ClearBlue Easy- Fertility Sticks and Monitor Package, 1ct
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Product Reviews of ClearBlue Easy- Fertility Sticks and Monitor Package, 1ct
Product Review: Clearblue Fertility Monitor-- good deal
Summary: 4 Stars
Works well so far-- but can't further comment as it's only in the first 10 days of use...will update later for success or failure of product within the next year (give or take, depending on my patience). Seller was great-- product just as described. If this works, we'll be ecstatic :-)Product Review: Conceived with CBE FM first time!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this monitor just to help me figure out my exact ovulation dates for the easiest chance of conceiving. My husband and I were planning to start trying soon so I ordered it a few months before and tried it out in July just to have it "get used to me" and my cycle. It was easy to use and very accurate. In the 2nd month while using it this time to actually get pregnant, it worked! Now, I just found out today that I am pregnant with our first child. Very excited and very fortunate for it to be so easy for us! This product is great!Product Review: Easy to Use / Accurate.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been trying to conceive for about 6 months now & was following the traditional tracking BBT & CM methods. However, I wasn't that lucky. I bought this product last month & gave it a try & I conceived the same month (unofrtunately it ended in an early miscarriage 3 weeks but that's a different story).
The product did what it is meant to do. It tells you your fertile period with 100% accuracy. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who plans to be on the family way.
I personally had a little trouble in understanding when to tell the monitor when you start your new cycle. Ideally, the 1st day of your periods is when your periods start however per the booklet, if your periods start during day time you tell the monitor the next day. Didn't make sense to me or maybe I didn't understand it properly hence the 4 stars else it is well worth 5 stars.
Eitherways, I'd highly recommend this product.
Product Review: Easy to Use CLear Blue Easy FM
Summary: 4 Stars
This product is very easy to use. It is a little expensive, but worth it if you get tired of trying to read the OPK lines. An important peice of info is that you have to start using it by cycle day 5 or you have to wait until the next cycle starts. The first month it learns you cycle, so you may not get any high fertility days or may get too many. The peak fertility days are really the ones that matter anyways though.Product Review: Effective tool, but it will not impregnate you!
Summary: 5 Stars
I would like to add my support for this product but would also like to inject some reality into the reviews. Some reviews I've read make it sound like this machine is "responsible" for their getting pregnant or having a healthy baby. I know noone thinks that is true, but it's important to remember the sole function of this machine: to help you know when you're ovulating. This is particularly critical if you have irregular periods, like I do. This monitor really did help me know when the "peak" days were, and I just found out that I'm pregnant (yay!).
But, this is an expensive machine, and I think that not everyone needs it. If your cycles are regular there are other low tech ways to know when you're ovulating, e.g. charting your temperatures (read "Taking Charge of Your Fertility", a very empowering book) and looking for other biological clues which I won't get into here.
I like the monitor itself but am really not fond of the company who makes it--they are really trying to shake women down for every last penny. There is no way this machine should cost as much as it does, considering how simple it is. Also, they tell you that you need to use sticks only from the same package in case there are discrepancies in quality from package to package--technically, then, you will be throwing away a whole lot of (expensive, polluting) unused sticks. If there are quality discrepancies, that is their quality control problem! Yet, they want to pass this cost on to you.
Also, they tell you that you cannot pass your machine onto another person when you're done with it because a) it "learns" you and b) might be contaminated with bacteria. First of all, it also says that it only retains 6 months of info before erasing the data month by month as more data is recorded (i.e. it only "remembers" your most recent 6 months of info). This means that it could in fact "learn" a new person. Also, the bacteria b.s. is just to cover their heinies in the case that someone does pass on disease, but urine does not really come in contact with the monitor, only the strips. Also, urine is an antiseptic! So, it's not going to carry disease in that manner. In other words, they want every woman on the planet to buy their own monitor.
So, for women with irregular periods, I do recommend this. But, give yourself some credit to know your own body and its powers as well. If your periods are regular and you use this thing and get pregnant, don't act like this machine did it for you--you and your man had something to do with it too! Let's not glorify technology too much here.
[Postscript: I miscarried on that pregnancy. Again, not the monitor's responsibility. ;) However, I have again gotten pregnant, by making sure to take advantage of the 2 fertile days per cycle that it identifies for you. It solidified my confidence in this product, since I tried to "wing it" for a few months without the monitor with no results. Also, my friend who has an irregular cycle got pregnant very soon after using this. I still believe it is overpriced, but if you're really having trouble with timing, it might be worth it for you.]