This is the fifth video in the fertility series: How to Get Pregnant Fast.
And in this video, I'm going to give you some tips to speed up, or maximise, your chances
of conception.
I'm going to give you the highlights in this video.
If you'd like a little bit more detail, you can buy the book, 'How to Get Pregnant Fast',
that accompanies this series.
It's available on Amazon, and the link is in the description.
Okay, so, the reality is that most couples who are regularly having sex will get pregnant
within two years, regardless of age.
However, there are a few things you can do to speed up this process, and I'm going to
tell you five of them.
Okay, the first one is about timing when you have sex.
The best time to have sex is one to two days before you ovulate; if you have sex at this
time, you double your chances of conceiving.
You also massively reduce your risk of having a miscarriage, if you conceive at this time.
The second tip kind of ties in with this, and it's about being able to pinpoint when
you ovulate.
The best ways of doing this are to monitor your cervical mucus and to monitor the position
of your cervix.
These two things will give you the best way of accurately estimating when you're going
to ovulate.
There are more details about this in the book, but these are the things you want to be doing.
There are also a number of monitors and apps that can help you to pinpoint ovulation, and
I've put a link to a really good review of these—again, in the description.
The third tip is about the sexual position that you use.
Now, there's no kind of hard and fast evidence to support this, but there are a few theories
that are advocated by some of the experts.
So, the best positions for having sex in are doggy style, missionary, and side by side.
And it's thought that these positions allow for the deepest penetration and contact with
the cervix, and reduce the chance of leakage.
It's also quite a good idea for your partner to keep his penis inside of you after his
orgasm because this, again, kind of creates a natural barrier, it reduces the chances
of leakage, and it concentrates the semen at the cervix.
The fourth tip is about after sex—what you do.
Now, you might have heard that you, after you've had sex, you need to lie with your
hips elevated; actually, there's no evidence to support that because, in fact, your pelvis
doesn't move in this position.
All you need to do is lie down for about 10 to 15 minutes after sex, and gravity will
ensure that the sperm gets where it needs to get.
Okay, so, my final tip is about safeguarding sperm.
Now, outside of your ovulation window, it's a good idea to be having sex about every five
days, so that your partner’s sperm is being flushed out, so at the point where you want
to try and conceive you've got the healthiest sperm possible.
Then, five days before you ovulate, which is called your fertile window, you want to
be having sex every day, or every other day, to maximise your chances of conceiving.
The other thing to bear in mind is that saliva and most lubricants are actually quite damaging
to sperm.
So, in your fertile window, when you're trying to conceive, you want to avoid having oral
sex, and you want to avoid using any lubricants that are damaging to sperm.
A particularly sperm friendly lubricant is something called Pre-Seed, which is readily
available.
Okay, so, those are the five tips.
Good luck with your fertility journey.
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