Website for Your Period!

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know about this pretty nice website:

mon.thly.info

You can tell them the info from your last few periods, and they make a prediction for when your next one should be. It's pretty convenient, and the more dates you know the better they are able to predict; mine's been on the exact day they predicted the past two months. And, if you are working with Fertility Awareness, there's a setting for you to write in your body temperature. They also give you some stats about what phase of your cycle you are most likely in, and when you are most likely to ovulate - but don't necessarily believe these predictions, since every woman is different and they just give you the date when most women would ovulate.

Have fun!

Fertility Awareness: how we cycle

Our Bodies (how we cycle)

http://www.gardenoffertility.com/reprofemale.shtml

1. MENSTRUATION: The first day of a cycle is the first day you bleed, your period.

-your period typically last 3 to 5 days

-it varies for every woman though….just as your cycle length does too…anywhere from 24 to 40 days!

2. Then we dry up for a bit, our temperatures are low and our cervixes are closed and firm.

3. FOLLICULAR PHASE: After our period ends (sometimes even towards the end of your period) you begin your follicular phase which is when your ovaries start growing a few eggs which will emit estrogen into your body.

-estrogen tells your uterus to start preparing for a baby

-to add a fresh layer of blood to the uterus wall.

-to open and soften your cervix

-secrete vaginal mucus from the cervical crypts! Which will keep sperm alive for 5 days.

-which can start as gummy/tacky then turn to creamy/sticky and turn slippery/eggwhite

-This begins your FERTILE PHASE. Mucus means fertile time.

-and to keep your body temperature cool. Typically somewhere in the 97 degree range.

The follicular part of the cycle will last about 10 days.

*If you have poly-cystic ovarian syndrome this part of the cycle will last a long time.

4. OVULATION (this is when you most fertile): Once the egg is ripe and ready to go it will break free from its shell in the ovary and travels into the fallopian tube.

*The egg will live in the fallopian tube for only 12-24 hours!!!

*at this point you will have really wet/stretchy/eggwhite mucus. Like in the pictures we looked at.

5. LUTEAL PHASE (you are no longer fertile): after you ovulate the shell that released the egg from the ovary will begin to make progesterone.

-Progesteron tells the body to make your bloody uterus lining spongy

-it dries up your mucus. No more vaginal mucus.

-It warms you up your body temperature (typically in the high 97 or 98 degree mark,
youwill see a clear shift from low to high temps depending on your body)

-your cervix becomes firm and closed

*Your shell that released the egg dies in about 2 weeks (12-16 days) after ovulation. THEN YOU BLEED AGAIN!!!!! And start over. From the top.

*your temperature will drop down again once you bleed.

*if your are pregnant then your temperature won’t drop….sorry.