This is a guest post from Ava data scientist Franziska Dammeier. One of the most common themes in my interaction with Ava users is concern about changes in their Ava charts: Does a decrease in resting pulse rate mean I'm not pregnant? Does an increase in temperature mean I already ovulated? What does it mean [...]
Many women use online ovulation calculators as a convenient way to figure out when to have sex to get pregnant. These calculators estimate your ovulation date based on the rule that ovulation occurs 14 days before your period starts, combined with your average cycle length. So if your cycle is usually 30 days, an ovulation calculator [...]
When does ovulation occur for you? This is one of the most important questions to answer if you want to get pregnant. Your chances of getting pregnant are highest when you have sex in the days just before ovulation. But how do you know when ovulation will occur? You can use online ovulation calculators to [...]
If you're looking out for ovulation symptoms so you know when you're fertile, you might be dismayed to find that most signs aren't very obvious. Unlike other animals, our vulvas don't swell up, we don't go into heat, and we don't start emitting irresistible man-attracting perfume. So what's a girl to do if she wants [...]
You’ve probably heard of basal body temperature and OPKs. But the Ava Bracelet provides information that you might never have heard of before. Why does Ava measure more than just temperature? In fertility tracking, there is a lot of focus on using urine tests and the temperature method to pinpoint ovulation. There are downsides to these [...]
If you use basal body temperature to track ovulation, then you know that your chart isn't always as easy to interpret as it should be. Sometimes you go to sleep feeling quite certain that you'll wake up to a temperature spike, but it just doesn't happen. If you don't see a rise when you thought [...]
Monitoring your basal body temperature (BBT) is probably the first way you started tracking ovulation and your fertile window. The method has been around since our moms were getting pregnant, and it's backed by science, so we trust that it works. But is it really a good method for figuring out the best time to try to make a baby? We [...]
The Temperature Method: A Good Starting Point If you want to determine when in your cycle you ovulate, tracking your basal body temperature (BBT) is a good starting point. BBT is the lowest temperature your body reaches in a 24-hour period. In women, BBT follows a biphasic pattern throughout the menstrual cycle—that is, it's lower [...]
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