The Fertility Calendar
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1. BME 7 04 su Conception l WARNING Changing these values incorrectly could stop Conception from working lutealPhase avgLength fixedLength spermLifeSpan numCycles Notifications Figure 4 The options screen After you have changed all the values you want to change simply press Apply to save your changes If you change your mind and don t want to save the changes you ve just made then instead press Cancel Once you press Apply there is no way to restore the previous value You can always reset Conception to the factory settings as described above or simply just enter a new value for that particular option 3 2 Sperm Life Span spermLifeSpan Sperm cells have a limited life span after leaving the mans body In the womans body they may survive for between three and five days The default is four The longer they survive the longer the fertility period is For example if they survive for four days then Conception will calculate a fertile period of around 6 days When changing this you need to take into account your partners lifestyle Use the following as a guide when changing this from the default of four days e Does your partner smoke or drink daily Subtract 1 day subtract 4 a day if he either only drinks daily or only smokes daily but not both e Does your partner exercise cardiovascular on a regular basis Add 1 day e Does your partner exercise excessively on a cycling machine or a2. bicycle Subtract 1 day e Does your partner eat unhealthily Subtract a day e Is your partner currently in a time of high stress Subtract 5 a day e Is your partner diabetic Subtract 5 a day e Does your partner sleep for more than 8 hours every night Add 1 day You should consult your doctor to get a more accurate idea of how healthy your partners sperm can be The above is a rough guideline to help you get an idea of the lifespan of your partners sperm cells Note that there are many more factors that can affect the lifespan of sperm cells 3 3 Luteal Phase lutealPhase The luteal phase of your cycle together with the length of your cycle is used by Conception to calculate the day of ovula tion This is usually 14 days in most women but you can always measure your cycle in one of the two ways described below and change the value used by Conception if you find that your luteal phase is not 14 days To measure the length of your luteal phase using temperature you need to purchase a Basal Ther mometre available at most pharmacies and you need to record your temperature every day for one entire cycle starting on the first day of your period Ensure that the temperature is always taken every day at the same time and under the same circumstance It might just be easier to record the temperature the very instant you wake up before even getting out of bed The luteal phase starts towards the middle of your cycle and is ide
3. of merchantability or fitment for any purpose neither express nor implied Consult a doctor for medical advice While this program does not come with any promises or guarantees it does come with my heartfelt hope that it will work for you and that you find it useful Of course I would love to hear anything you have to say about this product the good and the bad If you have successes please by all means let me know I get a great deal of satisfaction from knowing that I helped someone If you have any failures be sure to let me know of these as well as it would highlight shortcomings of Conception that might be fixable in the future 2 How Conception will work with you Conception was designed to be as easy to use as possible It runs in the background of your Android device o and has been designed to use almost negligible power Each month when your period starts you inform Conception of veuncsj a 09199001952 cu the date of your period and then it calculates the fertile onean days for the rest of the month and displays those days in HH particular shaded colours on the calendar RED shades in pao _ 2 2 24 516 dicate a higher chance of conceiving a girl BLUE shades 7 amp indicate a higher chance of conceiving a boy Some other dates on the calendar are also highlighted see Figure 2 popu After you quit the application Conception main tains its calculations and updates
4. your status bar at the top Hang of the screen with a little icon that provides information on days your fertile times See Figure 2 that displays where the no tification icon is placed This update is done a little after midnight each day Next Period Figure 2 All the elements of the appli cation Once you have set the start date of your cycle the very first day of your period you will not need to start the application again until the start of your next cycle In the 26 30 days between the period start dates you can always see what your current fertility status is by simply looking at the notification bar Figure shows each possible icon that can be displayed in the notification bar together with the meaning If you feel that this is too public a place to display your status you can turn this this ability off so that others who simply glance at your phone won t automatically see your private information In other words if you are in a fertile period you may not want to display this fact on the home screen of your phone Conception will happily let you turn this display off Turning this display off will not affect the calculations that are done and you are always free to turn it back on later You can turn notifications on and off from the Conception menu Fertile high chance of male Fertile high chance of female Fertile equal chance of male or female Not fertile OO ea An e
5. The Conception Fertility Calendar Lelanthran Krishna Manickum August 4 2011 1 Introduction Firstly congratulations on your decision to have a child Having and raising a child is one of the most rewarding activities many people experience during their lives hence its continued popularity Secondly congratulations on choosing Conception to help ensure that you conceive your baby in the fastest time pos sible Conception is designed to require very little work on your part to determine the days of the month that are statistically best suited to making a baby and of course those days that are better for making a boy baby and those days that are better for making a girl baby As every woman is an individually unique specimen of the fairer sex it is sometimes necessary to fine tune the workings of Conception in order to more accurately predict the fertile period of the cycle In this document I will hold your hand through some of the more complicated parts of the process so that you get the most accurate predictions from Conception and I leave the more natural parts of the process you presumably know what these are to yourself and your partner If your cycle follows the average in every way you will S A 6 35 ru not need to fine tune Conception at all In fact it might be Conception best to leave Conception as it is initially when you start using it onceptions Days Shaded days indicate fertility More red mean
6. an change this to what your average really is While Conception does try to learn your rhythm it is recommended that you change this value if it is incorrect If you would prefer Conception to use a fixed length as your period length and not use any of the averages it calculates then change the option fixedLength 3 5 Constant Cycle Length fixedLength Set this value only if you would prefer Conception to ignore the average cycle length if this is any positive value Conception will use this value as the length of your cycle instead of using the average it calculates If you change your mind later and you want Conception to use the average again simply set this value to 1 and Conception will use the average instead A word to the wise A study found that the majority of women who were asked how long their cycle was were found to be incorrect when their cycle was actually measured Even if you think that your cycle is usually for ecample 26 days please measure it before changing the behaviour in Conception 4 Further contact If you d like to contact me please by all means do so Conception has an item called About in the menu that will point you to a website with all the details about Conception as well as contact information I welcome feedback and criticism 5 Acknowledgments Nothing of value is ever created by the efforts of a single person I thank the following people for their part in the creation of Conception and t
7. he various associated documents and wish to draw attention to the fact that none of the people below are actually responsible for any errors that you may find All errors are mine and mine alone e Mr and Mrs Singh and their daughter Kaira and son Raiden who allowed me to use pictures of my niece and my nephew in this document e Onkgepotse Molefe who performed the Tswana translation of Conception e Mixo Shiburi who was and still is a useful sounding board for ideas and who frequently donated valuable contributions to this effort in the shape of criticism e Dr Alisha Chunder who originally inspired me to develop the initial prototype of Conception and who subsequently provided insightful feedback regarding the user interface and utility of Conception
8. ntified by a slightly higher body temperature and ends at the first day of your next period After you ve recorded your temperature identify the day that your temperature was slightly higher than usual and count the number of days from that day including the day the temperature was slightly higher to the start of the next period This number is the length of your luteal phase Its best to produce a chart of your temperature so that you can clearly see the day that it rises See Figure 5 for an example of a chart produced by measuring the temperature every day The second method of determining the length of your luteal phase is by using a urine based ovulation test which is also available at most pharmacies This works similar to a home pregnancy test kit and all you do is simply count the days from when the ovulation test is positive to the start of your next period Temperature recorded over a full cycle Degrees Celcius m R Figure 5 A chart showing the temperature increase that indicate ovulation on day 12 of this womans monthly cycle 3 4 Average Cycle Length avgLength Conception uses the average length of all your cycles in its calculations Obviously if this is incorrect for example it will start off using an average of 28 days you will want to rectify it For example if you missed a period due to ill health or similar then you don t want Conception averaging your periods with a 60 day cycle You c
9. rror has oc curred Figure 3 The various notification icons factory default settings by either Whenever you start Conception it will always display a calendar with the current date highlighted with a white border the calculated date of your next period highlighted in YEL LOW and your fertile days highlighted in shades starting with RED and gradually fading into BLUE The more RED in the shade indicates a higher chance of conceiving a girl if concep tion occurs at all while the more BLUE in the shade indicates a higher chance of a boy if conception occurs at all This is all you actually need to know to use Conception I suggest you try using Conception for at least four cycles before you attempt to fine tune it for accuracy In other words for the first four cycles it might be best to simply stick to selecting Period Start Today or Period Already Started from the Menu and let Conception try to figure out what the best values would be for you If you have already tried that or if you already know that your cycle is not of the usual 28 day length then you should go through the next section and try changing some of the options that would apply to you or your partner 3 Conception Options 3 1 How to change an option value Changing the values that Conception uses to track your fertile periods can if done incorrectly break Conception in subtle ways If this ever happens Conception can be restored to it
10. s e Selecting Reset from the Conception Menu e Clearing all the stored data from the Android System Menu Now that you know how to restore the program if it ever stops working lets plunge headlong into the options First to bring up the options that can be changed select Options from the Menu What will be displayed would be a list of option by name with each of the options current values on the right such as shown in Figure 4 You can change the value for each of the options within certain ranges Conception is of the opinion that The Customer Is Always Right and so if you change a value to something that does not make sense for exam ple making Conception think that your partners sperm cells will live for a hundred years then Conception will happily let you do that This is why you should always take care before changing any value If you give Conception incor rect information it will believe you and as a result give you incorrect results In short if you lie to Conception it will happily lie right back at you Note that I might not explain all of the options that you may see on the options screen This is not because I m a dastardly crook trying to prevent you using Conception to the fullest but merely because some of them are too diffi cult to change right now without further consultation with a doctor I leave them in in the hope that a future document will better explain how to make those changes
11. s better chances of a girl while as Conception has some basic learning capabilities built in and FT will make an effort to learn your rhythm as each cycle passes by Sa HR withlFrlsa Of course it is also possible to turn off the learning abilities of rafal re Conception if you ever feel that it is a bad learner While every effort is made to be as accurate as possible please note that in the field of statistics an event being highly improbable does not imply that it won t happen at all it just means that there is a smaller chance of it happening So when Isay the odds of conceiving a female is lower than conceiving a 2011 September Sulmoltul w thl Frisa male I mean just that the odds are only lower you might just beat the odds and get a female Also when I say that you have a high chance of for example getting pregnant this does not ot automatically mean that you will get pregnant it simply means that the odds are good that you will conceive Figure 1 Conception starting for the first time Finally there is the matter of the legal disclaimer I did not initially want to put any legalese into this document but the attack shark who doubles as my lawyer has assured me that the world might in fact end if a product is released without a lawyer getting paid to write the legal disclaimer This product has only been tested on Android Platforms version 2 2 or higher This product does not come with any guarantees
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