It’s officially been one month of wearing my Oura Ring, and my DMs have been flooded with questions about it since showing it. I wanted to wait until I’d used it for at least a month before writing a true review. So after a full month of wearing it 24/7 (except when it’s charging!) here are my thoughts-

What is an Oura Ring?

In case you aren’t familiar, the Oura Ring is a fitness & health tracker that focuses its insights on three areas- sleep, recovery, and readiness. The ring works throughout the day, but most of its key analytics are taken throughout the night while you’re sleeping!

My Favorite Features:

01. Sleep Insights – as an actively nursing mom to a toddler, the sleep insights have been SO helpful for my reflection in the morning. When I’m exhausted or dragging throughout the day, I can sometimes forget that there’s a reason. Seeing the sleep I’m getting, the number of times I’m awake at night, and the breakdowns between light, deep & REM sleep have been so helpful.

02. Tags – You can even take notes & mark different factors that may be impacting your sleep, readiness & recovery for the next day to pinpoint what is helping & what is hindering. On nights I get good sleep, it’s been so neat to see the differences in my sleep score and different factors that may be contributing to better sleep. Tags can be anything from breastfeeding to alcohol consumption, workouts to if you were sleeping in your own bed! There are TONS of them, geared towards pinpointing exactly what lifestyle choices are impacting your life.

03. Natural Cycles Synching + BBT Tracking – Perhaps my favorite feature, and one of the main driving factors behind my desire to invest in an Oura Ring in the first place, is its ability to sync with Natural Cycles. Natural Cycles is a birth control app that modernizes Natural Family Planning & the Fertility Awareness Method. I’ve used & paid for Natural Cycles for more than 3 years now through seasons of preventing pregnancy, trying to conceive, being pregnant & postpartum. Since NC relies on your Basal Body Temperature upon waking (your temperature to 2 decimal points, instead of the standard one decimal point), co-sleeping & nursing throughout the night has been a challenge. A thermometer isn’t super accurate when your sleep conditions change every night! That’s where Oura comes in- it syncs directly with the app, giving NC the info it needs to track your Ovulation & provide you with the accurate, necessary info- whether you’re TTC or preventing pregnancy. This month, for the first time in over a year, I was able to actually confirm ovulation while using my Oura Ring!

The Process:

From start to finish, the process was super simple. I chose to get the free sizing kit first, to ensure an accurate fit. You choose your ring, pay in full, and they send you the sizing kit to your house. As soon as you decide which size fits best (mine is a 7!), you log into your account and select the size. Then your ring is shipped to you in a matter of days! It was easy peasy.

The Specs + Cost:

My ring is the Heritage in Gold, which cost $409. Oura does accept payment plans starting at $35/month through Affirm. This is completely unsponsored, but Oura does offer existing members a discount link to pass along to 5 others! If you are interested in getting an Oura Ring for yourself or as a gift, this link will work for the first 5 people to use it to get $40 off.

The Oura Membership costs $5.99/month and provides in-depth metrics including blood oxygen measuring, tags, bedtime insights, workout heart rate tracking, guided meditations, and tons more. You can see all the details on what the membership includes here!

If you’re interested in the Natural Cycles + Oura integration, you can use this referral link to get 20% off your annual subscription