The goal to fertility charting is pregnancy. The idea of predicting ovulation is to time sexual intercourse during your most fertile time. Most fertility, and relationship experts, recommend that you have sexual intercourse on a regular basis. Reproduction specialists recommend an increase in sexual activity to daily during your most fertile time. But, if the man has sperm issues, every other day is still the best practice. In the beginning of ‘trying to conceive’ (ttc), sex two to three times per week, every week, sounds like fun. Unfortunately it can become structured and routine. Surprisingly, it is often the men who find the sexual demands of ‘baby making sex’ to be stressful - can you say ‘performance anxiety’. I suggest that you take this into consideration, right from the start. You need to be careful that ‘baby making sex’ does not take priority over making love. If you find this is becoming an issue, take a break from planed sex for a bit, work on you two, as a couple. You should still try to chart and prepare so that next month you can start fresh and new. Sometimes the entire process can become way too overwhelming and you need to take a charting holiday. If you need to take that break, do it! Drop it all for a bit and pick it up when you feel better about everything. You need to stop and think about how important it is that this baby has both of you when it is born. You will find a special section on your chart to document the days that you have intercourse.
You should find that your menstrual cycle is made up of three phases. The first stage is the beginning on your cycle and is known as menses. Charting begins on day one of menses. The second phase is the follicular phase and occurs after menses and before ovulation. The length of the follicular phase may vary from cycle to cycle and from woman to woman. The follicular phase length determines your cycle length. Ovulation divides the follicular phase from the luteal phase. The luteal phase occurs after ovulation and lasts from 12 to 14 days, but may last from 10 to 15 days. The luteal phase length is usually fairly consistent rarely changing, more than a day or two, from cycle to cycle in an individual woman. You may have been told that most ‘regular’ cycles last from 29 to 30 days, as you are probably aware, we are all different and so are the lengths of our cycles. A typical menstrual cycle may be anywhere from 21 to 35 days, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Our cycles are all individual and different things can affect each cycle, but hopefully yours will show the hormone patterns that you seek. Life happens and things affect our bodies differently. You will probably find that no two cycles are exactly the same, but they should be similar. Charting will help you to realize when the three phases occur in your cycle so you can determine when you are most likely to conceive. You probably grew up believing that you ovulate, or are most fertile, on day 14 of your menstrual cycle, mid cycle or 14 days before your period is expected. This time frame is known as the cover line, but the assumption is based on broad averages and they may not be true for you, even if your cycles are regular. When cycles are irregular, it is usually a result of ovulation occurring earlier or later than expected. Knowing when you ovulate allows you to have a good idea if intercourse was well timed for conception and lets you determine your luteal phase length. Knowing your luteal phase length tells you when to expect your period or a positive pregnancy test result. Though not accurate either, the luteal phase is supposed to be 10 to 17 days long. By using this, you count back the length of your longest luteal phase from the length of your average cycle. It is suggested that you mark and ‘O’ on your chart to signify the earliest that you may ovulate. If you have a ‘regular’ length cycle, this means you should mark you ‘O’ at, or around, day 11 in your upcoming cycle. You can use this ‘O’ as a warning point for you to be a bit more observant in your monitoring
2007-02-13 14:30:41
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answered by White Raven 4
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If you take your temp every am before getting out of bed the days you are ovulating are supposed to be different than the others. That is the only way I have heard of. Can't get up first though. Take it while still in bed lying down. Good luck.
2007-02-13 04:30:02
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answered by MISS-MARY 6
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Chart your basal body temp. It will take more than one month to figure it all out though. If you start tracking your temp go to this site www.fertilityfriend.com and they will tell you when you ovulated and how long your lutal phase is based on your temps. All you need is that site and a basal thermometer (they have them at drugstores and target has them). It only takes a minute in the morning as soon as you wake up to take your temp and a few minutes to log onto the site and track your temp.
2007-02-13 04:33:07
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answered by Dragonfly 5
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