Alania
I need help. What can I do that will lessen a chance of pregnancy if I had sex? Any tips? What should I do to avoid pregnancy? And also, when is a woman ovulating and most likely to become pregnant, before or after their period?
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The best way to not get pregnant is to no have sex, unless you are the virgin mary. Then you are screwed. (pun)
If you are going to have sex, always use birth control. Even better use two kinds of highly effective birth control. A good way to do this is pick one of the following to use: the patch, the pill, depo, or the implant ones. Then make sure to get it renewed when needed or take your pill at the same time (within two hours) every day. ALso, use condoms. If you want to be extra safe, through in some spermicidal foam or spermicidal lube. Just make sure it is safe to use with the condom and won't cause it to tear. (some will).
If for some reason, you miss a pill/shot/patch or the condom breaks, you can always take Plan B (the morning after pill). This thickens cervical mucus so the sperm have a lot of difficulty swimming to the ovum. I would suggest keeping it around just in case, because it is most effective the sooner you take it. So if you could take it immediately after the unprotected sex, you are best off. It does work somewhat for up to 3 days though.
If you are on a 28 day cycle then you will have your period sometime between days 1-7.
Ovulation takes place generally on day 14, but you are most fertile up to 3 days before and 3 days after.
Sperm can survive in your body 2-4 days which is why ovulation is such a long period of time.
By day 26 the lining has detached after "fading" in days 18-25
I've included a handy chart with more info that is curiously enough from a website explaining how to get pregnant.
Less than 1% of women will get pregnant if using the pill, patch, or depo properly.
Less than 2% will get pregnant if using condoms properly
and the morning after pill is up to %89 effective.
so think of it as a 1% chance of getting pregnant while on birth control. the condom reduces that one percent down to .0004%( this is 2% of 1) if used right. and then 11% chance of that .0004% chance which is .000044%. So if you use them all properly. you should be pretty safe.
The best way to not get pregnant is to no have sex, unless you are the virgin mary. Then you are screwed. (pun)
If you are going to have sex, always use birth control. Even better use two kinds of highly effective birth control. A good way to do this is pick one of the following to use: the patch, the pill, depo, or the implant ones. Then make sure to get it renewed when needed or take your pill at the same time (within two hours) every day. ALso, use condoms. If you want to be extra safe, through in some spermicidal foam or spermicidal lube. Just make sure it is safe to use with the condom and won't cause it to tear. (some will).
If for some reason, you miss a pill/shot/patch or the condom breaks, you can always take Plan B (the morning after pill). This thickens cervical mucus so the sperm have a lot of difficulty swimming to the ovum. I would suggest keeping it around just in case, because it is most effective the sooner you take it. So if you could take it immediately after the unprotected sex, you are best off. It does work somewhat for up to 3 days though.
If you are on a 28 day cycle then you will have your period sometime between days 1-7.
Ovulation takes place generally on day 14, but you are most fertile up to 3 days before and 3 days after.
Sperm can survive in your body 2-4 days which is why ovulation is such a long period of time.
By day 26 the lining has detached after "fading" in days 18-25
I've included a handy chart with more info that is curiously enough from a website explaining how to get pregnant.
Less than 1% of women will get pregnant if using the pill, patch, or depo properly.
Less than 2% will get pregnant if using condoms properly
and the morning after pill is up to %89 effective.
so think of it as a 1% chance of getting pregnant while on birth control. the condom reduces that one percent down to .0004%( this is 2% of 1) if used right. and then 11% chance of that .0004% chance which is .000044%. So if you use them all properly. you should be pretty safe.
Tips for getting pregnant! Advice!! ?
Heather
My husband and I tried for a few months and then he got deployed. Now that he is back we have been trying for almost 5 months. I'm getting concerned! It seems like everyone else can get pregnant so much faster than me!! Does anyone have any tips that helped them get pregnant?
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Getting Pregnant Is Hard Work
We have two kids aged 2 and 4 and this is how it all started.
My husband and I married late ie in our mid and later part of thirty. We knew we wanted to start a family so we went to work immediately. What we didn't realise was that getting pregnant is hard work. The people in the movies always get pregnant so easily but in reality its not that easy. Every month theres only a short window of opportunity (fertile period) where sperm gets the chance to meet egg and get fertilized.
We bought books, among them Dr Miriam Stoppard's "Conception, pregnancy and birth", "What to Expect when you're expecting" by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff & Sandee E. Hathaway and a "Pregnancy for Dummies" book. They were all great books and very helpful to a clueless couple like us.
We signed up for Babycenter's conception newsletter. This was amusing. It would send us email reminders of the fertile period. "Tonight is the night for some activities" it said. Actually, I don't remember what the email said but it was amusing nevertheless.
In addition, we also made our own ovulation chart using an ovulation calculator. You can find many of these calculators online. My favourite was the fertility calculator from HealthAtoZ.com because the result was a pretty calander with a rose on the expected ovulation date.
We even charted my Basal Body Temperature (BBT). This involved the husband sticking a thermometer in my mouth the moment I wake up as the chart would not be accurate if you take the temperature after you get up and move about. The temperature would go up after ovulation and you can only see a pattern after several months of charting.
With these methods, we achieved success in 4 months for our first and 1 month for our second. Even our gynaecologist laughed with us when we showed her our charts. She thought we were very hardworking indeed.
One thing I want to add. Making love for making babies can be quite a chore and rather tiring. To achieve a better success rate, you have to do it everyday or every other day during the fertile period. Some pretty lingerie, sweet scents and a sense of humour definitely helps. And of course a mutual desire to have a baby would be good. When you have other kids in the picture, getting the timing right is even harder as you have to either wake up very early or stay up very late to make baby! Yaaawwwwn....
And remember, try to lower your levels of stress as cutting stress may increase your chances of pregnancy. Read more here: Stress reduction boosts chance of pregnancy, offers alternative treatment to restore fertility
Getting Pregnant Is Hard Work
We have two kids aged 2 and 4 and this is how it all started.
My husband and I married late ie in our mid and later part of thirty. We knew we wanted to start a family so we went to work immediately. What we didn't realise was that getting pregnant is hard work. The people in the movies always get pregnant so easily but in reality its not that easy. Every month theres only a short window of opportunity (fertile period) where sperm gets the chance to meet egg and get fertilized.
We bought books, among them Dr Miriam Stoppard's "Conception, pregnancy and birth", "What to Expect when you're expecting" by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff & Sandee E. Hathaway and a "Pregnancy for Dummies" book. They were all great books and very helpful to a clueless couple like us.
We signed up for Babycenter's conception newsletter. This was amusing. It would send us email reminders of the fertile period. "Tonight is the night for some activities" it said. Actually, I don't remember what the email said but it was amusing nevertheless.
In addition, we also made our own ovulation chart using an ovulation calculator. You can find many of these calculators online. My favourite was the fertility calculator from HealthAtoZ.com because the result was a pretty calander with a rose on the expected ovulation date.
We even charted my Basal Body Temperature (BBT). This involved the husband sticking a thermometer in my mouth the moment I wake up as the chart would not be accurate if you take the temperature after you get up and move about. The temperature would go up after ovulation and you can only see a pattern after several months of charting.
With these methods, we achieved success in 4 months for our first and 1 month for our second. Even our gynaecologist laughed with us when we showed her our charts. She thought we were very hardworking indeed.
One thing I want to add. Making love for making babies can be quite a chore and rather tiring. To achieve a better success rate, you have to do it everyday or every other day during the fertile period. Some pretty lingerie, sweet scents and a sense of humour definitely helps. And of course a mutual desire to have a baby would be good. When you have other kids in the picture, getting the timing right is even harder as you have to either wake up very early or stay up very late to make baby! Yaaawwwwn....
And remember, try to lower your levels of stress as cutting stress may increase your chances of pregnancy. Read more here: Stress reduction boosts chance of pregnancy, offers alternative treatment to restore fertility
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