The 2 - day method is a simpler kind of cervical
mucus method.
The cervical
mucus method is also called the ovulation method or the Billings method.
Don't rely on the cervical
mucus method for birth control until you've been charting your mucus for at least 1 cycle.
To use the cervical
mucus method to prevent pregnancy, you check out your mucus every day and write the results on a chart.
The cervical
mucus method is more effective if you use it with the temperature method.
The temperature method is more effective when you combine it with the other fertility awareness methods (like the cervical
mucus method).
The cervical
mucus method is less reliable for some women.
Using the cervical
mucus method for birth control requires motivation and diligence.
The cervical
mucus method is sometimes combined with another method of natural family planning, such as tracking basal body temperature.
The calendar method is most effective when you combine it with other fertility awareness methods, like the temperature and cervical
mucus methods.
Not exact matches
Many women choose to use condoms or other barrier
method until their periods return and cervical
mucus observation and temping can be done more reliably.
These birth control
methods use synthetic hormones to suppress ovulation, thin the uterine lining so the egg can't implant there, and thicken cervical
mucus to block sperm from reaching the egg.
Most of these
methods involve a combination of tracking things like cervical
mucus, basal body temperature, spotting or menstrual bleeding, and the position and firmness of your cervix.
Symptom - based
methods: With these
methods, you observe and track one or more physical signs associated with fertility, including changes in your basal body temperature (BBT) and cervical
mucus.
A wide range of
methods have been used to get the timing right — from taking basal body temperatures or assessing cervical
mucus to using ovulation prediction kits.
A more accurate way of predicting ovulation is the Billings
method, where a woman analyses the consistency of cervical
mucus at various times of the month.
Along with taking your body temperature each day, checking your cervical
mucus is one of the
methods used in natural family planning.
Women opting for a fertility awareness
method (or FAM) might take their temperature every morning, check their cervical
mucus every day, or chart their cycles (or use any combination of these three
methods) to determine when they're near ovulation.
The Fertility Awareness
Method (FAM) is a system for predicting the fertile (and infertile) days in your menstrual cycle, by observing and charting two primary fertility signs: basal body temperature and cervical fluid (
mucus).
If you're not familiar with how the Fertility Awareness
Method works, it involves tracking your 3 primary fertile signs: cervical
mucus, basal body temperature, and cervical position, and learning how to identify which days in your cycle you are actually fertile.
Watching for this change in
mucus combined with a rise in body temperature is one of the best nonlaboratory
methods for identifying the time of ovulation.
While recording cervical
mucus can be a natural, cheap, reliable, and highly effective component to avoid pregnancy using the Fertility Awareness
Method (FAM) or Natural Family Planning (NFP), this post will be focusing on identifying your cervical
mucus to help you achieve pregnancy.
The best way to use FAMs is to combine the temperature, cervical
mucus, and calendar
methods.
You can keep track of your
mucus, days, and temperatures on a fertility awareness
method chart like this one.
Lungworm infections are uncommon and may not be normally considered in the differential diagnosis, but may occur; diagnosis with faecal floatation or a bronchial
mucus smear are diagnostic
methods of choice, x-rays and bronchoscopy are also useful but you should discuss with your Veterinarian.
By monitoring cervical
mucus and ovulation cycles, women determine their fertility at different times during their cycles, supplementing during fertile times with barrier
methods (condoms) and spermicide.
You can keep track of your
mucus, days, and temperatures on a fertility awareness
method chart like this one.
Certain activities or conditions can alter your natural cervical
mucus and make this
method less effective and difficult to use.