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When to Get Pregnant: 2 Things That Could Increase Your Chances of Getting Pregnant By As Much As 50%

By Claire Arden

Chances are you have been trying to get pregnant for some time and you are not having much luck. I am sure you are looking for new ideas and information on what you may or may not be doing wrong.

If you are trying to get pregnant then you want to be sure that you are not doing anything that will jeopardise your chances of success.

1. One thing you want to stop doing straight away is to stop using any form of lubrication. So from now on, any store bought lubricant including Vaseline and KY jelly go out the window.

I am sure the question you are asking is Why? This is because it has been shown that these lubricants actually damage the sperm and could reduce your chances of getting pregnant by as much as 50%

There are many other things you can do to increase your chances of conceiving and one of the most important ones is to monitor your cervical mucus.

2. The Cervical Mucus Method (CM): Very many previously infertile couples have achieved pregnancy after using this method because it helps the woman to identify those days on which the has the greatest percentage on conceiving.

The cervical mucus is secreted by the walls of the cervix and it is thicker, cloudier and less abundant early on in the menstrual cycle. As the woman approaches the day of ovulation, it becomes thinner and more transparent.

Eventually it gets to a stage where it assumes the consistency and appearance of raw white egg.

This is natures way of making it easier for the sperm to get to the egg as the cloudier and thicker mucus is quite difficult to penetrate. You must therefore start following the progress of your CM over a number of months. You now know that the thinner and more transparent your cm is the better your chances of conception if you have intercourse.

How is all the information above meant to help you conceive? You need to time intercourse to coincide within a few days before and may be a few days after ovulation. It is at this point that your egg has the greatest chance of being fertilised by your partner's sperm. - 26706

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