Competition Time!

We have decided to find out from our customers a few intersting things about their journey to conceive!  To start off we have decided to ask the following question:

"Does your partner know you purchase ovulation and pregnancy tests online in bulk quantities?"

All you have to do to enter to win a prize is leave your comment before the 9th of September and we will draw a name from the hat and send the winner a message to get their postage details!

We have some great prizes up for grabs, so make sure you leave your comment to enter!

How Many Tests Are Enough?

I was cleaning our bathroom the other day and this is what i saw...

Notice anything?

Take another look at the bottom drawer...

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It appears to be a drawer dedicated to house my used pregnancy tests...

These are only a handful of what used to live here, but as I looked at what remained I asked myself why so many?  Why do I do so many of them when we all know quite logically that a "line is a line".

Does two, three.... twenty tests showing positive mean I am now more pregnant than if I had only done just one?  It still goes further... these little tests aren't good enough... 30 positives later we move onto the big guns and head to the chemist to buy the 'authoritive' well known brand just to prove to our partners we are indeed "with child".  So with as much stress as passing a job interview, hands shaking we take the test, staring crossed eyed, baited breath at the tiny window.  We get the go ahead to breathe again as the second line appears before our eyes... magically the world is wonderful... our belly tingles... our minds dream... our hearts weep... life has begun!

It appears from reflection on our last pregnancy that the answer then to "How many tests are enough?" is quite simple.  That feeling we get when we see a positive pregnancy test doesn't change no matter how many times we experience it... 

So why not experience it as many times as possible... it's a shame to store the left over tests from that unbelievable bulk buy we just made anyway...;)

New Product - Ovulation Microscope

FertileVue Saliva Ovulation Predictor Test

We have a new product.. well quite a few actually, but for today, this is the one I thought I would tell you about.

Similar to the famous MaybeBaby, FertilVue is a reusable microscope used to help you predict when you are about to ovulate. 

Manufactured in New Zealand and retailing for over $100 AUD, Oracle Fertility is happy to have the opportunity to supply these awesome products here for less than $60 including shipping!

So how do they work? 
Basically unlike the urine ovulation tests that detect a hormonal surge of  luteinising hormone (LH) that occurs approximately one to two days before ovulation. (This is the trigger for ovulation and it's also a signal that your fertile window has arrived.)
Saliva- based ovulation tests detect rising oestrogen levels as you near ovulation, not the hormone which triggers it. As oestrogen levels rise, the salt content of your saliva increases too and when the salt dries it crystallises into a fern-like pattern.   The FertilVue allows you to visually see if any "salivary ferning" is occuring and thus helps you predict when your ovulation time is nearing.

These are a fantastic affordable product for women with irregular cycles, those who take quite a few cycles to fall pregnant, and for others who find it difficult to be able to perform the urine based tests while at work etc. 

To purchase one or find out more please visit our store HERE



  

Am I Pregnant?

For those of us trying to conceive, this 3 word question is one which can consume every ounce of our waking (and often sleeping) moments. Once the decision has been made to try and conceive a child it suddenly becomes all we want, all we can think about, all that matters.

Our bodies instantly display text book 'early pregnancy symptoms', which progressively get worse until the inevitable 'aunt flo' turns up for her monthly visit. This minor hurdle in our pregnancy dream only provides for us a week of focused study on the art of conception and sure fire ways to ensure it happens this next month.

So what are the early symptoms of pregnancy that every woman trying to conceive is longing to experience?

• Firstly fertilisation / implantation need to occur - if sperm encounter the egg within the fallopian tube fertilisation usually occurs. Roughly 6 days after this happens the blastocyst (precursor to the embryo) attaches itself to the lining of the uterus, beginning the process of implantation. From as early as 6 – 7 days after fertilisation these cells can begin secreting HCG which is then passed into the mothers body and detected by pregnancy tests
• The most obvious sign is the missed period - but for those of us who are trying to conceive we all know this just isn't soon enough... those two weeks after ovulation before your period is due might as well be a decade!
• Tender and enlarged breasts due to changes in hormonal levels - for many women this is also normal PMS for her so cannot always be an early pregnancy symptom
• Frequent trips to the bathroom also due to hormonal changes
• Fatigue also attributed to changing hormones
• Cramping similar to period pains - these can worry and stress many women into thinking they can't possibly be pregnant as they are experiencing such strong and frequent period cramps.  It is very common for they early weeks of pregnancy to be accompanied with cramps, twinges and pains that many women associate with getting their period. 
• More sensitive to smells - this is sometimes the 'light bulb' moment for some women who realise early on that maybe they are pregnant as things are smelling different.
• Changes in taste - many women complain of a metallic taste very early in pregnancy and often food just tastes different somehow.
• Dizziness / Fainting - changes in hormones and blood pressure are normally attributed to this.
• Higher body temperature - if you are charting your basal body temperature you would see that it doesn't drop towards the end of your cycle, it will remain higher at is post ovulation levels.
• Just feeling pregnant - many women report just knowing they were pregnant.  This intuition is often proved correct.

Unfortunately many of these signs can also be a woman's normal pre menstrual symptoms, which can make it difficult to determine if indeed they are early pregnancy symptoms or not. 

Along with the missed period a positive pregnancy test is the only other way to actually determine conception has occurred.  Luckily with today's highly sensitive tests it is now possible to obtain a positive pregnancy test as early as 7 days post ovulation (dependant on the individuals level of HCG present in their urine at time of testing). 

So even the though the more rational of those around us will happily inform us that "you will know soon enough that you are pregnant", those of us with the 'clucky clock' ticking loudly in our ears will know all to well that no matter how faint the second line may appear, the sooner we know that our tummy is now home to our little prince or princess, soon cannot come soon enough!


Purchase our early pregnancy tests here!

Expanding Our Online Presence

We here at Oracle Fertility love the expanding waistline and have decided to take this philosophy to our businesses online presence.  We have a wealth of knowledge and personal experience to share with couples world wide and have decided to expand into the world of blogging.  Keep informed with all things fertile!