What Vitamins Can Make Me Ovulate Longer?

When getting pregnant is a challenge, look for any advantage. The conditions for conception are quite complex, so many different things can be just a little off. If it's not coming easily, it might be something simple. Start by examining health--mental, emotional and nutrition. One simple and often overlooked factor is vitamin intake.

Extending Ovulation

• Technically, there is nothing that extends the ovulation period. No vitamin, mineral or medication extends the length of time time that an ovum is available for fertilization. However, it is possible to trigger ovulation sooner and to nourish mucus membranes for better acceptance and sustenance of sperm and a fertilized egg.

Cervical Mucus

• Vitamin C and nitric oxide can help develop and support cervical mucus, which is present in a woman's body during ovulation. This mucus membrane helps sperm survive and get to the ovum for fertilization. Having an ample supply of cervical mucus is, therefore, useful in making the most of the ovulation window.

  Vitamin C comes both as a stand-alone vitamin supplement as well as part of most multivitamins. Of course, there's the old fashioned natural way of eating more citrus products and tomatoes or drinking more fresh juices from these fruits. Nitric oxide is also found as a supplement in health food stores and drug stores.

Basics and Good Ideas

• In almost every text on preparing to conceive, doctors and nutritionists recommend plenty of folic acid and the B range of vitamins. Folic acid and B vitamins go hand in hand in leafy green vegetables such as spinach and arugula. Not only to they help regulate hormones that assist with conception, but they also are critical during the first stages of a baby's development. They greatly assist in preventing birth defects and irregularities.

  Vitamins rarely cause any problems, and in almost all cases they help. Our bodies need them, and each classification of vitamin has a highly beneficial purpose. Taking a woman's multivitamin helps, as does eating a variety of fruits and vegetables and drinking fresh juices loaded with vitamins and enzymes.

  However, before beginning any kind of regimen of supplements--especially in any unusually elevated levels--consult a doctor.