Old Wives Tales to help you conceive?

[AJ]

Incense - burning Clary sage Incense sticks is meant to help with fertility.

Gem Stones - Rose quartz - is meant to help with relaxation and also with fertility, along with smoky quartz, and jade for male fertility and a number of other semi precious stones.

I have been out and bought some incense and have a rose quartz stone to wear and which goes under my pillow at night and there is one beneath DH side of the bed. I know that you have to be careful of aromatherapies etc when you are pg but i was wondering if there is anyone else out there that has any other suggestions - I am open to anything!!

[jchab]

I am taking vitex, dong quai, vit b complex, evening primose oil, folate and have been drinking grapefruit juice.

Vitex and Dong quai are hormone balancers

Evening primose oil and grapefruit juice to increase ewcm. I only take epo from AF to O.

Vit B - Helps lengthen your luteul phase.

I have been taking these for nearly 2 months and I actually 'O' on cd16 and if the witch arrives today I will have a 31 day cycle.

If you cycles are regular I wouldn't suggest taking any of these as it might mess up your cycles.

Hope some of this helps.

Jade

[Marshmallow]

In my research into this same topic, I keep coming up with a Shamrock (four leaf clover) design on a flat smooth piece of moonstone. Moonstone is said to enhance fertility and to promote ease in pregnancy. I don't know where to get a ready made charm like this, so I got some moonstone and carved a shamrock into it gently. (rather difficult!)

Mythology also calls for a female statue to be stood in the bedroom somewhere visible - it needs to be a statue that "calls" to you, or that you find visually appealing, or that you like, or has special meaning etc. I'm not sure if this is Feng Shui - I don't really know much about Feng Shui.

With the incense, Musk can help set the mood for BDing - I dont' think it specifically enhances fertility as such, but it certainly makes the room smell nice and can make it all romantic, and according to some mythology I have read, (Im' not sure of the truth of this, but I like it anyway) there are many baby "spirits" floating around the air, waiting to choose their parents, and they want parents who love each other, so romantic BDing could work. (Plus it's fun!)



One thing I have been doing is something my grandmother taught me - wishing on the first evening star on the first day of a new moon. When I was about 5 she told me that that's the star that grants wishes, so all my life I've done it, and things seem to come true from it. (I got my DH!) I don't know if it will work for a baby, but no harm in trying!

[Phteven]

there's an article on aromatherapy from conception to baby on the main bellybelly site. Its got heaps of stress busters and a few differant ways of using them.

[Lucy]

The other alternative method of increasing fertility is the Lunar method, which indicates that a woman is at her most fertile during the stage of the month when the moon is in the same position as it was when she was born. particulary if it coincides with her normal mid month ovulation.

It is a bit complicated to explain, but if I look back at all three of my conceptions they all fell when I was ovulating at the same time as the moon being in my birth position.

HTH.........

[nellbe]

I love armothearpy and it's great such to use toe relax and get into the mood..... especially in massage!