Best time to get pregnant
The time when an egg is produced from your ovary is
called OVULATION. Ovulation usually occurs each month,
and at the same time the lining of your womb becomes
engorged with blood ready to receive and nourish the
expectant embryo, also your bodies hormones begin to
rise in preparation of supporting a pregnancy. This
is normally in the middle of your monthly cycle (around
day 14 if you have a 28 day cycle). Your egg will live
for about 12-24 hours after ovulation.
How to know you are ovulating
Change in the mucus, becoming thin and clear like a egg white
Change in body basal temperature
Try use an ovulation test kit, which are available from your local pharmacy.
For the best chance of falling pregnant you should
have sex during the 1-2 days prior to the spike in temperature.
Sperm can live for several days inside your body. If
you have sex a day or so before ovulation, your partner's
sperm will have time to travel up the fallopian tubes
and will be waiting when your egg is released. So the
chances are highest if you have intercourse the day
before ovulation. Factors contributing to the gender of your child
There is a popular but not proven theory that you can
try to influence the sex of your baby by creating situations
that favor the X-carrying sperm over the Y-carrying
sperm or vice versa.
Both X and Y sperms have different properties. X sperms
believe to survive longer in acidic environment of women's
vagina but is slower to reach for conception. In contrast
to male Y sperm that is faster but short lived.
For girl: make love frequently up to a 2-3 days before ovulation
For Boys: make love on the day of, or just after, ovulation, as the faster male sperm will reach the ovum before the female sperm.
There is very little scientific evidence to support
this theory.
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