Pregnancy And Baby Care Pregnancy Calendar Ovulation Test

...This can be a sudden and brief rise in the woman’s level of the luteinizing hormone. The ovulation tester detects this surge in LH thus allowing the woman to accurately predict and confirm when you will be ovulating. A positive result that one gets on the ovulation test signifies that the woman is most likely to become fertile during the course of the next three days and this accompanied by a peak fertility which occurs at 36 hours post the LH surge.

Ovulation Test Procedure

At the start of the woman’s menstrual cycle, her body starts to produce some follicle stimulating hormones or FSH. The follicle stimulating hormone in helps the formation of one follicle onto one of her ovaries. This follicle then contains and helps in nurturing the egg. When the follicle has become adequately mature, a surge in the Luteinizing Hormone then causes this follicle to burst open and to release the egg into her fallopian tube.  This is when the ovulation takes place. During the menstrual cycle, a very small quantity of the LH is produced. However during the middle part of the cycle, the LH briefly and suddenly increases.

The elevated amounts of luteinizing hormone help to facilitate ovulation. The LH surge tends to be a brief surge. Thus to detect this LH surge, the woman is required to test herself at the correct time of the month also the correct time of the day. As the LH is continued to be produced by the woman’s body the ideal times she is advised to test herself is in the morning or mid-afternoon. Thus after the LH surge has been successfully detected, the fertilization is most likely to occur in 1 to 3 days post the LH surge. The peak fertility occurs at 36 hours post the LH surge. Since this period of ovulation only occurs once every month predicting the ovulation accurately is helpful when attempting to become pregnant. Ovulation tests appear in two types the test strips and the midstream tests. When using the ovulation test strip, the woman needs to fill a container with her urine and hold this test strip into the container for few seconds. With midstream tests, the test is held in the stream of urine.