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NBR article on baby making

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I usually think NPR does a pretty good job with their articles, but this one seems a bit off. I don't really care about the survey results. My main issue is the statements at the end regarding stress. I can't find a good scholarly reference right now, but I thought it was proven that stress can affect when you ovulate? If that is true then how is that not a 'risk factor' for "keeping you from getting pregnant"? It probably is true that if you have sex within that 2 day window before you ovulate then 'scientifically' stress is not a factor (although after a quick google scholar search there are studies showing the affect of stress on sperm count), but isn't knowing when you ovulate the first step? I know you can fairly accurately predict when you ovulate based on temping, hormones, etc. but if someone is so stressed (or dealing with an illness, etc.) to affect their ovulation their likelihood of being accurate at predicting ovulation seems low.  I don't know why it struck a cord with me, this short article just seems to be 10% of then information which is annoying and worthless. I tried to pull up the original journal article, but I couldn't find it. 

Also, we did the pillow under your hips/lay down for a while before getting up mainly because I figured it couldn't hurt, but anecdote-ly it seems like there has to be some affect. One - that angle allows for deeper penetration for us at least which seems beneficial and Two - when we have sex and then I get up directly after, it seems almost all the semen comes out pretty quickly whereas when I've stayed lying down it seems to stay up there much longer after getting up. (They didn't specifically mention lying down but it seems along the same lines.) Maybe I'm just clueless like the lady in the article with a PhD in biology...


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Re: NBR article on baby making

  • wtfisupwtfisup member
    About the semen sliding out - doesn't matter. Semen is like a minivan that the sperm take into your vagina and too the opening of the cervix. The second it's there, they essentially evacuate, hit the cervical mucus, and then head on. The semen that leaks out doesn't contain viable sperm.

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    After looking at the article, it's not really a research articles and to give tons of info. It's just a synthesis of misinformation.

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