Using Basal Body Temperature (BBT) to Determine the Best Time of the Month to Conceive
A raise in temperature can be used as an indicator of the best time to get pregnant. After ovulation, your basal body temperature can rise by 0.5 to 1.6 degrees. You won't see such a little shift in your temperature, but you can percieve the difference by using a special glass fertility thermometer or a digital thermometer. Be careful that you always take your basal temperature from the same site e.g. the mouth to ensure consistency in your results. Your variation in temperature is caused by increased production of the progesterone hormone (brought on by ovulation). The best time to conceive is in the two or three days before your temperature hits its high point. A few scientists think you may have an additional 12 to 24 hour window of fertility after you first notice the temperature increase, but most say that by the time you recognise a temperature increase you have already passed your fertile period. Charting your basal temperature for a few monthly cycles can aid you in pinpoint the time that you ovulate. This enables you to plan having sex 2 to 3 days immediately leading up to ovulation to improve your chances of becoming pregnant.
More physical signs and symptoms that indicate the most appropriate time of the month to become pregnant.
There are several other noticable changes that take place leading up to and throughout ovulation that provide further evidence that you can learn to recognise in your fertility cycle.
* Lower abdominal soreness can be a sign of ovulation. About one-fifth of women actually feel ovulatory activity, which can range from mild aches to twinges of discomfort in the lower abdomen. The condition, called Mittelschmerz, may last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. If you experience Mittelschmerz, your body has just ovulated and the next 12 hours are the best time to conceive.
* You may spot that you have an raised sex drive around the time of ovulation.
* Professor Erik Odeblad from Sweden, in his research into signs of fertility, noticed that some women undergo the enlargement of a small lymph node in their groin during ovulation. Although not all women can find this lymph node, you can test for it by feeling in your groin during the days that your fertile mucus appears: the lymph node will feel like a pea-sized swelling on one side.
Keeping a detailed fertility calendar using a combination of these methods is a great method of knowing when the best time to get pregnant is for you.
Are you trying to work out when is the best time to get pregnant? Learn to read you body's signs and symptoms that indicate the best time of the month to get pregnant
Hanna Hamelsford
The Online Pregnancy Guide
