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When the order to ovulate isn't sent, periods stop and conception is impossible.

MOST women with a 28-day cycle ovulate on around day 14 - to maximise your chances of conception the Royal College of Obstetricians recommends having sex every other day and stepping up your efforts three days before ovulation until three days after.

Although even totally healthy women do not ovulate every menstrual cycle in this age group, about 80 per cent of menstrual cycles produce healthy eggs that can be fertilised.

If your cycle is different, and you have, for example, a 32-day cycle, you will ovulate on day 18.

ABOUT a third of female infertility is due to a failure to ovulate. Ovulation is controlled by the same finely-orchestrated release of hormones that controls the menstrual cycle.

Moreover, many women athletes who do menstruate nevertheless fail to ovulate and so cannot become pregnant.

If you chart your daily temperature readings with a special ovulation thermometer from the chemist, you'll see clearly when you ovulate. You could also get an ovulation prediction kit from your chemist to confirm it.

A few studies have shown that this vocal display may go beyond challenging a male competitor to a fight: In several bird species, for example, those females serenaded by lusty male songs ovulate earlier.

THE minipill shouldn't have affected your fertility because it allows your body to ovulate normally.

inornatus ovulated, but 33 percent of the females housed with females, and 25 percent put with castrated males, did ovulate. The authors point out that these numbers are not statistically different from the isolation group, and attribute the figures to small sample sizes.

On average, a woman with regular cycles tends to ovulate sometime between day 11 and day 21 of her cycle.

150 mg clomiphene given in those (38 Patients) who did not ovulate with 100 mg dose.

Tests should provide enough LH measurement sticks so that women do not run out of test sticks before their day of ovulation--an occurrence that would put an unnecessary burden on women to figure out whether they failed to ovulate or simply need to buy more test sticks.

"Your period will also be different than usual if you don't ovulate each cycle.

"Studies have shown that lack of iron can cause anovulation - whereby a woman doesn't ovulate," warns nutritionist Gaye Godkin.