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The Essential Fertility Log: An Organizer and Record Keeper to Help You Get Pregnant

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I bought this book thinking it would be easier than using a regular calendar and it is wonderful! It keeps all your notes, test results, BBT charts in one place, and lets you fill in monthly calendars for looking at the "big" picture. I would recommend this log to anyone who is having a difficult time TTC as it helps keep everything organized and accessible.

This is a wonderfull fertility log, plenty of space to write down the information you need without all the advice and stuff you don't. I keep my journal next to the bed to write down my morning temps and fertility monitor readings. Every few days I plug the information into my fertility charting software. I love not having to try and remember everything. If you have fertility problems like me you will be glad you have this on your bedside table. There are temping charts, calenders and about 9 months worth of daily info pages so you can keep track of your progress.

This book is one of the few sources out there that has valuable fertility information & alternatives, plus a VERY useful monthly log. The log was key in helping me chart my cycle and plan accordingly. Plus, Schlosberg adds a perfect amount of humor to give us all a bit of comic relief during the process!!

This is a truly wonderful book to have for women who are in the process of trying to conceive (TTC), which can be for some of us a many-months-long process. Besides the various logically laid-out pages for keeping records (daily logs, monthly calendars, test results, temp charts), the other sections provide fundamental, sensible information about the process as a whole, including guidelines on stress relief and staying fit, as well as a helpful chapter on journaling (with corresponding blank pages) and list of useful books and websites. In the midst of several rounds of IVF, which can all blend together over time, I found this log to be a valuable way to keep all the details in one place. Also, I took it to my various doctor's appointments, so I could write down questions as I thought of them and then fill in answers from my doctor over several conversations. This book has become my steady companion while I'm trying to get pregnant. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

This is the second log I've owned. I purchased the first one(the same exact book) at a bookstore and paid 75% more. This book helps me keep up with remembering to take my temperature and vitamins. It also helps me keep up with my test results and log my goals for each week.

Highly recommend. I used it daily and it helped me to remember vitamins and meds. My doctors reviewed it each visit and made notes for me in it. I used every page.

Pregnant now and still make notes in it for my 1st trimester history.

The Essential Fertility Log: An Organizer and Record Keeper to Help You Get Pregnant

This book was given to me by a friend who had gone through IVF numerous times and loved this book. I love it too! I'm not much of a journaler, but the prompts printed in the log really help me to keep track of my thoughts, feelings, and physical conditions. It also helps me, during my periodic appointments for acupuncture and fertility clinic, to keep track of what's happened over the last week, etc. that may have some bearing over that day's appointment/treatment. The acupuncturist and fertility center staff think this is a great tool also.

If you are the type of personality that keeps great records, lists and calanders then go for it. For those women that need to write things down to accomplish goals I can see where this may come in handy. Personally this book's bit too cumbersome for daily entry and used it for about 2 weeks before giving up on it. I did find the charts for graphing BBT helpful but you can get those free online. At the top of each page is a trivia fertility fact and some were quite amusing. I did not need to be reminded however that after 30 fertility goes down...yeah,thanks for that little reminder. Each day has a box to check off if you took your fertility RX and spaces devoted to your physical and relaxation activities done that day. each day you write down your goals and at the end of each week you can wrtie down how you met or did not meet your goals. I am just not that anal to go through all that.

This book is great because it keeps track of everything, right down to your exercise and if you have taken your vitamins that day. Of course, the day it showed up at my house I found out I was pregnant! But I will keep it for when I try again.

If you temps are always above 96.9 and you are into journaling everything right down to what you eat and how you feel about it,then this is the book for you. For me it wasn't that useful b/c I am not into journaling and my low temps are in the 96 range. So, I can't use the BBT charts. Plus, the BBT charts don't give you much room for notes. I like my chart to contain all the info I want to record. I don't want to have to look back at the journal or calendar to see what was going on on a particular day. Instead I chart online at fertility friend. So, I am not going to use it at all. The main reason I bought it was the charts. I liked the idea of having them in this nifty book when for when I go to the doctor. At fertility friend I can print out the charts so that will be more organized then this book could achieve. I also bought "Taking Charge or Your Fertility", it has the same problems with the temps on the charts but it has so much indispensable information that I didn't care.