Charting is more than just measuring your temperatures and babysitting your cervix. At the end of the day we have to be able to look at our charts and know what they mean. For some women that’s not difficult, their charts look much the same from cycle to cycle. Other women have a lot of […]

Stumbled across the Fertility Awareness Charting Circle today. This is a group of individuals in Edmonton, Alberta who gather monthly for education and dialogue. Each meeting focuses on one aspect of fertility, from interpretation of cervical fluids, to benefits and challenges of charting, to improving reproductive health through diet and lifestyle. The gatherings are also […]

Portland has a great local bookstore. It’s the kind of place you could wander through for hours and still be left with more to explore. There is one thing I find disappointing about it though. All the fertility awareness books are kept in the section with pregnancy and childbirth on the first floor. Way up […]

Take your finger and touch the inside of your cheek. I know it sounds crazy, but I promise helpful information will come from this. Finger in your mouth? Okay, now feel the moisture. Slowly pull your finger out, and look at the wetness. See how it is thin and watery. Notice that it dries quickly […]

Over the weekend a dear friend wandered through the maze of fertility awareness with me. As I tried to describe to her how to spot a thermal shift and how to draw a coverline, we kept coming back to the ambiguity of the Last Six Lows.
So there you are, going merrily along taking your temperatures, […]

Let’s get something straight: I do not believe that we women are merely playthings of the estrogen goddess. One of the benefits of having such a colossal human cortex is that we have the ability to reasonably override the emotional spawn of our hormones. However, we must still pay homage to the fact that, at […]

I have just discovered the power of the coverline. Why is it so powerful? There are lots of different opinions about how to draw one on your chart, but in the end where you choose to put it can totally change what the chart means.
Maybe we should start with the basics: what is a coverline […]

My fertility and I had an instant connection from the moment I realized it existed.
In my adolescence, the ability to become pregnant was just another snowball in the icy abyss of what I did not fully understand. Then there were birth control pills, a daily dose of illusion, the ultimate cover-up. I was not a […]