Sometimes just going off the tablet and waiting for nature to take over, is not enough to conceive your baby. If you are like me, you probably thought it would probably take a month or two and you would be pregnant. Sadly, that is not necessarily how it works.
There are many methods out there for tracking your fertility. I suspect I have tried them all. The old standard was to gauge your basal body temperature to figure out when your LH surge took place. This involves taking your temperature with a fundamental body thermometer each morning before you get out of bed. On the day of ovulation, your temperature will be slightly higher than it was before. This technique works for many folks who try to create a history of their cycles. Even though it may help you conceive if you’ve got a regular and predictable cycle, it doesn’t tell you when ovulation is preparing to occur. It only tells you that ovulation has took place. Sadly, the best time to have intercourse to conceive is in the days leading up to ovulation.
Another method for monitoring your fertility is to monitor your cervical mucus. When your cervical mucus is thin and greasy like whites of the eggs, you’re going to ovulate shortly. It may however only indicate that you have ovulated, which leaves you in the same ship as the fundamental body temperature method.
After I spent months using both of the above mentioned techniques, I chose to purchase ovulation predictor tests. I started with the low-end tests, thinking there wasn’t any reason to spend some money on test sticks I was just going to throw away. While the tests did show me that I was going to ovulate, it took many cycles for me to actually work out how to read the result. Also, some of the tests were old or extremely temperamental, which would produce unsound results.
So, I eventually took the plunge and bought the top-notch fertility monitor, the Clearblue straightforward Fertility Monitor. The complete package is worth every penny. The monitor removes the need to interpret test results. And, it is approved under most medical flexible spending accounts. My fave part about the monitor is the test sticks. While many lower-quality brands will sell you a canister of test sticks bundled together that stick to each other, the Clearblue easy test sticks are individually wrapped making it easy to maintain the quality of each test. The test sticks can either be held directly in your piss stream or be submerged into a sample. After you have sufficiently doused the test stick, you remove the cap and place it on the specimen end of the stick. The test stick snaps into place easily and the monitor does the rest of the work for you. Clearblue simple also offers a helpline that may steer you through printing out your fertility charts for when you go to your next gynecologist visit.
While there is no guaranteed success of conception with any product, the Clearblue easy Fertility Monitor and easy-to-use test sticks make fertility charting simple and effective.
