The following article is written by contributing author Hannah Claire Shapiro of the column The Knocked Up Knockout
(full article can be seen there - this is just an excerpt):

So, I am beginning to ponder Baby 2.

Though I had no problems conceiving last time, there is no guaranteeing the same luck with Baby 2. You see, according to Victoria Jennings, Ph.D, Director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health, approximately 20% of women who do not become pregnant fail because they do not know when they are fertile.

Enter CycleBeads, the fashionista’s answer to an ovulation chart! This pretty, rosary-style, contraption (developed by Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health), enables a woman to easily identify her 12-day “fertile window”. The CycleBeads are ever so easy to use: you simply move a black ring over a series of color-coded beads that represent her fertile and low fertility days. The day a woman starts her period she puts the ring on the red bead, and each day you move the ring along the chain by one bead, always in the direction of the arrow. When the ring is on the red bead or a dark bead, there is very low likelihood of pregnancy. When the ring is on a glow-in-the-dark white bead - Days eight through 19 - there is a high likelihood of getting pregnant. Genius!

My set is already on order so that when the time is right, I have them to hand. And for those of you considering the move to become a Knocked-Up Knockout yourself, I thoroughly encourage you to do the same. If nothing else, you will have a new fashion accessory. You can get more information, and order your own set of CycleBeads, at www.cyclebeads.com.