Charting your fertility every day might seem like a lot of work, but trust us when we say it’s worth it. Fertility charting helps you familiarize yourself with your body, its monthly patterns, and identify when you’re most fertile. Whether or not you’re trying to conceive, fertility charting is something every woman can do. It’s...
There are TONS of methods used to prevent pregnancy, such as birth control, condoms, and IUDs. For a multitude of reasons, some couples dislike or cannot use certain contraceptives. Maybe you had a bad reaction to the pill or you’re allergic to latex. The method we’re here to talk about today is all natural. And...
If you’re struggling with TTC, it’s easy to take the blame yourself. You schedule another doctor’s appointment, you change your diet, and you try the exercises. What could I be doing differently? What did I do to make this happen? How can I be better about charting? We know how frustrating it is to have...
There’s a high chance that you’ve used some form of birth control in your lifetime. In fact, 75% of sexually active women under the age of 30 have used or still use birth control. Whether it’s the pill, the IUD, the implant, or the shot, the potential dangerous effects that birth control has on your...
When you’re TTC, it’s important to maintain a healthy lifestyle—and part of that means keeping your BMI at a healthy level. The hard-to-achieve, “perfect” weight might make it seem like the world is on your shoulders, especially with fertility struggles on your mind. So wouldn’t it be ideal to work on your fertility and exercise...
A few weeks ago we talked about how important it is to maintain a healthy lifestyle. But we all know that healthy isn’t just not smoking or drinking and exercising regularly. It’s also about having a well-balanced diet and catering your food to you. You’ve probably heard of the no carb diet, the Paleo diet,...
If you’re TTC, you should know there’s a lot more to the process than just the fun part (if you know what I’m saying). Sometimes a woman’s ovulation date is hard to predict not just because of genetics, but because of lifestyle habits. Keeping a health log is helpful to understand why your ovulation and...
Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a reproductive hormone imbalance that impacts a woman’s ovaries. Due to these hormonal imbalances, a woman with PCOS may have difficulty developing or releasing an egg within the typical cycle time-frame. PCOS, however, is more than just having unpredictability of egg development. It...
In 1983, John McCarthy and Howard Rockette wrote an academic paper about various basal body temperature monitoring methods. This paper, called a “A comparison of methods to interpret the basal body temperature graph” for all you readers out there, analyzed over 5,000 BBT charts using various charting methods. Before we go any further, I’ll quickly...
If you’ve ever charted your own BBT then there’s definitely something we can both agree on…it’s SO stressful! BBT charting with an oral thermometer is inconvenient, schedule-ruining, headache-inducing, and oftentimes inaccurate. Here at iFertracker, we do all the work for you! Here are 6 reasons why charting BBT on your own was the worst…before the...
