An egg is now ripening.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is a bit strange to be talking about \u2018your baby\u2019 already. After all, there isn\u2019t a baby yet at all, just an egg that is ripening and will be released from the ovaries at the end of this week. There, the egg is \u2018waiting\u2019 in one of the fallopian tubes for fertilization by a sperm cell. <\/p>\n Incidentally, such an egg cell lives for only about 24 hours, so you understand that getting pregnant is quite a precision job. Because fertilization must take place within those 24 hours. In other words: you have to have sex with each other exactly within those 24 hours. <\/p>\n Fortunately, sperm cells are granted a slightly longer lifespan: about 48 to 72 hours (but some sperm live for a shorter or even longer period). So, if you had intercourse one or two days before ovulation, there is a chance that a living sperm cell is still present that can bring about fertilization. <\/p>\n To increase the chance of pregnancy, you should therefore have intercourse around ovulation. But when is that? With a regular cycle, that is approximately around the fourteenth day. So, at the end of this week. You can determine exactly when you ovulate by taking your temperature every morning at the same time before you get up. <\/p>\n After ovulation, your body temperature rises by 0.3 degrees, and just before your period, your temperature drops again. The disadvantage of this test is that it only works with a very regular cycle. And it is also a bit cumbersome. <\/p>\n It is easier to buy a test that calculates ovulation at the drugstore or pharmacy. There are various tests on the market. These tests measure the amount of luteinizing hormone. Just before ovulation, your body produces larger amounts of this hormone. Each test works differently, so make sure you get proper information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week 2 An egg is now ripening. Your baby It is a bit strange to be talking about \u2018your baby\u2019…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/flex.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1760","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Your baby<\/h3>\n
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