A Womans Best Time To Get Pregnant
The question that most people ask when they decide to start a family is, what is the best time to get pregnant?
No it is not, when you have enough money saved up, or Valentines Day or spring time or anything like that.
It is all about cycles and rhythms. If you haven’t managed to fall pregnant naturally, without thinking about it, then now is the time to start taking note of the days that you are ovulating.
So now the second most asked question then is how to calculate the correct ovulation time.
Now the easiest way these days is to get a good Ovulation Calculator and with the press of a few buttons it will tell you what you want to know. Otherwise get out the Fertility Chart and sharpen your pencil and if you are not good at maths then pull the calculator closer.
You will need to start to get to know your own body quite intimately so you can read the signs of your own ovulation dates.
First off you need to identify the “post ovulation period”, your primary health care provider will call this the “Luteal Phase”. It is simply the time after your ovulation and before you start menstruating.
For most women this is a fourteen day period.
The period then starts after the fourteen days.
Bring on the calculator. You now want to work out when your next period will start.
And then subtract twelve days from the predicted period due date. The actual ovulation day will be anything between twelve to sixteen days before the due date.
The very few lucky women who have a text book menstrual cycle of twenty eight days normally ovulate on day fourteen of their cycle.
One of the ways to check when you are ovulating is through the Basal Body Temperature (BBT) technique. This one of the important checks you need to make if you are serious about getting it just right, to give you the best possible change to fall pregnant.
The BBT technique involves every morning taking the vaginal temperature and recording it. This is done with a special finely calibrated thermometer.
On the day of ovulation the thermometer will indicate a slightly higher than normal temperature.
It is important to know this time because at the end of the menstrual cycle the egg starts developing and by day eight to twelve it is at its most ready.
So between day eight to twelve is the best time to have intercourse if you want to get pregnant.
If you want to fall pregnant then now is the time.
To show how important this period of time is if you want to fall pregnant, then you need to know that the egg can only be fertilized for between twelve to sixteen hours during this time.
Now some OBGYNs are of the opinion that this period is anything up to twenty-four hours.
The experts in the fertility field will tell you that after sixteen hours the eggs viability to get fertilized go downhill quickly.
And that is why it is of the utmost importance to get the timing just right. Especially if you have a history of fertility problems.
