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Good luck! Trying to get pregnant is such an emotional roller coaster, I hope things go well!

When I got my first I was on a diet, I think that eating lots of fruits and veggies and exercising regularly helped boost my fertility.

I highly recommend the book Taking Charge of your Fertility. It will guide you on how to effectively chart and you will learn a lot about your body and cycle. Good luck!

Both times I got pregnant I had just reduced the simple carbs in my diet. If your body is insulin sensitive like mine, cleaning up your diet helps.

We DTD every other day the entire month DD was conceived. If you are using lube make sure it is sperm friendly. I 'charted' in the Ovia app but it was just to track the length of my cycle after I got off birth control.

OPKs from Amazon. A great price and it should help.

another vote for the cycle/charting bible Taking Charge of Your Fertility, careful charting (I think most people use the Fertility Friend app), and OPK's. charting is a window into what is going on with your system and I thought it was the most valuable thing I did.

For OPK's, I tried both wondfo sticks and the CBE digital with the smiley face. I ovulate every month, but the CBE didn't always pick up my LH surge, whereas the wondfos did, (and you can watch the color build up) so don't get frustrated if digital doesn't work for you.

I don't know about checking your cervix, I didn't try that. I did (a lot!) check my cervical fluid, the topic of which is covered pretty extensively in the book. Each of the 3 times I got pregnant I had a lot of egg white fluid and had sex as soon as I saw it and every day (or every other day) until my temp rose. Good luck

With both of mine I was really active and my thyroid condition was well regulated. Thats all I can really attribute it to.

I would suggest finding a project or something you and DH can do together while you wait. Its so easy to get preoccupied and it makes for a great distraction. DH and i started hiking and were training for a long 14 day backpacking trip when I got pregnant with my first. We had to cancel the trip haha.

I used glow and Ovia apps to track everything. I also used the clear blue ovulation tester, the one on Amazon for like $250 with sticks that cost $30 - a friend lent it to me so all I had to buy was the sticks. I was/am pregnant the first month I used it after trying for about 7 months.

I did a pregnancy premester before we began actively trying. I charted (had done that for 3 years), used OPKs to confirm I was ovluating, started folic acid supplements, began visiting an accupuncturist, started chinese herbs.

If temping is too difficult you can just track cervical fluid. Taking Charge of your Fertility is a great read. It's pretty basic though. After your period you have some dry days (no cervical fluid) and then you will start getting either creamy or sticky and then it will progress to watery or egg white before going back to dry or creamy. Once you get cervical fluid, start having sex every other day while you have cervical fluid. That way you don't have to do it every other day for the whole month. Sperm can live up to 5 days (maybe 6 or 7) in your reproductive tract. If you have sex when you have cervical fluid (especially the fertile quality) you're pretty much guaranteed to have sperm there ready for an egg.

You can use fertility friend to track it, you might start seeing patterns and can guess your O day based on your patterns. Have you been having regular sex every week for 3 years? If you have sex 3times a week you're pretty much guaranteed to have sperm available for an egg so I wouldn't feel guilty at all about going to the doctor ASAP if that is the case and you don't want to wait 6 months.