How to Become Pregnant After 30

While it's becoming increasingly common for women to wait until their thirties or even later to have a baby, the fact remains that fertility begins to decline around age 29, according to James Goldfarb, director of infertility services and IVF at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Your chances of getting pregnant in your early thirties are only slightly lower than in your late twenties, but fertility takes a sharp decline after age 35. To increase your chances of becoming pregnant without intervention from fertility treatments, you should learn when during your menstrual cycle you are most fertile and understand how to time intercourse so it's most likely to result in conception.

Things You'll Need

  • Ovulation predictor kit

Instructions

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      Determine when you ovulate. Track your menstrual cycle for a few months by taking your temperature every morning before getting out of bed and by noting how cervical fluid changes on a daily basis. According to the American Pregnancy Association, during ovulation cervical fluid will become wet and slippery, much like raw egg whites, and body temperature will rise noticeably immediately following ovulation. Keep in a mind that most women ovulate about 14 days before the start of the next period.

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      Use an ovulation predictor kit to confirm ovulation.

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      Have intercourse at least twice during each ovulation cycle, one or two days before ovulation and again on ovulation day, as recommended by BabyCenter.

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