Making Babies with Lunchtime Live
Sep 23, 2026 · 9 min · 8 segments
Every Wednesday afternoon, we’ll be talking Making Babies. Andrea will be joined by Professor Shane Higgins, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, to cover every area of trying to have a baby…
Shane HigginsGuest
Andrea GilliganHost
where you're going to continue to do what you usually do 087 1400 106 that is the whatsapp number okay listeners wondering shane if the digital ovulation tests are always accurate as in are they sure that ovulation is actually occurring when they predict the lh surge
All ovulation prediction kits, whether they're temperature or LH surge based, will give you a fairly accurate idea and indication of when you're ovulating.
They'll detect a rise in your basal temperature associated with ovulation, or they'll detect a rise in the level of LH, or luteinizing hormone, which occurs again with ovulation.
Yeah, and should anybody who's trying to get pregnant, is it something that they should be using or only if they're struggling with that?
Yeah, look, I don't think you should seek to put additional pressure on yourself when it comes to conceiving.
So if you have a regular, certainly a 28-day cycle, if your menstrual cycle is 28 days, then you're almost certainly going to ovulate on day 14.
The second half of your cycle from ovulation to the start of your period, is typically 14 days, regardless of the length of your cycle.
So just if you have a regular cycle and you know the length of it, just count 14 days back from the first period.
So you don't really need to use ovulation prediction unless you've been you know, trying for six, eight, nine months, and you want to just be a little bit more precise.
where you're going to continue to do what you usually do 087 1400 106 that is the whatsapp number okay listeners wondering shane if the digital ovulation tests are always accurate as in are they sure that ovulation is actually occurring when they predict the lh surge
All ovulation prediction kits, whether they're temperature or LH surge based, will give you a fairly accurate idea and indication of when you're ovulating.
They'll detect a rise in your basal temperature associated with ovulation, or they'll detect a rise in the level of LH, or luteinizing hormone, which occurs again with ovulation.
Yeah, and should anybody who's trying to get pregnant, is it something that they should be using or only if they're struggling with that?
Yeah, look, I don't think you should seek to put additional pressure on yourself when it comes to conceiving.
So if you have a regular, certainly a 28-day cycle, if your menstrual cycle is 28 days, then you're almost certainly going to ovulate on day 14.
The second half of your cycle from ovulation to the start of your period, is typically 14 days, regardless of the length of your cycle.
So just if you have a regular cycle and you know the length of it, just count 14 days back from the first period.
So you don't really need to use ovulation prediction unless you've been you know, trying for six, eight, nine months, and you want to just be a little bit more precise.
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