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A woman practicing symptoms-based fertility awareness may choose to observe one sign, two signs, or all three. Many women experience secondary fertility signs that correlate with certain phases of the menstrual cycle, such as abdominal pain and heaviness, back pain, breast tenderness, and mittelschmerz (ovulation pains).
Primary infertility refers to the inability to give birth either because of not being able to become pregnant, or carry a child to live birth, which may include miscarriage or a stillborn child. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Secondary infertility refers to the inability to conceive or give birth when there was a previous pregnancy or live birth.
The three primary signs of a woman's fertility are her basal body temperature (BBT), her cervical mucus, and her cervical position. [54] Computerized fertility monitors , such as Lady-Comp , may track basal body temperatures, hormonal levels in urine, changes in electrical resistance of a woman's saliva, or a mixture of these symptoms.
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After birth, the fundus contracts downward into the pelvis one centimeter each day. After two weeks the uterus will have contracted and return into the pelvis. [ 9 ] The sensation and strength of postpartum uterine contractions can be stronger in women who have previously delivered a child or children.
Many women experience regular anovulatory cycles, or non-fertile cycles where ovulation does not occur, therefore hormonal changes between ovulatory cycles may be a more reliable indicator of true fertility, as higher levels of estradiol are more likely to produce a fertile ovulatory cycle.
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