Ovatel Ovulation and Fertility Monitor

What is Ovatel?

Ovatel was designed and patented in the USA and is FDA approved. It is a portable medical device that makes ovulation easier to detect. It helps in pinpointing your fertile period, which is the 5 days before ovulation.

Ovatel fertility monitor helps you detect your ovulation in advance (because when ovulation occurs, fertility decreases), in turn, helping you time intercourse correctly to increase your chances of getting pregnant.

Why we recommend Ovatel?

• Reusable – Unlimited tests, you safe money when you buy one and can use a lifetime unlike the urine test strips.
• Ovatel is easy to use, lightweight and portable. It comes in a small feminine packaging that you can carry around with you.
• The device is saliva based and not urine- making it more convenient and the test can be done anywhere.
• You can download the Ovatel app on your phone and use the enclosed phone clip to capture and track your daily Ovatel result via your smartphone camera.
• Ovatel has been the device of choice for the Philippines government for their “Natural Family Planning Program”
• Designed and patented in the USA and is FDA approved.

How to use Ovatel

Simply swab your saliva every day with your finger, apply it to the slide, and look for ferning crystals which lets you know when you’re in your five-day fertile period.

The test takes about less than 2 seconds to perform and 30 minutes to see if ferning is present. Each day after the first view of ferning marks the beginning of your fertile period.

You can download the Ovatel App (available on IOS and Android) to guide you and help with tracking.

Click here for a step-by-step written guide on using ovatel

(Click here for a step-by-step instructional guide and to watch the instruction video)

How does Ovatel work?

Ovatel uses the ferning method to track your fertility window. The Ferning method of timing intercourse has been around since the 1940s and is still considered one of the most reliable ways to determine your fertility window accurately. Ferning means the hormones in your saliva display a distinctive pattern that looks like fern leaves and can be seen easily with Ovatel.

Estrogen is always in your body, so small amounts of crystals will be in your saliva after it dries. As your estrogen peaks during your fertile window, you will see more and more crystals in your sample. Right before ovulation, the estrogen level is so high that the crystals will make a pattern that looks like a fern leaf. This pattern means that ovulation is going to occur within 24-48 hours.

Experts recommend that you have timed intercourse at least once per day during this fertile window as long as there are no known male factor issues. Doing so will significantly increase the chances of getting pregnant within a cycle.

While there are many hormones that make up a woman’s cycle, estrogen is the key hormone that increases right before ovulation. All of the body’s hormones must work together for the body to ovulate correctly. But estrogen is made in higher quantities at only one time per cycle – the follicular phase or the first half of the cycle that begins with the first day of bleeding.

Once your period has started, your ovaries are stimulated by the pituitary’s (a small gland in the brain) release of a hormone known as FSH—or follicle stimulating hormone. Follicles (cysts) hold the egg prior to release. Many follicles will begin to grow, but only 1-2 will mature per cycle. This dominant follicle that houses the egg makes the estrogen, which makes it grow bigger until the egg is released.

Ovatel shows the predictive power of the estrogen content in the saliva that is measured by the amount of ferning on the lens. Having intercourse the five days before and including the day of ovulation increase the chances of becoming pregnant.

Click here to see frequently asked questions about ferning and answers.