Getting pregnant is about timing so conditions are right for egg and sperm to come together, and your menstrual cycle is the key to the timing Charting your cycles and monitoring your cervical mucus can assist with predicting ovulation. Menstrual charting is simple and inexpensive and tracking your cycle provides valuable information about your overall health and offers clues to help you conceive. The menstrual cycle is divided into two phases: follicular phase and luteal phase.
The follicular phase begins with the onset of menses and ends on the day before the luteinizing hormone LH surge.
The follicular phase can vary from days in women with days cycles. The luteal phase begins on the day of the LH surge and ends at the onset of the next menses. The egg is released from the follicle at the surface of the ovary approximately 36 hours after the LH surge. It then travels down the fallopian tube to the uterine cavity. There is a close relation of the timing of egg release to the LH surge. This allows measurements of urine LH to estimate the time of ovulation in women.
Charting your menstrual cycles helps you to determine if, and when, you may be ovulating, and which days of your cycle are most fertile. To start, you need to chart your menstrual cycle and record how long it lasts. Several aps are available to make cycle charting easy to record and reproduce for you doctor. Other inexpensive methods to predict ovulation include cervical mucus changes.
Right before ovulation, there is an increase in cervical mucus. It will be clear, stretchy and slippery and it may stretch across your fingers if you spread them apart. For couples pursuing pregnancy, the highest probability of conception appears to be with intercourse one to two days prior to ovulation. Therefore, attempting to identify the fertile period and timing intercourse during this interval maximizes the probability of conception.
When used according to these criteria consistently, it has a perfect use rate of Learn more about the Creighton Model here. Fictitious names were used to protect privacy. Login Shop 0 Items. Noticing Trends by Charting During college, Claire started casually tracking her menstrual cycle without formal training and noticed her mood symptoms were consistently better before the middle of her cycle—what she later learned was the pre-ovulation follicular phase.
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