Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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Conception Math
Trying to conceive a baby? Here is some conception math that may increase your chances of success.
Most of us have spent the majority of our reproductive years trying NOT to get pregnant. When we begin our quest for parenthood, we discover conception requires precise timing that leaves a very small window of time for success. Regardless of the total length of a woman’s cycle, the egg lives an average of only 24 hours, but sometimes as long as 48 hours. This means conception can occur only one to two days out of every cycle! In numerical terms this means that during an average 28 day cycle a woman cannot conceive for 26 – 27 days of the cycle! So how in the world does anybody ever get pregnant?
This is where the life span of the sperm enters the equation. Sperm live an average of three days but up to as long as five days! Typically boy sperm swim faster but do not last long as compared to girl sperm which swim slower but last much longer. To increase your chances of conceiving a boy, it is said to be best to have intercourse as close to ovulation as possible – as early as 24 hours before but no later than 12 hours after ovulation. To increase your chances of conceiving a girl, it is said to be best to have intercourse two and a half to three days before ovulation occurs.
Regardless of gender, conception can occur from intercourse five days before ovulation and even two days after ovulation, giving you one week of major fertile time! Good luck to all those out there who are trying to put one and one together to make one!
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So basically, if you want a baby just have sex every day. Simple enough.
@FuhkAwf@xanga - LOL thats the same advice our Dr gave me.. He said have sex every day for 6 months and if we are still not pregnant then we will look into further testing.. needless to say my husband was thrilled =)
@FuhkAwf@xanga - Makes it WAY more fun, too ;)
Every other day is what all my doctors (seen 3 now) have told me since it can take sperm a bit longer to regenerate... We've been trying for 4 years next month and are about to start our 10th medicated cycle, 4th IUI. It's not as easy as "just having sex" for about 7.3 million couples! If you've been trying for 1 year under age 35, 6 months over 35 get to a doctor (preferably reproductive endocrinologist) and demand testing to see what's going on! It's not always a woman's problem, husbands need to get tested too! :)
So, in order to successfully conceive, we get to have sex every day? Oh...!
More people need to know this. Luckily, I've been educated on everything related to a woman's reproductive cycle/mentral cycle and it really helps to know when I'm fertile and not. I even feel myself ovulate, which only 20% of women do, so that definitely helps!
@FuhkAwf@xanga - That will certainly be my strategy, when the time comes.
Now days it's common for women to put off having children until their later 30's and early 40's, and pregnancy just doesn't always occur like it does in the 20's, no matter what doctors tell us. There are reasons for getting pregnant many years pre-menopause. And yet, anyone see those women on t.v., the Duggars and the Bates? 19 kids a piece? Talk about fertile, but also we are seeing them having more and more miscarriages. Their bodies, in their forties, don't produce the progesterone needed to implant the fetus.
@walawalawinksi@xanga - Ever notice your lips plump up during ovulation? (the ones on your face. Ha!) It's so funny... My skin clears up usually too!
@MommyMarty22@xanga - Lol I will have to pay more attention next time! And usually I have a little outbreak of acne :( But I'm glad yours clears up!
@LadyGwenivere@xanga - Why weren't you having sex everyday already o.0 lollll
@socialite_baby@xanga - yea i know its not as easy as just having sex,.. been married and HTC for a little over 7 years. Last month we adopted our son and are now waiting to adopt the little girl in our care.. we became foster/adoptive parents instead of doing all the testing.
@FuhkAwf@xanga - That method worked for me. Unintentionally.
You can make GIRL BABIES or BOY BABIES - whichever you choose, if you know what you are doing. And you can LEARN what you are doing by going to the site www.woomb.org The site belongs to a Lady Doctor who discovered that vaginal mucous flow teaches you everything you need to know about FERTILITY, i,e, when the woman is ovulating (to the minute!), when she is not fertile, and how to choose the gender of your children. It worked for us 3 times. Not only that, her information allows the couple to get on the SAME SEX CYCLE...so each body feels build up. (Men don't go on PMS thank God though). check it out...www.woomb.org
This just made me feel I have no hope
Oh well, will have to make the "sacrifice" of "doing the homework" every day.. ha!@walawalawinksi@xanga - Only 20% of women can feel when they ovulate? Wow, every woman in my family can tell by the small pain/cramping near whichever ovary is ovulating (it's called mittlesmerch), so I just assumed everyone felt that. My best friend thought I was nuts.
@mevlink@xanga - Yeah that's what I read, and all my friends think I'm crazy too lol. I don't think I felt myself ovulate consistently until I was about 19 or 20. It's really kool though because one particular time I ovulated, I paid a lot of attention to my body that day and for the next two weeks, because I knew there could be a chance I was pregnant, and I was!
I'll keep this in mind when I am trying to get pregnant. Until then, it's condoms and the pill for me. Yaaaay
This is very cool. After my husband and I were married, we figured it would take a while to get pregnant, since most couples have to keep trying for 6-12 months before they conceive. We got pregnant 6 weeks after our wedding! Must have timed it just right ;)
@walawalawinksi@xanga - that's great! you will be able to make either a boy or a girl baby as you choose....and pick up on God's offering of being Co-Creators of the new human... (He makes the soul when you choose the body!) I learned it while studying the Billings Method of Fertility Awareness and it was really great to learn. www.woomb.org But then I realized it is explaining how to choose the gender of the child, so we chose a girl first for two strong reasons which I could explain upon inquiry. When that worked as planned, I said: "I want a son !" and for our next baby we made a boy. The third one we knew would be a girl from the way things went on the sofa...not that we really cared which it would be, and sure enough our final child is a sweetie teenager now with pea green nail polish and begging for an ear post.
@MHYLMF@xanga - Duh, you may not be able to get pregnant then...or you may get pregnant when you didn't think you could. what then? kill it? getting OFF the pill is not easy to do without screwing up. you are walking on the wrong side of the street - for selfish motives?
@mortimerZilch@xanga - Ok, first of all I'm only 19 and I think that not wanting to get pregnant is a pretty smart idea, not a selfish motive. Secondly, the only thing that my birth control pill does is thicken my cervical mucus so that in the case a condom breaks, it's harder for sperm to swim their little tails into my uterus; if I were to stop using it, sperm would just have an easier path into my uterus. Thirdly, abortion would be MY choice, not a debate, if I got pregnant unexpectedly. Which is why I use condoms and take a pill in the first place.
to kill a child in the womb is the MOST selfish act...why are you going down this road in your life?
Love is not measured by what you get, but by what you give. the more you give, the more you HAVE to give. it defies explanation. Life is a mystery full of beauty and joy...but the GIVER is greater than the Gift. You need to OPEN YOUR EYES and not be so insecure as to hold on to a man at the cost of your most intimate humanity.