Although Lauren Burnham and Arie Luyendyk Jr. happily expecting twins is the Bachelor stars say they used ‘the wrong approach’ in fertilization.
The couple, who got married in 2019 after meeting season 22 of the reality show, shared in a YouTube video on Monday that they had sex for 18 days in a row as they tried to conceive. “We’re going to tell you how to make a baby!” Burnham, 29, the owner of the Shades of Rose clothing line, said.
In May, the couple (who share 21-month-old daughter Alessi) experienced a ‘missed miscarriage’ that happens when an embryo dies but is not expelled from the body, according to the American Pregnancy Association, a kind of loss which is usually detected. by a lack of fetal heartbeat during an ultrasound or absent pregnancy symptoms. Burnham said the couple had been medically cleared to try again.
“Trying was fun,” Luyendyk Jr. said. (39) admitted, and Burnham added: “For a while. It was nice until it wasn’t.” The couple decided to use daily ovulation strips, available OTC, to determine Burnham’s fertile period. Women are generally most fertile about six days before ovulation (when an egg is released for fertilization, which begins about two weeks before menstruation) and one day after ovulation.
“And then it was like it was a high fertility day every day,” recalls Luyendyk Jr. “… It was like 18 days in a row.” The couple acknowledged that their approach may not have been scientifically sound. “So maybe we just had fun the first two weeks,” Luyendyk Jr. said.
“In the beginning we were just like, ‘We’ll just have sex every day …’, ‘he said, which Burnham called’ the wrong approach ‘, saying,’ My doctor is like ‘Yo, you have to calm down. ” She said, ‘Arie is like,’ No. I’m not on board for this. I’m exhausted. He’s like, ‘It’s just not fun anymore. Count me out. “I was angry. ‘
Eventually, the couple decided to stop stressing (‘We just gave up,’ Burnham said) and had sex every other day for a period of five or six months, during which time Burnham also took prenatal vitamins and ‘ took an essential oil (her doctor). the latter as effectively dismissed), and in December they became pregnant with twins (a boy and a girl).
According to Christina Jung, a sophisticated family planning fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, daily efforts are actually unnecessary, although baby travel can be equally fun and stressful. “Every woman is different, but the days before ovulation are generally considered the fertile period,” she tells Yahoo Life. Jung adds that an 18-day period of fertility is unlikely, noting that some ovulation tests may give false positive results due to certain medical conditions, irregular cycles or if tests are taken at different times of the day when the results may vary. “It is also possible that people may not interpret the results correctly,” she says.
Because sperm are viable in the female reproductive tract for about five days, couples must have sex before a woman releases an egg for fertilization, Jung explains. “Once the egg is released, it is only viable for 12 to 24 hours – then the likelihood of pregnancy decreases.”
Ovulation strips can help couples determine their fertile period by measuring luteinizing hormone (commonly called LH) through a woman’s urine, the amounts of which increase before ovulation, according to Jung. “You want to determine the window of ovulation. If you’re likely to ovulate on Friday, you might have sex on Wednesday,” she said. “We also recommend keeping an ovulation diary and allowing two or three cycles to collect historical data.”
There are other low-cost methods to detect ovulation, such as monitoring a woman’s daily basal body temperature (according to the Mayo Clinic, ovulation causes a small temperature rise, so detection that increases over time is one way to predict when ovulation occurs) and controlling cervical mucus, a more careful approach to note changes in cervical secretions around ovulation. “However, these methods are only useful if one has very regular cycles,” says Jung.
If couples want sex every day, that’s OK too and no concept method is foolish. “Sometimes couples can do everything ‘right’ and not get pregnant, while others use protection and still get pregnant,” says Jung. “There is still a lot that scientists can learn, but so far it is [principals] leads our care. ‘
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