Fertility Education & Training

guidelines to charting your fertility cycle, page 1 of 26

Introduction to the Guidelines

For a pregnancy to occur, three elements are needed:

1. Fresh sperm from the man

A moving sperm.

2. A live egg, produced by the woman at ovulation

An ovum ready to be fertilised.

3. Fertile cervical mucus to nourish and transport the sperm

the sympto-thermal double check method of nfp uses four indicators to identify the fertile time in each cycle:

They will be dealt with individually and then brought together in the Double Check Rules