There are a number of signs that a woman might experience during ovulation. Some women, for example, will experience breast tenderness when they are ovulating. Other women may experience bloating. Others may find that they have an increase in their sex drive when they are ovulating. Around one in five women will experience some mild abdominal cramping, sometimes known as mittelschmerz, when they are ovulating. Having said all of that, the fact of the matter is that there are only two signs of ovulation that most women will experience that can definitively tell them that they are ovulating. These two signs of ovulation include a change in cervical mucus and a change in their Basal Body Temperature.

It is important to understand, first of all, why recognizing the signs of ovulation might be important to a woman. Knowing the signs of ovulation can tell a woman when she is most fertile, and when she is most likely during her monthly cycle to become pregnant. This is useful for the couple who is trying to conceive, as well as for the couple who may be practicing the rhythm method of contraception.

During a woman’s monthly cycle, her body temperature will go slightly up and down. In terms of using Basal Body Temperature as a sign of ovulation, a woman can track her basal body temperature through the month and will find that there is somewhere around a half of a degree increase in her basal body temperature right after she is ovulating. While it is hard to use this increase in Basal Body Temperature to predict when ovulation is going to occur, by tracking her Basal Body Temperature over a period of time she can generally be able to predict when she is going to ovulate.

The other most common of the signs of ovulation may, however, be used to predict ovulation. During a woman’s cycle, the amount and the consistency of the cervical mucus that her body produces will change. Just before a woman is about to ovulate, she will begin producing a greater amount of cervical mucus. In addition, this cervical mucus tends to be thicker than normal, and to be almost transparent. In fact, right before and during ovulation the cervical mucus that a woman produces will resemble the white of an uncooked egg. This “egg-white cervical mucus” as it is called is especially hospitable to sperm, and it can help the sperm make its journey past the cervix up into the fallopian tubes.

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