Trying to get pregnant should be a happy and exciting time for you and your partner; you shouldn’t have to worry about getting pregnant. The Clearblue Fertility Monitor helps cut down on the time that it takes to conceive.
The big advantage to the Clearblue Fertility Monitor is that it is easy to use, yet is very advanced and increases your chances of conceiving.
The Clearblue makes use of separate, disposable one-time use test sticks. One of the sticks is wetted and placed into the monitor test slot, then wait for the test to complete. Most fertility monitors have a set tracking schedule built in, but with the Clearblue monitor you can easily program it to track your monthly cycle to the day.
The highest odds of conceiving are when your cycle coincides with the “peak” fertility status bar on the Clear Blue display screen.
About the “M” Button:
The Clearblue’s unique ‘M Button’ is activated at the start of your monthly cycle. It sets the beginning of a 6-hour time period for testing. You should press the button at the start of your cycle but only when it’s convenient to test; the first urine of the day. In order to test different times in your cycle, you’re free to change the day and/or time you press the button on your next cycle.
The Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor accurately identifies more fertile days in your cycle than any other device. The most fertile time in your cycle is approximately 10-12 days after the start. It’s at this time that your Estrogen levels (E3G) are higher and your chances of conceiving are thus higher. Because sperm can survive up to 5 days, your chances of conceiving are better during these pre-ovulation days.
Technical Reasons Behind the Clear Blue Fertility Monitor’s Effectiveness:
During these “pre-ovulation” days – called the Follicular Phase – a follicle that contains an egg starts developing inside an ovary. At this point a rise in Luteinizing hormone signals peak fertility. This lasts for only a couple days and is the time frame that your chances of conceiving are the highest. But the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor helps you pinpoint this time with relative ease. Ovulation occurs at this point – when the follicle containing the egg bursts and releases the ovum. There is only about 24 hours from this point forward that the egg can be fertilized, so this is the point that your monitor will help you pinpoint.
The Luteal Phase is the– days after ovulation, and a time period when you are far less likely to conceive. (The remains of the follicle form what’s called the “corpus luteum.”)
Performing A Routine Test
Before your first urine of the day (normally when you get up each morning), switch on your Clear Blue Fertility Monitor. Certain mornings the monitor will ‘tell’ you you need to do a hormone level test. After removing a test stick from the wrapper, you wet it in your urine stream (pointing the stick downwards) for about three seconds. Now after removing the cap from the handle of the stick, you place it over the end you just wetted..
A flashing red light in the slot where the test stick is to go just means that the unit is doing an internal check to ensure it’s ready to receive the stick. Make sure you don’t put the stick into the slot until the light goes out. Simply hold the test stick by the cap and place the other end into the the slot, cut corner pointing down. Push it down until it clicks into place, lying flat. A correct placement of the stick into the monitor will be indicated by a flashing test stick symbol for the time it is doing the test – which is around five minutes.
So now all you do is wait five minutes until the test is over – indicated by the monitor – which point it will indicate for you to remove and discard the used test stick. The status of your fertility will then be shown on the monitor.
Cathy has been writing helpful articles on fertility for 5 years. Learn more about the signs of infertility and what to do about it at http://www.clearbluefertilitymonitors.com