The Most Advanced Home Method

Are you trying for a baby? The Clearblue Fertility Monitor helps you maximize your chances of getting pregnant because it’s designed to identify all your fertile days.1 From the #1 brand recommended by OB/GYNs,2 this hand-held, touch screen monitor tracks the changing levels of 2 key fertility hormones in your urine: luteinizing hormone (LH) and estrogen. Using these two hormones, the monitor can pinpoint your 2 peak fertility days, plus additional high fertility days prior to ovulation – this is typically up to 6 fertile days in total.

Benefits of Using the Fertility Monitor

Why It Matters To Know Your Fertile Days

  • Research shows that women who know when they are most fertile each cycle are likely to get pregnant sooner than those who don’t.5 As the chart indicates, conception is possible when intercourse takes place throughout a woman's fertile window and not just on her day of ovulation. This is because your partner’s sperm can survive in your body for up to 5 days so you can actually become pregnant by having intercourse during the days leading up to ovulation. Knowing a wider fertile window can give busy couples more time to enjoy trying for a baby and maximize their chances of getting pregnant.

How The Fertility Monitor Works

  • The following chart outlines the phases of a woman’s menstrual cycle, showing how the two most fertile days coincide with the LH surge (24-36 hours before ovulation) and the release of an egg (ovulation). Traditional ovulation tests, like Clearblue Digital Ovulation Test, track your level of LH and identify your 2 best days to conceive a baby (Peak Fertility).
  • The Fertility Monitor also tracks your estrogen level, which rises just before the LH surge, extending the fertile window typically up to 6 days of High and Peak Fertility. This extended window can help to reduce the time it takes to conceive6 as it gives more days to try, plus gives advance notice of the 2 peak days.

More About Predicting Ovulation

As we have shown, timing is key when trying to conceive a baby. While there are manual charting and calendar methods that can be used to estimate when ovulation will occur, these methods can be problematic. They require you to track your cycle length over several months and often make assumptions based on ‘average’ cycle lengths. However, every woman’s cycle is unique and cycles for any one woman can vary from cycle to cycle – this means calendar-based predictions are less reliable than ovulation tests7 - in a recent study the calendar method has been found to predict the correct fertile days in only one third of cycles.8

That’s why Clearblue provides a range of products to help predict ovulation without months of charting (see products below).

Which Clearblue Product is Right for Me?

This Product
 
Clearblue Fertility Monitor with Touch ScreenClearblue Advanced Digital Ovulation TestSee product pageClearblue Digital Ovulation Test
  Designed to identify all your fertile days1 Typically identifies 4 or more fertile days9 Pinpoints your 2 most fertile days
Pinpoints your 2 most fertile days (Peak Fertility)
Yes
Yes
Yes
At least 99% accurate at detecting the LH Surge
Yes
Yes
Yes
Digital results (no interpretation of lines)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Pinpoints your 2 most fertile days (Peak Fertility) and the days of High Fertility before that
Yes
Yes
Measures estrogen as well as LH
Yes
Yes
Includes a pregnancy test
Designed to detect all your fertile days
Yes
Stores and displays your personal data on a touch screen
Yes
Cycle summary chart to compare your fertility data across up to 6 cycles
Yes

Testing Directions

  • Clearblue Fertility Monitor is easy to use and gives you clear accurate results. Please refer to the package insert for full details.
    • When you switch on your monitor for the first time, on screen instructions will clearly guide you through initial setup.
    • When your period starts you need to set a new cycle. You will need to set up the Testing Window which establishes the 6 hours each day during which you can do a test. You should set this to be convenient to test with the first urine of the day.
    • Once a new cycle is set, the calendar will show your test days. You’ll only need to test on days indicated by the monitor.
    • Switch on your monitor every morning to check if the monitor is requesting a test. The monitor will ask you to do 10 or 20 tests each cycle depending on your personal cycle length.
    • To perform a test, simply remove the Test Stick from the foil and use it immediately. We recommend you place the sampling end of the test stick in a sample of your urine collected in a clean dry container for 15 seconds. Alternatively, you can hold the sampling end of the test stick in your urine stream for 3 seconds. After sampling, hold the stick with the sampling end pointing downwards or lay the test stick flat, never hold the stick pointing upwards.
    • Next, take the cap off the handle and place it over the wet end of the test stick.
    • Before inserting the test stick into the monitor, make sure the monitor is switched on and wait for the Clearblue screen to disappear. Immediately insert the stick until you hear it click. It’s important to hold the test stick by the cap, with the cut corner facing down and the colored side of the test stick on the right (see image below).
    • Wait 5 minutes while your result is read by the Monitor. The screen will switch off after 1 minute, but the monitor will continue to analyze the test. The alarm will sound when testing is complete.
    • Switch on the monitor and remove the test stick. Your fertility status will be displayed as Low, High, or Peak.
    • Usually a few days before your next period is due, a flashing symbol will appear indicating you are approaching the end of your cycle. If your period starts you should set your Monitor for the next cycle. If the symbol flashes for several days, and you think your period is late, you may want to check for pregnancy with one of Clearblue’s pregnancy tests. They are all over 99% accurate at detecting pregnancy from the day of your expected period.10

FAQs

Can I only get pregnant when I ovulate?

Women are fertile for about 6 days each cycle (it varies woman to woman and cycle to cycle). The day of ovulation is the most fertile day, but sperm can live for about 5 days in a woman’s body in the days leading up to ovulation. Having sex on High and Peak Fertility days identified by the Clearblue Fertility Monitor gives you more opportunities to get pregnant than with traditional ovulation tests that only identify your 2 Peak Fertility days. Research shows that women who know when they are most fertile each cycle are likely to get pregnant sooner than women who don’t.11

Can’t I just calculate when I’m fertile with a calendar or an app?

The fertile days vary each cycle, even when your periods are regular, but traditional calendar methods work on the basis that everyone is the same so are very often not accurate for an individual woman. Tracking your personal fertility hormones is a sure way to know when your fertile days are in ‘real time’, it’s proven in a study to be 2x as accurate as traditional calendar methods.7

Isn’t taking my temperature and charting easy and accurate?

Basal body temperature (BBT is your temperature ‘at rest’) has to be taken first thing in the morning before you move out of bed and can be affected by many day to day events such as a late night, fever, and some medications. Also, your BBT rises AFTER ovulation has occurred, so it’s too late to predict ovulation and to conceive in that cycle. You need to chart over several cycles to build up a pattern for BBT to be predictive and in a study it has been shown to predict the most fertile days in only one third of cycles.12

The Monitor is more expensive than other methods, is it really so much better?

The Clearblue Fertility Monitor is the only home Monitor that accurately tracks 2 key fertility hormones and it’s designed to identify all your fertile days1 to help you get pregnant faster.6 With the new touch screen, it’s easy to use and read the results. It personalizes to your cycle, you can input when you have your period and when you have sex; then your information is displayed on the calendar and the unique cycle summary screen. This means you have a record you can take to your Ob-Gyn for discussion, so you don’t waste any time and you enable them to give you immediate feedback and action steps. It’s the most advanced fertility monitor from the #1 Ob-Gyn recommended brand.2

  1. 1 Number of fertile days will vary. In a German study of 149 cycles, Monitor results correlated with serum hormone levels and ultrasound observed ovulation.
  2. 2 Survey of 204 Ob-Gyns in the US conducted by Kantar Health on recommendation of home ovulation tests and fertility monitors (2011).
  3. 3 vs. not using a method to identify your fertile days.
  4. 4 Behre HM., et al. Human Reproduction (2000) 12: 2478-82.
  5. 5 Hilgers TW., et al. J Repro Med (1992) 37: 864-866
  6. 6 Using the Clearblue Fertility Monitor to identify your most fertile days can help you get pregnant faster than not using any method.
  7. 7 Comparing a simple calendar method to likelihood of conducting a test on LH surge day (Ellis J., et al. Hum Repro (2011) 26: i76.)
  8. 8 Ellis J., et al. Hum Repro (2011) 26: i76
  9. 9 In a study of 87 women, 4 or more fertile days were identified in 80% of cycles using actual cycle length.
  10. 10 99% accurate at detecting typical pregnancy hormone levels. Note that hormone levels vary. See insert.
  11. 11 Hilgers MD., et al. J Repro Med (1992) 37: 864-66
  12. 12 Barron ML & Fehring RJ. MCN: American J Mat/Child Nursing (2005) 30: 290-6