5 Steps To Conception

Getting pregnant is much harder for many people than first anticipated. Luckily, there are a number of things you can do to increase your chances of getting pregnant. Follow these 5 steps to help you get pregnant.

Step 1 – Prepare Your Body

Before you begin trying to conceive, you should prepare your body to ensure you conceive quickly, but also to eliminate possible abnormalities to your baby. Firstly, you should be eating a healthy and balanced diet, rich in minerals and nutrients. This generally involves eating meat, fruit and vegetables on a regular bases. A healthy diet will keep you in a healthy weight range which is very important. Being overweight, even a little bit, can decrease your chances of conception considerably. Your reproductive system is controlled by the reproductive hormones your body releases. Being overweight causes strain on your body and can create hormone imbalances which can cause conditions such as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

You can do much more than just eating healthy to prepare your body for pregnancy. When trying to get pregnant, you should also be taking vitamin supplements. A pre-pregnancy supplement should include folate (folic acid) which reduces the risk of spinal defects and iodine which assists with eye and brain development.

Step 2 – Involve Your Partner

There are many factors that effect fertility, and one of them is your partner. There are steps that can be taken to ensure higher sperm quality, motility and count. If you want to conceive sooner, having these under control can help. Leading a healthy lifestyle is a key contributor in boosting male fertility. Firstly your partner should try to be as stress free as possible. Stress has a negative effect on sperm count which lowers the chance of conception. It’s important for your partner to take time to participate in activities that reduce stress and encourage relaxation. For some people that might be yoga or meditation, for others it might be playing sports or video games, it really doesnt matter,as long as it works.

Sickness also has a negative effect on sperm count and quality. A small cold or flu can have dramatic effects on sperm and significantly reduce the chances of conception. Sometimes we can’t help getting sick, but there are other things we can control, like alcohol. Once again, sperm count and quality are significantly effected by alcohol and should be avoided altogether when trying to conceive.

Step 3 – Learn Your Menstrual Cycle

Too many women rely on pre-set ovulation calenders or ovulation calculators. The reality is, every woman is different and there is simply no ‘one size fits all’ solution. Knowing and understanding how your menstrual cycle works is a critical step and one of the best tips to conceive that many women don’t utilise. Learning your cycle is very easy and can greatly increase your chances of conceiving if you want to know how to get pregnant. The menstrual cycle is quite complex and really requires more than a short paragraph in a blog post to explain it. If you are serious about getting pregnant I can recommend an eBook that you should consider purchasing where you can learn about the menstrual cycle in great depth (plus a whole lot more). The eBook is authored by a fertility expert and is called ‘How To Get Pregnant In 90 Days Or Less’. The menstrual cycle is covered in Chapter 2. Click here to visit the webpage.

Step 4 – Learn To Find Out When You’re Ovulating

Knowing how your menstrual cycle works is one thing, but actually being able to read your bodies signals to determine ovulation is a completely different topic. There are several methods to read your bodies signs of ovulation, some are accurate and others are not. We recommend the mucus tracking method which has been proven to be most accurate. I have written a whole blog post on how to calculate ovulation which would be beneficial to read if you are trying to get pregnant.

Step 5 – Have Vaginal Sex At The Right Time

Many women do not fall pregnant because they have sex too late when they have already ovulated. The key to getting pregnant is to have sex before you ovulate, to ensure the sperm are ready and waiting inside the fallopian tubes when the egg is released. I explain the conception process in great detail in the article ‘How to have a baby‘.