Preconception Health Care

Amid increased concern about the causal relationship between modern lifestyle and environment factors on declining fertility, birth complications and infant and baby health, Healing Light Holistic Center stresses the importance of optimal health and well being of both parents prior to conception. In the same way that athletes go into training for peak sporting performance, it is essential that couples planning a pregnancy optimize their health and wellbeing for the best possible fertility outcome. The practice of preconception health care has been used for thousands of years, and is experiencing a resurgence in the face of modern fertility issues.

 The ancient Spartans knew of preconception health benefits more than 2,500 years ago with young women engaging in wrestling, running and throwing the quoit in order for pregnancies to be healthy and strong. Later the ancient Romans recognized environmental effects on fertility when they noticed the reduced conception rate following their installation of lead water pipes. The physicians of ancient Greece recommended that young women take no alcohol in preparation for conception and during pregnancy and many traditional societies today also feed special diets to their young women and men of childbearing age.

Preconception health care is a way for both prospective parents to improve their fertility through:

• Healthy lifestyle
• Good nutrition
• Natural treatments and therapies (including acupuncture and herbal therapies)
• Diagnostic care
• Counseling, relaxation techniques, and hypnoimagery
• Charting and timing techniques

Preconception health care lays the foundations for the best conception chances and grooms the body, mind and spirit for a healthy, vital pregnancy and birth. The chances of having a healthy conception, pregnancy, birth and baby are highest if both prospective parents take part in the program, lifestyle and dietary protocols are followed and general and reproductive health issues for both parents are resolved to a sufficient degree during this time.

Ovulation Predictor - Fertility Saliva Ovulation Test

Fertile Focus

Introduction

Fertile-Focus is a personal ovulation microscope that allows you to predict ovulation – your most fertile time of the month to conceive - with 98% accuracy.

When a woman is about to ovulate, her saliva begins to form a distinct crystal, fern-like pattern due to an increase in hormone levels – as seen through Fertile-Focus. This “ferning” pattern begins to appear around 3 to 5 days prior to ovulation, allowing you to predict peak fertility.

Using Fertile-Focus Ovulation Microscope

With Fertile-Focus, PULL the lens from the tube and just add a drop of saliva. Let the sample dry. In about five minutes, view the sample through the microscope. Press the LED light button and focus by turning the eyepiece of the microscope. If you are ovulating - or about to ovulate - a ferning, crystal-like pattern can be viewed. NOTE: Test first thing in the morning using a sublingual saliva sample (fresh from below the tongue). Do not test after eating, drinking, smoking, or brushing teeth.

Carefully remove the lens by pulling it out of the casing. Pull the lense - do not unscrew.		Place a drop of saliva on the surface of the lens. Try to avoid creating air bubbles.
Allow the saliva sample to dry for at least five minutes and replace the lens into the body of the microscope.		Look into the lens and push the light button to observe the test result. To focus, rotate the lens while bringing it close to the eye.

Interpreting Fertile-Focus Results

With Fertile-Focus, just add a drop of saliva to the lens and let the sample dry. In five minutes, view the sample through the microscope. Press the LED light button and focus by turning the eyepiece of the microscope. If you are ovulating - or about to ovulate - a ferning, crystal-like pattern can be viewed.

	Not Fertile: Simple dot patterns and lines indicate no ovulation. You are not fertile at this time.
	Transitional: Small ferning patterns – or crystal forms - appear among the spots and lines. Ovulation may occur in 3-4 days. At this time, conception is possible, though not yet likely.
	Fertile: Strong ferning – or crystal – patterns dominate the sample. Ovulation is about to occur or already occurring. At this time, conception is likely. This is your most fertile time of the month. Conception is possible from between 5 days before to 24 hours after ovulation.

For best results, test on a daily basis, preferably first thing in the morning before eating, drinking or brushing your teeth. Track each day's results on a calendar or fertility chart. When you begin to see a ferning pattern, the onset of ovulation is approaching. This is the beginning of your most fertile time to conceive. Click here for Fertile-Focus FAQ

Understanding How Fertile-Focus Works

The science behind Fertile Focus is really quite simple in principle. As you aproach the time of the month when you are most fertile, the level of the hormone estrogen increases in your body (see the blue line below). As the estrogen surge intensifies, so does the concentration of electrolytes (salinity) in your saliva. This is the cause of the crystal ferning patterns that indicate that you may be about to ovulate. By detecting changes in electrolytes in saliva - which are caused by an increase of the hormone estrogen - you can learn when you are most likely to conceive a baby!

The Blue Line represents the hormone estrogen that increases in your body before you ovulate - and causes the ferning patterns viewable in dry saliva samples. As the blue line rises, indicating an estrogen surge, so increases the intensity of ferning patterns, indicating that ovulation is about to take place - or is already taking place. Notice how the blue line increases earlier than the green line? The green line is LH - or luteinizing hormone. Lh ovulation (urine) tests tell you when you are going to ovulate just a day or two before ovulation happens. Fertile Focus can alert you to when you will ovulate up to several days before peak fertility!

Designed by leading fertility expert, Dr. Amos Grunebaum, ObGyn, Fertile-Focus is the affordable high-quality saliva-based fertility test (or personal ovulation microscope) that predicts ovulation with 98% accuracy – up to 72 hours in advance.

Fertile-Focus allows women to identify their most fertile days by testing and viewing the visual changes that take place in saliva throughout the monthly cycle. Just prior to ovulation, women experience an "estrogen surge," and a distinct fern-like pattern becomes visible in saliva due to the hormonal changes. Fertile-Focus provides the highest quality, powerful 50x magnification lens for easily identifying these crystal "ferning" patterns.

Ranked as a top customer favorite for quality, convenience and price, Fertile-Focus offers the best value to both consumer and retailer/distributor in the ovulation microscope market. It offers accuracy without the mess and monthly expense of urine ovulation tests.

Fertile Focus - $ 27.95
From: Fairhaven Health, LLC