The Great Fertility Mystery
Get to know your conception cycle
In this fast-paced society, it can be tricky for busy women to take time out to try and understand the science behind conception.
With only a few days each month when you can get pregnant - did you know that a woman's peak fertile days can fall at different times each cycle?
Research reveals that 1 in 2 couples may be trying to conceive at the wrong time1 and many don't know that it can take several months to get pregnant.
Myth-busting
Fiction: It's possible to get pregnant at any time of the month.
To get pregnant, you need to have sex on the days leading up to and around when you ovulate.
Two to three days prior to ovulation and the day of ovulation being your most fertile days.
Australia
"I didn't realise that there is only a small window each month when you can get pregnant - rather than all the time -
nor did I understand how to read the signs or know how to time intercourse effectively.
My husband and I had been 'trying' for over a year but it was only when a client of mine - a doctor as it turned out -
suggested that I use the Clearblue Digital Ovulation Test that I started to understand my own cycle.
She had used the tests to time her two pregnancies and thankfully, after three cycles of use, I fell pregnant with Alice.
Timing, as they say, is everything and it was true for me."
New Mum, Anna, aged 32 from Melbourne
Fiction: Every woman ovulates on Day 14.
Many don't. Normal ovulation can occur as early as day 10 and as late as day 20 (or even later).
Fiction: You'll get pregnant quickly if you track your temperature.
Tracking your basal body temperature is an imprecise method, since a woman's body temperature rises after she has ovulated
by which time it is too late to optimise the chances
of conception in that cycle.
USA
"When my husband and I decided to start trying for a baby recently, I thought I could just stop using contraception and fall pregnant.
Now that I've started using Clearblue Digital Ovulation tests, I've realised that my husband and I had been trying at the wrong time each month for the past six months."
33 year old Melissa from New York
UK
"When it came to my husband and I trying for our second child it took a bit longer.
I thought because I fell pregnant so easily first time round that it would be the same this time.
I'm impatient for results so, rather than track my basal temperature or use ovulation sticks, I bought a Clearblue Fertility Monitor."
Yael, aged 31 from London
Knowing how your body and your cycle works is a good first step towards
getting pregnant naturally and Clearblue fertility products can help you do that.
Clearblue Digital Ovulation Tests are simple urine tests that measure a key fertility hormone
to identify your best 2 days to conceive a baby, through a digital 'smiley face' on the display.
The Clearblue Fertility Monitor is proven to increase the chances of conception by 89%2.
It tracks the LH surge together with estrogen to identify up to 6 fertile days each cycle.
Clearblue fertility products are a great way of helping women understand their body's own
best timing during the cycle in order
to maximise their chances of getting pregnant naturally.
