Using Simple Techniques to Get Yourself Pregnant

You’ve put off having children while you and your husband were building your careers. Now you’re both financially stable and feel it’s 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?

For starters, if you haven’t already, you should start with a visit to your gynecologist. He will examine you and your husband to see if anything is medically wrong. If you’ve just gone off birth control, then you should also realize that it might take some time for you to get pregnant as your body readjusts to being off contraception. Most doctors say that you should wait 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 pregnant are when you are ovulating, so you should time sex with your husband to your most fertile times. How can you recognize when you are ovulating? There are 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 sure, you should start having sex several days before your fertile period since sperm can survive for two to three days in the reproductive tract.

If you want a more exact method of determining when you are ovulating, you can measure your basal body temperature (BBT) using a basal thermometer, which is available at any drugstore, although an ordinary oral or digital one will suffice. Take your temperature every morning when you get out of bed, and chart it; a small increase in BBT for some two successive days signals that ovulation has taken place. You can also check your cervical mucus. If the discharge turns egg white-like, then it signals the best time to get pregnant; once the fertile period has passed the mucus becomes sticky or cloudy or may even disappear entirely. Or you can buy an ovulation predictor kit, which checks your urine for an increase in luteinizing hormone that occurs 24 to 48 hours before ovulation.

You can also boost your chances of getting pregnant with a healthy lifestyle. Eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, limit stress and stop bad habits such as smoking and excessive drinking of alcohol and coffee. You should also start taking a prenatal vitamin such folic acid. Doctors recommend that you 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.

If you follow these steps faithfully, then you should be pregnant in no time. So prepare your home pregnancy tests and get ready to become a mom.

Eddy Kong and his wife, Esther are victims of infertility. Over the last 5 years, they gather enough research and personal experiences to publish a book, “How To Increase Your Odds Of Conceiving”. They have 2 kids and 1 more coming up. They lives in Singapore city and spends their time teaching others how to get pregnant naturally and getting their infertility treated. Their latest book, “How To Increase Your Odds Of Conceiving Secrets” is available at http://www.17mininfertilitysecrets.com/tips/index.html