Youve put off having children while you and your husband were building your careers. Now youre both financially stable and feel its time to start building a family.
The problem is that you seem to have trouble getting pregnant no matter how frequently you make love. What’s wrong? Are there some techniques that you should be practicing to become expectant?
Being first time trying to conceive, you should visit a medical trained doctor in infertility. He or she will perform medical examination on you and your hubby to see if anything is wrong medically.
If you are using some birth control methods, before your body gets into the conception mode, you need to give it some time for the body to re-adjusts to being off contraception. Most doctors will advise you to wait for three menstrual cycles (approximately 28 to 30 days per cycle) before trying to get pregnant.
If both you and your husband are all right physically, and you still can’t get pregnant after several months of not taking the pill, then there are some things you can do to increase your chances of conception.
The best times to get conceive is when you are ovulating. During this fertile time, it is best to have sexual activity with your husband. You may asked, “how can you recognize when you are ovulating” There are some several ways.
In general, ovulation happens some 14 days before your next period. So you can compute when you are most fertile based on whether your menstrual period is 28, 30 or 32 days and schedule your lovemaking on those days.
To be certain, do start your sexual activity a few days before your most fertile period since the sperm can only survive for two or three days in the female’s reproductive tract.
To get a more accurate reading on when you are ovulating, you can use the basal thermometer to measure your basal body temperature. The basal thermometer can be purchased at any drugstore.
When you wakes up in the morning, do take your basal temperature and chart it. If you observe a slight increase in BBT for two consecutive days signals that your ovulation are taking place.
You can also check your cervical mucus and determine if the discharge is egg-white like in color. If it is, then it signals that it is the best time to get pregnant. However, once the fertile period has passed, the mucus becomes sticky or even cloudy and even may disappear entirely.
Alternatively, you can buy an ovulation predictor kit. This kit checks your urine for an increase in luteinizing hormone that occurs 24 to 48 hours before ovulation.
By living a healthy lifestyle, you can enhances your chances of getting pregnant. All you need to know is to have a healthy diet, exercise reguarly, proper stress management and of course stop those smoking addictions. It is said that smoking and excessive alcohol drinking and coffee can obstruct pregnancy. You can also start taking prenatal vitamin folic acid.
Medical professionals recommended to take at least 400 mg of the vitamin daily a month before you start attempting to get pregnant and at least 600 mg once you are already conceiving.
Follow the above mentioned steps diligently, and you should get pregnant in no time at all. So prepare your home pregnancy tests and get ready to become a mom.
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