planning pregnancy, best fertility dates?

Question

finding out when is best to conceive

Answer 1

Start charting you basal body temperature and checking your cervical fluid. This will tell you the best time to conceive.

Your temp will go up and stay up after ovulation till your period.

Your cervical fluid after your period will go from dry to creamy to watery to egg white. When it looks like eggwhites you are the most fertal and should try to conceive around those days. Try having sex every day or every other day after your period and as many days as possible around the time your cervical fluid starts to look like eggwhites. Don't stop till it looks kinda dry again like right after your period and your temp has gone up.

Answer 2

I'm trying to conceive as well, and the WebMD web site was really helpful in determining the best fertility dates. You just enter in the first day of your last period and the length of your cycle (days of period AND days of no period added together = length of cycle). This is the link:

http://www.webmd.com/medical_information/health_tools/interactive/ovu_calendar.htm

Just click "Join WebMD now" and put in your name and everything (just takes a sec). It's really easy and it tells you when you're "a little fertile" , "fertile", "really fertile" and "really really fertile"! It even tells you the day implantation will occur. The web site has all sorts of information you'd be interested in. Just go to the pregnancy tab on the sites home page. Good luck to you!

Answer 3

You need to be having sexual intercourse with your partner before & during the time you ovulate for maximum chance of conception.
To work out when you are ovulating each month take the number of days your cycle is long & take 14 away from that. Ie : a cycle of 30 days would be 30-14=16 therefore day 16 being the day you ovulate. All women generally ovulate 14 days BEFORE their NEXT period. Cycles vary in length because the number of days between day 1 of your period & ovulation is what alters from women to woman.
Once you have worked out when you ovulate make sure you are having intercourse 5 days prior (as sperm can live for 5 days in your body and has time to get where needed) leading up to & during ovulation. Once you ovulate the released egg takes 2 days approx on its journey, so there approx 7 days each month when you have the highest chance of conceiving.
I hope this helps & good luck!

Answer 4

You are most fertile the day you ovulate and the few days before you ovulate (that's because sperm can live inside you for 3 to 5 days, but your egg only lives for 1 day). The "average" woman ovulates 14 days before the start of her next period. To know when you ovulate, you can track your basal body temperature, or buy an ovulation predictor kit (I'd do both for the first few months).

Answer 5

women is most fertile between 9-15 days of her period

Answer 6

try going to websites like babycenter.com and use their ovulation calendar. you enter your last period and how long your cycle is and it will tell you your most fertile days. good luck!!

Answer 7

you can buy ovulation predictions tests from the chemist which should tell you the best time to have sex to fall.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

check out this place you can chart your cycle and know when to try

Answer 10

There is no such thing as too much information in charting your fertility indicators. Your body can tell you a great deal about your fertility, all you have to do is pay attention and document what you find. Charting your waking body temperature, cervical fluid and cervical position can indicate when you are most fertile during your monthly cycle. Charting can give you crucial information as to when your peak (most fertile) time is, when you have ovulated, when your menstrual period should begin, if you have conceived or if there is a possible hormonal imbalance. It takes the average fertile couple five to six months to conceive. Fertile couples, who know when they are fertile, and who make love frequently during that opportune time, usually become pregnant much sooner. Fertility charting is one of the first, easiest and least expensive things you can do on your journey to becoming pregnant. If you have been trying to get pregnant, for any length of time, you have probably learned some basic information on fertility charting. Charting is useful for women who are trying to get pregnant, trying to avoid pregnancy, or who simply wants to have a better understanding of her body. Most people simply take it for granted that they will be able to have children, unfortunately for many of us it isn’t that easy. If you wish to conceive, you can increase your chances of becoming pregnant if you begin charting with your next menstrual cycle. If you are trying to ‘not’ conceive, fertility charting can be used to learn about your body and decrease your caches of becoming pregnant. The information is all the same, you still want to know when to time sexual intercourse. You are looking for your fertile window, except that when trying to ‘not’ conceiving you will want to avoid this window. For this workbook we will assume that you are trying to conceive, but please feel free to sue it even if you are not. Charting is the perfect starting point to learn about your body and your personal menstrual cycles.

Fertility charting is low tech, inexpensive and available to everyone, there are free charts and lots of information all over the internet. Some will allow you to plot your information on-line and do the reading for you. By observing, and recording your fertility signs, you can see when you are most apt to be fertile. Every menstrual cycle has fairly predictable hormonal changes that can be monitored by you. You will document these symptoms to help you learn about your unique fertility patters so you can use them to become pregnant. There is no such thing as too much information to log in your chart - every little twinge may be telling you something! An ideal fertility chart shows all your fertility signs lined up just so to suggest one ovulation date. Your documentation will tell you when you are apt to ovulate and when you should expect your period or do a pregnancy test. If you have fairly regular menstrual cycles, will know when to time baby making sex for the highest odds of conception. Some women are acutely aware of monthly body changes, while others have such subtle changes that they never notice. Now is the time for you to learn to recognize what your body is trying to tell you. Documenting, even the most subtle of these bits of information, on a well-organized fertility chart, can help you understand how everything works together. Many couples will find that better timing for intercourse will make things happen sooner. Other couples may be able to eliminate timing as a problem and look into other possible issues.

Your workbook fertility chart consists of three sections (common to all BBT charts), and several modifications that I feel are beneficial. The first section of your chart is used for tracking your basal body temperature, the second is for monitoring your cervical mucus and the third is for documenting changes in your cervix. Instructions on monitoring, and documenting, will be covered in more depth as you read further. Fertility charting, when used properly, will help you predict your ovulation in up coming cycles. Charting your BBT, cervical mucus and cervical position will allow you to time intercourse when you are at your most fertile time, thus greatly increasing your chances of becoming pregnant. If your body follows all the typical fertility signs, it should look rather boring. A well-kept chart should show you if you are ovulation, if it is occurring regularly, if it occurs at the right time during your cycle and if you timed sex when beneficial. It is recommended that you have intercourse every day, or every other day, during your fertile time. Women are only fertile for a limited time during each cycle. Conception is only possible if intercourse occurs during the few days before, or the day of, ovulation. If everything is in perfect working order, using the maximized life span of the sperm and ova, (five days for sperm and 24 hours for the egg), your fertile window is up to six days long. On average your unfertilized egg has a short life span of six to 24 hours. After this time frame, the egg begins to degenerate and is no longer capable of being fertilized. Your partner’s healthy sperm has an average life span of 48 to 72 hours in the female reproductive tract. As a result of this limited time, only the couple of days before and the day of ovulation are considered fertile days. Having these times overlap through careful times can be the most crucial part to successful conception. A practical fertile window is just three days during each cycle.

You should find that your menstrual cycle is made up of three phases. The first stage is the beginning on your cycle and is known as menses. Charting begins on day one of menses. The second phase is the follicular phase and occurs after menses and before ovulation. The length of the follicular phase may vary from cycle to cycle and from woman to woman. The follicular phase length determines your cycle length. Ovulation divides the follicular phase from the luteal phase. The luteal phase occurs after ovulation and lasts from 12 to 14 days, but may last from 10 to 15 days. The luteal phase length is usually fairly consistent rarely changing, more than a day or two, from cycle to cycle in an individual woman. You may have been told that most ‘regular’ cycles last from 29 to 30 days, as you are probably aware, we are all different and so are the lengths of our cycles. A typical menstrual cycle may be anywhere from 21 to 35 days, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Our cycles are all individual and different things can affect each cycle, but hopefully yours will show the hormone patterns that you seek. Life happens and things affect our bodies differently. You will probably find that no two cycles are exactly the same, but they should be similar. Charting will help you to realize when the three phases occur in your cycle so you can determine when you are most likely to conceive. You probably grew up believing that you ovulate, or are most fertile, on day 14 of your menstrual cycle, mid cycle or 14 days before your period is expected. This time frame is known as the cover line, but the assumption is based on broad averages and they may not be true for you, even if your cycles are regular. When cycles are irregular, it is usually a result of ovulation occurring earlier or later than expected. Knowing when you ovulate allows you to have a good idea if intercourse was well timed for conception and lets you determine your luteal phase length. Knowing your luteal phase length tells you when to expect your period or a positive pregnancy test result. Though not accurate either, the luteal phase is supposed to be 10 to 17 days long. By using this, you count back the length of your longest luteal phase from the length of your average cycle. It is suggested that you mark and ‘O’ on your chart to signify the earliest that you may ovulate. If you have a ‘regular’ length cycle, this means you should mark you ‘O’ at, or around, day 11 in your upcoming cycle. You can use this ‘O’ as a warning point for you to be a bit more observant in your monitoring