Should you still buy ovulation tests if you are charting to conceive?

Charting to conceive is a fertility-monitoring method that involves taking your own temperature at the same time each day. The subtle changes in your temperature provide fairly accurate insights into your cycle, and when you are ovulating. Charting to conceive is gaining in popularity as the method is made easy with online fertility charting services. Many women report great success with charting, a technique that can be used both to increase your chances of conceiving, and to avoid pregnancy. If you have decided to give charting to conceive a try, do you still need to buy ovulation tests?

When you get the hang of charting to conceive, it is an easy to apply and fairly straightforward method that determines the best time to conceive. Some women don't like having to set their alarm earlier to take their basal body temperature, and the fact is that taking your temperature in a state of passivity offers more accurate results than taking your temperature during the day, when you might have been running around.

Others don't like the idea of tracking their cervical mucus, something that is often associated with fertility charting. If you have decided to take the plunge, though, ovulation tests basically become obsolete. If you are still getting used to charting, and are wondering whether you are doing it correctly, and the chart is showing your ovulation with accuracy, using ovulation tests for a few cycles as a double-checking option makes a lot of sense. If the dates of your ovulation match up both on your fertility chart and your ovulation tests, you'll know that you are doing it right. Fertility charting is not right for everybody.

Personally, I don't have the patience to take my temperature every single day. I prefer using ovulation tests in combination with a simple ovulation calendar. This limits fertility hassle to only certain periods of the cycle, and makes it unnecessary for you to think about conceiving all the time.