If you are trying to conceive naturally, and are looking for tips and tricks to speed up
the process, you have come to the right place.
I’m Fertility Expert Doctor Randy Morris.
Today, I am going to tell you how to time intercourse to maximize your chances for success.
You will also learn about the impact of sexual frequency and whether you can use vaginal lubricants
Watch THIS video to learn about sexual position and its impact on trying to conceive.
Outside of the body, sperm don’t live very long.
Inside of a woman’s reproductive organs, however, sperm can live for several days.
This means that there are several days during the month when sex can produce a pregnancy.
To maximize the chances for a pregnancy, you should have sex before ovulation or on the
day of ovulation.
How do I know this?
Several years ago, scientists studied 221 healthy women who were trying to get pregnant.
They kept a diary of each time they had intercourse and the scientists used hormone tests to determine
the exact day of ovulation.
By the end of the study, they recorded data on 192 pregnancies.
Here is what we learned from that study
The fertility window is 6 days long.
In every cycle in which conception occurred, couples had intercourse at least once during
this six day window.
The earliest pregnancies were conceived with intercourse 5 days before the day of ovulation.
The latest pregnancies occurred when intercourse occurred on the day of ovulation.
There were NO pregnancies conceived when intercourse only happened earlier or later than that window.
This means that if you only have intercourse 1 week or more before ovulation or a day or
more after ovulation, your chances for pregnancy are slim to none.
Within that fertile window, if you have sex closer to the time of ovulation
the chances for conceiving are higher.
Intercourse on the first day of the six day window gives you about an 8% chance for pregnancy.
On the last day of the fertile window, which is the day of ovulation, the probability for
pregnancy is about 36%.
Statistically, those last three days of that fertile window give roughly the same chances
for success and are much better than the first three days.
We’ll call those last 3 days the PEAK fertility window
How frequently should you have sex?
The data says it doesn’t matter.
Couples who reported more sex during the fertile window did not have any more pregnancies than
couples who had sex less frequently or couples who had intercourse only once.
Getting pregnant is not about how often you have sex, its about WHEN you have sex.
As long as you have sex at least once during the Peak Fertility Window, you will maximize
your chances for pregnancy during that month.
If you don’t know when you ovulate, having sex more frequently can increase the chances
that you will hit the Peak Fertility window.
Does this mean you need to have sex every day?
No!
If you have sex every other day or even every 3rd day, will still be guaranteed to hit that
Peak Fertility window at least once.
What about lubricants?
If you use lubricants, you are not alone.
One study found that nearly 30% of couples attempting to conceive reported the occasional
use of lubricants during intercourse, and 14.3% reported frequent use.
There has been concern about the use of lubricants in couples trying to conceive since some studies
done in the laboratory have suggested that some lubricants may adversely affect the movement
of sperm.
Sperm movement under a microscope doesn’t necessarily predict what will happen in real
life conditions when couples are having intercourse to try to conceive
This 2012 study looked at 300 couples who were attempting pregnancy.
They compared couples who used a lubricant during the fertile window to those that didn't.
The study did not find any difference in how long it took couples to get pregnant whether
they were using a vaginal lubricant or not.
This study was too small to compare different types of lubricants
In 2018, a much larger study looked at 6500 women who were trying to conceive.
This study was large enough to look at the effect of different types of lubricants which
they divided into four groups, water based with pH balance or not, oil based
and silicone based.
These groups includes all of the commonly marketed brands of lubricants like Pre-Seed,
KY and Astroglide. As well as improvised lubricants like baby oil, olive oil and vegetable oil.
The results of this study confirmed the results of the earlier study.
Lubricant users took the same amount of time to become pregnant as non lubricant users.
It did not matter what type of lubricant was used.
Couples who used lubricants that slowed sperm movement under the microscope still got pregnant
as quickly as non users.
Specifically, lubricants that were marketed as being fertility friendly had no benefit
over other lubricants
Our InfertilityTV Bottom Line is this.
It is possible to get pregnant over a six day window.
Your best chance to conceive a pregnancy is when you have intercourse either two days
before ovulation, one day before ovulation or on the day of ovulation.
The frequency of intercourse does not matter as long as you hit one of those three days.
If you suffer from vaginal dryness during intercourse, don’t worry, you can use a
vaginal lubricant without affecting your chance for pregnancy.
Any type of lubricant will work, you dont need to pay extra to use a special fertility
friendly brand.
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