Timing Is Everything – The 8 Ways to Maximize Your Chances of Conception (for him and her!)

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Ok, so maybe the title is a bit inflammatory, but as I mentioned in a previous post, The Pregnancy Miracle really asserts that timing your peak fertility and aligning it with your husband’s peak semen production is a core problem for many couples trying to conceive.
Here are some great methods from the Pregnancy Miracle to better understand your body and know when is your best time to conceive!

FOR HER:

1. Meet your mucus. It’s not a very pretty word to say, but women who are serious about trying to conceive need to become closely acquainted with their cervical mucus. Lisa explains how the mucus changes over the course of the fertility cycle in great detail so you can monitor its change (pg 45-48). On your peak fertility day you cervical mucus will be heavier than any other day of the month. It will feel “wet,” but it will be thick, slippery, and slightly cloudy like an egg white.What, you’re still grossed out by the word mucus? Just say it 3 times fast – mucus, mucus, mucus. Better?
2. What is your cervix telling you? For the majority of your fertility cycle, your cervix stays closed, firm and retracted. However, as your body becomes increasingly fertile, you will feel the cervix actually become softer and slightly open.
3. You’re keeping a calendar, right? Here’s what it comes down to, your peak fertility period is about 48 hours every month.  If you’re looking to get pregnant fast, you need as much data as you can get to predict your peak fertility periods before they happen. This will be especially important so that your hubby has time to properly prepare on his end (more on this below).
4. Basal Body Temperature (BBT), Tried and true. Your body temperature normally fluctuates .1 degrees on any given day, but during periods of increased fertility, your body temperature will actually experience a sustained increase of ~.2 degrees (that’s Fahrenheit for any international readers). The reason so many women have problems with this traditional technique is because it requires the correct tools, accurate record taking, diligent record keeping, and close attention to other temperature affecting factors, such as medicine, illness, lack of sleep, etc. However, learning your BBT is DEFINITELY worth it because it ensures that your eggs will be FRESH for your husband’s FRESH sperm. Fortunately, Lisa includes an exceptional explanation for everything you need to know on this subject in the book (p. 49-52 and 175-177)
5. Isn’t there an easier/faster way? If getting pregnant is at the top of your priorities, you definitely want to be doing everything above, but, understandably, just because you are TTC doesn’t mean you no longer have a life and obligations. Fortunately, there are fertility monitors out there, whose quality ranges from outstanding to crap. If you guys are interested, my friend Joanna offered to post some insight on choosing fertility monitors. Just let me know in the comments below.

FOR HIM:

1. Sir, drop the weapon. If your husband likes to masturbate, I’m not judging, but he needs to cut it out for 3-5 days before your peak fertility period. His body needs to create and store as much sperm as possible during this period so that when he ejaculates on your peak fertility day(s), he is releasing the maximum amount of FRESH sperm. Fresh sperm are far more likely to reach an egg and inseminate it. Also, fresh sperm decrease the likelihood of birth defects, etc.
2. Boys and girls on opposite sides. Naturally, following from the above, it’s wise to abstain from sex in the 3-5 days preceding peek fertility. You certainly want to avoid having excessive sex in those days, as it will only irritate your vagina and decrease the quality of your peak fertility period.
3. Get tested. Not really a timing technique, but you want to make sure that you have an adequate sperm count. You may choose to see a specialist of use a DIY kit. Either way, many couples who are well aware of the female infertility problems ignore that possibility of male fertility issues as well. Test it.

Well, that’s all for now. Mark and I have committed to using all 8 of these methods and I’ll report later with results.

P.S. I’m loving the Pregnancy Miracle! feeling better with my new diet, more relaxed with acupuncture and Mark and I haven’t been this close in years. I feel wiser and happier, and I can honestly say I’m experience changes in my personal view of the world now that so many of my false beliefs about infertility have been dispelled.

As a former skeptic, I strongly encourage anyone who is on the fence about this program to give it a shot.

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