Best Time Of The Month To Get Pregnant
Posted: Wednesday, June 09, 2010
by Hanna Hamelsford
The Online Pregnancy Guide
Using Basal Body Temperature (BBT) to Find out the Best Time of the Month to Get Pregnant
A rise in temperature can be utilised as an indicator of the best time to conceive. Once ovulation has occurred, your basal body temperature can raise by 0.5 to 1.6 degrees. You won't notice such a tiny shift in your temperature, but you can notice the difference by using a special glass fertility thermometer or a digital thermometer. Ensure that you always take your basal temperature from the same site e.g. the mouth to ensure consistency in your results. Your difference in temperature is caused by heightened manufacture of the progesterone hormone (brought on by ovulation). The best time to get pregnant is in the two or three days before your temperature reaches its high point. Somes scientists indicate that you may have an additional 12 to 24 hour window of fertility after you first notice the temperature creep up, but most say that by the time you notice a temperature increase you have already passedpassed your fertile period. Charting your basal temperature for a few monthly cycles can help you pinpoint when you ovulate. This allows you to plan having sex 2 to 3 days prior to ovulation to increase your chances of getting pregnant.
There are several other physical changes that take place leading up to and during ovulation that provide further indicators that you can learn to recognise in your fertility cycle.
* Lower abdominal soreness can be an indication of ovulation. About one-fifth of women actually register ovulatory activity, which can range from mild aches to twinges of pain in the lower abdomen. The condition, called Mittelschmerz, may last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. If you experience Mittelschmerz, your body has just ovulated and the next 12 hours are the best time to get pregnant.
* You may spot that you have an escalated sex drive around the time of ovulation.
* Professor Erik Odeblad from Sweden, in his research into signs of fertility, noticed that some women undergo the swelling of a small lymph node in their groin during ovulation. Although not all women can detect this lymph node, you can test for it by feeling in your groin during the days that your fertile mucus appears: the lymph node will feel like a pea-sized swelling on one side.
Keeping a detailed fertility calendar using a combination of these methods is a great way of knowing when the best time to get pregnant is for you.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)Welcome to Searchwarp Hanna. Your article helps to enlight woman wanting to get pregnant in such a natural way. Body is so perfect!Thank you so much for your feedback and support.
Welcome to SearchWarp! Interesting take on pregancy! Thanks!Thank you for your kind words :-)
Welcome to Searchwrap.. Interesting article..Thank youthank you, glad you enjoyed it
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