FertilityFriend.com has been operating for many years. We have acquired a unique experience on fertility charting issues. You will find below a list of Frequently Asked Questions which is a direct complement to our comprehensive Fertility Charting Handbook.
Please refer to our Technical FAQ for technical questions.
Charting Methods and Getting Started:
- About Fertility Friend
- Getting Started
- When to start a chart
- Checking Fertility Signs
- Which fertility signs to check
- Recording Intercourse data
- Charting benefits
- A brief history of fertility charting
- Ovulation
- Avoiding pregnancy
- Reading the chart
- Most important fertility sign
- Choosing a thermometer
- How to chart temperature
- Factors that affect temperatures
- Temperature sign meaning
- Discarding Temperatures
- Temperature Adjusting
- Multiple temperature readings
- Same time or three hours of sleep
- Night Waking
- Lost sleep
- BBT and shift work
- BBT and Travel
- BBT and Daylight Saving Time
- Rocky and Erratic BBT
- Flat BBT Readings
- Temping Vaginally
- Pregnancy chances after temperature rise
- Temperature drop
- Dip below coverline
- Fluctuating and high temperatures during menstruation
- Fluctuating temperatures
- Temperature drop in luteal phase
- Ovulation Dip
- Temperature Rise and Ovulation
- Temperature Range Change From Cycle To Cycle
- Mouth Breathing and Lower Temperatures
- Checking cervical fluid
- Typical cervical fluid pattern
- Distinguishing Semen and Cervical Fluid
- Eggwhite Cervical Fluid after Ovulation
- Cervical Fluid and Intercourse Timing
- Multiple Patches of Fertile Cervical Fluid
- Scant Cervical Fluid
- Factors that influence cervical fluid
- Sperm survival in cervical fluid
- Lubricants
- Arousal Fluid
- Squeamish about checking cervix
- Can't reach Cervix
- Cervix always open
- High, Soft Cervix after Ovulation
- Changing Cervix Position throughout Day
- Implantation signs
- Early Pregnancy Signs
- Implantation time and signs
- Luteal phase spotting
- Implantation cramps
- Implantation dip
- Cervical fluid and pregnancy
- Cervix position and pregnancy
- Triphasic chart
- Implantation not detected
- Pregnancy symptoms and negative HPT
- Faint line on HPT
- Past luteal phase length and negative HPT
- No period past luteal phase length
- When to take HPT
- Earliest to take HPT
- Test date for first cycle charting
- Coverline calculation method
- Fertility Friend Interpretation Methods
- Fertility Awareness Method (FAM)
- Open circles on chart
- Symbols on chart
- Fertility Analyzer seems confused
- Cycle summary and chart interpretations not matching
- Choosing your Interpretation Method
- Changing detection
- Detection removed
- Overriding the detection
- Dotted line on chart
- When will ovulation be detected?
- Non-correlated signs
- Ovulation Pain
- Varying Luteal Phase Length
- Multiple ovulation
- Fertile Signs but no Thermal Shift
- No ovulation
- Positive OPK the same day as ovulation
- Ovulation with no positive OPK
- Devices to detect ovulation
- Ovulation Prediction Kits (OPKs)
- Secondary Fertility Signs
Gender Selection:
Special Situations:
- Clomid: Ovulation timing and Effect on Chart
- Progesterone Supplements: Effect on Chart
- HCG Trigger and Ovulation Detection
- Fertility charting while breastfeeding
- Smoking and Fertility
- Alcohol Consumption and Fertility
- Charting after miscarriage
- Conception Factors
- The Fertile Window - Scientific Literature Review
- What are the chances of conceiving beyond age 35?
- Triphasic Pattern and Pregnancy
- Fertility After Oral Contraceptives
- Gender Selection Methods - Scientific Evidence?
- Intercourse Timing and Frequency
- When can I expect a positive HPT if I am pregnant?
- Implantation dip study