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Trying to get pregnant should be a happy and exciting time for you and your partner; you shouldn’t have to worry about getting pregnant. The Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor helps reduce the time that it takes to conceive.

The Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor is designed to maximize your chances of getting pregnant by providing an advanced monitoring system that easy to use:

A test stick (you can purchase more separately) is used to monitor hormone levels in your urine. After wetting a stick, you simply place it in the test stick slot and wait for the results. But an important feature of the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor is that you can easily program it to follow the days of your monthly cycle.

So you have the greatest chance of conceiving; A low, high, and peak fertility status bars are shown in the monitor’s display.

About the “M” Button:

The monitor comes with an exclusive “M” Button which you press at the start of your monthly cycle, and establishes the start of the six-hour window of time in which you can do a test. It’s important that this “window” includes a time when it’s convenient for you to test your first urine of the day on both weekdays and weekends. You are free to change the time or day that you press the “M” button on your next cycle, in order to get more tests done at different times in your cycle.

The Clearblue Fertility Monitor accurately identifies more fertile days in your cycle than any other fertility monitor. About 10 or 12 days after your cycle starts is usually the most fertile time because your estrogen levels are higher. Male sperm can survive as much as five days, so your chances of conceiving are the best during these pre-ovulation days in your cycle

Technical Reasons Behind the Clear Blue Fertility Monitor’s Effectiveness:

During these “pre-ovulation” days – called the Follicular Phase – a follicle that contains an egg starts developing inside an ovary. At this point a rise in Luteinizing hormone signals peak fertility. This lasts for only a couple days and is the time frame that your chances of conceiving are the highest. But the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor helps you pinpoint this time with relative ease. Ovulation occurs at this point – when the follicle containing the egg bursts and releases the ovum. There is only about 24 hours from this point forward that the egg can be fertilized, so this is the point that your monitor will help you pinpoint.

The days afterwards are called the Luteal Phase, when the remains of the follicle forms the “corpus luteum.” During this phase your chances of getting pregnant are much lower.

How To Do A Test -

Before your first urine of the day (normally when you get up each morning), switch on your Clear Blue Fertility Monitor. Certain mornings the monitor will ‘tell’ you you need to do a hormone level test. After removing a test stick from the wrapper, you wet it in your urine stream (pointing the stick downwards) for about three seconds. Now after removing the cap from the handle of the stick, you place it over the end you just wetted..

You should now see a flashing red light coming from the monitor’s test stick slot. This indicates it is performing some internal checks in order to ensure the slot is indeed ready to receive your test stick. Don’t put the test stick into the slot until the light has gone out. Simply hold the test stick by the cap and place the other end into the the slot, cut corner pointing down. Push it down until it clicks into place, lying flat. Now you should see a flashing symbol of the test stick on the display if you’ve inserted it correctly. It will continue flashing for around five minutes as it does the test.

So now all you do is wait five minutes until the test is over – indicated by the monitor – which point it will indicate for you to remove and discard the used test stick. The status of your fertility will then be shown on the monitor.

Cathy has been writing helpful articles on fertility and health for years now. Find out more about the signs of infertility and what to do next at http://www.clearbluefertilitymonitors.com