How to Get Pregnant the Natural Way

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You may be asking this question because you want to know how pregnancy happens, but more than likely you are wanting to know how to conceive naturally. You are probably looking for the quickest and easiest way to get pregnant without interventions. You may be interested in getting pregnant naturally because of philosophical or religious reasons, health concerns, or just because you prefer not to use interventions.

The first thing you can do to get pregnant and to have a healthy pregnancy is to be physically healthy. It is important to not be over or under weight, both of which have negative effects on fertility and healthy pregnancies.

You also want to make sure you are exercising 3 to 4 times a week. Aerobic exercise is essential because it helps blood circulation and improves lung capacity. Incorporating weight-bearing exercises helps you gain muscle strength and lose weight easier, while yoga exercises help you work on posture and balance. This all contributes to a healthier you, which increase your chances of conception and a healthy pregnancy.

Physical health starts with how you treat your body. While exercising during pregnancy is an essential step towards a healthy you, it is more important you are not doing anything counter-productive for fertility and a healthy pregnancy. It is imperative you remove any unhealthy habits or practices that limit or decrease your physical health.

For maximum health you should eliminate or reduce the following:

Smoking

Alcohol

Recreational Drugs

Hazardous Chemicals

Caffeine

You may also want to talk to your healthcare provider regarding any prescription medication you are taking. Some medications are harmful to take during pregnancy. It is possible that your provider may want to forego or alter the medications you are taking to help increase your chances of conception and having a healthy pregnancy.

Additionally, eating healthy, well-balanced meals, along with ensuring daily consumption of certain nutrients and vitamins, is directly related to your health and wellness. Check out our article on preconception nutrition and health for men and women for other helpful ideas.

Ovulation

One of the keys to easy conception is knowing when ovulation is occurring. You can track ovulation with a fertility monitor or ovulation predictor kits. However, you can track your and predict your ovulation naturally without using these types of kits.

If you have a regular cycle that occurs every 28 to 32 days, you should be able to track your ovulation using the calendar method. This is simply recording the first day of your last menstrual period on the calendar and finding the corresponding next menstrual period day. Once you have that, you can count back 8 to 18 days and know that ovulation will occur on one of those days. With an average 28 day cycle, ovulation will occur on one day between the 11th and 21st cycle days (29 day cycle, 12-22 days; 30 day cycle, 13-23 days; and so on).

A second way to track ovulation is through monitoring the changes in your cervical mucus. As you get closer to ovulation, your mucus will become wetter, more slippery, and stretchier. It is often compared to egg whites. Ovulation is directly related to this change, and the day that you notice the most of this egg white discharge is the day you are expected to ovulate.

You can also use a basal thermometer to track your basal body temperature. Your basal body temperature will spike right after ovulation.

These techniques for tracking your ovulation naturally are part of a family planning method called fertility awareness or natural family planning (NFP). You can learn more about the calendar method, cervical mucus, and basal body temperatures in the article, Fertility Awareness.

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