How to Get Pregnant Using the Rhythm Method

Years ago before there were really good, dependable birth control methods women used what was called the "Rythym Method" to keep from getting pregnant. This was a way which told you when your body was ovulating. Although it was used then as a way to keep from getting pregnant it can be also used today as a way to help you in getting pregnant.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A Basal Thermometer
• A notebook and pen next to the bed
• Determination
• A good memory

1. Go to the drugstore and buy a basal thermometer and a small notebook with lined pages. You can tell the druggist you want the thermometer to help you get pregnant if you can't find one right away by yourself.

2. Put the thermometer and the notebook with a pen on the bedside table next to your side of the bed.

3. 
    
   Basal Thermometer

   In the morning when you wake up, before getting out of bed, take your temperature and record it in the notebook with the date. Do this absolutely every day.

4. Notice the changes of your temperature. Just before ovulation your temp will dip down several points lower than normal then during ovulation will shoot up several points higher than normal. As this thermometer is much more accurate in points of degrees after a month or two you should know when your ovulation is coming on and when it is occurring. Many women also feel different during ovulation and this can be a tip off to what's happening in your body too.

Tips & Warnings

• There are three days when a woman is most fertile, however as sperm live for seven days there are actually about ten days a month when having sex can result in fertilization.
• You can also buy an Ovulation Prediction Kit.
• Enjoy your love making at this time it is not a job, period.
• You must do this before getting out of bed as once you get up your temperature will change and screw up the results.

[pres8950]

on 12/11/2009 If you want to get preggers, baby dancing at the wrong time won't get you there. And the way you've expalined this, many a woman could end up baby dancing at the wrong time.

[pres8950]

on 12/11/2009 On the flip side of things - if someone WANTS to get pregnant and they do not use the BBT method correctly, they may think they've ovulated when they have NOT ovulated. So a woman could go cycle after cycle wondering why the heck she isn't preggers yet....only to realize that it's because she wasn't drawing a coverline and using all the other detailed, important rules associated with the BBT method.

[pres8950]

on 12/11/2009 Ummm wow. This article is also inaccurate. The ryhthum method focuses strictly on the assumption that a woman will ovulate on day 14 of her cycle. This is why it's also known as the calendar method.

What your describing, with the emphasis on temperatures, is actually an adaptation of the BBT method (Basal body temperature method). And what your describing isn't even accurate, because you're supposed to use a coverline to distinguish your follicular temps from your leutal phase temps. So a woman could still get pregnant on either of these methods your describing.

If your interested, you should read _The Garden of Fertility_. Once you read that book, you'll see why the BBT method is far more detailed than you describe ...and why your current description might result in a woman unexpectedly getting pregnant. You should *never* do the BBT method/symptothermo method without drawing a...

[SchoolOfLife]

on 3/14/2009 Very well written, great information. Keep up the good work! :P

[Miragi]

on 1/6/2009 I'm thinking maybe I should do this, just to PREVENT any unexpected additions....now that I'm past the age where I want to have any more!! So far it's not been an issue, but I could just see, with my luck, turning up 'with child' right when I least want it to happen! :) Great article, well written and explained, thanks!!