Charting can be an excellent tool in your box of fertility tricks! Getting to know the ins and outs of your cycle can really give you an edge on when your specific fertility window is.
For as long as I can remember, my cycles have been irregular. Most women with PCOS have long irregular cycles due to anovulation. I had no idea when my fertile window was while we were trying to conceive! It was so frustrating. We were trying every other day. Doing the "baby dance" became a chore and wasn't enjoyable because we were stressed out about it and just became complacent in our sex life. It was all about trying to conceive and not a lot about the romance anymore.
Somewhere along my journey, I came across a book entitled: Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler, MPH. I read it cover to cover in one day and began charting my cycles that same week. I discovered that not only were my cycles long and irregular, but I also wasn't ovulating. So all of our efforts over the past several years were in vain!
I wish I had read this book years sooner - in fact, I wish I had read it when I was a teen! It would have been so helpful to be able to read my body's signs and signals and to know what was going on with my body.
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