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How To Track Cervical Fluid

Nov 12, 2018

Why should you check your cervical mucus to see if you are fertile?

The same hormones that control your menstrual cycle also affect the mucus that your cervix makes. Just before and during ovulation, the amount, color, and texture of it change to make it easier for you to get pregnant.

As your ovaries prepare to release an egg, your cervix makes more mucus. A few days before ovulation, it may be sticky and cloudy or whitish. Then, right before you ovulate, the mucus gets slippery, like egg whites. It may stretch across your fingers if you spread them apart. This stage usually lasts 3 or 4 days, which is when you're most likely to get pregnant.

What if my mucus is different to this?

Not all women’s cervical fluid matches the usual descriptions of sticky, creamy, egg white, or watery. This means something is not quite right and this can be caused by just one or several of the 120 hidden modifiable factors we assess for at BUMP.

So today I’ll give you a very...

What You Need To Know To Conceive Naturally

Oct 25, 2018

Are You Tracking Your Cycle Correctly?

Oct 21, 2018

Fertility tracking involves tracking your cycle and developing a good understanding and level of awareness about many aspects of your fertility including basal body temperature and cervical mucus secretions.

Fertility tracking is a collection of methods using your body’s natural functioning to determine the days of the month you are most likely to get pregnant. It is also called Natural Family Planning (NFP), the Ovulation Method, and the Billings Method. Up to 83% of women do not know how to track their fertility cycle correctly and do not realize hidden fertility roadblocks may be causing their cycle to be irregular or distorting their charting results.

How does fertility awareness work?

The calendar, basal body temperature, and cervical mucus methods are combined to give you the awareness of when your body is most fertile. As you become familiar with your body’s ovulation and fertile window, it provides you the opportunity to...

Is Basal Body Temperature Tracking Reliable For Fertility?

Oct 21, 2018

When you're trying to have a baby (or starting to think about it), you may come across the term basal body temperature (BBT) - that is, your lowest temperature of the day, reached when your body is completely at rest. Depending on whom you ask, your BBT can be the star of everything from pregnancy planning to natural birth control and overall fertility awareness. The problem is, your BBT can also be influenced by environmental toxins and heavy metals. Heavy metal testing and toxicity is a very complex issue. This can often increase the length of your preconception preparation by many months. Which is why it is good to get tested.

Fertility awareness is generally defined as a woman’s ability to identify the fertile period of the menstrual cycle. Many women base their charting on a 28-day cycle which can significantly distort their 'fertility window' and lead to troubles conceiving. Different toxins, endocrine disruptors, stress, diet, and infection can all...

Where Are All Your Eggs?

Oct 21, 2018

Our eggs have been with us since before we were born, which means they’re exposed to all sorts of damage, but mostly unavoidable, influences throughout our lives: fevers, infections, stress, toxins, free radicals, and this exposure can lead to little “mistakes” in our egg cells’ DNA, called chromosomal abnormalities or 'SNPs'.

Can abnormal eggs be fixed?

Once a cell’s DNA is degraded, it can’t be fixed medically or “healed.” In other words, once an egg becomes abnormal, it can’t become normal again. As women age, a higher and higher percentage of their eggs are abnormal.

Since DNA is like an instruction manual for our cells, any damage to your DNA can prevent that cell from doing what it’s supposed to do - which, in the case of the egg, is make a healthy baby.

How Do You Test For Egg Quality?

There’s no direct test for egg quality at this point in time. The only way to know if an egg is chromosomally normal is to...

Phthalates A Hidden Cause Of Infertility

Oct 15, 2018

Environmental toxins such as phthalates trigger gene variants and are a major hidden cause for why some couples have trouble conceiving. Recent studies by Dr. Grindler have made the link between phthalates and infertility even more conclusive finding environmental toxins such as phthalates can speed up menopause by 2.3 and 15 years! That means if menopause on average takes place around 51 some women could experience it in their late 30s! Phthalates can predispose you to poor egg quality, poor implantation rates, and early menopause.

Another study by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology found that phthalates are linked to implantation failure in couples undergoing IVF. The good news is, at BUMP we can test for environmental toxins and also determine how well your body is at excreting them. Herbal medicine and nutrigenomic therapy combined with lifestyle and dietary changes provide effective management of environmental toxins.

If you’ve been trying to get...

Is Your Vaginal Discharge Stopping You Conceiving?

Oct 10, 2018

It's important to have healthy cervical mucus when you are trying to conceive. Vaginal discharge (cervical mucus) contains proteomic markers and plays an important role in increasing your chances of getting pregnant. Proteomic markers (biomarkers or 'clues' of disease potential) may be influenced by environmental factors such as toxins and pollutants that change discharge quality and make it an 'unfriendly environment' for sperm. Heavy metal testing and toxicity is a very complex issue. This can often increase the length of your preconception preparation for many months. This is why it is important to get tested.

The special kind of vaginal discharge called cervical mucus plays an important role in conception. Learning how to improve the quality and how to track your cervical mucus correctly for optimal intercourse timing, and getting to know the right kind of cervical mucus you need to conceive, will improve your chances of conceiving.

What is vaginal discharge?

Vaginal...

Is Ovulation Pain a Reliable Sign of Fertility?

Oct 09, 2018

About 1 in 5 women experience ovulation pain and it is not always a way to assume it's associated with exactly when ovulation occurs. Ovulation pain can happen at many points throughout ovulation and can be a sign that environmental factors like heavy metals, phthalates or underlying health conditions are influencing your fertility. Heavy metal testing and toxicity is a very complex issue. This can often increase the length of your preconception preparation by many months. Which is why it is good to get tested.

Sometimes, ovulation pain is referred to as mittelschmerz, a German word that means “middle pain.”

What does ovulation pain feel like?

Women feel ovulation pain (mittelschmerz) differently and it can:

Occur on one side of the abdomen
Alternate sides from cycle to cycle
Be a dull ache that persists for a few minutes to a few hours
Be sudden, sharp, and last for only a moment
Be mild, or severe and be mistaken for appendicitis

What causes ovulation...

5 Tips To Stay Positive Throughout Your Fertility Journey

Sep 22, 2018

How Can I Stay Positive?

Changing your mindset to a positive one is easier said than done. If you’re having trouble being positive, the following tips may help But first meet Michelle ...

#1 Refuse to Be Your Own Worst Enemy

Many times, infertile couples will be overly pessimistic about their situation to avoid getting their hopes up each time they get one step closer to pregnancy. This may be especially true for couples who have been through one or more miscarriages.

While it may seem prudent to remind yourself of success rates and the possibility that you won’t get pregnant, this may be doing more harm than good. After all, in 2015 “the chance of having a live birth per ART cycle” ranged from 5.8 to 46 percent according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, depending on factors like age, the source of the egg and whether the embryo was fresh or frozen.Those aren’t insignificant numbers! Allowing yourself to envision the...

Age and Fertility

Sep 15, 2018

Many women are told age is a barrier to fertility, especially if you are trying to get pregnant over 35. Although chronological age can cause challenges, biological age; or the age of your cells, will play a much larger role in stopping you from conceiving either naturally or with IVF. What's important to remember is the hidden factors causing accelerated reproductive aging, can in most instances, be reversed with targeted and strategic natural support.

By the age of 40, you may have 6 hidden causes

Unfortunately the reality is, getting pregnant and having a healthy baby does become more difficult as women get older. This can be caused by the increased risk of underlying hidden fertility factors like PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Disorder), endometriosis, thyroid problems, weight gain, immune problems, toxicity, high cholesterol, and many others.

By the age of 36, the chance of a woman conceiving each month is decreased by almost half from the time that she was her most fertile...

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