for someone who's never considered when i ovulate before, can someone please give me a dummies guide on how to work this out?

[broodywantcoilout]

hi,
getting ready to ttc#3, with 1st 2 was something i never considered, but have now spent quite a bit of time on here (when the kids r tucked up in bed) and read various bits on ovulation sticks/basal temperature..
but for a newbie with trying to work this out, and preferably doing something easily and cheaply if possible (im sure i read basal temp needs a special themrometer and needs 2 b taken b4 getting up in morning? cant c me doing that as always in 2 much of a rush and would forget),
can someone please explain these things to me
THANKYOU!!

OK I'll try. For me, I can usually tell based on two things. The pain in my stomach and the contents of my underwear

In a "normal" cycle of lets say 28 days, you'll ovulate approx 14 days before your period is due, though I believe the actual range of normal is 10-16 days before. So if you have a fairly regular cycle, you will be able to use that as a guide, ie you will ovulate pretty much in the middle. Then the next giveaway is what is known as EWCM - cervical mucus. ie the contents of your knickers! In the days running up to OV you will probably notice it getting the colour and consistency of egg-whites, hence the EWCM acronym. My final symptom is lower abdominal pain, there was a good thread on here earlier that mentioned you can get pain for different things, eg the follicles growing, or indeed the release of the egg. I tend to get a very sharp pain which I presume (based on EWCM and timing) is the actual release. Will see if I can find that thread as it was useful.

So that's all I do. But then I'm not pregnant yet! I have bought a BBT but can't be bothered using it. It was literally a few pounds from Amazon though, not too expensive.

Here you go, useful thread for interpreting ovulation pains

If you have an iPhone try the menstrual calendar app

haha thanks madam
and thanku nelly that does sound helpful, simple=just how i like it!!
will b keeping an eye out for those symptoms and letting you know how i get on. good luck with ttc!