| iv cl | | | | of them. The quantity is not as important as the |
| I've just turned 40 years old. That means that I've | | | | presence of them. You are now approaching ovulation. |
| spend over 20 years thinking about my fertility. | | | | You should now test at least two times per day. Soon |
| Sometimes my goal was to achieve pregnancy, other | | | | you will see the presence of more lines and they may |
| times I wanted to prevent it. Either way, I discovered | | | | become longer. The patterns may take different |
| there are many ways to monitor fertility naturally. | | | | shapes, i.e.: veins in a leaf, snowflakes, spider's web, |
| One method is by using a tiny hand held microscope | | | | frost on a window pane. The lines will connect and |
| used to view saliva to determine your fertile period. | | | | overlap, this is the ferning pattern you are looking for. |
| These microscopes are about the same size as a | | | | This means you are starting the ovulation process and |
| tube of lipstick so you can carry them around in your | | | | now is the best time for relations. Continue to test at |
| purse. The simplicity in this method of testing is | | | | least two times a day. On any other day in the cycle |
| wonderful. No more collecting urine for ovulation | | | | the dried mucus or saliva will look like random |
| predictor kits. With this tiny microscope you simply lick | | | | unconnected dots. The fertile type ferning will return to |
| the lens and wait 10 minutes for the saliva to dry then | | | | a dot pattern usually about 2-3 days after ovulation. |
| view your results. A woman's saliva changes in the | | | | Some women report no ferning the day of ovulation, |
| 3-4 days leading up to ovulation. During those few | | | | you will learn what is normal for you after a few |
| days electrolytes (or salts) increase dramatically in | | | | cycles. When a combination of dots and ferns are |
| body fluids (e.g.. cervical mucus and saliva) along with | | | | present it is called a "transition" pattern the woman is |
| the hormone estrogen. This causes a ferning-like | | | | less fertile, but conception is still very possible. A little |
| pattern to occur in dried cervical mucus and saliva. The | | | | hint; don't wait until the last day of ferning to do the |
| ferning is caused by the dried salt and looks much like | | | | "baby dance" as you may have missed the egg since |
| the frost seen on the window on a winter morning. A | | | | ferning may continue for 2-3 days after ovulation. If |
| few days before ovulation you will start to see small | | | | you wish to conceive, have relations as soon as you |
| lines about the width of a hair and about 1/4 of an inch | | | | see the fertile ferning and continue until it passes back |
| long. There may be just a few or there may be many | | | | to the infertile dot pattern. |