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The
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Vol. 5, Iss. 3 |
April 2009 |
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On April 23rd, 2009, OV-Watch will be featured on an upcoming “The Doctors” show on CBS®. See our own Rob and Jennifer Carter discuss
OV-Watch and their experience. Check your local listings here.
Fertility Friend
You can now track your OV-Watch fertile and ovulation days on
fertility friend.
If you use another calendar to track your fertility tell us
so we can get OV-Watch added too.
We want to hear from you!
Do you have questions or comments for OV-Watch email us!
We want to know what you would like to see in the next newsletter.
Conceive Magazine
Conceive Magazine has put out a special year long issue on the art of getting pregnant. OV-Watch is featured in this
issue on page 32-33. You can get the full issue
here.
New Customer Service Hours
OV-Watch now has new customer service hours. Monday - Friday 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Est.
You can always email us at customercare@ovwatch.com or
lexieann@ovwatch.com and we will get back to you promptly. If you need to
speak to us please leave your phone number and the best time to reach you and we will.
Tell Your Doctor about OV-Watch
Please share the news with your doctors! If you are using OV-Watch or want your physicians support to use OV-Watch or if you just
want them to have information about OV-Watch, send them our latest clinical presentation entitled, "Scientific Basis and Clinical
Experience with OV-Watch" presentation by G. Wright Bates, Jr. M.D. click here
for the full presentation or copy and paste this
link: http://www.ovwatch.com/videos/ScientificBasis&ClinicalExpPresentation.asp.
You can also email us at professionals@ovwatch.com.
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Every once in a while I will come across a success story that is truly amazing.
The success story that we are featuring this month is from Mandy at Mama’s Hot Fuss®
When my husband and I were first married we knew we wanted to start a family right away. We were so excited at the thought of having children and
becoming parents. We thought that we would be pregnant in a few short months. Ah, we were so naive.
Infertility sucks.
There is absolutely no way for you to understand just how much it sucks unless you yourself have been through it. Oh, you could sympathize and try to
understand, but chances are you would end up saying something hurtful without even knowing it. It’s not your fault and those of us “fertility challenged”
know you mean well, you just can’t understand.
Read the rest of the story here.
You can submit your OV-Watch success story
here or send
me the link to your blog if you succeeded using OV-Watch or just trying. We want to hear from you!
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Exchange Program
If you are a current customer with the old style OV-Watch, you can exchange it for our new style OV-Watch at an
incredible discount. If you purchase a Starter Kit 1 receive $50 off or purchase a Value Kit 4 and receive $99 off.
Please call 1-866-ovwatch and tell the customer service agent you would like to participate in the exchange program.
This is our way of saying thanks for being a customer.
This special cannot be combined with any other offers.
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Question: I am using urine sticks, charting my temperature and using OV-Watch and they are all telling me something
different. Why?
All three of those methods of ovulation detection are testing different things.
While LH urine kits look for the presence of lutenizing hormone in the urine 12-36 hours before ovulation, and BBT tells you
a temperature rise after ovulation has occurred, OV-Watch detects the chemical surge of chloride ions on the skin approximately
6 days before you ovulate, which is an earlier predictor of a woman’s fertility.
Urine sticks predict ovulation by detecting your LH surge. That surge typically comes about 24 hours before you ovulate. If you
did not get a positive on your urine sticks, you are part of the 30% of women that don't from time to time. In fact, urine testing
for the LH surge may miss ovulation in up to 1/3 of women (23- 32%) and 1 in 10 women (9.7%) may see false positive results. “Even
if the LH surge identifies a day with good probability of conception, the brief window of time identified, prospectively limits the
opportunity to have multiple acts of intercourse before ovulation.”
If you are taking your temperature to find when you have ovulated, the rise in temperature only indicates that you have ovulated.
No conceptions have been documented in the medical literature on the day after ovulation. In fact, recent evidence indicates that
charting your temperature is a highly inaccurate means to detect ovulation. The lowest point of the temperature and subsequent rise
may occur up to 6 days before ovulation but can also be seen 4 days after ovulation when there is not a chance of pregnancy.
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OV-Watch is now on Facebook!
Join us
on our fan page & also check our
private group where you can
discuss your fertility and the use of OV-Watch
OV-Watch Blinkies
OV-Watch is pleased to offer our collection of "blinkies" for all our moms-to-be
and mom's. You can add to your e-mail or signatures in any chatroom and help spread the word about OV-Watch. To access the
collection,
- Go
to www.photobucket.com.
- Enter user name: ovwatch.
- Enter password: ovwatch2007.
- In the middle of the page, click on "ov-watch blinkies."
- Select your favorite/s and use them.
Message Board
Join us on our free message board and talk to other members about trying to get pregnant and other fun
topics. www.mybabychat.com
OV-Watch Blog
OV-Watch is proud to sponsor www.howigotpregnant.com,
a new blog for women to share their success stories and offer advice to
women trying to conceive. If you want to share your story of success or
your ongoing journey to motherhood, please feel free to visit
www.howigotpregnant.com.
Ask an OV-Watch Mom
Ask
an OV-Watch Mom allows you to get answers from someone who's been there. If you're considering OV-Watch to get pregnant, we offer this service free of charge.
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