Fertility charting
Cervical Mucous, Cervical Position, and Ovulation
Cervical mucous and cervical positioning are important for understanding your most fertile time for conception. Check and chart your body's signs to help you conceive.
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Cervical Mucous, Cervical Position, and Ovulation
Cervical mucous and cervical positioning are important for understanding your most fertile time for conception. Check and chart your body's signs to help you conceive.
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Charting Basics: Drawing Your Coverline
Drawing a coverline on your bbt chart is not required but it will help you to see if you have a biphasic chart (two phases). Most people use the Fertility Awareness method because it is the easiest way to draw a coverline. Once you draw your coverline you should be able to see a pattern of lower temps
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Charting Basics: How do I know when I have ovulated?
BBT charting is one way to determine your fertile days and pinpoint when you have ovulated. Temperature charting doesn’t tell you when you will ovulate though. It is not necessarily the best way to predict ovulation because you can’t determine when ovulation has occurred until after it happens.
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Charting Basics: Peak Day
Your peak day, as the name suggests, is the day that your fertility peaks and the best time to get pregnant. If you are charting you can determine your peak day by checking your cervical mucous. After you have ovulated your cervical mucous will begin to dry up. This is one way to confirm that you have
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Charting Basics: The Rule of Thumb
Occasionally you will have a temperature that is really high. This can throw things off when you are trying to draw your coverline or determine ovulation. If you have a fever, wake up late, or drink alcohol it may cause your temperature to rise. If you are new to charting you may wonder what you should
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Charting Basics: Waking Basal Body Temperatures
If you are just getting started with bbt charting or if you would like to start charting, the first thing you will need is a basal body thermometer. There are several on the market. If you can’t find one at your pharmacy, you can purchase a basal body thermometer online. A fever thermometer is not
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Charting Your BBT (Basal Body Temperature)
Tracking your resting body temperature every morning can help you conceive and know when you're pregnant.
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EWCM (Egg White Cervical Mucous) After Ovulation
Egg white cervical mucous is a fertile sign, right? From everything you have read about cervical fluid and ovulation, you probably know that seeing egg white looking cervical mucous is a sign that ovulation is approaching. But, what if you notice ewcm after your chart shows that you have ovulated.
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EWCM (Egg White Cervical Mucous) or Semen: How to Tell the Difference
To identify your most fertile days, it is helpful to monitor your cervical mucous. You should start checking your cervical mucous as soon as your period ends. What you are looking for is slippery stretchy mucous that looks similar to egg whites. When you see this kind of cervical mucous, there is
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