FAQs
Have questions about IVF and infertility? We have answers.
Ovulation
Ovulation is the release of a mature egg from its developing follicle in the outer layer of the ovary. This usually occurs approximately 14 days before the next menstrual period (the 14th day of a 28-day cycle).
Patient Resources
- Ovulation Detection
- Q03: How is Infertility Diagnosed?
- La “ventana de fertilidad”
- The fertile window is the six days leading up to and ending on ovulation
- Medicamentos para inducir la ovulación (Medications for inducing ovulation booklet)
- Am I Ovulating?
- Medications for Inducing Ovulation (booklet)
- Oral Medicines for Inducing Ovulation
- Insulin sensitizing agents and PCOS 胰岛素增敏剂和多囊卵巢综合征
- Optimizing Natural Fertility
- Ovarian Drilling for Infertility
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Progesterone Supplementation During In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Cycles
- ¿Estoy ovulando? (Am I ovulating?)
- Normal and abnormal puberty in girls 女孩正常和异常的青春期
- The menopausal transition (perimenopause)
- Pubertad normal y anormal en mujeres (Normal and abnormal puberty in girls
- Am I ovulating? 我在排卵吗?
- Sindrome de ovario poliquistico [SOP] (PCOS)
- Quick Facts About Infertility
- Datos Sobre la Infertilidad
- Q02: What Causes Infertility?
- Infertility : an overview 不孕不育：概览
- Diagnostic Testing for Female Infertility
- Infertility: An Overview (booklet)
Publications
- Current evaluation of amenorrhea (2008) members-only
- Diagnostic evaluation of the infertile female: a committee opinion (2015)
- Role of metformin for ovulation induction in infertile patients with PCOS (2017)
- Role of metformin for ovulation induction in infertile patients with PCOS (2017)-members only
- Prevention and treatment of moderate and severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: a guideline (2016)
- Female age-related fertility decline (2014) members-only
- Prevention and treatment of moderate and severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: a guideline (2016) members-only
- Use of exogenous gonadotropins in anovulatory women: a committee opinion (2008) members-only
- Female age-related fertility decline: a committee opinion (2014)
- Increased maternal cardiovascular mortality associated with pregnancy in women with Turner syndrome: a committee opinion (2012)
- Optimizing natural fertility: a committee opinion (2016)
- Optimizing natural fertility: a committee opinion (2016) members-only
