Drink lots of water and use some robitussen to increase your cervical mucus. I have no idea if it works but it can’t hurt.
I’ve also heard suggestions of green tea, red raspberry leaf and extra vitamin b-12. Again no idea if it works but it certainly can’t hurt.
I second the Taking Control of Your Fertility suggestion. Great book!
I was specifically told not to drink green tea as a new study shows it interferes with folic acid absorption. Here’s a bit of info: Link. And of course, ask your doctor about any supplements and vitamins you’re considering.
Stuff I’ve heard? Most lubricants (artificial and saliva) can interfere with sperm motility. If you need / want extra moisture, I know a couple of people who have had success with PreSeed.
Several couples adopted orphans and no sooner than the ink was dry on the final papers the early warning test turned positive!
C3, I don’t know what your religious beliefs are, but praying seems to have worked for me. I had no problem conceiving my first two kids, but the third (when I was considerably older) didn’t seem to want to be conceived. We tried for four months, without ovulation predictor tests, no luck; then we tried for three months with the tests, no luck; finally, the fourth month we used a test, I prayed before we had sex. I asked God to please help me in this matter, if it was His will that I should have another child. That was the month the little swimmers found the egg.
If that ovulation test is showing the big “Go for it!” sign, I’ve heard that what it really means is “you shoulda gone for it last night and the night before because tonight might be too late”, for what that’s worth. Contrary to the package instructions which said (IIRC) “have sex any time in the next couple of days”. In our case, “have sex today” appears to have worked several times, unless it was the “have sex 2 days ago” 
Depending on how your innards are configured, different positions are supposed to work better - e.g. retroverted uteruses (uteri?) like you to be a real bitch (ahem)
For the sillier stuff - just look up all the old wives’ tales for ways to prevent pregancy and try all of 'em!
Lose your job.
Put an old broken down washer on your front porch.
Drive a POS car.
Damn Cyros - I never heard that and I LOVE green tea - I thought it was a safe alternative to coffee. Shoot … now I’m all stressed out. My doctor sucks, he never tells me anything about anything. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Anyway, back to the OP - there is a natural supplement that you can take to increase contractions which is good for pulling the sperm up into your uterus … I just can’t remember the name right now because apparently even though I’m only 10 weeks pregnant, my brain is already turning to mush. But any health food store would know.
BUT … after the fertile period is over, stop taking it because it can then start working against you.
Don’t worry. One study said it may decrease folic acid absorption, and it is talking about consuming very large amounts around the time of conception. Chances are, few people drink large amounts on a regular basis.
Studies have shown that coffee drinking can cause issues as well, but few people seem to notice that they are talking about drinking in excess of 5 cups of coffee a day. Who does that? I’m not worried about my daily cup of Tims.
Thanks Cyros … I’ll take a few deep breaths and try to calm down now … 
The supplement you are thinking of might be evening primrose oil. I’m not making any claims, but my son was conceived a couple of months after I started taking it.
I actually used to, when I was working. I had my own coffee maker in my office and I’d make it through a whole pot by about 2:00. Pretty bad, huh? Now, my caffeine intake is limited to a max of 2 cups of tea a day, and I sometimes skip all together.
:eek: Is that true? The test does say it’s a “predictor” of ovulation - in theory, it’s supposed to tell me that I’ll be ovulating within the next 36 to 72 hours. Hopefully, we’ll be okay either way. Our plan has been to have sex at least every other day from the day my period ended until the ovulation test came up positive. Then we switched to sex twice a day for four days (we still have one more day left). Then we’ll go back to at least every other day. I need to get pregnant though, because this is making me tired. 
You crazy caffeine fiend, you! Probably not that common for pregnant women to drink more than 5 cups a day, though - you’d have to set up camp in the bathroom!
First of all, anyone who would say ANYTHING about an adoption being a fertility method to an adopted child makes me want to vomit and they should have a sensitive body part removed with a spoon.
However, this thread asked for old wives tales and anecdotes. I gave an anecdote that was perfectly true and no more “out there” than drinking tea or not or any of the other suggestions. No offense intended.
Like I said up in post #15:
But if your test is indeed a predictor, not an ovulation detector, then you’ll be fine. That’s exactly the window to be ahem shooting for.
BUT
You might want to leave it at once every day or every other day around ovulation time next month if you don’t get pregnant this month. While testicles replenish sperm pretty quickly, you’re asking a lot of the little fellas. Your husband may end up shooting blanks on the important days.
I slid in to suggest this, and it seems to sum up a number of suggestions already made.
Recreational intercourse is more effective than scheduled intercourse. Have fun, lots and lots of it and make sure she is ‘finished’ after he is (every time).
Keep up the ovulation test, but more as an estimator for when the magic event was.
All it took for my wife was a snowy new england night
Didn’t realize she was logged in on my 'puter. Mmmm…snowy new england nights.
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For what it’s worth, does the test actually tell you when you’ve ovulated already, or does it tell you you’re about to ovulate? Because once you’ve ovulated, it’s almost too late already. Ideally, you want to get the swimmers started on their journey 24 hours before ovulation. That way, they’ve already made that arduous 5 inch journey into your fallopian tubes and are ready to pounce on the freshly laid egg. Taking Charge of Your Fertility can teach you how to tell when you’re about to ovulate without buying expensive tests.
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I think the deal is (and it’s been some years since I read this so I could be remembering wrong, plus the technology may have improved): the detectors tell when the LH (luteinizing hormone) surge begins - and that means you’re going to ovulate within ~24 hours. BUT - depending on the time of day when you test, that surge may have begun just an hour or three after you last tested. So you may be closer to actually ovulating than you expect. And like the previous poster said, them spermies should already be on the way to the egg the minute it pops. i.e., “you should have had sex last night”.
So - one kit’s instructions that you should “have intercourse in the next 2-3 days” really has you doin’ the deed too late to do any good.
IANAD, I don’t even play one on TV, and I haven’t laid hands (or anything else) on an ovulation predictor since 1996, so my data may be slightly out of date.
I’ll agree with the “twice a day might leave him shooting blanks”. I think every 36-48 hours is the current recommended interval.
And two data points: Dweezil was conceived either via “have sex 36 hours ago” or “have sex right now” per the OP kit. Moon Unit was conceived either via “have sex 36 hours ago” or “have sex 12 hours from now” per the OP kit. Absolute certainty in both cases. And I can’t believe I’m telling you all this :o
This method works so well for us that the last time my husband lost his job I took a pregnancy test though I had no other reason to suspect I was pregnant. (I wasn’t…that time)
I third reading this book. I use it’s methods to prevent my GF from getting pregnant (coupled with condoms) and it works.
It’s so freakishly simple to get pregnant when you understand your body’s cycle that it’s pretty scary. When we’re ready we’re planning on having a boy first, girl second and this book gives us a damn good chance of that (picking a baby’s sex that is).