Ovulation and significance

2. 1. What does the term ovulation signify?
2. What is the importance?
3. When does it happen?
4. How can one know that she is ovulating?
5. What are the ovulation days?
6. How can a non-medical follow them if she is
looking for conceiving?
7. What factors have a key role in ovulation?

3.  Release of egg / ovum from the ovary.
Significance
 Ovulation is process to produce female egg
which can combine with a sperm to make a
baby. It is the most important phenomenon
in getting pregnant.
 A woman must ovulate in order to have a
child.

4.  Ovulation is when a
mature egg is released
from the ovary, pushed
down the fallopian tube,
and is available to be
fertilized.
 Approximately every
month an egg will
mature within one of the
ovaries.

11.  Check the calendar
 Ovulation most often occurs halfway
through your menstrual cycle — the average
cycle lasts 28 days, counting from the first
day of one period (day one) to the first day
of the next period.
 Ovulation Predictor kit

12. Listen to your body
 In 20 percent of women, your body informs you
when it's ovulating, in the form of a twinge of pain
or a series of cramps in your lower abdominal area
(usually localized to one side — the side you're
ovulating from). Called mittelschmerz —
German for "middle pain" — this monthly
reminder of fertility is thought to be the result of
the maturation or release of an egg from an
ovary.

13.  Get to know your cervix
 As your body senses the hormone shifts
that indicate an egg is about to be released
from the ovary, it begins to ready itself for
the incoming hordes of sperm and give the
egg its best chance of getting fertilized.

14.  During the beginning of a cycle, your cervix —
is low, hard, and closed. But as ovulation
approaches, it pulls back up, softens a bit,
and opens just a little, to let the sperm
through on their way to their target.
 Check your cervix daily, using one or two
fingers, and keep a chart of your
observations.

17.  The other cervical sign you can watch for is
the appearance, increase in quantity, and
change in consistency of cervical mucus

18. Chart your temperature