Some fertility drugs work by stimulating a woman's ovaries, which can sometimes cause them to release more than one egg. If sperm fertilizes both of these eggs, this can result in twins. In vitro fertilization (IVF) can also increase the chance of conceiving twins.
The eggs are super tiny — too small to see with the naked eye. During your menstrual cycle, hormones make the eggs in your ovaries mature — when an egg is mature, that means it's ready to be fertilized by a sperm cell. These hormones also make the lining of your uterus thick and spongy.
According to research, a woman can have somewhere around 15 to 30 babies in her lifetime.
After a woman starts her menstrual cycle, one egg is ovulated and about 1,000 (immature) eggs are lost each month.
The sperm must be able to invade the cervix via the cervical mucus by virtue of their own swimming ability. Nothing about the sexual act will help those sperm get into the cervix. They simply have to swim into the mucus on their own, and this requires a great deal of coordinated, cooperative activity on their part.
If you want to get pregnant, make sure you DON'T do any of these:
Lose or Gain a Lot of Weight. ...
Overdo the Exercise. ...
Put Off Starting a Family Too Long. ...
Wait Until You Miss Your Period to Stop Drinking. ...
Smoke. ...
Double Up on Your Vitamins. ...
Amp Up on Energy Drinks or Espresso Shots. ...
Skimp on Sex.
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The main takeaways
Clomiphene citrate (Clomid) and letrozole (Femara) are usually the first line of ovulation-inducing defense. ...
Injectable gonadotropins — a fancy word for follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) — can induce follicular growth and ovulation.
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#3: The best time to conceive a baby boy after periods
Because male sperm is the faster of the two, Shettles suggests having intercourse as close to ovulation as possible, so the male y sperm can reach the egg first. If you have sex several days before the day of ovulation, the less resilient male sperm may die off.
A person can get pregnant right after their period. For this to occur, they have to have sex near the time of ovulation, which occurs when the ovaries release an egg. The closer to their period a person ovulates, the higher their chances of becoming pregnant right after a period.