Okay is your cycle regular? If so, here is a simple way to figure out the best days of sex for baby making. Say the first day of your period starts on the 20th of December. Then the first day starts on the 20th of January. That would be a regular cycle. Count 14 days from the first day of your period. That would make it January 2nd. That would be your ideal ovulation date. But since ovulation is not just one day, typically 5 days is an ideal window, 2 days before ovulation because sperm can live in the uterus for about that long and two days after. So ramp up the sex from December 31-Jan 4. But that is the pretend cycle. If your cycle is not regular, you can always buy those ovulation prediction kits from your local drugstore. They are not cheap.
So figure out when the first day of your period starts, and if it is regular, just count 14 days from the date of your start date, and that would be most likely the date you ovulate. Just subtract two days from your ovulation date and add two days. There is your 5 day window.
Some women, like myself, know when we ovulate because of a little pain on either the left or right side of our lower abdomen, and increased discharge during that time. The pain is called mittleschmerz (sp?), a german loan word for ovulation pain. You may or may not have that pain.