New technology for getting pregnant

OV-Watch® technology detects ovulation

Two decades ago, women charted their temperatures in an attempt to figure out when they were ovulating. They had to get up at the same time each morning, take their temperature and write it down. Forgetting a day or two could mess up the whole system. Charting temperatures typically took three months or more for many women to figure out just what their pattern of ovulation was. And then trying to get pregnant based upon what could be faulty data typically took another several months.

These methods detected ovulation when it was occurring or after and that does not help you when you are trying to get pregnant.

Technological Methods of Detecting Ovulation

To make the process more accurate, scientists invented new technology for getting pregnant and developed ovulation test kits that detect ovulation. The most popular test kits involve measuring the leutenizing hormone or LH, which spikes just before ovulation, in urine. If the ovulation prediction test notices the spike, then one could count on ovulation occurring within the next 36 hours. This test is used for detecting ovulation, but for most women, peeing on a test strip or wand was and is stressful. And this type detecting ovulation only opened a window for conception that was a few hours before ovulation. Although experts recognize that the window of fertility for a woman is longer than the few hours before ovulation, with the technology that we had, those few hours were all that woman could detect when trying to get pregnant.

Other tests created to calculate ovulation involved testing saliva. During ovulation, increased estrogen causes the salinity of saliva to rise, which in turn alters salvia's appearance when examined under a microscope.

New Technology for Getting Pregnant: OV-Watch®

The idea for OV-Watch® started at Pheromone Sciences Corp. when chief scientist Douglas Marett detected a correlation between hormones and the sodium chloride found in sweat or perspiration. Using this information, he created a wrist watch to measure changes in the sodium chloride of the skin—a much cleaner, simpler solution to urinating on a strip.

Doctors have known since 1946 that the sodium chloride in body fluids surges 6 days before ovulation. The OV-Watch® is the first to use this new technology for getting pregnant. The advantage to this new technology is that women trying to get pregnant can now utilize the 4 days before ovulation and the day of ovulation when they are most fertile. This new technology for women trying to get pregnant revolutionizes the way that women are getting pregnant. With OV-Watch® women can maximize their chances each month and get pregnant faster.