Sex File: Trying for a baby turns him off

'You need to forget about fertility and make sex about pleasure rather than procreation.'

Making babies is as much about the method as it is about the outcome!

My husband and I are trying to get pregnant. Obviously, when I'm ovulating we're having loads of sex, but that concentrated period seems to mean that he's much less up for it the rest of the month — disappointing for me.

Trying to get pregnant can be hard on a relationship. It's easy for it to slip into an anxiety-inducing spreadsheet of ovulation windows, temperature charts and fertility trackers. Even when two people are healthy and all the biological stars are aligned it can take ages to conceive. For every 100 couples having sex two to three times a week, approximately 20 will conceive within one month, 50 will be pregnant in six months and 80 within a year.