I wanted to let you know that I answered your "am I pregnant?" question here: Am I Pregnant?.
Also, it is not possible to tell someone their chances of pregnancy are "high", based on the information that she ovulated on "day 14". That is actually a misconception and broad generalization that women ovulation in "mid-cycle", with the assumption that all women are an exact 28-day cycle.
In fact, most women fluctuate from cycle-to-cycle, and cycle length can vary from 21-35 days...so even women who do ovulate on that magical exact "mid-cycle" date would have 15 days of possible ovulation dates with this broad variation. Plus, throw in the other fact that women probably do not ovulate on the exact mid-cycle date, but there is a variation of this as well---you can count 3-5 days on either side of the mid-cycle date as possible ovulation days, which can total around 10 days of possible dates. That is a lot of variation, and probably why it is easier for people (and health care providers) to just generically say that women "ovulate mid-cycle" or that women ovulate on "day 14", for ease of explanation...but it short-changes those women who actually need/want to know their predicted dates of ovulation (so they can prevent a pregnancy or have a higher chance of conceiving during their most fertile time frame).
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Hi AshBrie,
I wanted to let you know that I answered your "am I pregnant?" question here: Am I Pregnant?.
Also, it is not possible to tell someone their chances of pregnancy are "high", based on the information that she ovulated on "day 14". That is actually a misconception and broad generalization that women ovulation in "mid-cycle", with the assumption that all women are an exact 28-day cycle.
In fact, most women fluctuate from cycle-to-cycle, and cycle length can vary from 21-35 days...so even women who do ovulate on that magical exact "mid-cycle" date would have 15 days of possible ovulation dates with this broad variation. Plus, throw in the other fact that women probably do not ovulate on the exact mid-cycle date, but there is a variation of this as well---you can count 3-5 days on either side of the mid-cycle date as possible ovulation days, which can total around 10 days of possible dates. That is a lot of variation, and probably why it is easier for people (and health care providers) to just generically say that women "ovulate mid-cycle" or that women ovulate on "day 14", for ease of explanation...but it short-changes those women who actually need/want to know their predicted dates of ovulation (so they can prevent a pregnancy or have a higher chance of conceiving during their most fertile time frame).
Just wanted to clear this fact up for women!
November 22, 2009 - 8:43amThis Comment
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