Podcast EP 14
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[00:00:00] The most common question I get asked as a fertility couch is How do I know when I am ovulating? Sis, you won't believe how much that shows up in my dms, on my TikTok comments, or even in my emails today, we are diving into everything ovulation and really pinpointing if you are ovulating. So if this is something that you wanna learn more about, keep listening.
Hi, I'm Sophie Byfield and when I decided I was ready to be a mama, I thought it would be so easy. Get off birth control. Baby dance, like no one's watching. And poof, I was pregnant. But like many of you, that wasn't my story. After months of negative tests, endless treatments, and more supplements than you can count, I realized that getting pregnant isn't about fixing one piece of your fertility puzzle.
It's about bringing your whole body. Back into balance so it feels [00:01:00] safe enough to conceive. And this is where we focus on what really matters. Healing your whole body so that you can see those two pink lines. Welcome to The Heel to Conceive podcast. When you first start trying to conceive this journey can be not so fun.
They tell you, you need to take all these supplements, you need to track all these things. You need to be taking your temperature every day at the exact same time without even moving. It can be a lot, but one of the most important things to track, know and understand is if you're ovulating. Are you dropping an egg?
You see, if you're not ovulating, you can't get pregnant. And when I was on my journey, I did not realize how important it was to truly understand if you're ovulating. I thought you get a period, you ovulate, but that's not [00:02:00] always the case. Sometimes you get a period and it's actually not a period, it's breakthrough bleeding.
What? Yeah. And that means that your body is just releasing the lining, but you actually didn't ovulate. So if you're trying to get pregnant, and ovulation is the most important thing to get pregnant, we kind of need to know what is going on, when it's happening and if it's happening. So what is ovulation?
Ovulation is when your body releases a mature follicle from your ovaries that is viable for 12 to 24 hours for the sperm to meet it, and it, it turns into an embryo and you become pregnant. Basically, you can't get pregnant without this egg. Now, in a normal, perfect world, you're supposed to release one egg from one side and then the other side every single cycle.
But that's not always the case for everyone. Sometimes you can ovulate on one [00:03:00] side multiple times. Sometimes you cannot ovulate at all. There's so many different things happening and going on with our body that can truly impact and impede your ovulation. It is super, super duper important to track, to know what is going on with your body.
I remember growing up believing you could baby dance in absolutely any time in your cycle and you would get pregnant, but I learned the hard way. That's not the case. Ovulation is absolutely essential, sis, because it's the only time you can actually get pregnant, and I know for some of you, you're rolling your eyes at me.
Of course, I know that. But when I first started my journey, I was completely lost and overwhelmed to everything honestly. My fifth grade high teacher. Did a number on me. So since we can't sit on a toilet scene and get pregnant, and since we can't BB dance every single day of the month and get pregnant, it is essential that we drop an egg so that the sperm can meet the egg to fertilize and turn it into an embryo.
By the end of this video, I'm going to give [00:04:00] you some tips and some tricks on how to know if you're ovulating, pinpoint your fertile window so that you can see those positive two pink lines. When you understand, when you're ovulating sis, it puts you back in the driver's seat of your fertility journey. It empowers you and puts you in control of your journey.
This is one of the most important things that you could do to bring your baby home. But before we dive in, sis, I need to let you know you do not always ovulate on the exact same day of the month. Let me put it out there. You do not always ovulate. On the exact same day of the month. Your ovulation can move depending on what's going on in your life, your stress, um, your hormones, what you're eating, if you start exercising, everything affects your reproductive system.
Those fertility tracking apps are amazing and a great place to start. However, if you've been on this journey for a minute. [00:05:00] Or a couple years like I was, then you need to get a little bit more aggressive with your tracking methods. We really need to pinpoint what is going on with your hormones so that you can see when your egg is dropping and without knowing when your egg drops.
Sis, you are shooting in the dark, okay? You, you can be on this journey way longer. Guilty has charged. You can be on this journey way longer than you need to be. This is really the tool to empower you to bring that baby home. Are you ready? Let's go. So there's three main things we need to look for and do and track to pinpoint our ovulation.
Number one, your body signals. Did you know that your body talks to you, sis? It has a whole conversation with you, conversation every minute of every single day. And when it's getting closer to ovulation, it will give you signs like increased cervical mucus. Increased libido. Like girl, there's some times where you know.
[00:06:00] You are ready to rip your clothes off. That is your body's way of telling you you're getting closer to ovulation. Some women experience breast tenderness or lower abdominal pain like they can feel that their body is getting ready to ovulate. These are all signals in ways your body is telling you it's close to go time.
And number two, ovulation predictor kids. Cis opk, can allow you to pinpoint your ovulation and let you know if you are dropping that egg. And OPK tracks your LH hormone through your urine to show you when it's about to rise. We know that LH triggers the release of the egg from the ovary, so once we see that dark line, we know it's go time.
The third and final step is to use a method to confirm that the egg is dropped. Now, if you're going to the fertility clinic, you may get blood work and they confirm it all. That's great. But if you are doing this at home, there are only two ways to [00:07:00] confirm that you actually dropped an egg. The first way is to use A BBT thermometer.
These thermometer you take every single morning before you get outta bed, after three hours of consecutive sleep. What we're looking for is a rise in your temperature 1, 2, 3 days after you have ovulated. The second method is using technology like a temp drop, which is the armband thermometer. Um, an aura ring, an apple watch to confirm your temperature.
And the bonus way, the bonus way is to use fertility tech like Amira or an a needle to confirm your progesterone has started to rise. All of these methods will work. You just need to pick the best method for you. Now, this can all feel super overwhelming. I am not gonna lie to you. When I first started tracking, when I first started trying to figure out [00:08:00] how to pinpoint my ovulation, I was overwhelmed.
But you know what? Cyst I got you. Inside the Ancy tribe, I have a whole course on mastering your ovulation. It's actually called the Ovulation Solution, where I walk you through step by step, how to understand your body signals, what to look for, how to track, and use those two to three different methods to pinpoint your ovulation.
What you can do to boost your fertility so you can bring your baby home, and really when nothing is working, what to ask the doctor what tests to take and how to really enhance your supplements to make sure they're right for you. This is all available for you inside the Helic and Sleeve tribe. But for now, we're just gonna start with the basics.
One, listen to what your body's telling you. Two, start using Op Ks and three, confirm that you ovulated with either a thermometer or fertility technology. So let me know below. [00:09:00] Do you feel like you are ready to go and pinpoint your ovulation? You're ready to nail the day to make sure you are baby dancing in your fertility window.
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