Summary of Amy Klein's The Trying Game

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#1 You know you’re not expecting if you only feel in the mood about two weeks after your period, hoping that’s when you ovulate. During sex, you start fantasizing about the sperm racing inside you rather than the joystick inside you.

#2 It can be difficult to understand how baby-making works and how your own body works (or doesn’t work) to get pregnant. But remember that 10 percent of women in America have difficulty getting or staying pregnant.

#3 Trying to get pregnant means having unprotected sex, and making sure you have stopped all birth control, removed all IUDs, and aren’t using any lubes with spermicide. Your period must have returned and is back to its regularly scheduled 28- to 30-day monthly programming.

#4 After ejaculation, the sperm enter the woman’s vagina near the cervix. Some of the millions of sperm battle through the cervical mucus to make it into the uterus, where the ovulated egg awaits.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822540316

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

You know you’re not expecting if you only feel in the mood about two weeks after your period, hoping that’s when you ovulate. During sex, you start fantasizing about the sperm racing inside you rather than the joystick inside you.

#2

It can be difficult to understand how baby-making works and how your own body works (or doesn’t work) to get pregnant. But remember that 10 percent of women in America have difficulty getting or staying pregnant.

#3

Trying to get pregnant means having unprotected sex, and making sure you have stopped all birth control, removed all IUDs, and aren’t using any lubes with spermicide. Your period must have returned and is back to its regularly scheduled 28- to 30-day monthly programming.

#4

After ejaculation, the sperm enter the woman’s vagina near the cervix. Some of the millions of sperm battle through the cervical mucus to make it into the uterus, where the ovulated egg awaits.

#5

The optimal amount of sex and ejaculation is every other day during your fertile window. If you ovulate on day 15, start Trying on day 11.

#6

Ovulation is the release of the egg from the ovary. It happens during a woman’s menstrual cycle, and is what allows a woman to conceive. If you’re not having sex during your fertile window, you cannot conceive.

#7

Your resting body temperature goes up for a few days after you ovulate. Buy an accurate basal body thermometer, take your temperature at the EXACT same time each morning the minute you wake up, and write it down every day for a few months to see your pattern of ovulation.

#8

The world’s oldest woman to conceive naturally had a baby at fifty-nine, according to Guinness World Records. The world’s oldest IVF patient to have a baby with her own eggs was forty-nine, and with donor eggs, seventy-four.

#9

The first couple of months you’re Not Pregnant, you don’t need to rush to a doctor. But there are a whole bunch of other things you can be doing to get you closer to your goals.

#10

The disappointment that you might not get pregnant as quickly as you thought is normal. It’s important to remember that the stakes are much higher with babies than weddings, and it will take longer than you thought to have a baby.

#11

The TUSHY method is a checklist of basic testing that every OB/GYN should do before rushing people into expensive and invasive treatment. T is for testing the fallopian tubes.

#12

Get your hormones tested to assess your fertility potential. A low AMH at a young age