Have you ever tried using your cervical position to track ovulation? If you’re planning on having babies, you better get comfortable talking about your cervix. That’s because the cervix will become one of the most talked-about things right before being ready to give birth. The cervix will be thinning and dilating, all the way […]
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Can Your Heart Rate Predict Ovulation? Predicting your fertile window is pretty much one of the easiest things you can do to increase your chances of getting pregnant. I’m sure you’re familiar with using ovulation predictor kits (OPKs) or your cervical mucus to predict ovulation, and charting your basal body temperature (BBT) to
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Worried About Your Fertility Drugs Causing False Positives? If you are taking any fertility drugs, you might have come across stories of women reporting false positives after taking these meds. But do all fertility drugs cause false positives? No, not at all! If you’re taking Clomid or Femara (Letrozole) to induce ovulation you don’t have
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The different types of BBT patterns If you’re charting your basal body temperature (BBT) you’re probably familiar with these three patterns: – Monophasic – Biphasic – Triphasic Monophasic (one-phase) charts show no shift in temperature comparing before and after ovulation. Monophasic charts often occur during cycles where you don’t ovulate (anovulatory cycles).
The Blue vs Pink Dye Discussion We all know that even a faint line still means you’re pregnant. But what if that faint line shows up on a blue dye test, is it any different? Pregnancy tests (no matter what color) work by detecting hCG (the pregnancy hormone) in your urine. There are two
How Salmon May Help Your Fertility If you ask me, salmon has got to be one of the tastiest pieces of fish. Baked fresh in the oven with a bit of salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Yummmm. But salmon has a LOT more going for it than just being tasty? It is an AMAZING
Pregnant or just PMS? Ah, the #1 pastime activity during the Two Week Wait (TWW): symptom spotting. We’ve all been there. We secretly KNOW it’s useless, but we do it anyway. And if not, you just haven’t been TTC-ing long enough :)! These symptoms are all due to that lovely luteal phase hormone called “Progesterone”. It
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There are so many things that can influence whether a perfectly looking embryo actually “sticks”. But have you thought about whether the person doing the actual TRANSFER may have something to do with success rates? 10-year study comparing doctors A study published in Human Reproduction in February 2020 looked at the success rates after
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Let’s say you ovulated a few days ago and you want to know if you could already be pregnant. Would that even be possible? The little eggs’ journey After you’ve ovulated, the egg has less than a day to get fertilized. So assuming that happened, your now fertilized egg goes on a journey that
The Infamous Two Week Wait (TWW) Ah, the Two Week Wait (TWW). Hated by many, loved by… no one? 😂 But did you know that the average luteal phase (the period between ovulation and the start of your next cycle) is shorter than the “two weeks” we’ve all been calling it? A recent study that
