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Like many women, I have struggled to understand my own fertility. Whether it was my period, ovulation, or sex hormones that impact fertility like estrogen and luteinizing hormone (LH), I relied on subpar high-school sex education and Googling long-winded questions to better understand my body and how it works. Yet over time, I’ve learned to take control of my health education and utilize better tools to help me better understand exactly how my fertility works and what it looks like day to day.
And like many women, I’ve become more interested in knowing when I’m ovulating and not ovulating. This knowledge isn’t something I use solely to achieve or avoid a potential pregnancy either; in fact, it helps me better understand what’s going on inside my body and what’s affecting it over time, whether that’s stress, hormonal changes, or other factors.