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Track body temperature to help with conceiving a baby (boy or girl)
Trying to get pregnant without success? One of the ways that medical experts recommend to aid conceiving a baby (boy or girl) is to track your base body temperature, or BBT.
Your BBT is your temperature you make any move in the morning. You must take your temperature as soon as you wake up in the morning (yes, even before going to the bathroom) in order to chart your most likely fertile period.
The process works like this:
First, purchase a good basal thermometer and leave it on your nightstand. This is a type of thermometer that only registers from 94 to 100 degrees, but is marked in one-tenth of a degree increments for easy recording.
Next, set a scheduled time to take your temperature. Most likely, this will be the time that you usually wake up. It’s very important with this method to take consistent readings. If you wake up early, add one-tenth of a degree (.1) to your temperature for every half hour you’re early. If you oversleep, then subtract one-tenth of a degree for each half hour. You can only use these adjustments if you’re within 90 minutes of your usual wake-up time. That’s because your BBT rises as the day goes on.
Once you’ve taken your temperature, WRITE IT DOWN! This step can’t be emphasized enough. Try as you might, you will never remember what your temperature was yesterday. The only way you will be success in conceiving a baby (boy or girl) by using this method is to write down your temperature every day, so that you will know when your are ovulating.
It’s also important to chart your temperature to see if you can spot any patterns in your cycle. Some women exhibit what’s’ known as a “triphasic” pattern. Your BBT will be at its lowest at the beginning of your menstrual cycle, typically around 97 degrees F. When you ovulate, you should notice a rise in your temperature of about half a degree (or more). Your temperature will stay at this higher level throughout the two-week Luteal Phase, which is the time period between ovulation and the start of your next period.
During the Luteal Phase, the ovary forms a mass of yellow tissue called the corpus luteum. This mass release the hormone progesterone, which signals the uterus to prepare for the possibly implantation of a fertilized embryo. Your temperature will remain slightly elevated throughout this phase.
The third level of temperature (the “triphasic pattern”) occurs around six to nine days after ovulation if implantation occurs.
One reason it’s important to record and chart your BBT for a few months is because you’re most fertile two to three days before your temperature rises and on the day your ovulate. An ovum (egg) will only survive up to 24 hours, and often only 6 to 12 hours, so it’s important to have intercourse 12 hours before you ovulate.
Although sperm can reach the fallopian tube where the egg is traveling within minutes of intercourse, the sperm actually needs about half a day in the uterus in order to become capable of fertilization. That’s because technically sperm are foreign cells to a woman’s body, and unless the become becomes used to them, they may be rejected. That’s not what you want if you’re trying to conceive, so you need to give sperm their 12 hours of adjustment in the uterus.
In addition, you need at least 10 days of higher temperatures after an egg releases so that a fertilized egg has enough time to attach itself to the uterine lining. The typical Luteal Phase lasts 12 to 14 days, and you can verify that yours falls into this range by charting your temperatures. If you find that your post-ovulation temperature doesn’t stay higher for at least 10 days, you may have what’s known as a Luteal Phase defect, so consult with your doctor immediately. There are ways to increase your Luteal Phase so that you can improve your chances of conceiving a baby (boy or girl).
If you find your temperature has remained higher for 18 days, congratulations! It’s likely that you’re pregnant, and you need to make an appointment with your doctor right away to assure a healthy pregnancy.
Do you like to be pregnant although you’re hesitating if you can conceive a baby boy? Thanks goodness that nowadays it is not left on chances. There were things needed to keep in mind; it includes timing ovulation to conceive a baby boy, increasing the options already.
The truth is, to conceive a baby boy, the intercourse time plays a very major function in order to stack up better odds for you, as discussed below:
Both Sperms of Boy and Girl are Unique
Are you aware that, the truth is, a male’s sperm do determine the baby’s gender? This is one important thing on conceiving a boy, You read that correctly, a mom’s egg has no importance with it. There were 2 types in a sperm; this is an X and Y chromosomes. When the X chromosome sperm reach first a woman’s egg then you’ll have girl baby. But if your Y chromosome sperm first reach it, you’ll have baby boy.
How will you be sure that there are more Y chromosome sperm than that of X during your ovulation? There is a single thing that a Y chromosome sperm is known, they are fast swimmer than that of X chromosome sperm due to its lightness. But the X chromosome sperm have benefits of having to live a long life because they’re stronger.
To time up the Ovulation
You might as well use the benefit of hold off the intercourse till a day as well on the exact ovulation day. It gives chance to Y chromosome sperm in swimming faster to woman’s egg. Unfortunately you’ll not be able to choose the date of ovulation, you need to track, predict as well as work on it.
That is the really basic introduction before you try to conceive a baby boy in your next pregnancy.
Suggested Reading: How to Conceive a Girl