Best Time To Get Pregnant

What about knowing which is the best time to get pregnant? If you want to conceive, one of the first things you need to know is to learn when you are fertile. There is a great misconception that you can get pregnant just by making sex at any time. The truth is there are a few days in your cycle when you can really get pregnant.

What smart women do is start making accurate charting of how their body works and reading the signs which show their most fertile days. This extra effort eliminated the worry and the unnecessary panic that you cannot have children just because you did not conceive in the first month you tried. Sometimes knowing the best time to get pregnant can be tricky if your cycles are not like clockwork and you cannot predict the length of your next cycle with accuracy. You can get pregnant if you make sex before you ovulate. This can be not more than 5 days before ovulation. The reason is that at the time of ovulation is the only day on which fertilization can happen. However, sperm can live in the vagina for about 5 days at most. If you have optimum cervical mucus , which is egg white and watery. In addition, the released egg can live between 1 or 2 days. Therefore, the best time to get pregnant starts 4-5 days before ovulation and 1-2 days after ovulation. This means that some women can be fertile for as many as 7 days. You might think that there are just a couple of days which are best time to get pregnant, but this is not so true.

Another interesting information which can help you calculate the best time to get pregnant with a girl or a boy, is the quality of the sperm carrying female or male gender. The female sperm is slower, but stronger and can live longer than male sperm which is faster, but weaker. If you want to have a girl, you can plan to baby dance a few days before ovulation, but not exactly on the day before the ovulation or after. In this way the female sperm will survive and fertilize the egg, while the male sperm will become inactive before the ovulation. If you plan for a boy, you need to calculate much more precisely exactly when you ovulate and try just once during the month in the day of ovulation or after. This will give you greater chance to select a gender of your baby.

Traditionally, the best time to get pregnant is tied to ovulation detection. Ovulation is predicted by the quality and quantity of the cervical mucus, the basal body temperature and Mittelschmerz (midcycle pain). These methods might not be exact, but used together can give indications. Cervical mucus might precede ovulation 3-4 days, basal temperature changes after ovulation, but might be influenced by other factors, which need to be recorded in the notes section of the charge. Midcycle pain occurs in 10-120% of women and so cannot be reliable. If your cycle is very regular, like mine, you can predict ovulation just by the length of your cycle. Of course, this cannot be completely reliable on its own. The most precise way to predict ovulation is through Luteinizing hormone (LH) surge. The LH surge triggers ovulation, releases the egg and initiates the conversion of the residual follicle into corpus luteum. LH surge is detected by urinary ovulation prediction kit (OPK, or LH kit). The test is performed typically daily around the time ovulation is expected. If the reading is positive, then the ovulation is about to occur in the next 12-24 hours.

detecting ovulation by the LH surge through ovulation prediction kit is the preferred method normally used by the clinics to know exactly the best time to get pregnant. The experience in clinics shows that insemination done on the first day of luteinizing hormone surge are not successful, so most are done on the second day. When you are trying for a baby, you can do baby dance on both days as the cervical mucus is a good environment for the sperm to survive.

In summary:

The best time to get pregnant is just before ovulation occurs.

How can you know this for sure:

1. Chart your basal body temperature.

2. Chart your cervical mucus changes and cervical position.

3. Calculate your ovulation days according to the length of your cycle

4. Use an ovulation prediction kit and/or fertility monitor.