Top Tips to Help to Get Pregnant
November 21st, 2009 | 
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What can I do to help to get pregnant? This is a question many women ask themselves. Getting pregnant is one of the most wonderful, complex and satisfying experience a woman can have. Here are eight top tips you can do which will certainly help to get pregnant.
1. The key to getting pregnant is a bit of forward planning. Examine your life-style before you conceive. Healthy eating will help to get pregnant. Ask yourself: do you skip breakfast, do you eat on the go and do you eat enough fruit and vegetables? Do you eat sugary highly refined foods? In fact being a healthy weight for your height will really help to get pregnant. Don’t reach for the unrealistic height/weight charts you find in some magazines. Go to your family doctor instead and he will provide with you with this information as well as a healthy eating programme if you need one.
2. Taking the best vitamin/mineral/nutritional supplement you can find will help to get pregnant. Vitamins and minerals are just the beginning. Taking a high-quality, broad-spectrum nutritional supplement helps fill in the dietary gaps that everyone will have. Take these nutritional supplements three months or so before you want to get pregnant and include folic acid as this is essential for healthy spine formation.
3. Breaking bad habits and establishing good ones will help to get pregnant. Stopping smoking and alcohol will make for a healthier you and a healthy baby.
4. Women have cycles of different lengths. Some are 26, 28 or even 32 days. Recording the length of your cycle over this period to show what length of cycle you have will really help to get pregnant. This is because ovulation normally occurs 14 days before menstruation and “fertile days” begin normally three days before and three days after the day of ovulation. For conception these would be the days to concentrate on.
5. Keeping an eye on your temperature and your cervical mucus are both excellent ways to help to get pregnant!
A woman’s body temperature drops and then rises just before ovulation. Take your temperature each morning before you get out of bed and chart it on a daily temperature chart for several months.. A regular pattern will soon emerge. You are fertile for one day before the temperature drops and for one day after it remains elevated. The cervical mucus goes through a cycle of changes as the month progresses. As you approach the fertile period the mucus you produce becomes abundant, clear and stretchy-like egg-white in fact. As soon as you notice this change it is time to conceive.
6. Having sex using the missionary position help to get pregnant- the time-proven ‘man-on-top’ position works with gravity to encourage semen flow toward the uterus to maximize the chance of a sperm uniting with the egg and causing conception. One of the related best tips on getting pregnant is — after ejaculation, the woman can remain on her back with her legs bent a few minutes to further maximize semen flow toward the uterus.
7. When you really want to get pregnant, the temptation is to try all the time at every moment. It is often thought that frequent intercourse will help to get pregnant. In fact the opposite is true. The more often your partner ejaculates, the fewer sperm are contained in his ejaculate. Abstaining from intercourse for a few days before your fertile period and trying no more than once a day will therefore help to get pregnant.
8. Finally, one of the most important things you can do which help to get pregnant is to try to relax. This often becomes more difficult the more people say “Just relax and don’t try too hard”. It is really beneficial however to look at areas of your life that are more stressful and to find activities that counteract this stress, not because it increases fertility but because it feels good. Massage, acupuncture and gentle exercise are endorphin producing activities and reduce stress. The “feel good” factor will produce a happy, healthier you and help to get pregnant.
Dorothy Gillies
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Do you know of any stress releasing tips for pregnant women?
I am 5-6 weeks pregnant and I get stressed really easy. The first trimester is the most important time for the baby. I dont want to get stressed and have a miscarrage. Do you have any tips?
do some relaxation breathing and watch some romantic comedies….take walks when the weather is good and do some imformative reading.
Don’t worry, things will work out. And no matter what all the worry in the world won’t make a difference. Turn that switch off and try to remember that this is totally natural and that good doctors are taking care of everything…..and as our doctor told us the day of our delivery……don’t worry, you’re having that baby today and we’ll take good care of you both:)))
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Go for a walk or meditate. Exercise always helps with stress.
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Pre-natal yoga and pre-natal massage.
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exercise or pregnancy yoga really helped me, well best it could. Reading a book in a warm bath (not hot) helped a lot too. They sell a pregnancy yoga DVD at almost all stores, i really recommend it , it has a lot of stress relieving techniques in it
GL
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Yoga works great. All you need is 5 minutes.
All of your trimesters are very important to the development of your child.
Congratulations
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I’m about the same (5-6 weeks). I find exercising helps a lot! I just walk around the track at the gym (sometimes pretty slowly) but the moving around helps. It also seems to help with my morning sickness–I feel better the mornings after I exercise (less nausea)
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Take walks, a nice bath just breath there is not much you can do to prevent a miscarrigae it is just one of those things that happens, so just take it day by day, and make sure you do something for yourself everyday because before you knwo it you will not be able to since eveything you do is for the baby. Good Luck and Wishes.
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Try to do all the things that help you relax…a nice warm bath, naps if you can, nice warm blankets with good books, good movies, drink milk, that helps, (skim or lowfat is fine),,,,if you are lucky enough to be able to pamper yourself, have your feet rubbed and so on……..
try not to stress aobut being pregnant, women have been doing it for years and it all turns out okay…!!!!…
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First of all congratulations!
Ok you should remove yourself from the stressor, get up and walk away, excuse yourself, if it is a person. Go for a little walk for about 10 minutes or so. The exercise is really good for both you and the baby!
Try some yoga to destress after work. This will also help with flexability and loosen some muscles in time for childbirth!
If these types of avtivities bother or frustrate you then you should steer clear of these.
Find an activity that you enjoy doing. Maybe take up something like crocheting or knitting. Most importantly have fun with whatever you decide to try!
Good Luck!
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This is my personal recommendation as a mother of 3, with twins on the way. If it’s not uncomfortable, try having sex on a regular basis. When you have sex you release endorphins as well as other "feel-good" hormones which are amazing stress relievers. (For you AND your partner!)
Also, other techniques to try is deep breathing exercises, aromatherapy, social stimulation with friends and pregnancy message.
Congrats on your pregnancy!
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Me. Mother of 3, with twins due in July.
Swimming worked wonders for me. I swam my little cares away and it’s excellent exercise. I felt better, slept better, and was more reasonable in my thought processes. When I didn’t swim I was really uptight and wanted to scream.
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don’t be afraid to ask for help with work/chores. you’re right about this time being crucial for a baby’s development. you should take a warm bubble bath, schedule a prenatal massage at a good spa, begin your baby’s scrapbook and baby calendar, take walks in good shoes when the weather is nice, hang out with good friends and your family, go see a movie, indulge in some of your favorite ice cream. just some ideas!
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take a soak in a warm bath in candle light thats nice and relaxing
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There is great information on stress management and how to reduce your stress at ( http://www.reducingstress.net )
Good Luck
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