Where to find women who want to get pregnant

Having trouble getting pregnant may be due to timing, stress, age, premature withdrawal or pulling out by the partner, reduced vaginal lubrication or more complicated medical factors, such as infertility issues. A pre-pregnancy checkup can help you find out if any of these factors might affect your ability to get pregnant and save you and your partner unnecessary stress.

Timing: Knowing your body, particularly when you ovulate, helps you plan conception. Ovulation is when your hormones and egg are ready for fertilization. The best time to have sex resulting in conception is immediately before, during or after ovulation.

Once you know you're ovulating, you have a hour window of opportunity to become pregnant. Remember, sperm can live hours in the woman's reproductive system, so conception can happen if you have sex a day or two before or after ovulation. Here are ways you can tell when you are ovulating: Mittleschmertz, a slight cramping, midway between periods. Increases in your basal body temperature BBT , measured by taking your temperature every morning when you wake up before you get out of bed.

Charting your BBT, day after day, can show when you are ovulating because your temperature will rise. How long does it usually take to get pregnant?

Many factors can affect a couple's chances of conceiving, such as: your age your general health your reproductive health how often you have sex Some women become pregnant quickly, while others take longer.

Fertility Most couples about 84 out of every will get pregnant within a year if they have regular sex and don't use contraception.

What does 'regular sex' mean? Having regular sex means having sex every 2 to 3 days throughout the month. Some couples may try to time having sex with when the woman ovulates releases an egg. Vicky and Jonathan started using the device in February and found out Vicky was pregnant by the end of April — three cycles later. After five years of trying and two courses of IVF, it had worked after just a few months, and their son is now one year old.

Vicky speculates that success might have just been down to the fact they were more relaxed and knew that they did not have much to lose. Hooper says people use the service for a range of reasons — some are "simply very busy and need to schedule their time together — we can give up to six days' advance warning of when to try, which is exactly what they need to align their diaries!

Others are often considering IVF because of unexplained infertility but would like to be sure they have maximised their chances of a natural conception first. In DuoFertility was approved as a medical device by the US authorities, and peer-reviewed research conducted by the company has found significant increases in pregnancy rates of people using the device.

That's a It's important to note that this is just related to people with unexplained fertility or mild problems — the device cannot help people who have serious conditions that are preventing them from conceiving naturally. And the device doesn't work in all cases of those with unexplained infertility. The colleague who first told Vicky about DuoFertility had no success.

Meanwhile Glow has come up with a way to make the app into a kind of insurance should couples fail to conceive. Those who don't conceive after 10 months are entitled to money from the kitty to help pay for IVF.

Hooper says in the future, DuoFertility would like to be able to use the sensor to understand other conditions. When analysed together, all this data is especially relevant to other aspects of healthcare such as pain management, sleep problems, obesity and other conditions.

It's a prospect we are actively exploring. For Vicky, being able to contribute to something bigger is also an exciting prospect. Yet all that data that you are giving them, hopefully will find things out for the future and help so many other people. Desperate to get pregnant? With it, users are able to fill out a "biological profile" that indicates what they need or can provide, whether it be sperm or egg donations, co-parenting, surrogacy, or partnership.

Just like Tinder, the app is GPS-enabled, so you can find other users locally. However, you can also zoom out and take in a more global view. Unlike Tinder and other dating apps, however, the app doesn't ask users to plug in details about their race or body type, Ryan told NBC, in an attempt to keep the app "agnostic. Once you make it to that first stepping stone of going into a community and seeing who is out there, you can find the right person and move forward. Ryan told NBC that the app has already acquired about 3, to 4, users over the past few months of the soft launch.

He also said that the app was catered towards millennials who may want to become parents even if they aren't necessarily ready to settle down with a long-term partner.