Ovulation Calendar. My perfect baby-maker
The events in a woman’s body that lead to conception remain a mystery. Not even experts in the medical field have unravelled the mystery fully. Perhaps this is one secret closely guarded by the Creator. How do we explain how one woman conceives each time she has sexual intercourse and the one next door is unable, even after Dying countless times?
However, with this vagueness about the complex system of hormonal and chemical secretions from the ovaries, the hypothalamus and the pituitary glands and probably several other factors to determine the optimal time to get pregnant, medical specialists have developed an ovulation calendar to aid women who desire to get pregnant or wish to prevent it altogether.
Dr. Onyango Ogutu, a gynaecologist in private practice at Kenyatta National Hospital, explains that the calendar provides a programme that calculates the time of ovulation and goes on to generate a woman’s personal fertility calendar. The programme has been formulated using a computer software where you are merely required to enter the length of your menstrual cycles, the date of your last period and your luteal phase (the time between the day after ovulation and the day before your next period. It is mostly between 10 and 16 days).
With this information in tow, the ovulation calendar should effectively and accurately calculate for you your fertile days In most cases, the results are generated as a colour-coded calendar that shows your fertile and non-fertile days, including details of your next menstrual period. In case you are not sure of the length of either your period or your luteal phase, you may use the default values which represent the average woman.
According to Dr. Ogutu, the ovulation calendar helps you to:
Get pregnant
This is aided by you knowing your ovulation day. For example, if your cycle is 28 days long and your luteal phase is 12 days long, ovulation will most likely occur on day 16 of your cycle (28 • 12 = 16) However, the exact time of ovulation may vary with your cycles depending also on factors like stress, illness, diet or increased physical activity Knowing your time of ovulation will help you determine the best days to conceive. Remember, your fertile periods start about 4 -5 days prior to ovulation and end about 24-48 hours after You are most fertile on the day before and the day after ovulation Based on this, your ovulation calendar calculates the probabilities of your chances of getting pregnant by showing you the days that are most promising for conception, or avoiding unwanted pregnancies.
Avoid pregnancy
This would pass as one of the natural ways to avoid unwanted pregnancies because it shows you your fertile days so that you avoid unprotected sex. Remember, the ovulation calendar calculates for you your unsafe days, taking into consideration possible variation In your menstrual cycle.
Choose your baby’s gender
Choosing the right time for sexual Intercourse can increase your chances of having a boy or girl as desired Dr. Landrum Settles and David Rorvik, authors of ‘How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby,’ concurs saying the ovulation calendar has been so effective in determining the baby’s sex.
According to this method, Y-chromosomes (for boys) move faster but do not last as long as X-chromosomes (for girls) Therefore, Dr. Settles says If one wants a boy, she should have sex as close as possible to ovulation. But if you want to conceive a girl, you can try to have intercourse two or more days before you ovulate. This is however accurate up to about 90 per cent.
Know your fertility
Calculating your cycles using the ovulation calendar helps you stay on top of your game in matters of fertility By monitoring the calendar, you will always be reminded of important changes in your fertility. This way, you can set up a reminder on your mobile phone to alert you to abstain or even remind you the days that are optimal for conceiving a baby boy.
Choosing the right time for sexual intercourse can increase your chances of having a boy or girl as desired.
For accuracy
• Be keen on the length of your cycles, especially if it is less that 21 days or more than 35 days
• You need to have a luteal phase of between 9 -16 days.
Baby will arrive on…Using technology to know EDD
Since I am also an interested party in wanting to know how my ovulation calendar would look like. Dr Ogutu and I went online in search of an ovulation calendar With just a click of a button, we landed on www.healthybabynetworks.com
The explanations were as clear as already told above I had to answer the questions below:
View calendar for how many months? One month
After a second, the software propped up the following information you provided, you are likely to be most fertile from Friday December3,2010 to Wednesday, December 8,2010. It goes ahead to advise me to test for pregnancy on December 17, if I have intercourse within the days indicated.
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