Our TTC Using FertilAid Journey: Fertile-Focus Ovulation Microscope

Today I wanted to discuss a Fairhaven Health product called Fertile Focus. What Fertile Focus is, is a small microscope that looks like a tube of lipstick. How it works is, you take your saliva first thing in the morning before brushing your teeth or drinking any water, and place it on the lense of the microscope. You then allow it to dry on the lense, giving it at least 5 minutes or so before placing the cap back on the tube.

There is a push button on the bottom of the tube that lights up the lense so that you can see what your saliva looks like. What you are looking for is a pattern called "ferning", which occurs up to 72 hours in advance of ovulation. The ferning represents an estrogen surge, and shows hormonal changes. I have been watching for ferning using the Fertile-Focus microscope for the past four days, and I finally saw a partial ferning pattern this morning!!!

Here are the photos I have taken of the microscope since I started: