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It's About Time!
Know the Best Time to Conceive
By Kelly Burgess
The best way to keep track of both BBT and cervical mucous changes is through daily charting. Stephanie Brill, founder of Maia Midwifery and a fertility counselor for gay and lesbian parents who are trying to conceive via self-insemination, says that properly charting cycles is the single most important factor in successful fertility timing.
"Sometimes people will come to me and tell me that it must be time for them to see a fertility specialist, and I look at their charts and realize they inseminated too late every month," Brill says.
Brill's book, The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy and Birth (Alyson Pubs, 2002), has easy-to-understand charts as well as a discussion of the primary fertility signs. Weschler, in a nod to those who love their computer, offers Ovusoft Fertility Software, which is available on her Web site. Weschler's site also offers support and information for anyone who may be trying to conceive.
The medical community is just now catching up to what Weschler and Brill already know. In late 2002, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) published the results of a study done at the University of Utah that verified the importance of cervical mucous changes and acknowledged that temperature charting was reliable only in determining that ovulation had already occurred. The ACOG suggested that perhaps knowing this could save couples who are trying to conceive time, money and stress. Eventually, these facts may even overtake that old myth of day 14.
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