What is Pre-Seed Lubricant?
One thing you might have never thought you’d need for making a baby is lube. But Pre-Seed lubricant is the best-kept secret of the trying-to-conceive community, and I wholeheartedly recommend adding it to your list. Whether you’re trying to conceive “the old-fashioned way” or are doing DIY inseminations with fresh donor sperm at home, Pre-Seed lubricant can help.
You may know that when you’re fertile your cervical fluid changes to what is often called “egg white cervical mucus” because your discharge takes on a gooey, egg-white-like consistency. PreSeed is also gooey and egg-white-like, which encourages sperm to swim through the vaginal canal to the cervix (and hopefully then on to the uterus). As you can imagine, swimming is easier in liquid than on dry land, so to speak. Vaginal dryness hampers fertility, so a sperm-friendly lube makes a wise addition to the process. While other lubes can hinder or kill sperm, PreSeed is pH balanced like your body. Additionally, PreSeed has a simpler composition (mostly water and one other ingredient) than other lubes (which use ingredients like fruits and vegetable extracts, acid polymers, antioxidants, and all kinds of other additives), which disturbs sperm less.
Even if you don’t usually use lube for vaginal sex, I recommend trying this if you’re hoping for pregnancy. Anecdotally, I know many folks (including me) who swear by it. My wife and I both got pregnant using it after not getting pregnant when we didn’t use it, so we are true believers.
Does PreSeed Help You Get Pregnant?
So, does PreSeed help you get pregnant?
A 2014 study by Australian doctors tested 10 different lubricants for their “sperm friendliness.” PreSeed was found to be the winner out of all 10 for both sperm vitality (how many sperm were still alive after exposure to the lube) and sperm motility (how well the sperm kept moving after exposure to the lube). Its ingredients, consistency, and pH just make sperm happier than any other lube on the market.
PreSeed is easy to use. No matter whether you’re having sex with someone with a penis or being artificially inseminated, apply the lube internally first. The tube of lubricant comes with an applicator for this (similar to a tampon applicator), which shows you how much to use. Aim up and back so you’re coating close to the cervix. Let it sit in your vagina for 5–15 minutes before your try, to allow it to warm up and disperse. I personally didn’t even feel it inside, though it did flow out a bit when I stood up if I didn’t have a cervical cup inserted (another method I recommend for keeping sperm inside longer). In that case, you’ll want to wear a pad afterwards. If you are artificially inseminating and using “the soft cup method,” where your donor ejaculates into a cervical cup and then you insert the cup into your vagina, consider putting some PreSeed into the cup before giving it to your donor.
Pre-Seed lubricant is widely available at Walmart, Target,
Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, and other retailers. It costs around $20 for a 40-gram tube with nine applicators. Since you need as little as one to three grams each time, the tube can last much longer than the nine applicators.
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