Fess Up Ladies, What is your secret?

[CharlieBrownGirl]

This is to all the Ladies out there that have experienced the joy of seeing a

Apart from the obvious DTD

What hints, tricks &/or tips can you offer us TTC'ers to get that elusive ???

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[*LittleMissSummer*]

I have no advice as we only DTD once and we fell pregnant, id say maybe instead of trying maybe just be careless. Decide around the time you are ovulating just dont use anything and see what happens. If you are worried about it and thinking about it, it just wont happen.

[shellbell3]

I got to know my cycle really well, knew when ovualtion was going to occur and told Df what days we would be DTD (yeah really romantic, lol).
Ovulator predictor kits can also be good if you have an irregular cycle or just want some extra help to know the right time.

[Jakabella]

I used OPK's so I knew when I was ovulating, also I can not recomend Pre-seed enough!! Its awesome stuff.

[Liz]

DH "going" first and then me... theory being dipping the cervix into the pool of sperm and sucking them up to where they need to be LOL. It seemed to work the first two times.. but doesn't seem to be working trying for #3! (yet!)

[KitFaerie]

I didn't know my cycle, so we just DTD every 2 days til we got the BFP, lol. We were both taking preconception tablets and were trying to eat healthy. Iron and Zinc is good for guys, so DH unhappily ate lots of green vegetables, and happily ate lots of bacon. My mother sent me an article about avocado being good for preconception, so I ate salads with avocado too. I remember reading somewhere that soy was bad, so neither of us had any soy. We still drank, couple of glasses of wine each week and DH a few beers on the weekend, as we decided it was better that we were happy and relaxed. We got the BFP second cycle after coming off the pill, and first cycle of actually trying.

[Amaunet]

Put DH on Menevit!!! 3 months later BFP

AND gave up diet coke - I felt soooo much better - no idea if this helped or not tho

[Erin_25]

We stopped trying so hard, the more we thought about it the more frustrated I got & nothing happened.

Each time we "gave up"as such we got a BFP! seems relaxed is a good way to go..for us anyway.

This is what actually annoys me about others freely commenting on your due date, I'm due 01/01/2010 & keep getting the "oh, what bad timimg" ahhhh yeah, we tried & tried for x amount of time, got more & more upset as it didn't happen. Then were over the moon when we relaxed & let it happen....but yeah could have timed it better grrrrr.

[nattyfred]

We had been trying for 6 months and using a maybe baby but when we gave up, booked a hotel in the city, got drunk as on jagerbombs and danced all night (obviously not just in the club haha) it seemed to do the trick lol. I used to get cranky when ppl used to tell me to just relax though lol

[CharlieBrownGirl]

Love it Ladies, keep it coming! Your advice is making my positivity increase... few hours ago all I could think about was how the universe was against me having a baby.

Erin, back in high school I was in the youngest bracket and Mum wouldn't let me do something cause I was x age and the other girls were older... I would always say, why couldn't you have me in August??? Only now do I realise it doesn't happen like that.

Nattyfred, sounds like a great night. I haven't had a drink for 6 months, frozen margarita ****tails are looking good this weekend

[Nettie]

DH "going" first and then me... theory being dipping the cervix into the pool of sperm and sucking them up to where they need to be LOL.

That's exactly what I did too! I often O-ed hours later (manually - ) which I think really helped! Sorry if TMI!

I also dropped 18 kgs in the 12 months prior to conception - which certainly helped me. When I got pregnant I was at about 92 kgs (quite good for me!) and feeling very healthy and active.

[CharlieBrownGirl]

[KitFaerie]

So the consensus seems to be relax, have a couple of drinks and then O. No wonder one night stands can result in pregnancy, lol.

[~Phoenix~]

hmmm relaxing and alcohol seem to make a few mentions lol

I got preggers on a road trip holiday where we just kicked back, drank heaps and generally just had a good time

[PumpkinZulu]

So the consensus seems to be relax, have a couple of drinks and then O. No wonder one night stands can result in pregnancy, lol.

[Cassius2]

we we fell pg with DD it was also....

because we were reallllllly drunk and i happened to O that night!!

we had been trying for almost 2 years for DD...so it was a suprise!

ATM we have just started using Menevit, i am taking elevit and some extra iron (as i am anaemic still). and also we just BD everyday in my fertile period. can't say it's working though...hopefully soon lol!

hmmmm maybe i should just buy some tequila and an OPK?!

[Dansta]

for us? when i got rather... amehm itchy poor DH didnt want to look at me hehe im sure it was the shock of going from next to nothing to 'back away slowly do not make eye contact and RUN!" hehe i think though while you can temp, work out your body to a tee, sometimes just relaxing and letting go of and expectation can help- for us it was a "what'll be will be" from aug-jan then "try with every thing" from april onward. early Oct - we got a BFP and it was fun making it too - even if i was a weee bit tipsy

[*LittleMissSummer*]

We were completely sober, it was the middle of the afternoon on our day off together. It was really good (sorry if TMI) and because we usually do the withdrawl method this particular day i was about to O and if he had of pulled out it would have killed it so he said stuff it. We were both so relaxed and just had fun that we didnt even think about it.. 10 days later i got my BFP.