If you are planning on having a baby in the next 9 to 12 months, the advice I’m going to share with you on the signs of ovulation can save you a lot of time, effort and heartache… and most importantly, help you get pregnant as quickly as humanly possible.  

I’m giving you this advice because knowing exactly when you ovulate is the key to shortening the time it takes to get pregnant.  The problem many women face is that they’re having sex at the wrong time of the month, when they are not fertile, and wondering why they’re not getting pregnant.

Ovulation is simply one part of the monthly cycle all women go through during their child-bearing years.   At some point around the middle of the cycle, a matured egg is released from the ovary into the fallopian tube.  This process is triggered by a hormone called luteinizing hormone, which is released in greatest amounts 13-36 hours before you ovulate.

Finding out when you’re ovulating, by measuring the rise in LH can be simple with an ovulation test.  These tests measure the amount of lutenizing hormone in your urine, which is one of the more accurate and scientific methods you can use to work out when you are most fertile.  

Although there are many fertility test kits on the market, the more pricey kits are more straight forward to work out, and give you pretty much similar results to what you could get with a laboratory.

Urine-based ovulation tests are very commonplace, and work very well for some women.  There are also saliva-based tests, which do not cost as much as the urine-based fertility test kits, but can provide reliable results.  If you want to increase the reliability of your prediction, you can use the two around the same time, and shorten the amount of time it takes you to conceive.

You can also check your cervical mucus for changes.  Most days of the month, the mucus is thick and stiff in consistency, but while you’re ovulating, it becomes almost transparent , and has a more runny consistency.  It can be very stretchy if you try to pull it apart between your finger and thumb.

Predicting your most fertile time of month, by checking your cervical mucus and looking at fluctuations in your hormone levels is more suitable if you do not have irregular periods.  If there is a problem with your menstrual cycle - and this can include irregularities, excessively heavy periods, light periods, or no periods at all, then you need to take action to regulate your cycle.  One recommendation I make that has proven very successful is to balance the hormones with herbal cleansing and herbs that increase the fertility such as Fertil Plus.

Knowing the signs of ovulation will increase your chances of getting pregnant in the next 12-18 months.   However, taking a few extra steps can boost your fertility can shorten the time it takes you to conceive.  

Cleansing your body of toxins can get rid of any substances causing your hormones (and menstrual cycle) to become out of balance.  Taking a herbal remedy - make sure it is organic - can also increase your fertility.  And when you combine the herbal approach with the techniques I shared with you on identifying the signs and symptoms of ovulation, you can guarantee that you will hear the pitter-patter of little feet very soon.