Here are my notes of the highlights. Feel free to comment with additional information if you have any.
- The widest possible fertility window is 6 days because sperm can live in a woman for 6 days. The typical window is actually only 3 days.
- Estrogen and progestrone are the hormones related to fertility
- Estrogen peaks just before ovulation, progestrone peaks after ovulation.
- Best indicator of high estrogen is cervical fluid
- becomes wet and stretchy closer to ovulation
- comparable to egg white
- thick mucus indicates ovulation
- Best indicator of high estrogen is basal body temperature (BBT)
- corpus luteum produces higher temperature
- temperature rises AFTER ovulation
- If tracking cervical fluid and BBT look for pattern of when fluid is thick and BBT goes up the next day
- Tracking notes
- cycle day one is first day of period
- BBT taken first thing when take up with special thermometer everyday
- BBT increases at ovulation and decreases at the end of the cycle, before period
Annotated Bibliography
Fertility Signs Videos. Fertilityfriend.com. http://www.fertilityfriend.com/videos.html
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