The Sperm Meets Egg Plan: Getting Pregnant Faster

By Deanna Roy

The Sperm Meets Egg Plan is a step-by-step guide to achieving pregnancy without taking invasive tests, charting temperatures, or making mistakes in predicting your ovulation that result in mistimed attempts at fertilization.

Designed by Deanna Roy after months of trying made her believe she had a fertility problem, the plan will help you time intercourse whether you have a typical or atypical cycle. It includes adjustments for common fertility problems, what to do if you are over forty, and considerations for trying again after a pregnancy loss.

This booklet includes 40 pages of instruction plus a 10-page sneak peek of Deanna's book Baby Dust. It should be a free download.

This booklet is a THANK YOU to all the women who have supported Deanna's web site since the loss of her first baby in 1998.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Casey Shay Press
• Release date: Sep 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781938150074

Deanna Roy

Deanna Roy is a writer and photographer in Austin, Texas.Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including 34th Parallel, Farfelu, and The First Line. Her writing credits are lengthy due to her background in journalism and freelance, but one of her favorite articles is a humorous piece about skydiving, published by The Writer in March 2009.After suffering her first miscarriage, Deanna began the web site PregnancyLoss.info. The pages get over one million unique visitors a year, although it is her fondest wish that no one would ever need to come at all.In October 2011, her novel Baby Dust will be released out into the world! You can also find her Facebook memorial page for babies lost to miscarriage or stillbirth on Facebook (A Place for Our Angels.)

Book preview

Chapter One

Who is this Deanna person anyway?

In the early months of 1997, I started my first journey toward having a baby. Like many school teachers, I had this notion that if I could get pregnant in late summer, I would have a baby right as school ended and could enjoy three paid months at home before returning to work.

I studied hard to prepare for this. I learned to take basal body temperatures and how to chart them. I read Taking Charge of Your Fertility and bought ovulation predictor kits.

I peed in as many cups as I did toilets and got upset when I couldn’t sleep—my morning temperatures might get off! I did two practice months before we actually started trying, so I could learn my cycle, plus it would never do to have the baby too early in the year. I’d have to come right back to school!

I shake my head now just thinking about those days. I had no idea.

As summer moved into fall and still no positive home pregnancy test, I began to despair. Maybe something was wrong with me, really wrong. I even had the crazy idea that maybe 27 was too old already, and I’d missed my chance. I knew it was silly, women had babies in their 40s. But knowing that didn’t change the way I felt.

By December, we were pretty blue, tired of timed sex and beeping thermometers at 6 a.m. It been almost of year of trying. This wasn’t fun and hadn’t been for quite a while.

My cycles were long—40 days or more, and the temperatures hard to figure out. Shortly before Christmas, I gathered my charts, and we trudged to the doctor for our first infertility workup.

I’ve talked in all my books about how lucky I was in finding my obstetrician. He always takes plenty of time with each patient, and even though he can run hours late—yes, hours—no one ever begrudged that time. We knew we’d get our turn.

He flipped through my painstaking charts. I know now what he saw there—lots and lots of mistimings because I ovulated later than most people. I had relied too much on what I was being told about normal cycles, and my post-ovulation temperatures were too confusing to be definitive.

Even plugging them into today’s popular fertility tracking web sites gets me mixed signals as a response. I imagine that if I had access to the digital fertility monitors that we have today, I’d find that I didn’t fit any typical pattern.

But when my doctor got to the last chart, the December one, he paused. "We’re going to do the

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