NFP and pregnancy question

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This is for those women who chart their cycle observing cm on tissue & use the white baby stickers, green baby, green, and red.

Once you are pregnant, in the early stages <2 months, do you still continue to observe fertile signs or does that stop once you are pregnant?

A friend asked me and I figured I’d ask the experts on here. thanks for your help.
 
Why would you? Once you’ve confirmed that you’re pregnant, I don’t think you’ll get any more of the cycle fluctuations. Focus on those dry crackers, not on taking your temperature. 😛
 
marie, if you re-read my question, my friend asked it and I wanted to give her an accurate answer. FTR, I am NOT pregnant due to serious health issues.

I am looking for women who are pregnant and are using Billings/Creigton method to chart their fertility. Do they still have fertile signs once they have conceived or does it stop until the baby is born.
 
No you don’t continue to chart, because the purpose of charting is to detect ovulation, which won’t happen. There still may be plenty to observe, but it won’t mean anything. Just put away the chart, and pull it out again when the baby is born after the post-partum bleeding has stopped.
 
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marie, if you re-read my question, my friend asked it and I wanted to give her an accurate answer. FTR, I am NOT pregnant due to serious health issues.

I am looking for women who are pregnant and are using Billings/Creigton method to chart their fertility. Do they still have fertile signs once they have conceived or does it stop until the baby is born.
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Well, haven’t been pregnant in a few years. So I’ve forgotten a few of the details. However, IIRC, the temperature spike that happens when you ovulate stays up if you’re pregnant. I’ve never checked my cervix once I knew I was pregnant because my pregnancies were iffy during the first three months and I never wanted to chance a miscarriage. (And I don’t think this is very reliable, especially after a baby or two). Mucus, IIRC, stays abundant and sticky throughout pregnancy - just like right after ovulation. Are there other fertility signs you’re talking about? Libido can go any way, unlike a normal month where women are more interested in sex during ovulation. (In fact, it can be different for each pregnancy!)

It’s certainly possible to still have periods during pregnancy. I did, and so did my mother.
 
When I got pregnant I stopped charting (Creighton). Then a couple weeks later my FCP wanted to see me to do a preg. evaluation, and she asked me to keep charting. Not sop much for me I think but more for research purposes- probably relating to miscarriage. Anyway I was really lazy and eventually stopped. So I just hope she doesn’t call wanting to see the chart because I haven’t done it in months! :o
 
I’ve been thinking about this too. I have a history of miscarriage (4 in less than 2 years), so I was wondering if there was something in my CM that could be detected when the pregnancy was ‘going bad’. I haven’t confirmed it with my NFP doctor though. The books don’t come right out & say ‘stop charting when your HPT is positive’, but the examples all show that is how it is in practice. Like a previous poster mentioned, there is no ovulation, which is the purpose of charting (kind of), so there’s no reason to continue if you’re pregnant. However, I could see it being beneficial for someone like me who miscarries frequently. It could also be good for someone who works closely w/ their NFP doc to monitor certain conditions (hormonal, etc).
 
With Creighton they want us to keep charting. Its for research purposes in order to understand things better and to prevent miscarriages etc.
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Mucus is generally present but not necessarily egg white during pregnancy- but this varies a lot from woman to woman and doesn’t indicate anything about the viability of the pregnancy.

Temps should stay up for the first trimester- sometimes they’ll dip down below coverline before a miscarriage, but again, one or two temperature dips don’t mean much.

I don’t think there’s any point to charting once you’re pregnant unless you’re doing it for research purposes.
 
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