Pregnancy Achievement

1. Use the symptothermal method of Fertility Awareness. By charting your cervical mucus and basal body temperature throughout your cycle, you will be better able to tell when to time intercourse for conception to occur.
2. Taking the basal body temperature throughout the cycle will also help to know if and when ovulation has occurred. NOTE: You can stop checking cervical mucus once ovulation has occured (shown by a sustained rise in temperature for 3 days)

Symptothermal Overview, for use with pregnancy achievement:

• Start checking cervical mucus at vaginal opening as soon as menses stops.
• Take notice when mucus starts to have a wet sensation. This is fertility knocking.
• Cervical mucus will start out sticky, then move to creamy. Creamy is still considered fertile, but just not the most fertile. Intercourse during this time is recommended.
• When cervical mucus takes on a slippery, raw egg-white consistency, these days are highly fertile and the absolute best days to have intercourse.

Did you know that a chart can tell you if you are pregnant almost as well as a home pregnancy test? And at a better price too...it's FREE!

Here's what happens:

• After the follicle has reached its mature stage, the ovum (egg) bursts out of the ovary.
• The follicle quickly takes on a new task as the corpus luteum, which produces progesterone.
• The progesterone is necessary to build the endometrium lining for the embryo to implant if fertilization occurs.
• Progesterone is responsible for the cervical mucus dry-up and for the elevated temperature shown on chart after ovulation.

The corpus luteum will disintegrate after 16 days. The only reason it will continue to produce progesterone is if the woman is pregnant or has developed a cyst. The 18+ high temps signifies that the progesterone is still elevated, as it would be in pregnancy.

Chart Examples:

• Horizontal Red line is the Coverline.

• Vertical Red line seperates low and high temps, marking ovulation.

This is an example of a pregnancy chart. The woman charting this cycle was trying to conceive, and was successful!!

This is an example of a pregnancy chart where the temperature went triphasic, that is, it took on a third level of temperatures, and is often a sign of pregnancy. Triphasic charts are not always pregnancy charts, but many are.

This is an example of a pregnancy chart that was aided with clomid and progesterone medications. Clomid helps the woman ovulate and progesterone helps the woman when low progesterone is detected. It also looks like she had an HCG trigger shot, which helps bring on ovulation, but that's another website all together!

Guide to reading Symptothermal charts below

M = Menses  * = Spotting   - = Dry  S = Sticky
   
C =  Creamy   W  = Watery    E =  Eggwhite

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Fertility Monitors

+  =   Positive   -  =   negative
L  =   Low    H  =   High

  
Also symbolizes "baby dance" for 
trying to conceive 

L  =  Low    M  =  Medium    H  =  High

S  =  Soft    M=Medium   F  =  Firm 

C  =  Clomid
    

P  =  Progesterone