Getting Pregnant – How to Chart Your Ovulation
For the most part, how to make a baby seems to be common knowledge: you have to have sex and must include the male partner’s ejaculation into the female partner’s vagina. But, it is also common knowledge that sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Is it prescribed that having sex regularly will help with conception; that means at least 2-3 times per week. This is the optimal frequency because it boosts the quality of the male partner’s semen. If a male ejaculates too frequently, then his sperm count will be lower and their swimming capacity may be impaired which can, in turn, negatively affect the chances of conception.
Now let’s learn about what happens in the female body during a monthly, or menstrual, cycle. A menstrual cycle is the time counting from day one of your menstrual bleeding to the first day of your next menstrual bleeding.
Usually, a ‘model’ monthly cycle lasts about 21 to 36 days, or 28 days average. In order to become pregnant, your partner’s semen has to fertilize your egg—which is typically released in each monthly cycle. The whole cycle is regulated by hormones and it all works in a complicated series of events. If a cycle is 28 days long, then ovulation (the term for discharge of an ovum from the mature ovarian follicle) usually happens around the 14th day after the beginning of your last period.
However, many women don’t have regular 28 day cycles. For many, their periods can be irregular. In light of that, it can be very hard to detect the exact time of ovulation and thereby determine your so-called ’peak’ fertile days. If you think this might be your problem, you should track your periods for a few consecutive months. Your first peak fertility day is calculated by subtracting 20 from the number of days of your shortest cycle. Your last peak fertile day is calculated by subtracting 10 from the number of days in your longest cycle.
An egg can be fertilized in the 24-hour period after its release from the ovum, while a man’s sperm can live for several days to fertilize the egg—which is actually really good news for those who are planning to plan pregnancy.
If you’re thinking about tracking your monthly cycle, you can make your own table to write down all the relevant information, use a pocket calendar or even try using one of the ovulation calculators found on the web to help you with this.If you’re thinking about tracking your monthly cycle, you can make your own table to write down all the necessary information, use a pocket calendar or even try out one of the ovulation calculators found on the web to help you with this.
A more specific way to chart when you ovulate is to check your body temperature every single day with a basal (or resting) thermometer. Always measure it first thing in the morning while still in bed, before doing any physical activity. Keep the thermometer by your bedside to make this easier. Take your temp at the same time every day. Write the temperature down in a chart and you will hopefully begin to notice a pattern in the increases and drops in your body temperature.
Ovulation causes an uptick of one-half to one degree Fahrenheit (one-quarter to one-half degree Celsius) in a woman’s basal body temperature. Monitoring a woman’s basal body temperature is one of the most accurate ways for figuring out the day of ovulation. Your physician can also easily detect the day of your ovulation, but you’ll need frequent ultrasound checkups of your ovaries.
Natural methods of conception is the best and safest way to get pregnant. To learn more about irregular menstrual cycle and ovulation and how to increase male fertility, kindly visit WaysToConceiveABaby.com.
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