Fertility awareness (also called natural family planning or FAM) is a method to check the regular changes in a woman's body as it goes through during a menstrual cycle. This information can help you learn when you are fertile, if and when you ovulate, and when to have intercourse to improve your chances getting pregnant (or not getting pregnant). A woman is usually able to get pregnant for about 5 days each month, the day of ovulation and the 4-5 days before the day of ovulation. On average, ovulation occurs 14 days before the next menstrual period begins. So ovulation would occur on about day 14-15 of a 28-day menstrual cycle, or day 21 of a 35-day cycle. Sperm can live for 4 to 5 days in a woman's reproductive tract, so it is possible to become pregnant if sex occurs up to 4-5 days before ovulation, but yoiur best chances getting pregnant is when you have intercourse the day of ovulation and the 1-2 days prior to that day.
Conization of the Cervix
What is the impact of conization of the cervix on fertility?
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What is the Luteal Phase Defect LPD
The menstrual cycle is divided into two parts or phases: The phase before ovulation is called follicular phase and the phase after ovulation is called luteal phase.
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How Can We Make a Girl (or Boy)?
How can we make a girl (or boy)?
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Fertility Awareness: Sex and Orgasms
Which sexual positions are best for getting pregnant? Which sexual positions are not so good? Is orgasm necessary for pregnancy to occur? Can I get pregnant if we have sex many days before ovulation?
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Tips on How To Get Pregnant Fast
Everything you need to know about how to get pregnant faster and maximize fertility.
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Fertility Awareness: Why Can't We Get Pregnant?
We have been trying to conceive for a long time, but can't get pregnant. Why? Getting a fertility test is recommended to determine the cause of why you can't get pregnant
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Saliva Ferning Test for Ovulation Prediction
A ferning test uses a tiny microscope to view a drop of saliva once a
day from the last day of a woman's period until a fern-like pattern
appears in the saliva.
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When to Work on Your Fertility
Fertility is at the heart of reproduction, conception, pregnancy and
parenthood, but many couples do not give fertility a passing thought
until something goes wrong in the process. It is then that couples want
to know when to work on fertility.
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How Soon After Birth Does Fertility Return?
There is no definitive answer to this question. Some women ovulatewithin a few weeks of giving birth and other women don't ovulate formore than one year.
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Can I Get Pregnant Before I Have My First Postpartum Period?
You can get pregnant before you have your first postpartum period.
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When Can You Get Pregnant?
For women still trying to conceive, the looming question remains, when exactly can you get pregnant? When you ovulate? Have your period? While using a condom?
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Fertility at 35+
How does my age affect my fertility?
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Egg White Cervical Mucus (EWCM)
Egg white cervical mucus ( EWCM) is a type of cervical fluid that is produced right before ovulation, during a time when you are most fertile.
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Implantation Symptoms Bleeding & Spotting
Implantation happens on average about 9 days after ovulation/fertilization and is required for the fetus to continue to grow. There are certain implantation symptoms that every TTC woman should know about. ... read more »
How Many Days Am I Fertile Each Month?
Many couples want to know how many days each month they can get pregnant but there are things you need to know first, such as, when do you ovulate and how long are your menstrual cycles?
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When Am I Most Fertile?
Couples who are trying to conceive naturally wonder when they are more fertile. They are several ways to track your most fertile days to conceive.
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What is Cervical Mucus Good For
CM or cervical mucus regulates fertility and its physical properties change during the
menstrual cycle.
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Sperm Survival in Cervical Fluid
How long can sperm survive in cervical fluid?
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Probability Determination of Ovulation
How does BabyMed rate the probability, such as the probability of ovulation, in the BBT curve?
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Not Enough Cervical Mucus
Q: Is this a problem to not have enough cervical mucus when we TTC?
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Not Enough Cervical Fluid
What should if I don't have enough cervical fluid?
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No Cervical Mucus After Cone Biopsy
A cone biopsy, LEEP or laser treatment can affect fertility and decrease your ability to get
pregnant because they destroy cervical glands.
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Chapter 8: Cervical Mucus
Checking your cervical mucus for fertility charting can improve your chances of getting pregnant.
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Cervical Mucus - EWCM Twice
Observing EWCM egg-white cervical mucus twice in a menstrual cycle is no proof of pregnancy.
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Cervical Mucus EWCM Ovulation Fertility Pregnancy
The cervical mucus is produced by the cervix and changes consistency throughout your menstrual cycle based on hormones associated with ovulation.
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Cervical Fluid Check
How do I check for cervical fluid?
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Cervical Mucus: Checking Fertility in 12 Steps
Checking your cervix and cervical mucus for fertility changes can improve your chances of getting pregnant.
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Can You Get Your Period When You Are Pregnant?
You can't have a regular menstrual period once you are pregnant, but up to 30% of pregnant women experience some vaginal bleeding, and most go on to have a normal pregnancy. That is not the same as a menstrual period.
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Can I get pregnant while breastfeeding?
Can we still get pregnant while I am breastfeeding?
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Fertility Awareness Ovulation Calendar and Chart
Fertility awareness and charting is part of 'Natural Family Planning' (NFP). It uses a woman's natural fertility signs to identify when she may or may not be fertile.
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Why Chart Your Temperature
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Tracking Fertility: OPK vs. BBT
Which is a better method of tracking fertility — using an ovulation predictor kit (OPK) or basal body temperature (BBT) charting? What works better to determine when I am ovulating?
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My Progesterone Was Low On Blood Test
I recently had a progesterone blood test level done on CD 21 and it was 0.5 ng/ml. Is that low progesterone level a problem? What does low progesterone mean?
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Calendar Method For Fertility Awareness
Calendar-based methods are one part of fertility awareness, an attempt to find which days in the menstrual cycle are fertile days and which are not.
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Cycles Too Short
Are short menstrual cycles a problem?
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What Is The Effect of Lubricant On Cervical Fluid?
What does lubricant do to my cervical fluid? Does it increase it? Will lubricant help me get pregnant or make it harder to get pregnant?
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