ALSO love follows the rhythm of the seasons. If, on the one hand, in fact, we can easily imagine that spring is the time in charge of the new meetings, during which bloom love stories, the autumn would seem to be the best season to look for a pregnancy. A support is a new study, unique in its kind, conducted by a team of researchers at Boston University and on the pages of the journal Human Reproduction. She just put black on white that this is the best time to conceive.
The season to conceive, To understand what season offers more chances to couples to become parents, the researchers reviewed the data of 14.331 women, of which about 5 thousand americans and canadians from the study Pregnancy Study Online (Presto) and the other 8 thousand about the Danish participants in the two studies carried out by the University of Aarhus, Denmark. In all these studies, the participants were monitored every two months through detailed surveys about the frequency of sex, menstrual cycle, diet, smoking, alcohol, education, and income, up to the moment in which they became pregnant or tried to conceive for a period of 12 menstrual cycles.
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The probability varies with the latitudes, Taking into account from when the couples have begun to try to conceive is the number of attempts, the researchers observed that the seasons play an important role, as they offer a greater chance of success. From the analysis, in fact, it emerged that the couples were able to conceive more quickly between the end of autumn and the beginning of winter . The results, the researchers said, suggest that the fall season has increased the fecondabilità, i.e. the probability of conceiving within one menstrual cycle, for north america of 16%, whereas for the Danish dell’8%. But not only that: by focusing on the different latitudes of the United States, the researchers observed that in southern states the seasonal variation was even stronger and reached a peak of 45%, towards the end of November.