How to Get Pregnant Faster with Irregular Periods

He ladies, you want to know how you can get pregnant (but you have irregular periods), right? Well, we are talking about and helping you through the way to get on regular cycles and get pregnant faster…

Side note: let’s talk about the fact that planning is so important when it comes to pregnancy. Getting pregnant can take time, and it is easy to get frustrated when it doesn’t happen today. But we want to encourage you to take this time to plan, which will help you control your anxiety and frustration when it doesn’t happen this month. 

First, we are going to dive into two BIG reasons why some women have irregular periods and aren’t getting pregnant:

1. Birth control – Specifically form that change your hormones so that you do not ovulate. 

The Birth Control Pill does this. So, you decide to stop taking the pill because you want to get pregnant. Unfortunately, it can take your body up to one year before regular cycles and ovulation returns after you stop taking the pill. This is where planning comes into play (if you are reading this and have not stopped taking the pill yet).

Depo-Provera injections and Implanon/Nexplanon implants can delay ovulation even further. Some women do not begin to ovulate for 18 months after stopping these two forms of birth control.

2. Body Mass Index (BMI)

If you have a low BMI (less than 18) or a high BMI (greater than 30), then your hormones may be out of balance. 

This can mean that you have irregular periods and not ovulate.

It is possible to ovulate even if you have irregular periods, BUT it is very difficult to determine WHEN ovulation occurs (it is a shot in the dark, literally). The only positive test is…well, if you get pregnant. You could use an ovulation predictor kit or you could have sex everyday, but that gets expensive and exhausting.

Talk to your healthcare provider about concerns that you have with your weight and fertility.

Let’s get reasonable and scientific here. Let’s help you get regular with your cycles and accurately calculate your fertility window (a range of  days when you probably will ovulate).

It is important to note that a regular period is somewhat specialized to you. The textbook states that a 28-day cycle is regular (but that is for the perfect woman, and who can or would want to live up to that?). 

So, back to regular for you: You need to mark on your calendar when you begin one cycle (the first day you see blood), and then count to the first day of your next cycle (the first day you see blood).

How many days was that? Is your next cycle the same as your last? How about the last, last cycle? 

This is predictable, consistent, and it means you are regular. This is YOUR regular. 

Now that you understand regular, let’s talk about ovulation. And we are back to the perfect woman who has a 28-day cycle. She may ovulate on day 14. But we want to give her some wiggle room. She has a fertile window. Her fertile window is the time period that she may ovulate within if she doesn’t ovulate on day 14. Her fertile window is day 10 to 18. She and her husband should have sex every 48-hours starting on day 10 through day 18.

Does this seem complicated? We have a guide for you to download that will do the math for you (even if you don’t have a 28-day cycle).