When you have decided you want a baby, get your body ready:
Take folic acid in supplement form, 400mcg a day, your physician can prescribe or it can be discovered in numerous foods like cornflakes.
Cut back on your caffeine consumption.
If you have just stopped using the pill, there’s some dispute about how long you must wait before attempting to conceive, but it’s probably best to wait 2 to 3 months.
The male should take zinc supplements to boost the strength and numbers of his sperm
He should also increase his vitamin D intake – drink milk.
No more alcoholic drinks.
Stop smoking.
Have sex at the right time…. And frequently. To have a chance of conceiving, live sperm has to fertilise an egg at the time of ovulation – customarily around day 14 of your period. Sperm will normally live for 3 days so will hang around waiting and your timing does not have to be specific. You can get ovulation predictor kits from the drugstore.
Be Patient – You may be doing everything right but you won’t always conceive in the first month. Actually you most likely won’t!. Success is strongly related to age:
Ladies aged 20-25 have a 1 in 4 chance of conceiving,
Women aged 30-35 the likelihood drops to 1 in 7, and the success rate falls as they grow older.
it’ll take a couple in their early to mid-twenties 5 cycles to conceive, and a couple in their early thirties 10 cycles. One out of ten couples must wait over a year before they succeed.
What If It Is Not Working? If you have been trying for a baby without success:
Make a temperature chart. After ovulation the woman’s body temperature rises by about .5 to 1.6 degrees and maintains this higher temperature until her next period. By measuring your temperature as soon as you wake and entering your temps on a chart, you can see when you ovulate. Ideally you should try to have sex just before then. You can’t turn the clock back obviously, but the chart will tell you whether you ovulate at the same time each month and, if this is the case you can plan for the following month. The temperature rise is little and you can feel more assured with an ovulation kit.
Try to lower your levels of stress. Stress can affect either partner and may decrease your odds of conceiving. Try and have a few days away from work just before ovulation is due.
If you’ve been unsuccessful for one year or more it is worth talking to your doctor.
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