So you finally do it. You announce to the world that you and your significant other are trying to conceive a baby. And like a gust of an unexpected wind, everyone around you is only too enthusiastic to impart their words of wisdom. All want you to achieve the desired happy story ending of sperm meeting egg.
The conversations with those well-meaning friends can get quite scientific or downright eyebrow raising!
We engaged our momstown Milton mamas in a frank discussion on our message board about making the baby magic happen.
Here is our top 6 tips and tricks that were believed to help achieve a successful conception!
1. Legs up - Once you've done the deed, get those legs for a minimum of 20 minutes. Why? This may help the flow of sperm move in the right direction and can minimize the drip factor.
2. The big O - Reaching that orgasm can increase the blood flow and yes, help you reach that ultimate goal.
3. The waiting game - Wait 10 days after your period ends and then start having sex every other day for 2 weeks. Why every other day? This is to help ensure freshness of the sperm product. ;)
4. Natural supplements - Evening primrose capsules. You start taking them on the day your period starts and stop when ovulating begins. Evening primrose can help make your cervical mucus more sperm receptive. Consuming ginger can also be helpful in conceiving as it may help regulating a menstrual cycle to improve chances of conception. Ginger snaps anyone? (As with any vitamins or supplements, we always recommend speaking to a health care practitioner for appropriate advice.)
5. Temperature charting - the measure of knowing how to maximize your most fertile time. Urine-based ovulation predictor kits are available for home charting use. The temperature charting can help you gage when you're ovulating so you're making merry during your peak fertile periods.
6. Three times the charm - Remove the stress (sometimes stress creeps up quickly in our lives and without us even noticing!) and get working on your horizontal mambo moves at least 3 times/week. Enjoy it! Once that baby arrives, the time for sex just won't be the same.
Written by Liz Marques Kogan. A momstown Milton member and mother of 2 girls. You can check out her blog at www.orchidaforever.blogspot.ca
