Fertility Calendars

Getting Pregnant with Fertility Calendars

Well, there is a simple solution for this, the fertility calendars. The fertility calendars predict the days that you are most likely to be fertile so that you can achieve pregnancy. This will show you a range of fertile dates, ovulation, end of menstrual cycle, and possible due dates.

The fertility calendars may help you with this too. The most fertile time is the day of ovulation. Fertility calendars calculate the days in which you can have sex without chances of conceiving, helping you avoid an unwanted pregnancy.

Simply enter this little information and the fertility calendars will do the rest!

Menstrual Calendar: Charting the Signs of Fertility

Charting the signs of your menstrual cycle is a good way to keep in touch with your body, your feelings, and your health. It is also a good way to predict your days of menstruation in advance, even if your menstrual cycles are irregular, and to know the most fertile times if you are hoping to conceive.

Chart what you see and what you feel in any way that makes sense to you.

1) Menstruation: mark the days of bleeding in some way, such as coloring the calendar day red.

2) Nothing: if you don't see or feel anything outside your vagina, you can leave the calendar blank on those days.

3) Something: but if you see or feel something - anything - such as pasty or sticky mucus, or a feeling of wetness - draw something, such as a raindrop, on these days.

4) Slippery something: If the pasty or sticky mucus turns to slippery mucus or a slippery feeling, color the raindrop dark to indicate the slippery wetness.

Basal Body Temperature

To observe your temperature rise, buy a BD brand digital basal thermometer. An ordinary clinical thermometer is not accurate enough for fertility awareness. Nor is the "ear thermometer" (tympanic thermometer).

Your temperature is lowest in the early morning and highest in the afternoon. If it is not convenient to take your temperature immediately upon waking, you may take it during light morning activity. If you have sexual relations, take your temperature before.

Take your temperature by mouth. Under arm and ear temperatures are not accurate enough for family planning purposes. Your thermometer has a recall button that allows you to read the last temperature taken.

Your Temperature Graph

Put a dot on a graph on the spot corresponding to each day's temperature. Join the temperature dots of consecutive days. If you do not take your temperature one day, do not join the dots across that day. Also write out the temperature numerically, to guard against errors in graphing.

Read my other guide on : Prenatal Care, Knowing what to eat - in Pregnancy, Oriental Medicine an Woman's Health and Fertility Tips