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It's About Time!
Know the Best Time to Conceive
By Kelly Burgess
going to ovulate, which is the most important piece of information for anyone who is trying to conceive.
This is why the consistency of the cervical mucous is important. As a woman approaches ovulation, her cervical fluid gets wetter until it reaches its optimum consistency, which is very slippery and stretchy.
These cervical mucous changes take place over a timeframe that is not necessarily a 14-day cycle. When a woman's period ends, her cervical fluid is generally dry or sticky. As she approaches ovulation, whether that is at 10 days or 20 days, the cervical fluid gradually begins to get wetter until it becomes rather sticky and then creamy. This occurs just before it develops into a consistency resembling raw egg white, slippery and stretchy, which is the signal of the most fertile time in the cycle.
The day a woman is most fertile is not necessarily the time when she has the most cervical fluid. The day when the cervical mucous reaches this slippery consistency is the most fertile day of the month.
However, Weschler says, don't wait until that exact day to have intercourse. Start having intercourse every day when your cervical mucous starts to become slippery and continue until your BBT rises, which signals that ovulation has already occurred.
"Say you have an egg-white consistency on Monday and Tuesday," Weschler says. "If you still have egg white on Wednesday, you know you still haven't ovulated. The concept is that you continue to have intercourse until your temperature rises, so you're sure you've had intercourse on the last day of your most fertile cycle."
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