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 How Should You Exercise During Pregnancy?
Exercise not only keeps women fitter and happier during pregnancy, but also makes labor easier and lessens the recovery time after delivery.
Learn more about staying fit, healthy, and how to lose weight after having a baby with aerobic exercise during and after pregnancy.
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Calculate Ovulation with Your Calendar
One low-tech but effective way to get pregnant is to have
sex every other day from the 10th to the 18th day of your
cycle. Start counting by making the first day of your period
Day 1, and days 10-18 should overlap the days when you are
ovulating. On the days when you don’t make love, the sperm’s
five-day lifespan will ensure a fresh supply of viable
sperm.
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If your cycles aren’t 28 days long, or if they are very
irregular, the 10-18 day plan may not work, because you may be
ovulating at other times. You can start your pregnancy planning
by marking your calendar each month with the dates of your
periods, then calculate the length of your menstrual cycles. If
they tend to be of similar length but aren’t 28 days long, you
may want to adjust your sex life so that your
sex-every-other-day overlaps the middle of your cycle by 4 days
on either side. So, if your cycle tends to be 32 days in length,
the midpoint will be Day 16, and you will want to start your
lovemaking on day 12 and stop it on day 20. |
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It isn’t unusual for pregnancy to take several months, but
people these days are often in a hurry. If you’ve already
started taking folic acid, have made sure you’re in excellent
pre-pregnancy health and are ready to blossom into motherhood,
delays may feel downright unacceptable. Take heart: there are
more scientific ways of getting pregnant:
If you have tried the sex-every-other-day method for three of
four months and haven’t gotten pregnant, you may want to get
more scientific about it. Fertility monitors or ovulation
predictors take the guesswork out of the question, “When am I
fertile?” and help you decide whether to attend that late
meeting or skip it and get home. Measuring the levels of
hormones in your body gives a reading that can tell you when
ovulation is approaching, often giving you 24-36 hours advance
warning. Some kits measure hormone levels by the old
pregnancy-test standard of the “pee stick” (or, more nicely, the
“stick tester”. The women holds the monitor in the urine stream,
and a readout on the stick shows whether or not she is fertile.
These kits are quite reliable and easy to use. They eliminate
guesswork! If you’re the kind of person who follows cookbook
recipes to the letter, you may want to use fertility monitor
kits in planning your pregnancy.
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