If you are looking to improve your chances of pregnancy, there are several things you can do. However, no matter what great advice you adopt, none of it is good unless you know when is the best time to get pregnant.

Therefore, the cornerstone of adopting various methods is knowing when you ovulate and when you should have intercourse.

Counting back 14 days from the start of your period will give you the expected date of ovulation. This means that if your cycle is 28 days, you will ovulate on day 14. For those with a 30 day cycle, ovulation will occur on day 16, and so on. Other ways to identify ovulation include the basal body temperature method and detection of changes in the cervical mucosa.

Now the problem is that improving your chances of pregnancy by pinpointing ovulation depends on you having a regular cycle so you know exactly how many days you need to count back from the start of your period and secondly it depends on you having noted the precise length of your cycle beforehand. I firmly believe that the use of an ovulation predictor kit can remove any doubts and is certainly worth considering.

Once the egg is released, there is a small window of opportunity as it only lives between 12 hours and 2 days maximum. This means that to improve the chances of pregnancy, you will need to have intercourse during the 2 days before ovulation, the same day and the next day, since the lifespan of sperm is 1 to 3 days, so the Chances of conception should be maximized.