Kelsie2
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Sensitivity to Night Lighting(good article)
Sensitivity to night lighting may cause scant or patchy mucus, prolonged more fertile mucus, short luteal phase, other cycle irregularities, and infertility even with regular cycles.
As anyone who has ever suffered jet lag can attest to, the body has a definite "biological clock" that resists resetting. This rhythm is entrained by the natural day-night cycle, and nerve impulses that originate from the light receptors of the eyes ultimately affect many of the body's hormones, including the reproductive hormones.
Joy DeFelice, R.N., Director of Natural Family Planning Classes at Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington, has since 1976 studied the effect of artificial night illumination on the menstrual cycle and fertility in women NFP users. Her observations are as simple as they are striking - eliminating light from the sleeping quarters can improve mucus patterns and cycle irregularities, and has ended infertility in many cases. Women who have carefully reduced night lighting in their bedrooms typically experience improvement in their mucus or temperature patterns within one to three cycles, and pregnancy among couples previously experiencing infertility has been achieved in an average of five cycles.
A few women who do not show improved menstrual cycles after three to four cycles of night darkness may respond to a regimen of reduced night lighting, except for three nights of low to moderate illumination (mimicking moonlight) beginning two days after more fertile mucus is seen.
However, for those who have recently discontinued BCPs, who have experienced a miscarriage, who are ending the natural infertility of breastfeeding, or who are bottlefeeding a baby, she does not recommend the regimen of three nights with lighting but only the constant night darkness. In these circumstances, the cycles should be allowed to "settle down" on their own for a few months. Night darkness can also improve the ambiguous mucus of the breastfeeding or bottlefeeding mother, as well as heavy bleeding, prolonged bleeding or constant spotting. Mrs. DeFelice has also linked night illumination to early miscarriage in many cases.
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VickiH
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Re: Sensitivity to Night Lighting(good article)
wow! Cool post! Makes a lot of sense too!
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Jan/8/05, 22:51
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