You probably know many women who have gottenpregnant the first month they tried. Chances are, they made sure theyhad intercourse on the day they knew they were ovulating and two weekslater they announced their good news. If you are a woman who struggleswith infertility, your irregular periods may be at the forefront of thestruggle. Knowing that your doctor will not even see you until you'vetried to conceive for a year, you may be at your wits' end.
You probably know many women who have gottenpregnant the first month they tried. Chances are, they made sure theyhad intercourse on the day they knew they were ovulating and two weekslater they announced their good news. If you are a woman who struggleswith infertility, your irregular periods may be at the forefront of thestruggle. Knowing that your doctor won't even see you until you'vetried to conceive for a year, you may be at your wits' end. However,there are ways of planning a pregnancy even if the only thing regularabout your periods is their irregularity.
The key to gettingpregnant is to know when you are ovulating. Women with regular cyclesof 28 to 30 days usually ovulate between 10 and 14 days after the firstday of their period. Women with cycles that sometimes last 21 days andother times last 35 days have a hard time even guessing when they aregoing to ovulate.
Before giving up, try these four tips to dealwith unknown ovulation times and you just might be surprised when youtake that next pregnancy test.
Tip #1 - Buy a kit.
The easiest method of trying to determine ovulation is to buy anovulation predictor test at your local pharmacy. They test urine todetermine whether or not a woman is ovulating. The downside to thesekits is that, if you have absolutely no idea when you are going toovulate, you could be buying a lot of kits until you get a positiveresult. The other negative about ovulation predictor tests is that theyhave a somewhat high rate of being inaccurate.
Tip #2 - Track your temperature.
Changes in basal body temperature are a fairly accurate way of determining when ovulation is about to occur.
Becausethese changes in temperature are so slight, it is best to take yourtemperature with a thermometer specifically designed to measure basaltemperatures. Keep the thermometer close to your bed and take yourtemperature as soon as you wake up in the morning. Record thetemperature each day and it will be easy to see when your temperatureis rising. When you see the rise in the temperature, you'll know thatyou are ovulating.
This is a much more inexpensive and accurate way of figuring out on which days you are most likely to get pregnant.
Tip #3 - Monitor your mucus.
If you aren't going to try the predictor tests and you arefrustrated with tracking temperatures, you can track the changes inyour cervical mucus. As your body gets ready to ovulate, the mucusbecomes more clear and stretchy. When the mucus reaches thisconsistency, you will know that you are ovulating.
Tip #4 - Have a lot of intercourse.
It seems like too obvious an answer to a challenging problem.However, if you are a woman with chronically irregular menstrualcycles, having frequent intercourse could get you pregnant faster thanthe above three tips. Sperm can live in a woman's body for four days,so as long as intercourse occurs four days before ovulation, conceptioncan occur. The best frequency of intercourse is every 48 hours, as afrequency more than that can adversely affect sperm viability. Afrequency less than that and you may miss that ovulation window.
Tryingto get pregnant with irregular menstrual cycles can be challenging, butnot impossible. Try these four tips and you just might be surprisedwith a pregnancy next month.
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