Does late ovulation mean poor egg quality? - Page 2

[karmab]

i just searched the ff chart gallery, and pg rates are the same for "late ovulation," 34%. "early ovulation" was 31%. not specified (everybody) is 33%

[contactmaya]

Originally Posted by MaerynPearl

Late ovulation in a cycle does not make a bad egg.

Late ovulation in LIFE is what you need to worry about (which is why women over a certain age are higher risk)
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What exactly do you mean by 'late ovulation in life'? Do you mean, someone who started to menstruate later than average?

Ive often wondered if there is any correlation to starting to menstruate earlier or later than average, and fertility. I started at 15, later than normal, i had a friend who started at 9...

Maya

[chellebee]

My 2 year old was a CD66 BFP. (So I probably ovulated around CD 54)

I have heard that late ovulation effects egg quality in a maturity sense. I think the assumption is that if you ovulate late, your body has been trying to do it earlier, IYKWIM, which is the real problem. As in, eggie has been waiting in the follicle, long 'matured,' ready to pop for days/weeks.

In my case, that assumption was true. My body was gearing up to ovulate over and over again until it finally happened. I did get a healthy baby out of it, but we did have some complications (PIH), and part of me wonders if late ovulation played a role.

[Blanca78]

I thought Mae was simply referring to trying to get pregnant later in life, which of course can affect fertility!

Although I also wondered what it meant to menstruate later (I was 14). I've read that it doesn't make a difference in fertility--I think the number of eggs you would have released if you'd started a couple years earlier would be so negligible it wouldn't really affect your long term fertility/egg supply. But I have no idea.

[MaerynPearl]

Originally Posted by contactmaya

What exactly do you mean by 'late ovulation in life'? Do you mean, someone who started to menstruate later than average?

Ive often wondered if there is any correlation to starting to menstruate earlier or later than average, and fertility. I started at 15, later than normal, i had a friend who started at 9...

Maya

Yeah, only mean women trying to get pregnant later, in mid-40s for example.

[JustLooking_30]

I think there are shades of gray here. IMO, Late ovulation (day 14-21) should be considered distinct from very delayed ovulation (say day 22 and beyond). In the latter case, other factors might be in play.

Every woman's cycles are unique and I think the point is a lot of us have different patterns of normal ovulation- we probably just have not caught it.

My point is regarding this- when you have two different different patterns of ovulation (within the first 21 days of your cycle), is there any evidence to show that when you ovulate later, your eggs may be better?

When one considers my individual case, I normally ovulate either at day 15 or day 20, and the day 20 ovulation seems to be better when you consider and quality of egg white cervical mucous & length of subsequent luteal phase.

I'm just trying to see if what I've observed in myself can also be borne out in other people's cases.

[KaliShanti]

I conceived #2 on CD19, the earliest I'd O'd in 10 months of trying..

[contactmaya]

As far as the OP is concerned though, ovulation late is the cycle while breastfeeding is normal, and is all part of returning fertility. The fact that you ovulating at all whilst breastfeeding shows that something is working. Most likely, you will start to ovulate earlier in your cycle within a few months (every woman is different i guess) I was at cd 17-20 for about 4 months a and then went to 15, and then to 13. Now i am averaging day 13/14. (nursing here too)

In this case, i dont think it reflects at all on egg quality.
Maya

[enigo]

I last posted in post #10 and ended up getting pregnant that cycle on cd38. I had another mc...
I'm sure it had something to do with hormones being out of whack. I've been doing acupuncture since the last mc and it straightened my cycles out immmediately. I now seem to O on cd18 which is apparently my normal day.

[rhiandmoi]

Also, just because you gear up then fizzle out and the gear up and then ovulate, does not mean that the original eggs are the ones that end up being released when you finally ovulate. New eggs often begin maturing during subsequent follicular surges. But those eggs might also not be mature enough, even though you are ovulating very late in your cycle. It is more about the time between when you start maturing the follicles to actually releasing them.

[echospiritwarrior]

I Oed on CD 27 and now am 8 weeks pregnant.

With #2 My EDD was moved back 6 weeks from LMP (wasn't charting then so that was all I initially had to go on) so that would have had me O around CD42 and she is a perfectly healthy and happy two year old!

[trini]

My sons were conceived on day 70-something and day 80-something respectively. I o'd on day 18 with this new babe but the cycle was drug-induced.