Charting Your Way To Conception - Learn Fertility Charting With Fertility Friend

The Apple Watch temperature sensor, available with Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra, is an exciting development for all those using fertility charting. This sensor is easy to use and is integrated with Apple Health. Find out how to use it with Fertility Friend tracker and how to best integrate this new sensor in your fertility charting data.

What is an implantation dip? How does an implantation dip looks like on a fertility chart? what are the possible explanations for this BBT pattern? When trying to conceive looking for early signs of pregnancy is difficult to avoid. One of the most common fertility chart pattern looked into is the elusive implantation dip.

When should you take your pregnancy test? Is your negative test a false negative? Testing for pregnancy when trying to conceive is a sensitive issue. The emotional toll of repeated negative results is hard to imagine for those who have not experienced it. At the same time, waiting throughout the luteal phase to know the outcome of your cycle can be agony. For these reasons, knowing when to expect reliable results is extremely important, both to preserve your emotional state and to save money by not testing too early.

When seeing an early negative pregnancy test result, most people wonder if they could still be pregnant and if they might test positive later on in the cycle. To explore the issue of the reliability of early pregnancy tests, we looked at just under 6,000 charts for which a negative pregnancy test was followed by a positive test and did not result in a very early miscarriage.

Does your fertility chart looks like the rocky mountains? Interpreting a Basal Body Temperature chart can be challenging when the pattern shows large variations of temperature or erratic patterns that seem random. We review the main factors and the way to minimize the effect on your fertility chart interpretations. In particular, we'll review tips and guidelines to make sure your BBT is as accurate as possible.

Choosing a wearable for fertility is not an easy task depending on your goals. This is especially true if you plan to use your wearable data as Basal Body Temperature (BBT) replacement. Wearable technology for fertility is a exciting and evolving field. Our goal is to give you the criteria you need to select the right device for you in the context of Fertility Charting.

Learn how to read an ovulation test (OPK). Sometimes people charting their fertility signs struggle to read their OPKs, occasionally to the point of increasing their stress unduly. The purpose of this episode is to help alleviate this concern and to show how fertility charting can provide a great framework for this issue.

This podcast discusses the concept of the “fertile window”- the days when intercourse can result in conception. Learn which days relative to ovulation are your most fertile days. See how fertility charting helps you find these most fertile days and increase your conception chances.

Learn the basics of fertility charting so that you can get started charting and find your most fertile time and your ovulation date. Learn about your primary fertility signs so that you can find your ovulation date and your most fertile time.

This episode describes the most significant events of the menstrual cycle. You’ll understand what is happening in your body during menstruation, the follicular phase, ovulation and the luteal phase of your cycle.

Each of your fertility signs relates to the presence of a hormone in your bloodstream. Learn how each sign relates to the presence of certain hormones and how you can use these observations to recognize your fertility status every day. Understand how your basal body temperature (BBT) and cervical fluid and the results of tests and devices and other observations relate to various hormones.

What are the different kinds of cervical fluid and what is their role in reproduction? What can your cervical fluid tell you about your fertility status? You might be surprised to find out that cervical fluid plays many important roles in reproduction.

This episode outlines how to observe, identify and record the various types of cervical fluid you may see to best find your fertile time. Learn which cervical fluid types are most fertile and see how charting your cervical fluid observations can help you find the right time to get pregnant and increase your conception chances.

Your basal body temperature is a primary fertility sign and the only sign that can pinpoint your ovulation date. You’ll learn how charting your BBT can help you find your ovulation date and why this is the only sign that can definitively tell you when and whether or not you have ovulated.

Learn how to take and record your basal body temperature for best results. Understand the basic guidelines for BBT recording for fertility charting and which factors can influence your BBT sign.

Your cervix position, texture and relative openness change in relation to the presence of estrogen during your menstrual cycles. Observing and recording this sign can offer a secondary fertility sign. In this podcast, you’ll learn how to identify these changes to offer added awareness about your fertility status and to cross-check your other fertility signs.

OPKs, Fertility Monitors, Saliva Microscopes and other commercial products can provide additional clues about your fertility status. If you use these products, Fertility Friend will take them into account. Learn how to observe and record results from these products and how to make the most of them when you chart your fertility signs.

Secondary fertility signs, such as ovulation pain, breast tenderness, spotting, changes in sex drive and other signs can also help you recognize your fertility pattern and find your fertile time. Listen to hear about the role of secondary fertility signs.

What happens when you ovulate? What are the signs that you are about to ovulate? How can you tell that you have ovulated? When are you most fertile relative to ovulation? This podcast answers these questions and explains the process and signs of ovulation.

This podcast teaches you how to interpret fertility chart patterns. Learn how to identify ovulation and fertile days on a fertility chart and how to best make sense of fertility chart patterns. See how a variety of chart patterns can be perfectly normal and what your own chart pattern means.

Typical fertility chart patterns share several common elements. Learn how the signs all come together in typical fertility chart patterns.

Fertility charts don't always follow the same pattern and don't always match the ideal or textbook pattern. You can still find your fertile days and ovulation date. Learn how your chart may differ from the ideal and what this may mean for you.

What signs might you see on your chart when you are pregnant? What patterns show up with greater frequency on fertility charts that result in pregnancy? Listen to learn how your fertility chart might show you signs of early pregnancy and how to determine when to take a pregnancy test.

Your Fertility Friend App is more than a tracking app. Advanced analysis tools help you make the most of your data to increase your chances. Learn how to use advanced tools to make the most of fertility charting.