Best Time Of The Month To Get Pregnant

Using Basal Body Temperature (BBT) to Work out the Best Time of the Month to Conceive

An increase in body temperature can be utilised as an indication of the best time to get pregnant. Once ovulation has occurred, your basal body temperature can raise by 0.5 to 1.6 degrees. You won’t notice such a small change in your temperature, but you can observe the difference by using a special glass fertility thermometer or a digital thermometer. Be careful that you always take your basal temperature from the same place e.g. the mouth to ensure consistency in your results. Your difference in temperature is caused by increased manufacture of the progesterone hormone (brought on by ovulation). The best time to conceive is in the two or three days before your temperature reaches its high point. Somes experts think you may have an extra 12 to 24 hour window of fertility after you first notice the temperature creep up, but most say that by the time you notice a temperature rise you have already passedpassed your fertile period. Charting your basal temperature for several ovulation phases can help you know exactly the time that you ovulate. This allows you to plan having sex 2 to 3 days prior to ovulation to increase your chances of getting pregnant.

More physical signs and symptoms that teach you the most appropriate time of the month to conceive.

There are many other visible changes that take place leading up to and throughout ovulation that provide further indicators that you can learn to recognise in your fertility cycle.

* Lower abdominal pain can be a sign of ovulation. About one-fifth of women actually feel ovulatory activity, which can range from mild aches to twinges of pain in the lower abdomen. The condition, called Mittelschmerz, may last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. If you experience Mittelschmerz, your body has just ovulated and the next 12 hours are the best time to get pregnant.
* You may observe that you have an escalated sex drive around the time of ovulation.
* Professor Erik Odeblad from Sweden, in his research into signs of fertility, noticed that some women endure the swelling of a small lymph node in their groin during ovulation. Although not all women can detect this lymph node, you can test for it by feeling in your groin during the days that your fertile mucus appears: the lymph node will feel like a pea-sized swelling on one side.

Keeping a detailed fertility calendar using a combination of these methods is a great method of knowing when the best time to get pregnant is for you.