Tips On Getting Pregnant


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Tips On Getting Pregnant
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Ovulation

First things first—when do you ovulate? If you don’t know, don’t panic—not all of us do. And since we’re all on different cycles, ranging from 28 days to 40 days to as few as 20, and some of us don’t even have a regular cycle, it is not something you can simply look up in a book. But you can figure it out.

Begin with a thermometer and a temperature chart. You’ll need to ascertain what your basal body temperature (BBT) is, so take your temperature at the same time you get up each morning and write it down in your chart. Put simply, prior to ovulation your temperature should drop slightly, and following ovulation it should go back up.

ideally, you should keep a record of everything: temperature, cycles, the quality/texture of the mucous, even record results from OPKs (see below). You can find very handy software for all these records so that each day you only need to enter the figure into the computer. The benefit to the software is that it will then do all the calculations and tell you when the best time for conception might be.

OPKs (ovulation predictor kits) work just like pregnancy testing kits, telling you whether or not it is likely that you will ovulate within the next 48 hours. Finding out when you’ll be ovulating is important and it can be a huge time saver as well, since it’ll be the first thing a doctor will ask you if you go to see one. Not knowing this information will likely result in having to make a second appointment.

A quick primer: if your cycle is 28 days, you will ovulate fourteen days after the start of your period, not the end of it, so calculate accordingly. Women frequently make this simple mistake but it can have unexpected or unwanted consequences, such as unplanned pregnancies or lost opportunities to get pregnant.

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Useful Resources

• Getting pregnant on WebMD

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