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Rose is a Fertility Awareness Educator and a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner (HRHP) who has trained and specialized in the Justisse Method of cycle charting, and who has been charting her own cycles and teaching women how to chart their cycles for 16 years now. Justisse HRHPs are trained to identify and manage a broad spectrum of cycle variations and reproductive health problems that can be identified once a woman begins charting her cycles with the fertility awareness method.
Rose was one of my teachers when I first started learning to chart my cycles over 10 years ago and she was a huge inspiration to me along the way. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of Fertility Awareness, and in today’s episode, we talk about the basics of charting your cycles using the Fertility Awareness Method. You can listen to today’s episode here:
Make sure to check out the next episode that Rose and I recorded! In episode 3 we discussed how to identify menstrual irregularities through Fertility Awareness charting and some of the special charting considerations that come up when you start charting your cycles. You can find it here.
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Topics discussed in today’s episode
- Introduction to the Fertility Awareness Method and cycle charting
- How to tell when you’re fertile?
- What is cervical mucus and why is it central to using and understanding the Fertility Awareness Method?
- How to check for cervical mucus
- Are there different types of cervical mucus?
- How do changes in a cervical position help you figure out if you’re fertile?
- How to check your basal body temperature
- Can taking your basal body temperature help predict your ovulation date?
- How to use Fertility Awareness for birth control
- How Fertility Awareness can help you optimize your chances of conceiving
- What do I do if I want to learn the Fertility Awareness Method?
Resources Mentioned
- Learn to chart your cycles with Rose – Click here for your free session!
- Better Ovulate Than Never | Rose Yewchuk
- Justisse User Guide by Geraldine Matus
- Justisse charting app
- Kindara charting app
- Groove charting app
- Taking Charge of your Fertility by Toni Weschler
- Sweetening the Pill by Holly Grigg-Spall
- The Diva cup
- Basal body thermometer
- Fertility Awareness Charting Circle Facebook group
- Fertility Awareness Charting Circle Edmonton
- Episode 003 of the Fertility Friday Podcast | Identifying Menstrual Irregularities with Fertility Awareness | Special Charting Considerations | Rose Yewchuk
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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by Sirc of (The Nock)
I’ve just started charting to use FAM as birth control. For as long as I can remember I’ve always felt I had a lot of cervical mucous. Not necessarily fertile type, which I do get plenty of around ovulation. But it seems what should be dry days are usually more of a sticky day. Like not always when I wipe, but usually a little, flat sticky spot in my underwear. My question is whether or not that is normal, or to be expected? It usually dries and becomes a hardened, crunchy type of spot in the middle of my undies. I literally can’t remember having dry underwear. Is that normal vaginal moisture? Or is it cervical mucous? Should I be having dry underwear on my dry days?
Hi Jamie, you wouldn’t necessarily count what you see on your underwear as that may be vaginal cell slough. I break down all of the different types of discharge you may see in great detail in Chapter 3 of my book The Fifth Vital Sign. It will make much more sense after you’ve read it!