Time will come when you will start to think about getting pregnant. Probably long before your marriage you already have a dream of bearing a child and become a lovely and caring mother. Or may be directly after your marriage you will start to plan something out to prepare yourself for a pregnancy.

I have some tips that may be valuable to you to make it easier to check the things you should not miss. Here are the tips.

Get a doctor’s help

This is the first thing you should do. It will be very wise to have somebody experienced as a resource person. This is one factor that can reduce tension and ease your mind. A doctor or an obstetrician is more likely to be the perfect resource person to help you out. You can discuss the problem in depth and try to find out the very basic obstacle that may cause a delay or difficulty in getting pregnant. In fact the cause of infertility is not hard to identify if you are in the hand of the right person.

Exercise adequately

You might be surprised if I tell you that exercise could be the cause of infertility. The fact is that exercise is actually a major factor in many infertility cases, whether it is too much or too little exercising. In other words, exercising has a great impact on fertility.

Exercising every day for 30 minutes, 3 to 4 days in a week can ease your way to getting pregnant. The possibility will increase if you combine adequate exercise with a healthy diet and good health care of yourself.

Eat healthy

Healthy eating habits or get used to a healthy diet pattern is strongly related to fertility. Or in other words, what you eat affects fertility. Eating a healthy meal consistently will definitely improve fertility and significantly increases the probability to get pregnant.

A healthy diet for getting pregnant means that you should consume a well balanced diet of carbohydrates, protein and fats. You should take the long chain carbohydrates (polysaccharides or oligosaccharides) found in whole grain products and other fiber products. Your fat intake should be focused on the mono-unsaturated fat. And consume eggs carefully, since the yolk may cause high cholesterol.

Take prenatal vitamins

It is recommended to start taking vitamin supplements when you plan to get pregnant. You can select the kind of prenatal vitamins which contain a wide range of essential vitamins and minerals. Look for those that contain B vitamins, Folic acid and Zinc, which are essential in the production of female hormones that regulates your ovulation and strengthen your uterus

Know your ovulation time using a basal thermometer

The best time to get pregnant is more likely to be around your ovulation. Having sex every other day around your ovulation time will provide you with the highest probability to get pregnant. To help you in estimating this perfect time, a basal thermometer should be used, instead of an ordinary fever temperature.

The principle in using a basal thermometer to estimate ovulation time is taking your temperature every morning before you get up and post all the readings into the BBT chart. What you try to look for is a temperature shift of at least 0.2 ºC or 0.4 ºF. Before ovulation your basal temperature should show lower readings compared to after ovulation. The shift indicates your fertile period or ovulation.

Things to avoid

You should try hard to avoid junk food, alcohol and caffeine, saturated fats, food additives and unpasteurized foods. Although fish is a good source of protein, but it is better to avoid some sea foods like oysters, mackerel, sharks, swordfish, tilefish and tropical fish like mahi-mahi, grouper and amberjack. Other foods to avoid are uncooked or cured meats. Herbal teas like green tea, ginseng, raspberry, slippery elm and cohash which are known to cause contraction of the uterus, therefore it should be avoided.

Please avoid being on a strict diet in relation to a weight loss plan. If you are obese the best thing you can do to reduce weight is through exercising. And try to have three balanced meal per day at the minimum. Exercising and a balanced diet will be enough to keep you healthy.

Overdoing

Getting pregnant is also an important phase in our life that needs planning. There are quite lot of things that you should consider before you get pregnant. The most important thing is your readiness including the readiness of your spouse and environment.

But one thing I have to say is that should never overdo the planning. Just make a plan as simple as possible. Avoid to making plans which are out of your reach. Adjust your plan to your situation, condition and within your limitation. Making impossible plans will make you stressed, which is a contradiction to your wish of getting pregnant.

Manage stress

At this moment the affect of stress to infertility has not found a clear explanation yet. It is said that there are not enough data to back up the idea that stress may cause infertility. However, while waiting for clear answers the best thing to do reduce stress is to manage it. Reducing the levels of stress seems to help in getting pregnant. One way is to change the perception about things that winds you up.

Spouse participation

Men infertility is an important factor you should take into consideration when trying to get pregnant. The responsibility to carry out your pregnancy plan does not merely lies in the woman, but also the man. Thus, when it comes to infertility, both parts should be evaluated. Thus face the problems hand in hand with your spouse.

That concludes my contribution of several tips on getting pregnant that you may consider.