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When is the Best Time to Get Pregnant

By: Tammy Richardson

If you are wanting to find out the best time to conceive, then you have to know about the fertile times in a woman's cycle - which is a fairly complex time to pinpoint. To begin with the life of an egg when released is a maximum of 24 hours and given that there may be two eggs released in the twenty four hours of ovulation, this leaves only around two days which are fertile. Another factor for consideration is the man, who's sperm lives for up to five days which combines to mean that a couple is jointly fertile for about one week in each month. The presence of fertile cervical fluid which resembles eggwhites is the best indication that the fertile time has arrived, however this may only last a couple of days.
Many women think they may have gotten pregnant during a menstrual period, which is an essentially impossible thing to do. In rare cases a woman may get pregnant from intercourse she had in the last days of a period. If a woman's cycle is very short, then it is possible for the sperm to live long enough to fertilise an egg when intercourse was had during the end of menstruations. The more common case is when a woman mistakes blood spotting during ovulation as a period and get pregnant at this time. This only serves to highlight the importance of knowing your cycle well.
Doctors commonly focus on measuring changes in basal body temperature for finding the best time to conceive. This is sadly to the exclusion of the most important (and most accurate) determinant of fertility, and that is cervical fluid. Furthermore the basal temperature method can actually do more harm than good for finding the fertile times, as in most women by the time a temperature rise is noted, the egg is already dead. Of course that doesn't mean that there is no use for charting the basal temperature, but it is useless as a measure of the fertile period.
The best way to get in touch with your fertile times is to start charting changes in your cervical fluid. There is cervical mucus which resembles eggwhites, and this is what you are looking for as an indication of your fertile time. The eggwhite fluid tells you that you are ovulating, but some women have trouble determining what to look for, so another indicator is the wettest type of fluid, of a wet sensation. The best time to conceive is the last day that there is the eggwhite mucus present.
If the man has a normal sperm count then couples should have intercourse daily when the wet eggwhite fluid is present and should continue until the fertile window is closed (indicated by a rise in basal temperature). Men with low sperm counts must only have sex every second day during this time, and stop on the morning the basal temperature rises.
Because the qualities (colour, consistency, volume) of the cervical mucus can vary greatly over the month, it is important that you know what to look for. By recording the changes you can really increase the likelihood of getting pregnant.
Ovulation is the best time to conceive, and this is the time of the month when there is a high volume of cervical fluid. At ovulation the cervical fluid called 'eggwhite mucus' is present, and as it is the most fertile cervical fluid, it is premium baby making stuff!
If you want more awareness of your body and where you are at in a cycle, then taking notice of your cervical fluids can help. Over a couple of months you will get a very good idea of the time you ovulate, and unlike with basal temperature methods, this way there will be enough time to actually take advantage of the fertile window.

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