Fertility Awareness Methods: Helping You Conceive Faster

As a Woman

Natalie Crawford

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Natalie Crawford, board-certified OBGYN and REI, breaks down the powerful tools that can help you understand your body's natural fertility signals. Learn how to move beyond basic period tracking apps to truly understand when you're ovulating, time intercourse effectively, and spot potential issues early. Whether you're trying to conceive or simply want to connect with your cycle, this episode gives you practical, science-backed methods to take charge of your reproductive health. 1. Understanding Your Body's Natural Signals - Why your period app might be misleading you - The difference between tracking and truly understanding your cycle - How your body communicates fertility throughout the month 2. The Cervical Mucus Method - What to look for and when to check - Simple techniques you can do at home - How this free method can guide your timing 3. Temperature Tracking Made Simple - Modern tools that make monitoring easier than ever - What your morning temperature reveals about ovulation - Reading the patterns your body creates each month 4. Ovulation Test Strips and Timing - When and how to use these affordable tools - Understanding what a positive result really means - Combining methods for the most accurate results Pre-order Dr. Crawford's debut book, The Fertility Formula, now! ⁠https://www.nataliecrawfordmd.com/book⁠ Want to receive my weekly newsletter? Sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nataliecrawfordmd.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ to receive updates, Q&A, special content, and freebies If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow the podcast to be notified of new episodes every Tuesday. Plus, be sure to follow along on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠@nataliecrawfordmd,⁠⁠⁠⁠ check out Natalie’s YouTube channel Natalie Crawford MD⁠⁠⁠⁠, and if you're interested in becoming a patient, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Fora Fertility. Join the Learn at Pinnacle app ⁠to earn FREE CE Credit for listening to this episode! This episode is brought to you by The Pinnacle Podcast Network! Learn more about Pinnacle at learnatpinnacle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The fertile window is going to be considered the five days before and then the day of ovulation.
0:06.0	When I ask somebody, hey, are you trying to get pregnant? Are you tracking your cycle?
0:10.0	Over and over again, I hear, yeah, I'm using XYZ app to track.
0:15.0	It's really important to note, not all apps are created equal, and some of the apps will only detect actually your ovulation
0:21.5	up to 20% of the time.
0:23.0	You'll hear a lot of people say ovulation occurs on Cycle Day 14.
0:27.4	This is just a myth for the vast majority of people, and less than 20% of people does it
0:32.6	actually occur on Cycle Day 14.
0:34.8	So that's why most of us consider the true fertility awareness methods,
0:38.3	to be things like cervical mucous monitoring, basal body temperature tracking, ovulation
0:43.6	predictor kits, and then combinations of these methods. So if you're using fertility
0:48.0	awareness methods to try to get pregnant, you're going to want to try to time intercourse
0:51.4	in the fertile window. And since the definition of it is
0:54.7	defined by when ovulation occurs, you need to know when ovulation happens. Welcome back to the
1:03.2	as a woman podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and today we're talking about one of the
1:07.5	most empowering, but often misunderstood things, tools that can improve
1:11.9	your chances of getting pregnant, and these are the fertility awareness methods. These methods go
1:17.1	beyond just tracking your period. They help you understand what your body is telling you,
1:21.3	so you can time intercourse more effectively, spot when ovulations occurring, and actually
1:26.8	take charge of your fertility.
1:28.5	In this episode, we're going to break down what fertility awareness methods are and how they work,
1:33.6	how tracking your ovulation can help you conceive faster, and the most effective ways to get
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