The Good Experience

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Women are only fertile 6 days of every month; 5 days before ovulation, and 1 day after.

You need to have sex more than once per week or there is a good chance you are missing your window.

It is very simple to determine exactly when you are ovulating by keeping track (on a calendar) of:

• your waking body temperature
• cervical fluid characteristics
• cervical information

Tools you will need for this:

1. a basal thermometer (a regular thermometer is not accurate enough) (get one here)

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2. a fertility chart (get it here)

…is the number 1 question on the minds of the majority of 30+ year old women that do not have children.
It creeps into your head 50 times per hour. “Whats wrong with me?” “What did I do to cause this?” What if i can never have kids?” followed by guilt, sadness, feelings of inadequacy.

I know. Ive been there. But you know what? After 3+ years of fertility treatment, i am ecstatic to say that i now have 2 beautiful children; a girl (21 months) and a boy (9 months).

And guess what? It happened AFTER I stopped the fertility medication. I did it all natural (well, with some help from my herbalist). A lot of the reason why I couldn’t get pregnant was because I was thinking about it ALL THE TIME. My herbalist would tell me i need to relax.

Yea right. YOU relax!

I’m running out of time! but the truth is, when we stopped fertility drugs (our VISA Card didn’t have the room it needed for the next phase of treatment - the $10,000 IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) program, we had no choice but to stop. and this was the much needed ‘rest’ or relaxation our herbalist was talking about.

While we were in a position where we couldn’t do anything, it wasn’t on our minds as much. the pressure of the $3000 monthly fertility drugs HAVING to work this month was not burdening us. It was actually during this time that i switch jobs - to one closer to home, and less stressful. one where i could wear track pants to work (lululemons ).

I left my office job, and worked in Administration at a personal training studio. After 4 months of stopping the fertility treatment, I was on my way to the gym with my husband one day, and started to feel weird. We actually stopped at the Shoppers Drug Mart on the way to the gym and picked up a pregnancy test. I took the test in the washroom at the gym and it said I WAS PREGNANT!. I ran out to tell my husband, and we obviously didn’t stay at the gym and train (LOL). We went home right away to relax/celebrate.

In a nutshell, this is my story. I will continue to post details, as many of you will likely have questions or want more information.

I am in the process of having my fertility treatment centre (Newlife Fertility) in Mississauga, pull and send me my file. I will be posting scans and screenshots of some of my documents so you can really relate to my story.

I really hope this can serve as inspiration for you to keep trying and never give up. God works in mysterious ways. I hadn’t gotten a period in 4 years, when I “passed” the pregnancy test. it was physically impossible for my body to conceive, yet I did.

Hang in there!!!

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A medical home test kit based on a protein discovered at the University of Virginia Health System SpermCheck Vasectomy has begun shipping to zip codes across the U.S., marking the launch of a new product line that could revolutionize the way men around the world monitor their reproductive status. “The SpermCheck family of products is intended for use by men on both sides of the fertility equation those who don’t want to father children and those who do,” notes John C.

Two enzymes called extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK1 and ERK2) are critical factors in a pathway that induces ovulation, maturation of the mammalian egg (oocyte) and other activities key to ovarian function and female fertility, said a group of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in a report that appears today in the journal Science.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have identified in mice two proteins essential for ovulation to take place. The finding has implications for treating infertility resulting from a failure of ovulation to occur as well as for developing new means to prevent pregnancy by preventing the release of the egg. The proteins, called ERK1 and ERK2, appear to bring about the maturation and release of the egg.