Your Basic Infertile Pattern

Your own normal

As you observe, you'll come to know your baseline, your Basic Infertile Pattern. It's simply your own normal on the quiet days.

For many women it's dryness. For others it's an unchanging discharge. Same feel, same look, day after day.

Steady means something

What matters is that it's steady. In the Billings Method, steadiness is the mark of a non-fertile time. Fertility is always change.

So watch for change

Which means the moment your pattern changes, it's worth your attention. That change may be the very first sign your body is beginning to prepare.

You can't get your Basic Infertile Pattern "wrong." It reveals itself over time, as you keep recording what you notice.

Terms in this lesson

• Basic Infertile Pattern (BIP). Your own baseline on the quiet days: the steady sensation and appearance your body returns to between fertile phases. For many it is dryness; for others, an unchanging discharge.