Week 1: A Step Closer to Getting Pregnant
A week older, a week wiser, a week closer to getting pregnant! I’ve learned a lot about my body and how to better understand my peak fertility periods.
In the first section of the Pregnancy Miracle, Lisa discusses anatomy and its role in fertility (p. 17 if you’re following along). If you’re like me, you probably let out a quiet groan thinking, “what is this, high school health class?” But I was pleasantly surprised to find that Lisa offers some very useful and actionable information that has helped me learn my body better and take advantage of my most fertile periods.
First of all, although I know what my doctors have told me about elevated FSH levels and premature menopause, I understand my condition MUCH better after reading Lisa’s detailed, but completely understandable breakdown of the menstrual process (page 22-24). What’s happen is that the Follicle Stimulating Hormones (aka FSH) is inhibiting my body from creating the necessary estrogen for my eggs to mature and my uterus to prepare itself for incubating a fertilized egg.
Western medicine has conveniently labeled me “prematurely menopausal” just to sell me a bunch of drugs. I still have eggs! How is that menopausal?! I’m wondering how many other women are deceived and mislabeled just to make the jobs of pharmaceutical reps easier.
Anyway, Lisa really asserts that “Timing is Everything” (page 24). To this end, Lisa offers a unique way of identifying when you are at the peak of your fertility period, by getting to know your cervical mucus and how it changes over the course of your menstrual cycle (pages 45-48).
This is really fascinating and not something that any other “fertility coach” has taught me. I have put a monthly calendar on my nightstand to record the quantity and texture of my cervical fluid every night. The day that the fluid is thickest and heaviest is my peak fertility day and that’s when Mark has to do his best work!
Lisa discusses a few other great ways to time my peak fertility, but I’ll save that for my next post.
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