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Cyclendar.com: Online Pregnancy Tests

Designed for every woman, Cyclendar.com is a web service that will keep track of your menstrual cycle and pregnancy. Whether your goal is to achieve a pregnancy or to avoid one, Cyclendar.com will help to calculate your ovulation, fertile and infertile days, thus giving you the information you need. Implementing all features of the Natural Family Planning, Cyclendar.com is a simple to follow birth control method.

Cyclendar.com benefits:

Help in getting pregnant
Forecast ovulation and fertile days, get early pregnancy symptoms
Due date is automatically calculated
Birth control tool, avoid unwanted conception
Track your cycle, calculate menstruation days
Forecast "safe sex" days
Plan important events: vacations, wedding, trips, etc
Track your cycle offline with our print-out charts
Share your information with your partner or with your physician
Track pregnancy and calculate the date of conception

Signs of Pregnancy

To know if you are pregnant or not you can use a number of methods, here we briefly describe them.

The signs of pregnancy are the following:

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG). This hormone is secreted when a fertilized egg is implanted in the uterine. You can detect HCG with the inexpensive home pregnancy tests.
BBT doesn't go down. Your basal body temperature should go slightly down before menstruation and the next drop of BBT would be in the first days of a new menstrual cycle. If you are pregnant, then it will stay high or may become even higher, about 0.3 degree. So some women can see the second surge of BBT during the cycle, and some just see that BBT doesn't go down.
Luteal phase is longer than usual. In other words, a new cycle doesn't begin. If you have identified the ovulation day, and you know the length of your luteal phase, then you can calculate if period is actually late. But then again, this method should be used only if you know when ovulation occurred.
There are other signs, including breast tenderness, abdominal pain, sleepiness, irritation, tiredness, and so on, but those listed above are more objective and give more accurate results. Many women would feel when they become pregnant because of these changes.

Late menstruation?

You should not rely on this method for detecting pregnancy, unless you know for sure when you had ovulation and know what is the length of your second (luteal) phase. Menstrual cycle consists of two phases, the length of the first may vary, depending on a number of criteria, while the second is nearly constant. So, if menstruation is late it can be that the first stage is longer than usual.

Thus, to find out if period is missing due to pregnancy, you need to know the time of ovulation and how long is the second phase of your cycle.

How to identify menstruation delay and BBT rise

If you regularly chart BBT and other parameters, then you will have enough information to detect early signs of pregnancy and pick the right time to take the pregnancy tests. You can do that using the Cyclendar.com online service. It will help you to identify the day of ovulation, calculate your luteal phase length and determine late menstruation and your BBT patterns.

HCG Test False Positives

There are situations when HCG is secreted due to other reasons (such as the result of taking hormonal contraceptives or illness), this could lead to a false positive of a home pregnancy test. So, you need to see other signs, described above to make sure if you are pregnant.

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