We all know the basics of making a baby. You have sex, then the sperm travels a long way to meet an egg. And boom?you have a baby. Right" Well, it?s a bit more complicated than that.
Knowing the mechanics of how you get pregnant can be helpful when it comes to understanding your fertility. So here is exactly what happens.
It starts with ovulation
Without ovulation, you will not be able to conceive a child naturally. Ovulation is the process that releases a mature egg from a woman’s ovary into one of the fallopian tubes so it can be fertilized. Ovulation is prompted by a series of hormonal changes.
A couple of days before ovulation, one follicle in the ovary becomes the dominant follicle and it carries the oocyte (an immature egg cell) for that month, explains Sara Twogood, an OB/GYN and assistant professor of clinical obstetrics and gynaecology at the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. The dominant follicle isn?t identified until a couple of days before ovulation then matures until ovulation, she adds. You will experience a spike in luteinizing hormone, the egg cell undergoes changes, then 36 hours after the LH surge, the oocyte will be released from the ovary, which is what we call ovulation. 
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