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The Fertility Awareness Method is based on your body, and how it functions, and is a reliable method of birth control, pregnancy achievement, and keeping track of your reproductive health.
Instructions
1. Get a basal body thermometer, either digital or glass. Keep it by your bed, and take your temperature every morning when you wake up. It is important to take your temperature at the same time every morning, and after at least three hours of sleep.
Record your temperature every day, and watch for changes. Just after ovulation, your temperature will rise, and it will fall again just before or just after menstruation. You should be able to see a pattern of low and high temperatures.
2. Check and record your cervical fluid every day, preferably several times a day (when you are going to the bathroom is easiest). You can check with your hands or with a tissue. Try to feel the quality of the fluid: is it sticky or gummy, creamy or milky, or stretchy like an egg white?
Fertile-quality cervical fluid is thick, clear, opaque or streaked, and stretchy like eggwhite.
3. As a secondary fertility sign, you can also keep track of your cervix. Check every day, and at the same time every day (in the shower is easiest); wash your hands beforehand.
When you are not fertile, it will be firm, low, closed and dry. When you are fertile, it will be soft, high, open and wet (remember SHOW).
4. Use cervical fluid and cervix signs to determine when you are becoming fertile. When your cervical fluid starts getting wetter, and your cervix starts getting higher and softer, you are becoming fertile, and this is the opportune time.
5. When you are finished ovulating, your temperature will rise. That will be your sign that your fertile time is over for the cycle.
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