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Digital OPKs and Preseed! DTD twice only the month we conceived DD. We were pretty relaxed too which meant living our life as normal - wines included ;)
it took us 7 months this time around, but after buying preseed and also maybe baby, it happened only the second month of using these things! we only dtd about 2-3 times around O'ing and i really thought it wouldnt be enough, but preseed does help alot, specially since others can be not the best for using when ttc, and maybe baby picked up start of ferning about day 11 or 12 so just dtd only a 2-3 times throughout that week.
Hi CBG. We didn't have tooo much trouble getting a BFP as such (4 in 2009) but we had a problem keeping them :( knowing your cycle is important i think, OPK's & temping were great for timing because lets face it, when you've been ttc for 16 months + (like we were) DTD every 2nd or 3rd day just gets exhausting! For us acupuncture and Chinese herbs is what made this buba stick and sort out my body to carry the baby. If there is something else going on as to why you're not getting a BFP I'd check out that option. Goodluck hon.
Hey!
My story kinda combines a few of everyone elses! lol I didnt get drunk though, as I dont really drink much...boring me I know!
It was my first month of temping, we decided to try DTD every 2nd day since AF left until I got a +ive OPK. I got the +ive OPK on my 25th Birthday so then we DTD for the next 2 days and it worked out we DTD 3 days in a row. I'll admit I'm fairly certain I O'd the evening after my +ive OPK if the pains were anything to go by so I made DH wake up at 4.45am before we both left for work at 5.30am and have a morning BD session! lol that was a mission while ur still half asleep.
It was our second month of using pre-seed too. We used it each BD session, simply because it was alot of fun :redface:
It was also our second month of me taking elevit (I had just been taking a folate acid prior) and DH taking menevit.
I dont actually know what factor it was that finally made the BFP happen for us, maybe it was the combo of everything together? But next time i'm gonna follow the exact same path :)
We put a bit more effort in this time around as well. DH was taking Menevit & I was taking blackmores conceive well. I started temping and using OPKs which basically confirmed that my O symptoms didn't necessarily correspond to when I actually o'd. We DTD roughly every 2nd day in the leadup to my +ve OPK. I'm pretty sure I o'd that day. I was also taking metformin for my PCOS which helped to regulate my cycles. I was also watching my diet and drinking less as in trying to limit it to one drink a night and only on weekends.
First time around, I was only taking metformin & folate. I had given up as the dr said it was impossible for me to conceive naturally so we had a fair bit of wine, and a nice home-cooked meal and just enjoyed each other for our anniversary.
With dd1 and this time around we were lucky, but dh puts it down to fish, I ate some to try and improve my diet and ended up with bfp's.
Dd2 was a longer journey for us, I was put onto the mini pill after dd1 which made my cycle go all over the place and my weight went up 10 kilos.
I had to get the weight off after throwing out the pill. I went on vitex to help regulate my cycle back to 28 days and then I charted. It took about 9 months of trying after my cycle was back to normal.
Celery is meant to increase a man's amount of semenal fluid if ingested 6 hours before hand. Also, if you have a titled uterus doggy style is meant to make it easier for more sperm to reach the cervix without getting killed by vaginal wall acid.
Legs up in the air afterwards.... :rofl: We thought it was a joke, tried it and BFP!!
We fell pg the month that I thought we wouldn't - DH had been out field for 2 weeks, and I was sure he'd missed my O time. So we really relaxed...gave each other a massage, then just enjoyed ourselves. Afterwards, I put a pillow under my bum and lay with my legs in the air (out of habit from TTC more than anything), and 2 weeks later we got our BFP.
Also, DH had been taking zinc supplements, which build up the amount of semen - even he noticed the difference in the quantity! :) Sorry if TMI.
Good luck to all the TTCers...we'll be joining on that journey soon enough! :)
With me, I "went" first before DH, then we both "went" at the same time after that..
We also only DTD on the day of O on Fertility Friend (for around 5 days prior that is).
I also put my legs AND bum against the wall for about 10 minutes afterwards so all the good stuff didnt seep out :rofl:
We also weren't "trying" as such, more just, we'll see what happens, and not take any precautions. so we were both really relaxed and not stressed about TTC.
DH also had stopped drinking diet drinks for awhile beforehand for maybe a few days to a week? not sure exactly how long, but no more than a week i think.
oh and we also DTD around midnight lol!
With DS we pulled out all the stops! I was temping and charting my cycle, some months we used preseed, I was seeing a fertility acupuncturist, butt in the air after DTD, DTD at least once a day throughout my entire fertile period, both of us taking pre-conception vitamins... Probably the only thing we didn't do was drink alcohol, lol. Even still it took us 9 months and a precious angel before we conceived our gorgeous little man.
Things with our little Apple Blossom have been a bit different because she's an IVF with PGD baby. Although it only took us 2 cycles (3 months) to fall pregnant with her, we had a total of 16 chromosomally abnormal embryos that sadly were never destined to survive, before we created our single precious healthy baby girl embryo.
Oh, and I wanted to mention that I'm glad that we didn't tell people that we were TTC'ing either time because I just know that I would have snapped if someone told me to "just relax" LOL!
OK, so I didn't get pg twice the 'old fashioned way', I've had two cycles of IVF both resulting in BFP. My secret?? I relaxed as much as I could, but in all honesty I didn't expect too much from the treatment as I always assumed it would take us a few goes. So, relaxed I was, with no expectations, and both times the little embie decided to stick.
PS If I could get pg naturally, I would have picked Tequila and wild sex!!!! lol
GL hun, hope your TTC journey is a very short one!!!
Beata xxx
Well I'm another one who was drunk! lol The first time anyway. We didn't think we could fall naturally after DH's 2 years of chemo (it finished just 3 months before we fell) so went unprotected and bam UTD!!! :)
This time we had tried for a month or two, I know my cycle fairly well and thought we had missed it this time tho and had a pretty full on afternoon session, the only time we DTD in the month and again bam. So I think being relaxed about it and not thinking helps :) as does having a few drinks!!!!
WoW! Thank you so much Ladies for your responses... great stories and with wonderful outcomes :D
Lol so that does work!? Right, no more ripping DH out of the shower anymore hahahaha i was so afraid that we were "Wasting" the good stuff lmao!!:
This is such a good post CBG
:dunno: it worked for us, we'd been TTC for 7 months and the first time we DTD in the shower we got UTD. So I'm gonna go with yes lol.:
As for wasting the liquid gold, I think I read somewhere they swim upstream anyway so as long as it's pointed in the right direction it shouldn't matter ... (that could be totally wrong BTW I wouldn't listen to me :lol:)
Although I guess the more that stays inside the more likely it is one will make it to the holy grail.
I havent read all the replies but my friend told me that if a guy s****s on your thigh the little buggers will make their way up inside... :o
They must have built in GPS no male is that good at navigating...
:rofl: too true!:
hmm well we fell pregnant from dtd a lot lol. we had nothing else to do living in a caravan and it was so hot you didnt want to go outside.
Just relaxing and lots of laughter, bugging each other, just enjoying time with each other and not worrying about using condoms.
I got pregnant the first time but lost that baby but the 2nd time we planned it took about 1-2 months to get pregnant, had to take asprin for a bit as i had, had a miscarriage before.
The 2nd pregnancy i was breastfeeding and went off the pill and got pregnant.
Hubby says all he has to do is blow his load in my direction and i get pregnant, a joke between us lol.
Great thread!
By the sounds of it, getting drunk is the key :think:
I don't drink though :(
Maybe I should start??? ;)
Lol, sounds like not being infertile is the key really.:
I do like this thread though CBG... :)
:rofl::
Oh shoot... that's what I've been doing wrong :think:
Love it Punky
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LOL...yeah that too!
Thought it was about time I added what I did.
I had been trying for almost 11 months when we got our sticky BFP, with 2 MC's in that time. I have been temping since November.
The last time I had EWCM was on Boxing Day last year, and resulted in the MC in January. I was taking a general multi-vitamin that didn't have Vitamin A in it, and was trying to eat healthy and exercise more, I had lost 6kg in 6 months. Hubby was cutting down on Alcohol and had lost 30kg in 6 months.
The MC messed up my next cycle by reducing my LP by 2 days, and in March we got another BFP, which sadly was not sticky either.
I started B vitamins after the March MC as I had been told that they could help, but I only ended up with a very long cycle (39 days instead of my usual 28-31 days).
We had no luck for months, I stopped taking the multivitamins and just tried to relax, I was ready to give up and thought it would never happen. I even got quite depressed for a while there where I fantasized about harming myself.
Hubby helped me out of it, and I just took it one day at a time, and I started taking some Folic Acid tablets just prior to my last AF, and this cycle I didn't know when I O'd, I thought it was at the start of the cycle, but FF showed no sign of it having happened. Then on CD21 I got a bHCG test and progesterone test done, bHCG came back negative, Progesterone was below 15, so no sign of O, but according to FF I O'd on CD21, which just happened to be a couple of days before Hubby's birthday.
I drank on hubbies birthday, July 7th, and for a week after that, then on my Birthday (13dpo, July 18th) I started getting a little bit hopeful as I was very emotional and hormonal, and begged hubby to get me a test. He refused, but gave in on the evening of the next day (14dpo) and we got our BFP! It was very faint, and the next day I had a bHCG test done, which came up with levels of 29, so very low, meaning implantation had only occurred withing the 7 days prior.
We DTD only 3 times that month, once at the start of the cycle on CD 7, again on CD 11, and then again on CD 18.
I thought we would have no chance this month, and I have lost 6 angels now, and my DS is the only other one who has made it past 8wks, but we did catch the eggie this month and now I'm 8wk 4d.
Sorry for the long story, I'm sure you didn't all want to read it, but I thought I would share it so that those who are going through this and have been through similar things can know that there is hope.
edit: I also forgot to add that our sticky BFP was the second month that we had started spooning to DTD, apparently it helps get the sperm very close to the cervix.
My trick? Yell at the kids 'this is why we cant have nice things!' then try and sleep while df does all the work :)
You are all welcome to borrow my kids to tell off, Im bored of it TBH.
That's wonderful news JJ. Congratulations. Wishing you all the best :)
Thanks for sharing :hug:
Thanks CBG :) I forgot to add... I've put on 20kg since December!!! lol So now I'm calssified as obese, even though I DON'T look it (Size 18 anyone??? lol).
Just had to share that too :)
I need to get hubby's cousin's other half here on BB, she's been trying for 2yrs now, but she also has a problem where she can't put on any weight either, so she's constantly battling to stay above 45kg's, eats extremely fatty foods to try and put on weight and still has no luck.
Might do her some good if I copy the url to this page and send it to her :)
Orgasm! Not the fake sort, the full on absolute ecstasy Orgasm!
The 2 times I conceived on fertility drugs have been the month I orgasmed prior to BD or during BD.
And I am now naturally pregnant, and it was the month I orgasmed again.
Preseed is good too, if you need a little bit of help, but hopefully if everything goes smoothly you shouldn't need it:p
im thinking maybe i need to get me and hubby drunk lol
hmm, after reading this I'm thinking I need to try each and every one of these. Look out DH I'm coming to get you. :)
Hubby and I did a 2 week detox with bentonite clay and psyllium (google perfect 7 capsules) to reduce our levels of heavy metals, pesticides etc, at least a month before conception. We were also both taking the In-Liven probiotic & superfood supplement by MiEssence. We also tried as best as we could to avoid alcohol, coffee and any other drugs/medications that may adversely affect the health of sperm & egg.
Read Francesca Naish's The Natural Way to Better Babies; Preconceptual Care for Prospective Parents to find out more!
Best wishes for your future attempts!!
Start Uni! i started Uni with no plans of having a bub and bingo dtd once at the wrong time of month (i wasnt near Ovulation time) and WHAM a BFP for me!!!
or go get yourself into major debt! a friend had been trying for ages, than brought a house and a BFP for her!!!
Start planning your wedding....Twice!!! :rofl: it worked for us both times now. We weren't exactly planning either time, but had also decided that if it happens it happens :)
I took up Chlomid, and gave up coffee ...
no other real changes ...
not sure if either or both had any impact, but there you go!!
good luck!
With my boyo, we just got extremely lucky...
With little lady, I used OPK's and Maybe Baby....and agian...we got lucky
Other than that, we didn't do anything, didn't change diet, didn't change activity levels etc....