Veronica Tilden

If you are not ovulating consistently, it will be difficult to get pregnant. Begin by improving your diet and addressing your stress.

The key to using this OPK effectively is to follow your other signs of fertility to know when to begin testing. 

Birth control pills affect your hormones and cause nutrient deficiencies. You may need time to recover before being able to conceive.

An ovulation calculator is only helpful to identify your fertile days if you have a very consistent cycle and you are healthy.

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

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.

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

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