How to tell you’re ovulating

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.

How to tell you’re ovulating: Listen to your body
If you're like 20 percent of women, when you’re ovulating, you feel a series of cramps in your lower abdominal area (usually localized to one side — the side you're ovulating from).

How to tell you’re ovulating: Chart your temperature
Taken with a special thermometer, your BBT is the baseline reading you get first thing in the morning, after at least three to five hours of sleep and before you get out of bed, talk, or even sit up. Your BBT changes throughout your cycle as fluctuations in hormone levels occur.

How to tell you’re ovulating: 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.

How to tell you’re ovulating: Buy an ovulation predictor kit:
Ovulation predictor kits (OPKs) are able to pinpoint your date of ovulation 12 to 24 hours in advance by looking at levels of luteinizing hormone, or LH, which is the last of the hormones to hit its peak before ovulation actually occurs.

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