How to conceive when menstruation is irregular

For women with irregular menstruation, their ovulation period is also irregular, and they always miss the right time to conceive. Here are two tips for you to find your ovulation day correctly and conceive accurately! For women with irregular menstruation, the following methods can increase the chance of conception.

1. Use the basal body temperature

Measuring basal body temperature can help you accurately understand your ovulation period. Basal body temperature measurement refers to the oral body temperature measured after 6-8 hours of sleep, when you wake up without doing any activities (such as talking, eating or getting up, etc.). The temperature records measured by date are connected into a curve, which is called the basal body temperature curve.

The normal basal body temperature curve for ovulation is a biphasic curve with obvious high temperature and low temperature areas. The temperature difference between the high temperature and low temperature areas is generally around 0.3℃-0.5℃. So when is the ovulation day? Is it the day with the highest basal body temperature or the day with the lowest basal body temperature?

Generally speaking, ovulation occurs on the day when the basal body temperature is lowest. Before ovulation, our adrenal glands secrete a small amount of progesterone, so everyone's basal body temperature is low, generally around 36.2°C. When we ovulate, due to the rupture of the follicle, the estrogen in our body will drop sharply, causing the body temperature to drop. After ovulation, the corpus luteum begins to secrete a large amount of progesterone and estrogen, and as a result, our body temperature will rise sharply. The basal body temperature rises within 24-48 hours after ovulation.

2. Use ovulation test strips to monitor ovulation

Women also have a very convenient way to monitor whether they have ovulated in their daily lives, that is, ovulation test strips. If the test line is stronger than or the same as the standard line, it means that ovulation is about to occur. Because when the egg is about to mature, the hypothalamus receives the positive feedback signal of estrogen, and then the anterior pituitary gland quickly secretes luteinizing hormone, forming a very steep luteinizing hormone release peak, that is, the luteinizing hormone peak. This peak in the blood causes ovulation. Most follicles ovulate within 24 hours. The urine LH peak is 4-6 hours later than the blood peak. Therefore, most people ovulate within 20 hours after the urine LH peak.

However, the current ovulation test strips have different standards, and each person's situation is different, so using only one test strip may result in continuous positive results, or no positive results. Therefore, you can use multiple brands of test strips at the same time. Of course, since it is an indirect measurement of luteinizing hormone, its accuracy is far from enough. It is necessary to use B-ultrasound to confirm it when using it, and find the law of using ovulation test strips to test ovulation.

For women with regular menstruation, they can calculate it by themselves.

For women who are planning to have a baby and have regular menstruation, you can calculate based on the menstrual cycle. Generally, the ovulation period is about 14 days before the next menstruation. For example, if your menstrual cycle is 28 days, then the ovulation period should be around the 14th day of the menstrual cycle;

If your menstrual cycle is 40 days, then the ovulation period should be around the 26th day of the menstrual cycle (that is, about 14 days before the next menstrual period). According to the survival time of sperm and egg, it is generally easy to get pregnant within a week before and after the ovulation period, so this is considered to be the best time to get pregnant.