All About Peak Day
All About Peak Day
Using fertility awareness for contraception means learning to determine the peak day. In order to understand Peak Day, you have to spend time learning your cervical fluid pattern over at least 3 cycles, and then begin to regularly identify when cervical fluid production begins and ends each cycle. Peak day and temperature shifts usually corroborate one another, however they are two separate biomarkers and can occur on different days, independently of one another.
What is Peak Day?
It's the LAST day of the visual presence of lubricative fluid - this can be any of the wet fluids like stretchy, watery, wet, clear, or creamy
It's the LAST day of lubricative sensation
It's the LAST day of the wettest fluid you experience that cycle
I'm putting LAST in caps because the name "Peak Day" seems like a misnomer, peak denotes "the wettest day" and people assume that could be any day during the fertile window where you noticed a particular wet sensation. This is wrong.
The Peak Day is the LAST day that you experience fertile quality (no matter the texture) cervical fluid. Your Peak Day therefore can only be determined RETROACTIVELY.
Why Does Peak Day matter?
Peak day is a relevant biomarker for understanding ovulation because it happens very close to, if not on the actual ovulation day itself. Knowing this is useful for pregnancy achievement, contraception, or just general body literacy purposes. It also marks the second point of change in the ovulatory cycle, or the end of the fertile window.
If you don't already, it's a good idea to start marking your Peak Day in your chart or fertility awareness app. Peak Day tells us that estrogen is peaking and ovulation is imminent, and it's a very reliable retroactive sign for knowing when the end of your fertile window is, and when it's safe to resume unprotected sex without a chance of pregnancy.
Do you have any questions about cervical fluid or peak day? Drop them below!