Clearblue® Touch Screen Fertility Monitor and 30 Test Sticks

re you trying for a baby? The Clearblue Fertility Monitor helps you maximize your chances of getting pregnant because it’s designed to identify all your fertile days.1 From the #1 brand recommended by OB/GYNs,2 this hand-held, touch screen monitor tracks the changing levels of 2 key fertility hormones in your urine: luteinizing hormone (LH) and estrogen. Using these two hormones, the monitor can pinpoint your 2 peak fertility days, plus additional high fertility days prior to ovulation – this is typically up to 6 fertile days in total. 

 

To use the Clearblue Fertility Monitor, you will need the Clearblue Fertility Monitor Test Sticks, which are included in this bundle. There are 30 individually wrapped test sticks inside the box. The majority of women will need 10 test sticks each cycle. Women with irregular or long cycles may have to use 20 test sticks each cycle. Timing is key to conceiving a baby and using the Clearblue Fertility Starter Kit maximizes your chances of getting pregnant.

An ObGyn Tells You More

 

Overview

Benefits of Using the Fertility Monitor

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It helps you get pregnant faster, naturally.3

It has a clear, intuitive, touch screen for easy use.

Results show 97% agreement with ultrasound at detecting ovulation,4  but testing can be done at home and at a fraction of the cost.

It is suitable for women with a broad range of cycle lengths - from 21 – 42 days. It adapts to your cycle, tells you when to test and your level of fertility every day, requiring no interpretation.

You can record when you have your period and when you have sex; this information appears on the calendar together with your fertility data.

It stores up to 6 cycles of your data and the unique cycle summary provides the key information your OB-GYN may want to see.

 

 

Research shows that women who know when they are most fertile each cycle are likely to get pregnant sooner than those who don’t.5 As the chart indicates, conception is possible when intercourse takes place throughout a woman's fertile window and not just on her day of ovulation. This is because your partner’s sperm can survive in your body for up to 5 days so you can actually become pregnant by having intercourse during the days leading up to ovulation. Knowing a wider fertile window can give busy couples more time to enjoy trying for a baby and maximize their chances of getting pregnant.

 

Women are fertile for about 6 days each cycle (it varies woman to woman and cycle to cycle). The day of ovulation is the most fertile day, but sperm can live for about 5 days in a woman’s body in the days leading up to ovulation. Having sex on High and Peak Fertility days identified by the Clearblue Fertility Monitor gives you more opportunities to get pregnant than with traditional ovulation tests that only identify your 2 Peak Fertility days.

 

The following chart outlines the phases of a woman’s menstrual cycle, showing how the two most fertile days coincide with the LH surge (24-36 hours before ovulation) and the release of an egg (ovulation). Traditional ovulation tests, like Clearblue Digital Ovulation Test, track your level of LH and identify your 2 best days to conceive a baby (Peak Fertility).

 

The Fertility Monitor also tracks your estrogen level, which rises just before the LH surge, extending the fertile window typically up to 6 days of High and Peak Fertility. This extended window can help to reduce the time it takes to conceive6 as it gives more days to try, plus gives advance notice of the 2 peak days.

 

As we have shown, timing is key when trying to conceive a baby. While there are manual charting and calendar methods that can be used to estimate when ovulation will occur, these methods can be problematic. They require you to track your cycle length over several months and often make assumptions based on ‘average’ cycle lengths. Basal body temperature (BBT is your temperature ‘at rest’) has to be taken first thing in the morning before you move out of bed and can be affected by many day to day events such as a late night, fever, and some medications. Also, your BBT rises AFTER ovulation has occurred, so it’s too late to predict ovulation and to conceive in that cycle. You need to chart over several cycles to build up a pattern for BBT to be predictive and in a study it has been shown to predict the most fertile days in only one third of cycles.7 

 

Every woman’s cycle is unique and cycles for any one woman can vary from cycle to cycle – this means calendar-based predictions are less reliable than ovulation tests8 - in a recent study the calendar method has been found to predict the correct fertile days in only one third of cycles.