OvaCue Fertility Monitor

Pinpoint your most fertile time with the all-new OvaCue Fertility Monitor.

Pinpoint ovulation and increase your chances of becoming pregnant with the new OvaCue Fertility Monitor. The OvaCue is an advanced fertility monitor that enables you to predict ovulation up to seven days in advance! It’s easy to use, over 98% accurate, and unlike other urine-based ovulation tests, there’s no mess. That’s because the OvaCue uses saliva samples to measure changes in electrolyte concentration (salinity). By detecting changes in electrolytes in saliva, which are caused by an increase of the hormone estrogen, OvaCue can predict when you will ovulate – the best time for you to conceive your baby.

Key features of the OvaCue Fertility Monitor:

• Over 98% accurate and FDA-approved
• Uses saliva – easy and convenient, no messy urine tests!
• Full-screen color display
• Can be used again and again – no test sticks to purchase

Click here to find out more about the effective OvaCue Fertility Monitor

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Product Demonstration Video

The key to this whole dilemma is tracking. Once you know what is normal for you each month you will be able to easily see when something is different. It is when you get to know yourself and your body that you can start to feel empowered. And this is just what you need to keep you from getting unhinged during your luteal phase!

The keys to figuring it all out:

• Find changes in your symptoms

• Find changes in number and frequency of your symptoms

Changes in Your Symptoms

Every month you need to pay attention to your body and keep track of every symptom that occurs. Track each symptom for each day past ovulation. Do this from ovulation day until your period arrives. The idea is to become familiar with what are normal PMS symptoms for you – (since every woman’s signs will be different). This way when you are actively trying to conceive you will be able to easily spot any unusual symptoms that may indicate a forthcoming positive pregnancy test!

Even if you are not actively trying to conceive it is a good idea to track what symptoms you have now so you have a good baseline to compare against when you do start trying.

PMS symptoms that are normal for you many indicate pregnancy in someone else. Again, the key is to find changes in symptoms.

Changes in the Number and Frequency of Your Symptoms

If you are in fact pregnant, you may notice an increase in the types of symptoms you experience or how long normal symptoms last. Many women find they experience a larger array of symptoms as well as having them occur more frequently (i.e.: more days than usual).

Let’s look at some data.

Based on all the data amalgamated from www.countdowntopregnancy.com (which includes well over a quarter of a million symptoms recorded) it shows that during a non-pregnant cycle on average women will experience 41 symptoms (these can be considered normal PMS symptoms). But during the cycles of women who were indeed pregnant the average is much higher at 66 symptoms. So not only are you looking for changes in what symptoms occur but also the number of symptoms and their frequency.

Don’t forget that sometimes things can swing the other way completely. The lack of a particular symptom can be a good sign, but so can a lack of symptoms all together. Sometimes when we are looking too hard for something we fail notice the “lack” of symptoms.

Case Study

Here is an excerpt from one woman’s tracking records. It illustrates how valuable it is to have multiple cycles tracked for comparison.

8 Days Past Ovulation

Notice how on this day past ovulation she experienced nausea and dry mouth during her pregnant cycle, but not in the others. Also notice that during her pregnant cycle she did not experience tender breasts which occurred during both of her non-pregnant cycles.

10 Days Past Ovulation

Here we notice a few new symptoms, including vivid dreams, during her pregnant cycle. Her fatigue continues, when during her non-pregnant cycles this symptom would have disappeared by 10 days past ovulation.

Start Tracking

It’s quick and easy to do – a few minutes a day and you’ll start to understand your body’s signals and patterns.

Create a free symptom tracking account at Countdown to Pregnancy and start tracking your signs and symptoms. Remember, it’s never too early to speculate.

This is my first post on the CTP blog so I figure I owe you the honor of introducing myself. After all, as our relationship progresses, you’ll end up knowing more about the inner workings of the more private aspects of my life.

So, me. I’m a married, 25 year old woman from the midwest. I spend my days teaching three and four year olds the basics of life. I love my job…well, at least, most of the time. I enjoy photography, camping, movies and peeing on sticks. (Too much info too soon?) My husband and I were married in October of 2006 and I went off my birth control shortly there after. We had the philosophy that we weren’t getting any younger and if we got pregnant right away, it’d be ok.

But that didn’t happen.

A couple of months went by and I didn’t worry too much. Then came another Christmas with no baby. I started worrying a little more, but we still were just letting things happen. Spring and Summer, going into fall…nothing. Then, the day before Halloween, I found out I was pregnant. I ended up having a blighted ovum (more about what those are later) and miscarried naturally right before Thanksgiving. (As if the holidays aren’t hard enough!).

So here I am, a day-time mom to 20 preschoolers, without any of my own. We’ve hit the two year mark and have admitted to defeat (in some sense of the word). Come this May, if I haven’t gotten pregnant again, I’m going to go in and we’re going to start the barrage of testing.

After 2 years, I consider myself a quasi-expert on all things ttc. I’ve either read it, had a friend go through it or done it. Charting, OPK’s, Monitoring, Ferning Method, Vitamins, Herbs—just about everything you can think of. At this point, I’ve also developed quite a sense of humor and a pretty straight-forward perspective on this whole business.

Hopefully our relationship will be a fantastic one. I hope my journey provides you some entertainment, some education or even just some encouragement, knowing you aren’t alone out there.

Stay Safe and Happy Breeding!

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Male Fertility Test

I found this neat testing product for men wanting to test in the privacy of their home. (Why should women have all the testing fun!)

The FertilMARQ™ Home Diagnostic Screening Test provides everything needed to collect and test two separate semen samples. Taking this screening test will indicate if you have a low amount of sperm in your semen. It works by staining the cells in the sperm sample to produce a color. The intensity of this color is then compared to a color reference on the FertilMARQ™ test cassette. The color comparison will tell you whether the sperm concentration in the test sample is above 20 million/mL (positive test) or below 20 million/mL (negative test). 20 million/ml is the minimum fertility standard established by the World Health Organization.

Click to view more product information!

You can do a search in any search engine and find hundreds of websites with a list of the most common early signs of pregnancy… but how many of them list the lesser known or the strange? Well based on information provided by CTP members using the VEP Symptom Tracker, we have compiled the data of what symptoms are experienced and when, including the obscure and less talked about signs. These are statistics based on real women who tracked their very early signs and symptoms right from the day of conception!

Here is a list of symptoms that you may never have attributed to pregnancy! Now that it’s on a list (and supported by hundreds of women) you can! :)

• Runny Nose
• Stuffy Nose
• Vivid Dreams
• Strong Smelling Urine
• Achy Legs or Hips
• Backache
• Dizziness or Light Headed
• Bleeding Gums/Nose
• Strange/Metallic Taste in Mouth
• Diarrhea
• Sleeplessness
• Yellow Cervical Fluid
• Increased Cervical Fluid
• Hot Flashes
• Chills

Are you trying to conceive? Do you want to track your early signs and symptoms during the seemingly endless two week wait and find common symptoms with women who became pregnant? Then you absolutely must become a CTP member! ]]> http://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/blog/2008/08/the-strange-unusual-and-uncommon-very-early-signs-of-pregnancy/feed/ 8 http://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/blog/2008/08/what-is-the-vep-symptom-tracker/ http://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/blog/2008/08/what-is-the-vep-symptom-tracker/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:06:49 +0000 Countdown to Pregnancy http://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/blog2/?p=42

VEP Symptom Tracker = Very Early Pregnancy Symptom Tracker

In a nutshell: A free, unique online tool that enables women who are trying to conceive to monitor, record, compare and share their very early symptoms each day from ovulation to testing. This tool also enables members to share their results in real-time with other women. Each successful cycle recorded by our members is incorporated into the overall statistics & graphs which in turn helps someone else to better understand their own symptoms.

How does it work?

1. Create a FREE account
2. Enter your date of ovulation
3. Log in each day and record the signs and symptoms you experience (there is a list of over 60 symptoms to choose from!)
4. Enter your pregnancy test results as you go

Now the fun part!
For each day past ovulation that you have symptoms recorded you can then compare the ones you experience with all of our members (it will give you the percentages of how many pregnant women had the same symptoms as you! Great to obsess over!)

VEP Symptom Tracker

And once you have multiple cycles recorded you will be able to compare each day past ovulation to your previous cycles. This is a great way to uncover patterns in your symptoms and to discover any new and promising symptoms!

Once you enter a positive pregnancy test (Yipee!) your symptom data is then incorporated into the graphs (anonymously of course) and will be available to other women searching for answers about the symptoms they are experiencing during their two week wait! Women helping women through the “trying to conceive journey”.

It definitely is a helpful companion during the anticipation of the “two week wait”!