Why Chart?

Charting the menstrual cycle helps women understand when they are fertile, or able to become pregnant. I teach the sympto-thermal method of charting. This method looks at the many fertility signals that a woman's body produces each month in anticipation of ovulation, and helps her discover her fertile window. Once a woman understands her fertility signals, she can predict when she is about to ovulate without using any technology more sophisticated than a thermometer.

Charting often reduces the amount of time that it takes to become pregnant, gives women more familiarity with their bodies, and is cheaper than using fertility monitors, tests or ultrasound. However, charting can also be used in combination with these technologies, especially if you will be receiving care at a fertility clinic.