Veronica Tilden

Keeping your own paper ovulation calender is very helpful for understanding your health and fertility, and it’s fun.

Understand what a normal menstrual cycle is, and what common symptoms may not be normal.

Having a short luteal phase can affect your ability to get pregnant and maintain a pregnancy if you do.

You must know how to recognize when you ovulate to be able to accurately determine the length of your luteal phase.

Stress can have profound effects on your fertility, and influence many of the things you chart on your ovulation calendar.

Observing the cyclic changes in your cervix can give you another way to identify your fertile days and improve your chance of getting pregnant.

Home sperm tests are limited, only telling you if your numbers are in the “normal” range. They do not give specific numbers or quality.

An ovulation calculator will not be accurate f your menstrual cycles are irregular. Understand what a healthy cycle should be.

Tracking your basal body temperature will confirm if you are ovulating, and you must ovulate to get pregnant.