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International Charting Symbols |
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International Charting Symbols |
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Records In charting the cervical mucus symptom of the Billings Ovulation Method, the use of a graphical record is particularly valuable because this provides a large amount of information which can be taken in at a glance, embodying perhaps the obsverations made over several months. There are two recognised visual recording methods, one encoded by coloured stamps and the other encoded by simple black and white graphical symbols. While the coloured stamps provide a more emphatic visual model, a record based on graphical symbols can be kept with only pencil and paper. Both methods convey the essentail details across barriers of language, and provide for comprehension even by the illiterate. The legend for the stamps and symbols of the Billings Ovulation Method are given in the following tables. |
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Stamps |
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Symptom Description |
Bleeding or spotting | Dry | Mucus Change from the Basic Infertile Pattern (BIP) |
The Peak of
the mucus symptom The peak of fertility |
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Stamps |
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Symptom Description |
Changed
mucus for 3 days after Peak No longer slippery |
Dry for 3 days after Peak | Mucus and
infertility 1. BIP of unchanging discharge before Peak 2. From the fourth day past the Peak |
Intercourse | ||
| The following diagram shows the corresponding pairs of stamps and symbols associated with the phases of fertility and infertility as depicted in the circular diagram. |
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| The following is an example chart of a normal fertile cycle showing both a stamp record and an international symbol record. |
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