Your Ovulation Cycle: The best time to get pregnant, or avoid pregnancy!

Everyone has a different ovulation cycle, but it is still possible for you to learn the ebb and flow of your own cycle, so that you can pin-point when you are most fertile. You normally ovulate in the middle of your cycle, so if you had a 28 day cycle between periods, you might ovulate around day 14 (from the first day of your period).
It is the few days before ovulation, and the day of ovulation when you are most fertile. As you get closer to ovulation, your fertility increases. This is because when you ovulate your body releases an egg that will want to be fertilized by a sperm to become an embryo.
Some women have problems ovulating and some don't even ovulate every month. On the months you don't ovulate you have no chance of becoming pregnant naturally

Take a look at what ovulation looks like in this great little video:

What Happens At Ovulation?

You may get pains around the time you ovulate, which is normal.
Your hormones will change around ovulation, and you may even get egg white cervical mucus, which helps the sperm swim easier to the cervix to reach your fallopian tubes so that they can hopefully reach the egg easier.
There are ways you can predict and identify when you are ovulating. This can be via using a body basal thermometer (see the picture on this page), by monitoring your cervical mucus, through checking your cervix or by using an ovulation predictor kit.