How to Get Pregnant Fast

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Most of us want to get pregnant fast when we decide to start a family or add another baby to the family. Getting pregnant may not be as easy as many may have thought; in fact, only 60% of couple succeeds after half a year of trying.

Below we present to you some tips to help you to get pregnant faster when you are trying to conceive.

How to Get Pregnant Fast - 1. Take vitamins supplement and folic acid

Taking vitamin supplement will help to increase sperm count and sperm quality, both are essential for successful conception. For women, taking vitamin supplement can help to regulate period and improve egg quality.

By taking folic acid, women help to prevent many of the birth defects that may occur to the baby.

You can read further about fertility and vitamins in details.

How to Get Pregnant Fast - 2. Get a preconception checkup

If you have irregular period in the past, you may want to visit gynaecologist or a traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to help you to regulate the period first.

Irregular period may make it hard for you to get pregnant as it can affect your ovulation.

Some other underlying medical problems can also cause problem when you want to get pregnant and need to be controlled before couples try to conceive.

It is recommended that couple should pay doctor a visit if they fail to conceive after 1 year of trying.

How to Get Pregnant Fast - 3. Know when you will ovulate

Woman will only release an egg once in a cycle and it is called ovulation. Having sex before ovulation will increase the chance of getting pregnant tremendously.

You can buy the ovulation kits that are available at the personal store like Guardian, Watsons and pharmacies stores.

If you want to save some money on the ovulation kits, you can try to monitor signs of ovulation such as the amount and color of cervical mucus or basal body temperature.

You can read further here about the signs of ovulation.

If you have regular period, you can also calculate the ovulation date as followed:

Ovulation date = projected starting day of next period - 14 days

How to Get Pregnant Fast - 4. Lay Low right after sex

After sex, women can lie in bed for 10 to 15 minutes to make sure the sperms will not leak out. You can put a pillow under your buttock to help sperm to get into the cervix. This can also help you to get pregnant faster as well

How to Get Pregnant Fast - 5. Adjust your lifestyle if necessary

5.1 Quit Smoking

If you or your partner smoke, it is better for both of you to stop smoking as soon as possible as cigarette contains a lot of harmful chemical such as nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and many more. These chemicals will decrease your chance of conception and affect the health of the fetus greatly even it does not hinder conception.

Read further here about how smoking affect male and female fertility.

5.2 Quit Alcohol Consumption

If you or your partner drinks alcohol, you should consider stopping if you wish to get pregnant fast. Excessive alcohol consumption or alcoholism is associated with numerous ovulatory dysfunctions. Without a proper ovulation, Getting pregnant is impossible.

Alcohol may destroy sperm-generating cells in the testicles and therefore decrease the sperm counts.

Read further here about how alcohol can affect the fertility in both men and women here.

5.3 Reduce Coffee Consumption

Coffee consumption should be reduced while you are trying to conceive. Read further how consumption of coffee can affect your chance of conception here.