Since ovulation involves the synchronous functioning of several organs ( brain, pituitary, and ovaries), it is not surprising that the ovulatory process can be altered temporarily by the use of drugs or by illness itself. Psychological disturbances and dramatic changes in lifestyle may also disrupt the synchrony of events that lead to ovulation. Often when there has been a lot of stress, fertility will be delayed, or sometimes it may have started and it is temporarily disrupted. Women find that fertility returns later and it is often confused for a 'double peak'. What usually happens is that the signs of fertility returns and continues where it left off.
Stress and constant anxiety sometimes is responsible for women experiencing a continuous mucus discharge or dryness called the Basic Infertile Pattern (B.I.P.). Under these circumstances it is important to chart accurately and observe the Early Day Rules: The couple can apply the Early Day Rules: Sexual relations are open to the couple only in the evenings of every other day. However, when there is a change in her basic infertile pattern , (A change in sensation; the appearance of mucus; a wet or slippery feeling; a change in the amount of discharge or in its color, consistency or feeling) a fertile phase may have begun.
Once the fertile phase begins, delay intercourse until the mucus becomes elastic, wet and slippery.
Note Well:
Some women do not see the clear and elastic characteristics of the mucus, but experience it only as a wet, slippery feeling. This is a fertile sign and the couple should use these days to achieve pregnancy.
A few women experience the fertile characteristics of the mucus for only a few hours. This observation is often made in the morning. In this circumstance the couple should time intercourse to take place that morning or when the fertile characteristics of the mucus are present at any other time of the day.
