More-than-monthly ovulation not uncommon

Eye-opening findings (especially for users and advocates of the rhythm method):

Women may ovulate more than once a month, suggests a Canadian study that overturns conventional views on the human menstrual cycle. . .

Ten per cent of the women studied released two eggs in the same month. And all the women examined by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada showed at least two waves of maturing eggs in their ovaries in the same month. . .

"It's been assumed until now that women have just one wave per monthly cycle, leading to one ovulation, but nobody has actually carried out detailed analysis before," said Roger Pierson, who led the study. "In fact, all the women in our study had at least two waves and 30 per cent of them had three."

Posted by David on July 10, 2003 9:21 AM