The simple, and recommended, way to boost your chances is to have unprotected sex every few days throughout your cycle. This ensures a supply of sperm where you need it when you ovulate. Having a healthy diet and lifestyle will help, as will keeping your stress levels low.
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If your lifestyle makes it difficult to have regular sex (because of work trips away or the demands of existing children), you may want to pinpoint your fertile window. Women with an irregular cycle may also prefer to take some control over their baby-making. (If you're on a cycle of assisted conception treatment, your doctor may have asked you to detect ovulation as part of the process.) An easy and accurate way to do this is by using urine-based ovulation predictor kits, which you can buy from pharmacies and, sometimes more cheaply by buying in larger numbers, online.
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A more time-consuming but cheaper way of working out when you are likely to be ovulating is to track your basal body temperature (BBT) and cervical mucus (CM) using a BBT or fertility thermometer.
Using this method, you have to chart your cycle every day, first thing in the morning, for a few months. Then you can recognise your pattern and have a better chance of predicting your most fertile days. Most women see a spike in their temperature, signalling that they've ovulated, and notice that their mucus looks and feels like raw egg white at around the same time. When the two coincide, it tells you that you have ovulated.
Provided you have a regular cycle, you can work out the days in future cycles when you're more likely to conceive and so make sure that you have sex at least once at those times until, hopefully, you conceive.
Whether your approach to baby-making is to make love regularly and see what happens or to focus on your fertile window, we wish you luck!
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