In this Issue   Featured Story Success Stories Special Offers Ask Us Internet Fun Feedback   The OV-Watch® Newsletter Vol. 5, Iss. 1 February 2009 FEATURED STORY     Our Valentines gift to you: Acupuncture & Trying to Conceive Mike Berkley of The Berkley Center is has started a group for couples who are TTC. The main purpose of the group is to educate these individuals about the benefits of complementary medicine as an adjunct to their A.R.T. procedures. This will be held in New York on February 18, 2009. You can learn more about this and his other seminars here. 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.    SUCCESS STORIES   Cindy B we had been trying to get pregnant for the past two years. Since this would be my last time to become pregnant (I'm 38 now), I decided to try the OV watch since the second time around was much harder than the first. After using the OV watch for about 6 cycles, I became pregnant. Thank you OV watch for helping me predict my fertile days! Christa We tried for 3 years to conceive without success. My friends purchased this watch for me as a Christmas gift in 2006- I had already started my cycle that month- so I started in January using the watch. Well- in April we conceived... IT WORKED!!! I took the pregnancy test on May 21, 2007- positive!!! Our daughter was born January 20, 2008. I swear by this product! I had tried fertility meds, urinating on sticks, a saliva test to predict ovulation, charting temperatures... you name it- NOTHING worked until this! I now have 2 other friends using the watch- hoping for success like we had! I told my OB/GYN about this product- I have no doubt that it is the reason for our success!!! Thank you OVWATCH!!! You can submit your OV-Watch success story here.      SPECIAL OFFERS   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.      ASK US   My husband and I have been trying to conceive for 2 years. I ordered the OV-Watch in October and have been using the OV-Watch every month. I didn't conceive in the 3 months so I was sent the 3 free sensors because of the promotion they had. My husband & I have had intercourse on the fertile days not the Ovulation days. It was my understanding to have intercourse on the fertile days before ovulation would occur. Tonight I was reading different websites and a lot of them said to have intercourse on the Ovulation day and even after. I guess I must have misunderstood or overlooked this information. I will be starting to use my OV-Watch again this month. I'm thinking I should have intercourse on the Ovulation days since the fertile days haven't worked out for us. I just wanted to get your opinion. Thanks! Paula Paula, I am sorry that you have had difficulty conceiving and I am sure your frustration grows with each passing month. However, you are absolutely right that intercourse before ovulation is crucial. In fact, one of the authors of a landmark study on ovulation detection and pregnancy stated, "intercourse on the day of ovulation may be sufficiently late to preclude pregnancy". The advantage of the OVWatch is that it gives the maximum advance notice to allow couples ample time for intercourse before ovulation. Although the majority of pregnancies occur when intercourse occurs in the 48 - 72 hours prior to ovulation, pregnancies can occur when sexual relations are 5 or 6 days in advance of ovulation. The advance notice also allows couples to fit their "efforts" to get pregnant in often busy schedules. I should also add that there is no "magic" frequency of intercourse. Daily, every other day or even just once in the fertility window PRIOR to ovulation is the key. Finally, patience is important. In an ideal setting (young and fertile) most couples will conceive within 6 - 9 months but even fertility treatments such as (clomid) clomiphene citrate can increase pregnancies rates of only 10% or less. However, women over 35, those who don't ovulate, have irregular cycles or have signs of other issues (pelvic pain, erectile dysfunction in the male) and those who aren't successful with timed intercourse should seek care from a women's health care or fertility specialist. Best of luck to you. Dr. Bates      INTERNET FUN   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.        FEEDBACK   Please share this issue of Baby Steps with any friends who would be interested. Simply fill in the information, and we'll send a copy to them. We promise not to send anything else unless they request it. Share your story: We'd love to hear how OV-Watch has helped you conceived. If you've got a comment on the newsletter or an idea for a story, please share it with us. Chances are that if you'd like to read about a particular topic, others would, too.   SPECIAL NOTE: Please add us to your list. To make sure you never miss an issue of Baby Steps, please add mailmngr_nws@ovwatch.com to your "good" list. Examples of e-mail "good" lists:    AOL 9.0: Address Book    HotMail: Safe List    Yahoo: Add to your address book. 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