How Baby Time™ helps you get pregnant
As a female approaches puberty, her body increases the production of the hormones that permit ovulation and reproduction, such as: estrogen, progesterone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). The production of each of these hormones increases and decreases in a regular pattern every month.
At the beginning of menstruation each month, a woman’s body begins the egg production. Many follicles begin to grow on both ovaries and as they develop during the beginning of the cycle they begin to produce estrogen. Even though estrogen is produced in a woman’s body all month long, it will peak approximately 2 to 3 days prior to ovulation. When a woman ovulates, estrogen hormone levels in her system rise, which results in higher concentration of salt in her saliva. This peak time is critical for women trying to get pregnant as this is when the chances of fertilization are the highest.
When placed on a slide and viewed through a microscope lens, crystallized salts in dried saliva produce a distinct “fern leaf” pattern. This indicates ovulation.
History of the saliva crystallisation test
| 1945 | Papanicolau first observed ferning (crystallisation) in a dried cervical fluid. He made a decisive discovery that cervical mucus, when spread on a slide and let to dry, produces arborisation with crystallisation. |
| 1969 | A Spanish gynecologist, Biel Cassals, discovered a correlation between a woman’s hormone levels during the female menstrual cycle and the amount of crystallization found in her saliva at that time. He concluded that the ferning of the saliva looks identical to the arborisation of cervical mucus. |
| 1991 | A study conducted by M.Guida at the Institute of Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic in Napoli, Italy achieved a positive result in 92% of the cases studied, matching saliva ferning to the fertile pre-ovulatory and ovulatory period. |
| 1992 | A further study conducted by M. Barbato, A. Pandolfi, M. Guida found direct correlation between saliva crystallisation and the fertile period in a woman’s cycle. |
| 1992 | A study involving 300 women from and IVF (in vitro fertilization) program at the 2nd Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Brno, Czechoslovakia using a handheld microscope found a definite correlation between oestrogen levels and crystallization of saliva. The study classified the reliability of this testing method as “very high level”. |
| 1994 | The Clinical Center of Serbia conducted a study named “Determination of Fertile and Infertile Days of the Menstrual Cycle of Women by Using the Saliva Crystallization Test”. The study found saliva ferning to be as effective as cervical mucus analysis and ultrasonographic folliculometry. The study also stated the mini-microscope saliva tester demonstrated validity in determining fertile and infertile days in the course of the menstrual cycle. |
| BABY TIME is ISO certified (ISO 13485: 2003 CMDCAS). In 2010, BABY TIME also received the New Class II Medical Device License and Medical Device Establishment license from Health Canada. |
