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Those trying to conceive probably have many questions about the experience and what they might be able to expect. Others may be looking for ways to document changes their bodies go through during menstruation cycles. No matter what stage you're at when considering fertility, Ovia Health has you covered.

A woman at doctors office getting her blood pressure checked to represent getting a blood pressure tracker.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your blood pressure with Ovia

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How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your activity with Ovia

A woman sleeping in bed sideways because it’s her bedtime ritual to help her sleep better.

Help yourself get better sleep with these routines

A woman asleep in her bed because she learned how to sleep better.

Five small changes that can help you sleep better than ever

A woman on her phone in bed, representing an activity she should avoid before bed.

Before bedtime no-nos: Stuff to avoid that won’t help you sleep

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General women's health | General health

Common immunization myths

A person watching a meditating video on their laptop while meditating.

General women's health

The basics of meditation

General women's health | Mental health

At what point should I call the doctor about depression?

A person at the grocery store trying to pick what they're going to buy.

General women's health | Nutrition

Wild vs. farmed fish: unraveling the truth

Sex and intimacy

How the HPV vaccine can help prevent cancer

Two women smiling while talking about how to be an advocate for their healthcare.

Reproductive healthcare

Advocate for your health by bringing a support person with you to appointment

Women talking to her doctor trying to figure out if she is the best healthcare provider for her.

Reproductive healthcare

Find a healthcare provider that really gets you

Women interviewing healthcare providers to decide if they are responsible.

Reproductive healthcare

When not to settle: choosing the healthcare provider who is responsible

A couple learning how to have better sex by being more affectionate and touching each other's faces in bed.

Have better sex by connecting with yourself and your partner 

A woman who knows how much sleep she needs taking a day time nap in bed.

Do you know how much sleep is enough…or too much?

Woman in bed trying to increase her deep sleep by reading and drinking tea.

Bedtime goodies that may help you boost that deep sleep already

A woman who understands the importance of sleep taking a day time nap in her bed.

Restful nights can make happy days: Are you getting enough sleep?

A couple's feet while they lay in bed and talk about the importance of consent.

Consent: What is it and why is it so important?

This image represents a person talking about sex with their partner while laying in bed.

Learn to communicate better in the bedroom and really connect

A couple laughing and cuddling in bed to represent having consent for sex.

The sexy side of consent: Learn to talk about it

A couple standing close together and smiling while discussing the definition of consent.

Clear communication is the backbone of consent

A person checking their phone while also using her laptop to research information about the BRCA gene.

Reproductive issues and conditions

Learn about the BRCA gene and why it’s important

A person talking on their phone about their abnormal Pap smear results.

Reproductive issues and conditions

Abnormal pap smears: Everything you need to know

A person jogging during their cardio routine.

General women's health | Exercise and movement

Cardio helps with your health: Great reasons to start a routine

Two women running outside.

General women's health | Exercise and movement

A beginner’s guide to exercise: starting at square one

A woman looking down at her drink wondering whether there are signs of an unhealthy relationship with her partner.

Feeling unsafe? Recognize these unsafe behaviors

A graphic of a leaf growing to represent the Ovia Fertility application.

How to use Ovia Fertility

How Ovia can help you be your healthiest, happiest self

Ovarian egg traveling in fallopian tubes during ovulation representing when you ovulate.

Learn about when you ovulate: One egg’s epic journey

An egg traveling in fallopian tubes to indicate ovulation signs.

All about ovulation: One egg’s epic journey

Here’s when your fertile window opens and closes

A doctor talking to their patient about what to expect from a future Pap smear with a clipboard in their hand.

Reproductive healthcare

Are you getting a Pap smear? Here’s the process.

A person traveling checking their map to represent the question: 'how does travel affect ovulation?'

Ovulation

When your cycle’s out of sync: how travel can affect ovulation

Three people talking and getting ready to go for a run as part of their exercise routine.

General women's health | Exercise and movement

How to start an exercise routine – and stick with it

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General women's health

Helpful facts about migraines

How to use Ovia Fertility

Getting started with Ovia: Your quick start guide

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General women's health

What to do about increased or nervous energy

People shopping for oil at the grocery store.

General women's health

Oils are awesome: From olive to argan, the best oils you didn’t realize

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General women's health

What’s the deal with gluten?

Image of fish and seasonings.

General women's health | Nutrition

Seafood and mercury levels: What you should know

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General women's health | Nutrition

Good for you or good for nothing? What you should know about taking a multivitamin

Image of a persons reproductive eggs in a microscope.

Trying to conceive (TTC) | Preconception planning

Pros and cons of freezing your eggs

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General women's health | Nutrition

Six meals to boost your greens

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Menstrual cycle health

Menstrual cycle length: Just what’s normal? 

A pile of low-dose aspirin.

General women's health

Low-dose aspirin: What’s the deal?

A person staring off in to the distance wondering if a past abortion affect pregnancy

Reproductive issues and conditions

Future pregnancy with past abortion history

A person checking their watch while holding their phone.

General women's health | Exercise and movement

Obvious and not-so-obvious benefits of exercise

Woman getting a mammogram screening from her doctor.

Reproductive issues and conditions

Understand your mammogram screening

A person using their phone to track moods when trying to conceive

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your moods with Ovia

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Menstrual cycle health

Managing your period as a trans, genderqueer, or non-binary person

A person holding the area near their uterus to represent endometriosis.

Reproductive issues and conditions

Endometriosis

Graphic of a person's uterus to represent the menstrual period.

Menstrual cycle health

You do uterus: How to be kind to yourself during your period

A couple where one person is sitting on the others lap and they are practicing communicating about sex.

Sex and intimacy

How to ask for what you want in bed: It’s sexier (and less awkward) than you might think

A person sitting with their hands clasped wondering where to get an abortion.

Reproductive healthcare

Where can I access an abortion clinic?

Sperm swimming towards an egg in a microscope to represent what conception is.

Trying to conceive (TTC) | Preconception planning

Learn about conception: Babymaking 101

A graphic of a drop on an ovulation test to represent the importance of tracking your ovulation test with Ovia Fertility.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your ovulation tests

Graphic of underwear to represent cervical fluid tracking.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your cervical fluid with Ovia

A thermometer to indicate tracking basal body temperature.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your basal body temperature with Ovia

A bed to represent how sleep and fertility are connected.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your sleep with Ovia

Fish, nuts, and seeds to represent foods in a diet that contain omega 3 and 6.

General women's health | Nutrition

Are you getting your omegas? 

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Go green: Six ways to work more greens into your diet

A cellphone, pen, bag, and other items on a bed to represent using Ovia Fertility versus other tools to track your ovulation.

Using Ovia to track your ovulation – even with an irregular cycle

Image of avocados, nuts, and fish, representing foods that contain healthy fats.

General women's health | Nutrition

The good, the bad, the misunderstood: What you need to know about fats

Person circling a day on the calendar with a pink marker to represent how to track your period.

General women's health

When’s your period? How to track yours with Ovia, and how we predict when it will come next

A person using the Ovia Fertility tracker on their cellphone device.

How to use Ovia Fertility

From cervical fluid to sleep: How tracking your body’s signs and symptoms can identify when you ovulate

A girl sitting down outside and writing in a notebook.

Menstruation

The important details about the menstrual cycle and what it means to be irregular

A healthy recipe of lamb, quinoa, and lentils, that can help boost fertility.

General women's health

Fertility recipes: Lamb koftas with date lentil quinoa and yogurt coconut creamed spinach

A couple discussing how effective the pull-out method is.

Birth control

Is the pull-out method safe?

Image of the feet of several people walking on a treadmill.

General women's health | Exercise and movement

Five exercise myths busted

Scientist examining a patient's blood sample in a lab.

Reproductive issues and conditions

What you should know about the Zika virus

A health symbol to represent tracking physical symptoms of ovulation with Ovia Health.

Aches, cramps, and swollen breasts: why you should track your physical symptoms

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Menstruation

Can my diet help prevent PMS? Here are the details

A person holding an egg meant to represent an egg donation for someone trying to get pregnant.

Reproductive issues and conditions

Egg donation: Thinking it through

Many eggs sitting in a carton to represent how long an female egg is viable after ovulation.

Trying to conceive (TTC)

Fertile window for eggs and sperm

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General women's health

Change in vaginal discharge: What it means

Table with several creme brûlée desserts made from healthy ingredients and an easy recipe.

General women's health | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: Crème brulee

A person looking up signs of PCOS on their cellphone.

Reproductive issues and conditions

Could I have PCOS?

A person checking their heart rate on their watch while listening to music on their headphones.

General women's health | Exercise and movement

How much exercise is too much?

Four egg shells.

Trying to conceive (TTC) | Preconception health

What is anovulation?

A person laughing in a red and white stripped room.

Menstrual cycle health

Are my periods irregular?

Homemade chicken noodle soup made from a recipe.

General women's health | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chicken noodle soup

Pumpkin blueberry muffins in the oven.

General women's health | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: pumpkin blueberry muffins

A bowl of apple and pumpkin oatmeal.

General women's health | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: apple and pumpkin oatmeal

A plate of stir fry brussel sprouts with garlic.

General women's health | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: stir fried garlic brussel sprouts

A bowl of Caramelized onion hummus.

General women's health | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: caramelized onion hummus

A phone on the bed to represent how to use it to track your luteal phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the luteal phase

A person using their fertility tracker app from Ovia Health.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the fertile window

A person on their laptop and cellphone looking up information on how to track fertility at their proliferative phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the proliferative phase

A person looking up on their phone how to track their menstrual phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the menstrual phase

Woman, seated on kitchen counter, looks at her phone

Reproductive issues and conditions

PCOS

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General women's health | Mental health

Who gets mood swings and why

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General women's health

Forgetfulness: Learn the reasons behind it

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General women's health

The meaning behind dark urine

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General women's health

Clumsiness: Is it just having an “off” day?

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Menstrual cycle health

Helpful information about vaginal spotting or bleeding

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Menstrual cycle health

Bloating: Helpful information and tips

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Painful intercourse: Causes and prevention

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Trying to conceive (TTC) | Pregnancy loss

Surgical treatment options for early pregnancy loss

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Trying to conceive (TTC) | Pregnancy loss

Nonsurgical options for early pregnancy loss

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Reproductive issues and conditions

Oily hair: What you should know

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Reproductive issues and conditions

Why the metallic taste and what it means

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Reproductive issues and conditions

Leg cramps: Everything you need to know

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General women's health

Helpful information about itchy hands

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General women's health

Learn more about itchy feet

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Trying to conceive (TTC) | Fertility signs

Intense lower back pain: What you should know

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General women's health

Infrequent urination: What causes it and can it be avoided?

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General women's health

Increased thirst: Do you need to drink more water?

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General women's health

What really causes hiccups?

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General women's health

Hemorrhoids: What you should know

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General women's health

Smelling really good lately? Here’s why your body might be doing it

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Reproductive issues and conditions

Reasons why heavy vaginal bleeding might be occurring

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Reproductive issues and conditions

What is acid reflux?

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General women's health

Causes for green or yellow vaginal discharge

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General women's health

Experiencing frequent infections? What your body might be trying to say

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General women's health

Fever: Why your temperature goes up

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General women's health

Fainting 101: Why does it happen?

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General women's health

Why you might have a flushed face

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General women's health

The reasons behind excessive sweating

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General women's health

Cloudy or strong-smelling urine: Is it something to worry about?

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General women's health

Here’s why you might be feeling abdominal or pelvic cramping