How to Naturally Boost Your Chances of Getting Pregnant
Getting pregnant takes time. Even for fully fertile couples in their twenties and early thirties, getting pregnant may routinely take several months. In your late thirties, you may feel you no longer have the luxury of time.
Luckily, you can take a few steps to optimize your natural fertility and conceive as quickly as possible. These include tracking ovulation and timing sex around ovulation.
What Is the Fertility Window?
The best way to get pregnant is to have sex every one to two days during the fertility window.
Not all women have a 28-day cycle. Normal menstrual cycle length varies among women, and some women have cycles that change length from month to month.
Using Fertility Awareness-Based Methods
Fertility awareness-based methods can help couples better understand a woman’s monthly cycle and when she’s ovulating so that they can make the most of the fertile window.
- Keep a menstrual calendar. This can help you become more aware of when you menstruate and ovulate.
- Take your basal body temperature each morning. A woman’s body temperature may fluctuate around 0.5 degrees F around the time of ovulation, so tracking when that change occurs can help to observe your body’s monthly pattern.
- Check your cervical mucus. As a woman gets close to ovulation, her cervical mucus goes from being thick and cloudy to thinner, clearer, and more slippery.
- Use an ovulation predictor kit. These pee-on-a-stick kits detect luteinizing hormone, a hormone that peaks just before ovulation.
Opt for Fertility-Friendly Vaginal Lubrication or Lube
- Cellulose-based lubricants, including Pre-Seed and ConceivEase
- Mineral oil
- Canola oil