Find Out When You're Ovulating Early With a Fertilitiy Monitor
Sometimes just going off the pill and waiting for nature to take over, isn’t enough to conceive your baby. If you are like me, you probably thought it would take a month or two and you’d be pregnant. Unfortunately, that isn’t necessarily how it works.
There are many strategies out there for tracking your fertility. I believe I have tried them all. The old standard was to gauge your basal body temperature to determine 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 barely higher than it was before. This technique works for many of us who try to establish a history of their cycles. Although it may help you conceive if you have a regular and predictable cycle, it doesn’t tell you when ovulation is about 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 egg whites, you’re going to ovulate soon. It may however only indicate that you have ovulated, which leaves you in the same ship as the basal body temperature method.
After I had spent months using both of the prior strategies, I decided to purchase ovulation predictor tests. I started with the low-end tests, thinking there was no reason to spend a bunch of money on test sticks I was just going to throw away. While the tests did show me that I was about 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 extraordinarily temperamental, which would produce inaccurate results.
So, I eventually took the plunge and bought the top-notch fertility monitor, the Clearblue simple Fertility Monitor. The entire package is worth every penny. The monitor removes the necessity to interpret test results. And, it is authorized 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 one another, the Clearblue easy test sticks are individually wrapped making it easy to maintain the standard of each test. The test sticks can either be held immediately in your pee stream or be submerged into a sample. After you have satisfactorily doused the test stick, you remove the cap and place it on the specimen end of the stick. The test stick snaps into place simply and the monitor does the rest of the work for you. Clearblue easy also provides a helpline that can steer you through printing out your fertility charts for when you go to your next gynecologist visit.
While there’s no guaranteed success of conception with any product, the Clearblue simple Fertility Monitor and easy-to-use test sticks make fertility charting simple and effective.