Your cycle starts on the first day of your period and ends on the first day of your next period.
Getting pregnant immediately after your period is unlikely, but it’s not impossible…
Fertility indicates your ability to conceive children. A woman’s peak reproductive years are between late teens and late 20s.
Fertility will usually start to decline in your 30’s.
Factors that may contribute to infertility include age, smoking, stress, certain medical issues, obesity, alcohol and drug use.
With that said, what are some of the more clear signs that you are in fact fertile and ready to get pregnant?
Many women who cannot get pregnant or who may experience repeated miscarriage often suffer from a luteal phase defect, which simply means that the luteal phase of their cycle (the time between ovulation and their menstrual flow) is too short to develop a thick enough uterine lining to support a fertilized egg.
This can either result in an inability for the fertilized egg to implant in the first place, or an inability to thrive, thus resulting in a very early miscarriage. Some women actually miscarry every month without realizing it believing that they are simply having a regular period.
Long term use of birth control pills should not have a negative impact on your fertility or on your ability to conceive.
Most women can get pregnant within the first 12 months of contraceptive discontinuation but a study found that women who used a combined estrogen and progestin birth control pills for more than three years were were more fertile than women who used them for a shorter period of time.
Many women keep asking me whether their PCOS condition can have a negative effect on their ability to conceive.
It is true that a hormonal imbalance regardless of the actual cause can decrease your chances of getting pregnant naturally. I always recommend first treating the imbalance and only then trying to conceive. So how would you treat PCOS?
Cervical mucus or cervical fluid is one of the three primary fertility signs to getting pregnant. A dry cervical mucus for example can resist the movement of sperm and inhibit fertilization.
Vaginal infections, sexually transmitted diseases, obesity, breastfeeding, and stopping birth control pills can all change the nature of your cervical mucus.
There are various fertility herbs but probably the most famous one is Agnus Castus also known as Chaste Berry Tree or Vitex.
It can have such an amazing effect on your fertility in so many ways. You would be surprised to know that labs use its extract in certain medications that women take to treat menstruation or menopausal issues.