2 Fertile times every menstrual cycle??
Most women watch their menstrual cycles and think that their mid cycle or biological ovulation is the best time to get pregnant.
What they may not know is that...
the moon can trigger ovulation and bring on fertililty at any time during the menstrual cycle - including before, during and just after your period.
This is called natal lunar fertility.
We have all heard stories of women falling pregnant at times other than their mid cycle ovulation.
Maybe you even know someone who swears that they did not have sex at their mid cycle time and yet they are pregnant.
Or that they had sex during their period, a supposedly safe time and they are pregnant.
Francesa Naish from her book The Lunar Cycle (page 19 - 20) tells us
"Over and over in clinical use of the lunar phase cycle instances have occurred where this cycle seemingly explains otherwise puzzling phenomena. Conceptions have always been known to occur when medical tests of fertility claim they are totally or nearly impossible. These times include during menstruation, during pregnancy or on the Pill.
Many women feel sure they know when they have conceived, only to be told by doctors that they are mistaken. Ultrasounds often give results that show the progress of the pregnancy to be 1-2 weeks at variance with the expectations of the doctor.
Many women feel sure that they know when they ovulate, have regular cycles, and yet have conceived against their wishes. These conceptions occur at times when they are quite sure they are safe.
Doctors have traditionally felt that these instances result from the woman making a mistake of one kind or another, and doubtless many of them do. However it is also plausible that a further factor in fertility namely the lunar cycle, may be behind these seemingly 'erroneous' cases"
Ovulation - one time per cycle is wrong...
In 2003 a Canadian Newspaper carried the front-page headline news
"Ovulation: 'One time per cycle is wrong'... In a finding that left even the researchers 'flabbegasted', University of Sasketchewan scientists have found this pattern of follicular development actually occurs two to three separate times during a woman's menstrual cycle.
What's more, 40% of women have the biological potential to ovulate more than once during a cycle... the results help to explain for the first time why some women get pregnant while on birth control pills" (The Reluctant Hypothesis)
Scientific research has not worked out why conceptions can occur outside mid cycle ovulation but it has known for a long time that the moon has a direct effect on the reproductive cycles of many living creatures on Earth, triggering spawning, ovulation and mating in many species including us.
The Moon and its Effects on Female Fertility.
Intuitively, women have always understood that the moon, their menstrual cycles and fertility are intimately connected.In folk lore and ancient traditions the connections between the three are taken as fact.
Consider the following:
- A healthily fertile woman's menstrual cycle runs its course in about twenty-nine days, one lunar cycle.
- A standard healthy pregnancy runs for 42 weeks or 10 lunar months.
- The relationship between the moon's cycles and menstruation is so fundamental. that the two phenomena are related linguistically. Our words, ‘menstruation,’ ‘moon,’ and ‘month,’ all come from the Greek word for ‘measure of time.’
Recent research has revealed that the pineal gland located in the brain is regulated by our exposure to sunlight, moon light and darkness.
It has been shown that whilst sunlight stimulates your body clock to produce its sleep / wake rhythm it is the moon which controls the function of the menstrual / fertility cycle.
In 2001 scientists at Jefferson Medical College clarified how the human eye uses light to regulate melatonin production. They discovered an unique photoreceptor in the eye responsible for reacting to light and controlling the production of melatonin.
Melatonin is produced by the pineal gland during periods of darkness. Its secretion is then regulated via a signal from the optic nerve depending upon the level of moonlight detected by the eye.
Melatonin has been found to play a vital role in regulating our circadian or sleep / wake rhythms and melatonin levels rise and fall to regulate ovulation and the menstrual cycle.
