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The Big O

© Lori Ramsey

There are many things you can do to aid in the fertility path of conception - or you can do nothing. Nature has built in things that help the road to conception - things that are very fun and pleasurable. It is nature's built in way of insuring procreation. What I'm referring to is the big O - otherwise known as orgasm.

Of course, it is a given that the man has to have an orgasm in order for conception to occur - no matter if it's by the good old fashioned means or by IUI (intra-uterine insemination) or IVF (invitro fertilization). A man has to have an orgasm in order for pregnancy to occur. However with a woman this is very different. I'm sure there are countless women throughout human history who have never experienced one orgasm - and yet had any number of children.

But the fact is that if a woman does have an orgasm during ovulation, this greatly increases her chance of conception - if there are no underlying problems with her fertility. An orgasm serves as a procreation means - not just a "pleasure" means. But this is certainly the built in guarantee that life will continue - and makes it a fun way to keep it going!

It's fairly important to allow the man to reach orgasm first or at the same time. This is due to the fact that if the man ejaculates first, then the sperm are waiting at the cervix to be ushered into the uterus when the woman reaches orgasm. If the woman reaches orgasm first, sometimes the pH of the vagina is hostile to the sperm. If a woman has good quality fertile cervical fluid, this will help to keep the sperm alive - that and the fact that the cervix is opened a little at ovulation - thus helping the sperm to go on in. It's important for a man to go "deep" into the vagina to make sure the sperm is deposited right at the cervix.

When a woman reaches orgasm the blood flow to her uterus, ovaries and vagina are greatly increased. This is good - and the spasms experienced in the cervix serves to help "suck up" the waiting sperm. Let me interject this again - it is probably better for a man to ejaculate first - so that when the woman reaches orgasm - the contractions and motions of the pelvic area will greatly help to usher the sperm in to the awaiting egg.

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