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What does ovulation or ovulating exactly mean and do young teens ovulate???? ??
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Your menstrual cycle begins when you ovulate, moves on to having a period, and then goes on to ovulate again, and then have another period, etc., from the time you begin to have periods at around age 11 or 12, to the time you stop at around age 51 or 52. The average cycle length, a "menstrual month," is often 28 days long from one ovulation to the next.
Ovulation starts the process. An egg gets ripe in your ovary, and pops out like a little explosion into your abdominal cavity. It floats around and is captured by the Fallopian tubes (that look in charts of a woman's body like they have catcher's mitts on them), and gets sucked down the tube into the uterus. The egg is viable for about a day and a half. If no sperm happens to be there to fertilize it, it dies. In about 14 days, the woman has a period, if she is not pregnant. The period is the body shedding the lining of the uterus. (The uterus has put on a thick lining while the body is getting ready to ovulate, in case a fertilized egg comes along and needs a place to embed.) If the body gets the signal 14 days after ovulation that no embryo is making itself at home in the uterus, it sends a signal "Lose the lining," and on comes your period. It takes 4 to 5 days to shed all the uterine lining (called endometrium). Later, your other ovary pops out another egg, and the whole cycle begins again.
The period usually comes about two weeks after ovulation, and then the next ovulation (often, for a woman with regular cycles) comes about two weeks after the period. If a woman has irregular or long cycles, the part that changes the length of the cycle is the part where after a period, the body then ovulates again. In other words, once you ovulate, you can count on a period in a couple of weeks (if not pregnant), but once you have a period, you can't necessarily count on ovulating in two weeks. Ovulating is the start point and the period is the end point, meaning that if you were a person with, say, an unusually long cycle such as a 60-day cycle from day 1 of a period to day 1 of the next period, you would ovulate at day 46, not evenly halfway in between. Most women assume they ovulate halfway between the periods, but that is not true if a woman's cycles are irregular or long.
If you are getting periods, that is a signal that you have also been ovulating. If you're alert to your cervical mucus (the secretions of the vagina), ovulation is signalled by a clear, stretchy, strong discharge that looks like raw eggwhite. Most of the time, women's vaginal discharge is thin and milky. When you have ovulatory mucus, it's clear enough to read a newspaper through, and adhesive enough to snip with scissors.
Hope that all helps.
Ovulation starts the process. An egg gets ripe in your ovary, and pops out like a little explosion into your abdominal cavity. It floats around and is captured by the Fallopian tubes (that look in charts of a woman's body like they have catcher's mitts on them), and gets sucked down the tube into the uterus. The egg is viable for about a day and a half. If no sperm happens to be there to fertilize it, it dies. In about 14 days, the woman has a period, if she is not pregnant. The period is the body shedding the lining of the uterus. (The uterus has put on a thick lining while the body is getting ready to ovulate, in case a fertilized egg comes along and needs a place to embed.) If the body gets the signal 14 days after ovulation that no embryo is making itself at home in the uterus, it sends a signal "Lose the lining," and on comes your period. It takes 4 to 5 days to shed all the uterine lining (called endometrium). Later, your other ovary pops out another egg, and the whole cycle begins again.
The period usually comes about two weeks after ovulation, and then the next ovulation (often, for a woman with regular cycles) comes about two weeks after the period. If a woman has irregular or long cycles, the part that changes the length of the cycle is the part where after a period, the body then ovulates again. In other words, once you ovulate, you can count on a period in a couple of weeks (if not pregnant), but once you have a period, you can't necessarily count on ovulating in two weeks. Ovulating is the start point and the period is the end point, meaning that if you were a person with, say, an unusually long cycle such as a 60-day cycle from day 1 of a period to day 1 of the next period, you would ovulate at day 46, not evenly halfway in between. Most women assume they ovulate halfway between the periods, but that is not true if a woman's cycles are irregular or long.
If you are getting periods, that is a signal that you have also been ovulating. If you're alert to your cervical mucus (the secretions of the vagina), ovulation is signalled by a clear, stretchy, strong discharge that looks like raw eggwhite. Most of the time, women's vaginal discharge is thin and milky. When you have ovulatory mucus, it's clear enough to read a newspaper through, and adhesive enough to snip with scissors.
Hope that all helps.
I know this seems like a stupid question but I really need an explanation.
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