How does fertile saliva ferning pattern look like?
Based on the increase or decrease of the hormone estrogen, this ferning pattern looks like frost on a windowpane (see image). This pattern develops in saliva around the time of ovulation. A woman simply places a drop of saliva onto the microscope lens, allows it to dry, and reads the result.
What is ferning pattern?
When high levels of estrogen are present, such as just before ovulation (or during pregnancy), the cervical mucus forms fern-like patterns due to crystallization of sodium chloride on mucus fibers. This pattern is known as arborization or ‘ferning’.
Do you get ferning when pregnant?
Salivary ferning can be obtained in practice during the whole menstrual cycle and occurs in the saliva of postclimateric, pregnant and prepuberal women. Even the saliva of male subjects gives invariably the ferning reaction.
Does your saliva fern when pregnant?
What does ovulation feel like?
Ovulation pain, sometimes called mittelschmerz, can feel like a sharp, or like a dull cramp, and happens on the side of the abdomen where the ovary is releasing an egg (1–3). It generally happens 10-16 days before the start of your period, is not dangerous, and is usually mild.
What is ferning saliva?
A ferning test uses a tiny microscope to view a drop of saliva once a day from the last day of a woman’s period until a fern-like pattern appears in the saliva. The fern pattern indicates ovulation is about to occur.
What causes saliva ferning?
Estrogen rushes during the fertile phase of the cycle and this causes Sodium Chloride crystals to form in the shape of fern leaves in both saliva and cervical mucus. It is the crystallization of Sodium Chloride (NaCl) that produces the ferning appearance in saliva.
What is Fern saliva?
A ferning test uses a tiny microscope to view a drop of saliva once a day from the last day of a woman’s period until a fern-like pattern appears in the saliva. The fern pattern indicates ovulation is about to occur. Cervical mucus can also be used in a ferning test.