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Your 1% Boost: The Pregnancy Doctor REVEALS 3 Ways To INCREASE Your Chances Of Pregnancy NATURALLY
Fri, 15 Nov 2024
In this moment, world-renowned fertility expert Dr Natalie Crawford discusses how to improve your chances of conceiving. According to Dr Natalie, timing is a key factor in achieving pregnancy, and she explains that the optimal window for conceiving happens around the ovulation phase of a woman’s menstrual cycle. Dr Natalie also addresses common misconceptions about fertility, including the idea that engaging in sex less frequently helps to preserve sperm. Instead, she explains that regular sex actually increases the likelihood of conception by ensuring access to healthy sperm. For those who are unable to rely on timing and frequency alone, Dr Natalie recommends alternatives such as intrauterine insemination. She also encourages women to gain a better understanding of their menstrual cycles, not only to support conception but also as an indicator of their overall health. Listen to the full episode here - Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link//npnECkgMwOb Apple - https://g2ul0.app.link//4CUYrbmMwOb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Dr Natalie: dr natalie crawford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the fertile window and how long does an egg live?
What the fertile window is, is going to be the five days before and then the day you ovulate. So an egg lives for 24 hours.
The five days before you ovulate, okay.
So the five days before you ovulate and then the day that you ovulate. The egg lives for 24 hours. It has to be fertilized while it is in the fallopian tube in those first 24 hours. Sperm can live in the female reproductive tract for five days. So that is why we will tell people to have sex before and then during ovulation.
Put some of that sperm from the locker there a little bit earlier and then get some there right at the time when you're ovulating to see if you can fertilize that egg.
Chapter 2: How often should you have sex to increase your chances of conception?
If we think about understanding when your fertile window is based on your cycle length, so if we say your cycle is the entire process, and then your period is just the bleeding days, the entire process, if your cycles are on average 28 days, the corpus luteum lives 14 days, so 28 minus 14, you on average would ovulate on day 14.
So the five days before and then day 14 are going to be your most fertile days to try to target intercourse Es ist viel, oder? Können wir nur jeden Tag Sex haben, wenn wir können? Also absolut, wenn du jeden Tag Sex haben kannst oder jeden anderen Tag, dann musst du deine Zyklen nicht tracken.
Wenn sie regelmäßig kommen und du die Erdbeere in der Präsenz des Eges mit jedem Tag oder jeden anderen Tag sexierst, dann absolut. Und das ist eines der Dinge, die ich sehe, dass die Leute am meisten falsch tun, ist, weniger Sex zu haben, weil sie die Idee haben sollten, es aufzulösen, um mehr Erdbeere in der Präsenz zu geben, wenn das Ei herkommt.
Ich muss sagen, ich meine, es gibt ein paar Dinge, die ich darüber sagen wollte. Also ich denke, was war das erste, was ich sagen wollte? Das erste, was ich fragen wollte, ist, wie lange müssen unterschiedliche Altersgruppen z.B. versuchen, bevor sie den Bullseye treffen?
Chapter 3: What are the chances of getting pregnant at different ages?
Wenn du 30 Jahre alt bist und du versuchst, verheiratet zu werden, hast du eine 20%-Chance von Verheiratungen pro Monat. This means that the majority of people should be pregnant within six months. Infertility is defined as trying for a year and not getting pregnant within that year. It's kind of going off the curve of that standard deviation.
Importantly, trying to get pregnant means that you're having intercourse, you're ejaculating inside, and you're having regular periods. If you're not able to complete the active intercourse and you're not having regular periods, people should not wait When my friends tell me that they've started trying, I always think, God, doesn't that just ruin the fun?
You know what I mean? Because I have this one friend, he was telling me that... Weil sie es jetzt versuchen. Sex ist so ein... Wie ein Wunsch. Wie ein Wunsch. Und wenn er weg ist, wenn sie am viertelsten ist, dann wird sie an ihm verärgert.
Und ich denke mir einfach, es ist so verrückt, was mit Sex passiert, dass wir jetzt, weil wir Kinder später und später haben und wir verabschieden uns etwas später als je vorher, Wir müssen jetzt die Kinder, wie du es sagst, wie ein Wunsch behandeln.
Es wird, ich weiß nicht, es ist etwas daran, dass ich mir denke, oh Gott, es wird ein Job werden. Es ist ein guter Punkt, weil wenn du später wirst und du willst, dass du noch mehr als ein Kind hast, ist da viel Druck drauf. Wenn du mit 35 anfängst und du hast diese 10-15% Chance pro Monat, wenn du mit 38 anfängst und jetzt sind es 5-8% pro Monat, wenn du 40 bist, sind es 3-5%.
Ist die Druck nicht das Gegenteil von Sex?
Ja, genau. You feel like you have to track your cycles and time intercourse appropriately when you're older, because there's so much that you can't do, right? You only have so many eggs, you only have so much time, and you're trying to do what you can. Understanding your cycle tracking for a woman is a reflection of her full health. How is your brain interpreting your entire body?
So it is helpful, because if you have irregularity, it is a sign that things are not working normally. That being said... Regular sex is good for so many reasons and in a relationship that if you can establish sex more frequently as just part of your relationship, it becomes less burdensome that you're here recording a podcast at this time or somebody's out of town this one given month.
If we remember that sperm live in the female reproductive tract for up to five days, most of the sperm is going to live there for two to three days. So five is kind of like the longest it can. What we have is that, okay, have sex two or three times a week.
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Chapter 4: What should couples do if they are struggling to have regular sex?
Yeah, whatever position allows for ejaculation. So this is where variety is the spice of life, because as you alluded to earlier, sex can feel a little bit more of a chore when you're trying to get pregnant or you're struggling.
So making sure that ejaculation can happen, there's not any position that is going to be better or worse or going to have higher chance of a boy or a girl or any of that kind of knowledge.
If the female orgasms, does that increase the chance of fertility?
Wir wissen, dass Orgasm hilft, Uterinkontraktionen helfen, das Firmum an die Eier schneller zu bringen. Also wissen wir das. Wie wissen wir das? Wie wissen wir das? Ja. Es gab Studien, die nach Orgasm schaut haben, und dann die Geschwindigkeit, mit welcher das Firmum an die Fallopian-Türen kommt. We'll just say that.
I was thinking of all the causal factors.
I was like, maybe it's just bigger and that's just... No, so yeah, just that those contractions are helping kind of propel the sperm up there.
What about penis size?
So penis size really doesn't matter. What's interesting is that penis size does tend to correlate with different race and ethnicity, also with vaginal length. So we tend to see different vaginal lengths in correlation with what tends to be a similar size. based on that ethnicity or where that person originated from, which is super interesting.
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Chapter 5: What alternatives exist if natural conception is challenging?
But you don't need to... You don't need a smaller penis or a bigger penis. The sperm doesn't need to get closer to the cervix.
A lot of people obviously think that.
When you ejaculate, it goes. It gets right where it needs to go. Okay. Crazy.
It's super interesting. I've learned so much about all of this stuff today.