Changes in your cervical mucus can signal when you are fertile. After your period has finished, your cervical mucus gradually increases in amount and changes in texture.

This change reflects the rising levels of the hormone oestrogen in your body. It also shows you are close to ovulating.

You are most fertile when your mucus becomes clear, slippery and stretchy. It's a bit like raw egg white. This fertile mucus speeds the sperm on its way up through your uterus. It nourishes and protects the sperm as it travels towards your fallopian tubes to meet your egg.

See our photo gallery to check what cervical mucus looks like.

An ache in your belly
About a fifth of women can actually feel something happening in their ovaries around ovulation. This can range from mild achiness to twinges of pain. Some women feel ovulation as one-sided backache or a tender area. The condition, called mittelschmerz, may last anywhere from a few minutes to a few days.

If you notice these sensations at roughly the same time each month, check your cervical mucus. Ovulatory pain can be a useful guide to when you're fertile.

Feeling sexy
Feeling sexy, flirty and more sociable may all be signs that you're at your most fertile.

You may notice a peak in sexual desire at this time. You may find your partner becomes a little more possessive and attentive as a result. There's medical evidence for this!

You may not be aware of it, but you may be showing other signs that you are at your most fertile. Think back over your cycle and you may remember the following happening:
Looking and feeling great: you're likely to feel more physically attractive as you near ovulation. You may be more attractive to others, too. Without realising it, you may choose clothes that flatter you.
Scent of a woman: you smell good at this time. Your body odour is more pleasant and sexy to men around the time you're fertile. You may think that nobody knows you're ovulating, but those natural scents may give the game away.

Try our ovulation calculator to help you work out when your fertile window is likely to be.

Some women use ovulation kits to pinpoint their most fertile time. Most of these kits test for the peak of luteinising hormone, or LH, which is the actual trigger for egg release. You could use these to find out when you are most fertile during your cycle, although using them to time sex won't necessarily increase your chances of getting pregnant naturally.
How can I increase my chances of getting pregnant?

Try to have sex every two to three days. Then sperm with good motility will be in the right place whenever you ovulate. Regular sex throughout your cycle gives you the best chance of conceiving.

Having sex when your cervical mucus is wet, slippery and most receptive to sperm will also increase your chances of conception. And you'll be happy to know that the odds are with you.

In normally fertile couples, there is between a 20 per cent and a 25 per cent chance of getting pregnant each cycle.

Over 80 per cent of women aged under 40 who have regular sex without using contraceptives will get pregnant within a year . Over 90 per cent of couples conceive within two years.

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