Your 1% Boost: The Pregnancy Doctor REVEALS 3 Ways To INCREASE Your Chances Of Pregnancy NATURALLY

Steven Bartlett (0:00)

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Dr. Natalie Crawford (0:56)

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.

Steven Bartlett (1:05)

The five days before you ovulate, okay.

Dr. Natalie Crawford (1:07)

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. 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, because 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 or avoid if you don't want to be pregnant. And if your cycles are 35 days, though, it's very different, right? Because now 35 days minus 14 is going to be…

Steven Bartlett (2:17)

21?

Dr. Natalie Crawford (2:17)

Yeah, 21 So your fertile window or for that person is going to be cycle day 21 So now the five days before and day 21 Those are very different fertile windows, days they should be having sex.

Steven Bartlett (2:29)

It's a lot, isn't it? Do we just have sex every day if we can?

Dr. Natalie Crawford (2:33)

So absolutely. Like, if you can have sex every day or every other day, and you don't have to track your cycles, if they are coming regularly and you're putting sperm in the presence of the egg by every day or every other day sex, absolutely. And that's one of the things that I see people do wrong the most, is have less sex in the idea that they should save it up to put more sperm present when the egg is arriving.

Steven Bartlett (2:57)

I have to say, I mean, there's a few things I wanted to say about this. So I think what's the first thing I wanted to say? The first thing I wanted to ask is how long on average do different age groups need to try before they hit the bullseye?

Dr. Natalie Crawford (3:13)

If you're age 30 and you're trying to get pregnant, you have a 20% chance of pregnancy per month.

Steven Bartlett (3:18)

Okay.

Dr. Natalie Crawford (3:18)

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 X amount of time to come see a doctor. You should go be seen right away.

Steven Bartlett (3:50)

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 who was telling me that because they're trying now, sex has become such a...