Ahh, the birds and the bees!
It might sound obvious but couples who want to have a baby should have regular sex first, scientists have revealed.
A study found women have a better chance of having a healthy baby if they had repeated exposure to their partner’s sperm before they conceived.
For the biology-lovers, this is because it gave the women’s immune systems time to build up a tolerance to the foreign fluid.
And, controversially, the research author Sarah Robertson said that, although couples are able to get pregnant from a one-night stand, the chances of rejection and miscarriage are far greater as are pregnancy complications like pre-eclampsia.
Looking to conceive? Practice makes perfect…
Professor Robertson told Adelaide Now that women are more likely to have a healthy pregnancy if they’ve had some practice with the same guy before.
Robertson also said that miscarriages are much more common than most people realise. Around one in eight pregnancies end in miscarriage where the woman knows she is pregnant, many more end before she realises she is pregnant.
The odds of conceiving are interesting.
For every 100 couples trying to conceive naturally:
20 will conceive within one month
70 will conceive within six months
85 will conceive within one year
90 will conceive within 18 months
95 will conceive within two years
