Ovusoft fertility planning software (TCOYF) which helps you to work out when you ovulate

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Ovusoft (Taking Charge Of Your Fertility) Software

Ovusoft software uses the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) to help you to achieve pregnancy. So often, it is simply a case of not understanding our bodies and cycles that prevents us from getting pregnant.

Now by using the software you can help fast track yourself to pregnancy or use it to help your doctor to try and diagnose any problems.

Here is a brief description of the software. You can click on each picture to see a larger view.

The Calendar provides a quick overview of the status of your fertility, identifying fertile and infertile days using colour coding which you can customise. Events such as menstruation, intercourse, and ovulation, and days where medications and tests are taken are shown using customised icons.

Cycle events can be forecasted into the future and shown on the calendar using your own cycle history, not population-wide averages. You can estimate many cycles into the future when you will menstruate, when you will be fertile, and when you will ovulate. You can also select a target delivery date using the Fertility Planner and see in the Calendar when you need to be intimate to reach this date. This helps you plan your pregnancy by planning for conception!

The Chart provides a detailed look at each cycle from a single screen. Ovusoft's Chart is unique -- not only can you use it to evaluate your fertility, you can enter your fertility data directly onto it in the fastest and most intuitive manner. Toni Weschler herself requested this data-entry feature, as it most closely resembles the manual method of charting. Note that the chart background colours are user-defined (within the Preferences window), so if you don't like the ones we use, you can set them to whatever you prefer.

The Fertility Advisor explains your current fertility, what you should be doing, and what is happening in your body on a day-to-day basis in plain language. No other fertility tool offers this level of insight into your miraculous fertility cycle.

The Fertility Planner shows your relative fertility and conception chances on each day you engage in intercourse in a cycle. It estimates your due date for each cycle using either the average days of gestation or the "doctor's method" (Naegele's rule). It forecasts future menstruation, fertility and ovulation dates, helping you plan conception. It lets you target a delivery date in the future and determine how close you can get to that date based upon your own cycle history, and when you need to be intimate in order to achieve that goal. Throw out those other web-based ovulation and due date calculators that use population-wide averages, these projections are based upon your own unique cycle history and statistics. You can't get any more accurate than that.

With the Fertility Signs window you may enter and review your daily fertility information within a single tabbed window. You can enter your temperature, cervical fluid, vaginal sensation, and cervix observations all within one area. You can also record menstruation, spotting, and intercourse within the same tab. There are additional tabs for recording electronic fertility monitor results (such as "ClearPlan Easy"*), BabyStart ovulation predictor kit results, and pregnancy test results. The ovulation predictor kit and fertility monitor results may also be used as an adjunct to your fertility signs in predicting ovulation. You can record the use of any medication, including 16 standard fertility drugs which are pre-loaded in the system. You can also record various events such as exercise, travel, stress, etc. There is ample room to record as many notes as you wish, as well.

Every woman is unique and Ovusoft recognises that, providing you great control over how your fertility signs are interpreted by way of the Preferences window. Here you can specify whether there were recent events in your life which may impact your fertility. You can indicate which fertility signs you wish to use to definitively estimate ovulation. If you use ovulation predictor kits and/or an electronic fertility monitor in addition to the Fertility Awareness Method, you can indicate which method to use as the primary indicator of ovulation when they are in disagreement. You can modify the way Ovusoft interprets temperature observations, including whether or not you wish to adjust your temperature automatically to compensate for early or late rising in the morning. You can specify your own basic infertile patterns of cervical fluid, as well as your most fertile pattern. Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, you can adjust the colours in the Calendar and Chart, as well as the icons in the Calendar.

The Override Calculations window lets you override the program's estimates for the start of pre-ovulation fertility, ovulation, and whether or not a cycle should be included or excluded from your statistical history. You have great control over how (and when) is determined, if at all. You can even instruct Ovusoft to wait until after a specific date to begin calculating for ovulation (if you know, for instance, that your early fertility signs were unusual and are throwing off an accurate interpretation). No other fertility tool provides this level of control.

The WebCharts Publishing Wizard lets you post your fertility charts directly to our website (or that of one of our partners) so you can share this information with other trying-to-conceive women, your family, friends, or healthcare provider. Many women who participate in web-based discussion boards like to post their charts online, so they can get input from other women like themselves. If you don't know what a WebChart is, click here for a sample (opens a new window)

The Internet Assistance window lets you request free technical assistance directly from Ovusoft support staff. You can even include your cycle data for evaluation, if desired.

In addition to having WebCharts and the displayed Chart, you can print out a detailed fertility chart to share with your healthcare provider or to keep on file. This chart is modelled after the one that you find in Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

The Detail report lets you print out all of your fertility information for an entire cycle, including any notes you may have recorded. Together with the printed Chart, this report provides a wealth of information to you and your healthcare provider.