Is There A Distinction Between Your Fertility Window And Your Ovulation When Trying To Get Pregnant?
I get a lot of correspondence from people who want to conceive and are trying to choose their baby's gender.
I can't help but notice that many people use some common terms interchangeably.
For example, some people mistakenly think that your fertility window and your ovulation day are the same thing.
They aren't.
They are two different things.
Why This Distinction Can Be Really Important: Understanding the difference between these two can be really important when you want to choose your baby's gender.
Here's why.
Your ovulation day is one quick period of time.
It comes and it goes rather quickly, in less than a day.
It is basically when your egg is released and ready to be fertilized.
This happens on only one day during a woman's fertility cycle.
And, when this happens, that is when you will get a positive on an ovulation predictor letting you know that ovulation has occurred and that this is a good time for trying to conceive.
The reason that this day is optimal for conception is that once your egg is released, it will only live for a short amount of time and then it will begin to deteriorate.
Eventually, it will die off.
That is why there are only a few of truly fertile days in every woman's cycle.
Now, your fertility window are the days (and I am using the plural because this is more than one day) where you are still fertile even though you will not ovulate on all of these days.
Since a man's sperm can live for a few days, a woman will often be fertile in the days leading up to and also after her ovulation day.
No, she doesn't ovulate on every day during that "window" as people will often call it, but she can still become pregnant during the days in that window even if actual ovulation is only happening on one of those days.
So why is this important when you are trying to choose your baby's gender? Well, frankly it is important any time you are trying to become pregnant.
Because having sex on days in your fertility window give you the best chance of becoming pregnant.
But if you are trying for a certain gender, you will want to be choosy about when you have sex, even when you are still in that window.
For example, if you want a girl baby, you want to have sex early in that fertility window and before your actual ovulation day.
And if you want a boy baby, you want to make sure that your ovulation day has actually arrived before you attempt to become pregnant.
The reason for this is that the boy sperm do not live as long, so if you want a boy, you want to make sure that the egg is already ready and waiting for the sperm.
Girl sperm live longer and they can wait for the egg.
So, conceiving early is fine for the girl sperm and it will often mean that there are less boy sperm present to race for the egg, (since not as many of them would have survived that long.
)
I can't help but notice that many people use some common terms interchangeably.
For example, some people mistakenly think that your fertility window and your ovulation day are the same thing.
They aren't.
They are two different things.
Why This Distinction Can Be Really Important: Understanding the difference between these two can be really important when you want to choose your baby's gender.
Here's why.
Your ovulation day is one quick period of time.
It comes and it goes rather quickly, in less than a day.
It is basically when your egg is released and ready to be fertilized.
This happens on only one day during a woman's fertility cycle.
And, when this happens, that is when you will get a positive on an ovulation predictor letting you know that ovulation has occurred and that this is a good time for trying to conceive.
The reason that this day is optimal for conception is that once your egg is released, it will only live for a short amount of time and then it will begin to deteriorate.
Eventually, it will die off.
That is why there are only a few of truly fertile days in every woman's cycle.
Now, your fertility window are the days (and I am using the plural because this is more than one day) where you are still fertile even though you will not ovulate on all of these days.
Since a man's sperm can live for a few days, a woman will often be fertile in the days leading up to and also after her ovulation day.
No, she doesn't ovulate on every day during that "window" as people will often call it, but she can still become pregnant during the days in that window even if actual ovulation is only happening on one of those days.
So why is this important when you are trying to choose your baby's gender? Well, frankly it is important any time you are trying to become pregnant.
Because having sex on days in your fertility window give you the best chance of becoming pregnant.
But if you are trying for a certain gender, you will want to be choosy about when you have sex, even when you are still in that window.
For example, if you want a girl baby, you want to have sex early in that fertility window and before your actual ovulation day.
And if you want a boy baby, you want to make sure that your ovulation day has actually arrived before you attempt to become pregnant.
The reason for this is that the boy sperm do not live as long, so if you want a boy, you want to make sure that the egg is already ready and waiting for the sperm.
Girl sperm live longer and they can wait for the egg.
So, conceiving early is fine for the girl sperm and it will often mean that there are less boy sperm present to race for the egg, (since not as many of them would have survived that long.
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