Pregnancy Conception Calculator

If you are trying to get pregnant, it can be surprising to know that you have only a short period of time each month when you can get pregnant, usually just a few days. To make it easy for you to calculate the time range when you’re most likely to be most fertile, try a conception calculator.

What Is Conception?

Pregnancy Conception Calculator

Conception happens when the man’s sperm fertilises a woman’s egg. The sperm and egg join in the fallopian tube to form a zygote, which develops into an embryo and eventually, it would become a foetus. Only if the fertilisation of the egg is followed by an implantation, pregnancy will take place.

Approximately, 7-10 days the zygote becomes a blastocyst, which is a product of approximately 100 cells. The human blastocyst implants in the woman’s uterus. The implanted blastocyst grows three germ layers. The inner layer is called mesoderm, the middle layer is the exoderm and the outermost layer is the endoderm. At this period of development the genetic father is completely involved into the formation of the embryo. Twin pregnancy is possible only till this stage in development.

Conception And Menstrual Cycle

The Menstrual cycle is the sequence of changes a woman’s body goes through to prepare for a pregnancy. In women, the fertile period starts at the menarche (first menstrual period) and ends with the menopause. About once a month, the uterus grows a new lining (endometrium) to get ready for a fertilised egg. When there is no fertilised egg to start a pregnancy, the uterus sheds its lining. This is the monthly menstrual bleeding (also called menstrual period). The menstrual cycle is from Day 1 of bleeding to Day 1 of the next time of bleeding.

In each menstrual cycle uterus releases one egg. If this egg is not fertilised, you should wait for another cycle. One of the proven ways to get pregnant is to have sex more often. Sperm lives in a woman for 24-48 hours after the intercourse, which is why using this pregnancy method, those chances of getting pregnant is very possible. However, it will only work if both man and woman have no other health problems and the woman is ovulating properly.

Conception Calculator And Getting Pregnant

A conception calculator is a great tool that will help you to the corresponding conception windows and the estimated due date pregnancybased on life cycles and you will know your possible conception date and pregnancy due date. This tool will also help you to find out the estimated foetal age of your baby if you are positively pregnant.

The thing you need to know before using the conception calculator is the first day of your last menstrual period. It is also helpful if you know how long your menstrual cycles usually are and your average luteal phase. If you forgot, leave the default setting, and the conception calculator will give you a good general idea of your pregnancy due date.