If you want to get pregnant fast there are things that you need to do so as to maximize your chances of conceiving quickly and end up with a healthy baby. Monitoring your cervical mucus discharge is an attempt to predict when your fertile days are close and you should do your checks before you shower, bathe or swim. When it changes to clear, stretchy mucus, you should have intercourse.
You should also make your vaginal environment as sperm friendly as possible. This could be achieved by avoiding vaginal sprays and scented tampons, douching; it alters the normal acidity of the vagina and can cause vaginal infections or pelvic inflammatory disease. It can also wash away the cervical mucus that is needed to transport the sperm.
Start taking folic acid, which reduces chances of giving birth to a baby with a neural tube defect like spina bifida by 50 % to 70 %, and you should start taking at least 0.4mg of folic acid each day two to three months before you start trying to conceive. You need to stay healthy if you want to get pregnant fast. A healthy diet with plenty of vitamins especially vitamin C and E helps to improve fertility for both men and women.
In addition, when you are trying to conceive you should try to keep sex as fun as possible. Have rendezvous every now and then so as to keep up with the baby making pace for long and you will not feel like it is a chore you have to do. After making love, you should try relaxing for a little while before you hop to the bathroom. Lying down after intercourse for a few minutes increases the odds that the sperm will be able to swim faster to the waiting ovum. To make intercourse more fun, try the various deep penetration positions, which take the sperm closer to the cervix, increasing your chances of getting pregnant fast.
Making love often during your fertile period and if you have the stamina to make love at least every forty-eight hours, will ensure that there are always volumes of sperm swimming into the fallopian tube or already there waiting for your ovum when the ovaries release it.
If you love drinking your coffee, you should probably change into decaf or simply give up. Caffeine restricts the growth of a developing baby by constricting blood vessels and reducing blood flow to the uterus. Excessive consumption of coffee can also contribute to fertility problems.
Start taking and keeping a menstrual calendar. You should note when your period starts, when it stops and the number of days it lasts. This information is going to be very helpful to your doctor and it can prove invaluable in pinpointing the date of conception and consequently your due date.
If your partner spends hour on the bike while working out in the gym, he should use or change to the treadmill instead. This is because men who cycle 100 Kms a week risk lowering their fertility because of the repeated banging of the groin against the bicycle seat, which can damage critical arteries and nerves. In addition, a woman should not exercise excessively if she is trying to conceive. This is because excessive exercise can lead to such fertility problems like irregular periods, anovulatory cycles, and luteal phase deficiencies.
Avoid smoking and drinking alcohol and cut them out of your life completely if you can while you are trying to conceive. Not only can they affect you and make it hard to conceive, but also can damage the child you are carrying too. Do not go on a crash diet either or starvation, purging, bingeing and others because they affect your ovulation and your fertility.
If you decide to track your basal temperature, use the digital thermometer instead of the old style mercury thermometer. It is easier to read, requires no shaking and even beeps to remind you to record your reading if you accidentally forget. That will enable you to track your fertility days better.
If you are using any kind of birth control, you should get rid of it on time. Take a pass for a few months before you start trying. Once you stop using it you can get pregnant any time. When you get off your birth control early, you are giving your body a few cycles to start ovulating regularly and be primed for pregnancy.
When ovulation approaches, your cervix tends to rise up in your vagina, softens and opens slightly. Although it feels firm like the tip of your nose at the start of your menstrual cycle, by the time you are ready to ovulate, it feels soft and fleshy. You can monitor this particular sign of fertility if you want to get pregnant fast.
