Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor Test Sticks

Sometimes just going off the pill and waiting for nature to take over, isn’t enough to conceive your baby. If you are like me, you almost certainly thought it would most likely take a month or two and you would be pregnant. Unfortunately, that isn’t necessarily how it works.

There are many strategies out there for tracking your fertility. I believe I have tried them all. The old standard was to measure your basal body temperature to establish when your LH surge took place. This involves taking your temperature with a fundamental body thermometer each morning before you get out of bed. On the day of ovulation, your temperature will be slightly higher than it was before. This method works for many of us who are attempting to create a history of their cycles. Even though it may help you conceive if you’ve a regular and predictable cycle, it does not tell you when ovulation is about to happen. It only tells you that ovulation has occurred. Sadly, the best time to have intercourse to conceive is in the days leading up to ovulation.

Another strategy for monitoring your fertility is to monitor your cervical mucus. When your cervical mucus is thin and greasy like whites of the eggs, you’re going to ovulate shortly. It may however only indicate that you have ovulated, which leaves you in the same ship as the fundamental body temperature method.

After I spent months using both of the prior techniques, i decided to purchase ovulation predictor tests. I started with the low-end tests, thinking there was no reason to spend a bunch of money on test sticks I was just going to ditch. While the tests did show me that I was about to ovulate, it took many cycles for me to really figure out the way to read the result. Also, some of the tests were old or extraordinarily temperamental, which would produce wrong results.

So, I eventually took the plunge and acquired the top-notch fertility monitor, the Clearblue easy Fertility Monitor. The complete package is worth each penny. The monitor removes the need to interpret test results. And, it is approved under most medical flexible spending accounts. My fave part about the monitor is the test sticks. While many lower-quality brands will sell you a canister of test sticks bundled together that stick to one another, the Clearblue easy test sticks are individually wrapped making it easy to maintain the quality of each test. The test sticks can either be held immediately in your urine stream or be submerged into a sample. After you have sufficiently doused the test stick, you remove the cap and place it on the specimen end of the stick. The test stick snaps into place simply and the monitor does the remainder of the work for you. Clearblue simple also offers a helpline that can steer you through printing out your fertility charts for when you go to your next gynecologist visit.

While there’s no guaranteed success of conception with any product, the Clearblue simple Fertility Monitor and easy-to-use test sticks make fertility charting simple and effective.