When you fist decide that you want to try for a baby with your partner it is a very exciting time.For the first few months of trying for a pregnancy you are mainly just enjoying yourself and not really putting to much pressure on having a baby.

However, once a few months has passed it is natural that you start getting a bit stressed about the situation,if you are not immediately conceiving. It is very easy to say not to get stressed as this will not help your chances btu that is just not going to happen!

However, there are a few ways that you can start to help yourself in you journey to conceive a baby. It often does take a year or so of trying to get pregnant so until this time, when your doctor can start running some tests, there are some other things that you can try.

Firstly, you really need to know when your fertile period is so that you can have sex around the optimum time for conception (the time you ovulate and generally the 3 days before).  Check out these tips on how to tell when you are ovulating for starters.

There are other herbs and supplements that you can take which may increase your chances of conceiving – from taking Evening Primrose oil in the first half of your cycle, taking royal jelly and bee pollen to improve egg quality and taking maca capsules to do the same thing, or you can use soft cups and preseed to help get the sperm where they need to go. There are quite a number of things that you to encourage a pregnancy to happen.

Whatever happens, try not to give up on your dreams of a baby as there are so many ways that this can become a reality.