The Best Time to Conceive to Get Pregnant

If you are trying to achieve a pregnancy then you know that there are only a few days per month that you are able to conceive properly that results in getting pregnant, and those days are when you ovulate (when your body releases the egg ready to be fertilized).

However determining when you ovulate is not as simple as having intercourse around Day 14 – the supposed magical day that all women are supposed to ovulate – because every woman is different and Day 14 is just an average day. You might ovulate later or earlier.

And it isn’t just ovulation that you need to know to get pregnant; you also have to have lots of fertile egg white cervical fluid, be healthy and not stressed, and avoid certain foods such as caffeine and peas (yes ordinary green peas have been known to have contraceptive qualities) and of course your partner needs to have lots of healthy sperm too.

With all that we have to do to conceive a baby – is it any wonder that so many of us have trouble getting pregnant?

For the rest of this article, I’m going to assume that you are in perfect health and your partner’s sperm count is fine, and talk about how to determine the best time to conceive to result in a pregnancy.
There are many ways to determine when you ovulate but the most common ways are: charting your basal body temperature, using ovulation predictor kits, using a saliva fertility monitor like Maybe Baby, feeling for the position and softness of your cervix, or keeping track of when you produce fertile egg white cervical mucus (ewcm).

Once you have determined your ovulation day, you should aim to have intercourse every day starting five days before right up to the day after you ovulation day. This will give you the best chances of catching the egg so that you can conceive and fall pregnant.

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Does Taking Cranberry Improve Your Chance Of Conceiving?

There have been some rumors on one of the fertility message boards that I read that taking cranberry juice or cranberry tablets will improve your chances of conceiving a baby. Now I knew that cranberry can help if you have a UTI infection, but can it help you to get pregnant?

From the research that I’ve found, taking cranberry does not help pregnancy per se, but it can influence the gender of your child – which is great news if you are trying for a girl baby.

What it does is make the cervical mucus (cm) more acidic and therefore more hostile to sperm. But because the female sperm are stronger, they are more likely to be able to survive and reach the egg.

Cranberry can also interfere with the amount of cervical mucus that you produce, often drying up your CM, again making it harder for the male sperm to navigate through since sperm need a good amount of egg white cervical mucus (ewcm) to swim through to reach the fallopian tubes.

So who should take cranberry?
If you are trying for a girl and you have no issue with the amount of fertile ewcm that you produce then by all means take cranberry juice or tablets (either is fine). At the very least you’ll reduce your chances of contracting a UTI! Lol

If you are trying simply to fall pregnant, then it’s probably best to avoid the cranberry because it can dry up your mucus making it more difficult to conceive if you are already having problems in that area.

If you currently have a UTI and are taking cranberry tablets or drinking cranberry juice to try and clear it up, but also are trying to conceive then make sure you drink lots of water as well to make sure it doesn’t interfere with the amount of ewcm that you produce.

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