Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Fertility Signals - summary of some videos I watched

I'm watching a video series on fertility and ways to identify your ovulation. Ironically, I'm doing this to avoid getting pregnant before I'm ready, not TO get pregnant. I feel like it's opposite day because the videos are all focused on getting pregnant.

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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