How To Get Pregnant Using Fertility Signs

As you probably know, the primary fertility signs all ovulating women produce are basal temperature, cervical and cervical position.

The easiest sign to predict is the basal or working temperature for the reason that it is very graphic and objective. Women charting their temps for a few months find it a fun challenge to predict the day their temp will shift or change.

A woman's pre-ovulatory waking temperatures range from 97.0 to 97.7. After ovulation, they stay elevated 12 to 16 days later. If she were to become pregnant the elevated temp would remain.

Temperatures typically rise as a result of the heat-inducing hormone progesterone. Progesterone is released by the corpus luteum (the follicle that previously contained the egg before it bursted from the ovary. So the rise in temperature signifies that ovulation has already occurred. When interpreting temps, train yourself to see what is hiding in plain site.

Pre-ovulation temps are suppressed by estrogen and as previously mentioned, the heat-indused temps from progesterone.

The point should be stressed that the rise in temps indicates that ovulation has begun. It may help to think of the body as a incubator to nurture an egg which may have bee conceived to be fertilized.

You should be aware of factors that may raise your basal temperature: fever, alcohol, 3 hours or less sleep, difference in time taking temp, using electric blanket or heating pad.

Temperature, Stress and Late Period-How They Affect Getting Pregnant

Waking temperature can be extremely helpful in projecting how long a cycle will be because they can identify if you had a delayed ovulation that would cause your period to be longer than usual. Once the temperature rises, it's 12 to 14 days before the next period. Consistently charting and noting patterns will enable you to determine your body's patterns and more specifically what your post ovulatory range is.

Cervical Fluid-What We Don't Know

One of the first thing women notice when charting is the "cycle" of cervical fluid. Next women encounter frustration at how little we know of our bodies. No you were not dirty, no you did not need to douche away the "discharge." Charting will enable you to know what is an infection vs. normal cervical fluids. Plus women who don't chart are in constant flux due to not knowing whether they are "late."

Cervical fluid to females is what seminal fluid is to men. Since men are always fertile, they produce fluid constantly. Women, on the other hand, only produce fluid a few days a month when we are fertile around ovulation, therefore we produce this fluid to aid the sperm and thus protect it from the acidic vagina. It is fairly intuitive, once the sperm travels from the penis to the vagina, a medium is needed for it's safe transfer from the vagina up to the cervix.

The final and most fertile cervical fluid often resembles egg white. Most obviously it's feel is very slippery. This final fluid occurs a few days prior to menses. This can be described as runny clear egg white.

How To Get Pregnant With Cervical Position

Ever notice intercourse can be uncomfortable in certain positions at different times? or sometimes inserting your diaphragm is difficult or it seems there's no room to insert it?

This is all because the cervix, the lower part of the uterus that extends into your vagina, goes through some amazing cyclical changes throughout your cycle all of which can be felt. Your cervix is a wealth of information on the state of your fertility at your finger-tips.

As with cervical fluid, the cervix itself prepares for pregnancy every cycle by becoming soft and high and open around ovulation. The cervix is usually hard like the tip of your nose but becomes soft and cushy like lips as ovulation approaches to allow sperm easy entry to the uterus.