How to get PregnantFor some, the process of baby making comes with little planning or effort whereas for others, it can lead to a path filled with ups, downs, and lots of confusion. Let’s take a close look at the whole scenario of baby making, and how one goes about it. Traditional Means Each month, hormones from your pituitary gland stimulate female ovaries to release an egg, or ovulate. Usually, this occurs around day 14 of the menstrual cycle, although this may fluctuate among different women or even from month to month. The released egg travels to the fallopian tube, and this is when the “window of opportunity” begins. The egg now has about 24 hours to unite with a sperm. As it turns out, a man’s sperm is longer lasting than previously thought whereas a female’s egg disappears quickly.

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Sperm cells can last in the reproductive tract for 2,3 or up to 5 days. It is interesting to note that if sperm is introduced after ovulation, a 2,3 day old egg would unlikely be in good enough shape to be fertilized, even by the “freshest” sperm. Therefore, in order to conceive, it is best to have regular intercourse during the days leading up to ovulation.If fertilized, the egg travels to the uterus 2 to 4 days later, and attaches to the uterine lining. This is the beginning of pregnancy. It is still all about TIMING Knowing when you are 5 days away from ovulation is the trick. There is no test for this. Further, the ovulation period, or time you are likely to get pregnant can waver – so you are dealing with a moving target. It was once assumed that a woman is fertile between days 10 and 17 of her menstrual cycle – yet only 17% were fertile by day 7 of their cycle and 2%were fertile by day 4 of their cycle. Interestingly, even women with termed regular cycles had a 1 to 6 percent probability of being fertile on the day their next period was expected. And to complicate matters further, there is yet another group of factors to consider. Ovulation is often affected by illness, stress, and exercise. So, in effect, ovulation is a very individual matter and will likely vary within the same individual. This truly makes the conception game somewhat similar to rolling dice. This then, brings us back to the question of how to get pregnant? There are advocates of the calendar method. In the calendar method, a female keeps track of the number of days in her cycle and derives a pattern from this which can be used to calculate ovulation. As discussed, this can be very tricky, but may result in success, depending on how predictable your body is. Experts advise not worrying about timing. The average healthy couple are just as well to simply relax and forget the “fertile windows” and just engage in unprotected intercourse about 2 or 3 times over the course of each week. In this way they are likely to hit the right 2 or more times within the fertile days occurring in each cycle of the female. If there is no sign of conception in a year of regular intercourse, a doctor should be consulted. Identifying the issue is not always easy and may reside in either partner. Other Indicators Changes in cervical mucous may offer some clues. Before ovulation, there is usually an increase in clear slippery vaginal secretions that resemble raw egg whites. After ovulation, the discharge will become cloudy and sticky or perhaps disappear. Ovulation may cause a gradual rise in basal body temperature (which is the temperature your body is at when it is at rest). This rise varies between .5 and 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit. There are ovulation monitoring kits that test your urine for a surge in hormones – this surge that typically happens prior to ovulation. Summary and General Advise on How to Get Pregnant

• Have regular intercourse, and in particular, 2 or 3 times per week to ensure you hit a fertile period. Have intercourse more frequently near the time of ovulation.
• Eat healthy, exercise regularly and keep stress at bay. These are practices that help in all areas of life.
• Ensure that there is enough folic acid (Vitamin B-9) in your diet or take a vitamin supplement which includes this at least one month prior to conception and through to the first trimester to reduce the risk of spina bifida and other neural tube defects by up to seventy percent.
• Seek assistance from your physician to help identify lifestyle changes that may improve your chances of a healthy pregnancy.

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