Fertility Friend Handbook

Fertility Charting For Conception

Table Of Contents

• Making the Most of Fertility Charting For Pregnancy Achievement
  • What is Fertility Charting?
  • What are Fertility Signs?
  • The Benefits of Charting Your Fertility
    • What can charting my fertility signs tell me?

• Your Hormones are Driving Your Fertility Signs
  • Your Menstrual Cycle and Your Hormones

• Your Hormones and Your Fertility Signals
  • Estrogen and Your Fertility Signs
    • Estrogen and Cervical Fluid
    • Estrogen and Cervical Position and Texture
    • Estrogen and Devices
  • Progesterone and Your Fertility Signs
    • Basal Body Temperature (BBT) and Progesterone
  • Luteinizing Hormone (LH) and Your Fertility Signs
    • Ovulation Prediction Kits (OPK)

• How to Observe and Record Your Fertility Signs
  • Your Fertility Signs
    • Cervical Fluid
      • How to check for cervical fluid externally
      • Things to notice when checking your cervical fluid
      • Checking your cervical fluid internally
      • How to record your cervical fluid
      • Factors that can influence your cervical fluid pattern
      • More about Cervical Fluid
        • Intercourse Timing and Cervical Fluid:
        • Multiple Eggwhite Cervical Fluid Patches:
        • No Eggwhite Cervical Fluid:
        • Fertile Cervical Fluid after Ovulation:
        • Cervical Fluid and Semen:
    • Basal Body Temperature (BBT)
      • How to take and record your BBT
      • Some important guidelines to follow when taking your BBT
        
      • Factors that can influence your BBT
      • More about BBT
        • Different Waking Times
        • Night Waking
        • Multiple Temperature Readings
        • Shift Work
        • Travel
        • Daylight Saving Time
        • Erratic Temperatures
        • "Flat" Temperatures
        • Timing Intercourse using BBT
    • Changes in the Position and Firmness of your Cervix
      • Checking your Cervix
      • Recording Cervical Changes
    • Devices and Tests for Measuring Fertility
      • A few words about Ovulation Prediction Kits (OPKs)
    • Other Possible Fertility Signs

• Fertility Chart Patterns
  • Ovulation Patterns
    • Regular (Ideal) Pattern
    • Variations on the Ovulatory Chart Pattern
  • Anovulatory Patterns
  • Pregnancy Patterns
• A last word or just a starting point...

• Glossary

• Common Abbreviations

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