Babymaking

Babymaking is apparently a science.

I was asking a good friend about tips on babymaking and such stuff the other day. This is a woman who used to be (maybe still is) a hypochondriac when we were studying and is ever willing to dispense information about health and freely explain to us what she has learned from the doctors or the gynae.

When I asked her offhand for some tips, I didn’t expect a detailed list of what should be done.

I reproduce here, in almost its entirety, her list to me. So for those who are thinking of creating little copies of yourselves, you may want to take a look and follow through. The methods outlined should work; she ended up with her desired 1 girl, 1 boy family unit.


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Ovulating

1. Know when you ovulate. Do you menstruate regularly? If you do, that’s a plus coz as you chart your monthly arrival dates, you see a pattern and from there, you can roughly figure out the days you ovulate.


2. Count 14 days backwards from the expected date of menstruation. That’s your ovulation time. Do the mucus test a day or 2 before, you’ll notice that you are getting more discharge than usual. It gets really egg-whitey on the day of ovulation. Some people can feel dull ache just about their hip bone (this will alternate every month coz the ovaries take turns to release eggs).


3. If you can’t detect your mucus (coz you don’t drink enough water… so hydration is important, helps with the swimming, you become one huge pool), you’ll have to get the ovulation kit and start testing 3 days before the ovulation date (in case you ovulate early). A pack normally comes with 5 sticks. So you test yourself daily (urine test) until you see the line.


4. If you don’t menstruate regularly, it’s harder to tell when you’ll ovulate. So you may want to do the mucus test everyday. But first, go see a doctor to find out why you are not regular. You may need some medication to regulate it or there could be other prob like cysts, endometriosis etc. Don’t worry, coz most of the time, it’s just stress causing the havoc.

Doing it

1. Once you are having those stretchy mucus, or when the line shows, it’s time for some action. BTW, the test stick shows that ovulation will occur anytime within 2 days. So you will have to do it for 3 nites in a row for max effect.


2. Drink a bottle of water before you do it. Gotta get that fountain flowing. That said, do whatever you can to be really turned on.


3. Don’t do it 5 days before. Gotta keep his stock full!


4. It’s the year of the dog rite? Get the hint? It’s the shortest route to the egg.


5. After, don’t get up and wash immediately. Wait 15 minutes flat down and relax. Prop your legs up if you can.


6. Don’t douse!

Other myths which are in a way scientific

1. Avoid acidic food coz it will make you acidic and that just kills off the sperm, especially the males.


2. The guy drinks a can of coke or cuppa coffee just before doing it.

That’s about it. If you are ovulating normally, you should get preggers within 6 months. If after 6 -12 months of doing all the above and still nothing, better go for a check!

And that’s just the making bit. My friends take supplements like folic acid, iron pills (for girl and guy) coz it helps with baby’s growth. Better to get advice from doctor for this though.

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Thanks Eve, you really are a well of information, you know. Really, I appreciate it. No really, I mean it. But it doesn’t beat one of your answers to my question on what are the perks of having kids: “you can dress them up to match your furniture!”.

That is a classic.


For those who would like more tips, you can email me and I will forward your enquires and questions to Dr. Eve.



I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)