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When Do I Ovulate?

You never imagined that this one innocent question come to dominate your life for a couple months did you? You even find so many ways to ask same question:

• When is the best time to have sex to conceive?
• When is my fertile window?
• How many days after my period do I ovulate?
• How do I know when I’m ovulating?
• How long does ovulation last for?
• The list goes on…

You start to feel like your whole life starts to revolve around this question. And for good reason… Every month you only have a 33% chance of conceiving if you have sex on the day you ovulate. You could be trying to get pregnant for 3 months but just have been…

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  Ava

Ava is clinically proven to identify both the opening and closing of the fertile window, letting you know your five best days to try for a baby.

  Clue

Track your period and ovulation with Clue to understand how your body works.

  Glow

Glow is an ambitious enterprise that uniquely applies the power of data science to health. Our personal health tracking products illuminate health through data, and empower people with new information about their bodies. Though we live in a time when people track everything from diet and weight to the number of steps taken each day, it remains taboo to talk openly about some of the most critical phases of development: menstruation, sex, fertility, pregnancy, parenthood, and beyond.

  Kindara

Goodbye surprise periods, mysterious fertile windows, and confusion. We provide tools backed by science so you can become the master of your reproductive health. It’s time for empowerment, community, and accuracy.

  OvaCue

Conceive faster with OvaCue – patented and proven technology empowers you with accurate, personalized fertility predictions up to 7 days before ovulation.

  Ovia Health

We help women and families navigate their most important moments with personalized and data-driven solutions for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting.

  Ovulation Calculator

Determine your most fertile days and increase your chance of conceiving.

 Ovulation Prediction Is Messy and Difficult. It Shouldn't Be

The market is wide open for anything that will bring the technology of this tedious, anxious process a little farther into the 21st century.

Articles of Interest

At-Home Kits to Predict Ovulation With Less Mess Are Coming to U.S.

The Ache: At-home ovulation-predicting methods for optimal fertility, such as urine test strips, can be messy and expensive—and sometimes don’t work. The Claim: In a technique called “ferning,” tiny microscopes are used to examine saliva samples for a fern-like pattern caused when estrogen surges just before ovulation. The microscopes offer a convenient, low-mess method for determining when a woman can conceive. The Verdict: The saliva microscopes accurately detected estrogen surges 80% of the time

Does Glow's App Help Women Conceive? The Data's Tricky

Can a fertility tracking app really help women get pregnant? Maybe. But the study the company presented doesn’t prove it—and can’t, unless Glow gets serious about turning a critical eye on the valuable data it’s collecting from users.

Fertility tracking apps help women know when they’re ovulating

Given the practical difficulty of predicting individual ovulation, however, few doctors endorse FAM as a form of contraception. But the tech entrepreneurs behind period tracking apps say that by gathering unprecedented amounts of data about understudied aspects of how female bodies work, they can revolutionize reproductive medicine.

Fitbit for your period: the rise of fertility tracking

Investors are pouring money into apps that allow women to track their fertility. Can tech companies use data to change the world of women’s reproductive health?

Glow vs. Stick

There are lots of apps and sites that do what Glow does, plus several products that are much more precise at predicting fertility than calendar-based tracking. (My wife and I found these pee-on ovulation tests messy and hard to read, but also cheap and effective.) But Glow isn’t a mere ovulation calendar. Instead it’s something more ambitious and, depending on your views about your personal data, it’s creepier.

How To Tell If You Are Ovulating

In order to get pregnant, it is critical that the egg and sperm meet at exactly the right time. Ovulation tracking can help a couple plan intercourse around her most fertile time of the month. It has become big business and there are many different options out there to choose from.

Ovulation Made Simple: A Four Phase Review

The menstrual cycle has long been a topic of uncertainty, even among women. In this article, we simplify and explain the four phases of the menstrual cycle in an easy-to-digest format.

Ovulation: The egg story in a nutshell!

In a nutshell about the egg, there is a lot to learn and know about once you plan a child. But we are fortunate as we have equivalent and more sources to learn from and get it right.

The Best Method for Getting Pregnant

There are three commonly used methods for detecting ovulation: charting your temperature, checking your cervical mucus, and (slightly higher tech) peeing onto one of those ovulation tracker sticks. You can, of course, combine these techniques, and naturally there is an app for that. In principle, all three approaches work. The question is how they work in practice for the average woman.

The Nitty Gritty Guide to Ovulation

I’ve lost count of the people that have asked me about ovulation, how it works, what happens and what’s normal when. There’s a lot of information out there so I’ve attempted to pull together answers to all the many questions we’ve had...

There’s A Sign Women Are Ovulating, But Men Can’t Detect It

Women’s cheeks get redder when they are the most fertile, but this color change is so subtle that it is undetectable by the human eye, a new study finds.

These are the best period, fertility, and ovulation tracking apps out there

Women’s reproductive health can be pretty complicated and it’s good to keep track of things. Whether you’re planning a family or just want to know when your period is coming, there are a number of great period and fertility tracking apps to choose from.

Resources

Ovulation Signs and Symptoms

Ovulation is a critical phase in a woman’s cycle for it is when she is most fertile. It is the period when conceiving a child is more likely. It is very important for a woman to know if she is ovulating or not for that knowledge alone can protect her from unwanted pregnancies. Learning more about the ovulation process is like learning more about your body and all the wonders associated to womanhood.

Ovulation Success

I built this blog specifically to vent out my frustrations about infertility. However, I am hoping to educate those who have never dealt with this issue, and relate to those who have. My story starts here.