Hope you are all well. Re iodised salt, the reason it is recommended we eat it is that our every day diet is quite low in iodine (something to do with not much iodine in the soil), so you only need a little iodised salt to help you along. I think most breads also use iodised salt in them now. Most nutritional supplements for women trying to conceive will have iodine in them.
As for the men, make sure they are taking adequate zinc supplements - very good for their spermies. My naturopath had DH on zinc, vit c, multi vitamin and fish oil. If you go to a naturopath they will be able to design a good preconception care supplement program for both of you. It's a good idea to get a blood test to check your vitamin levels etc...i just found out I'm low in iron so red meat is back on the menu (DH hated me being a vegetarian so he's very happy now!)
As for O pains Keli - I used to get O pains for 24 hours just before my temp would increase. Like you, I was always unsure whether they meant I had ovulated or was about to, so we just tried to DTD as soon as I felt the pains...
Rhi - good idea to spend a night in the city...ramp up the romance and you never know....
Good luck to the girls coming up to O time or entering the 2ww....let's hope the Easter Bunny brings more than chocolate this Easter!
Porsche, Tammara & Mez, thanks ladies for all your positive thoughts for me, hopefully this will be my month and I can join you lovely ladies in the UTD club, woo hoo!
Mez, thanks heaps for the info on the salt. Yes my hubby was on zinc last year when we were seeing the Naturopath, can we just buy zinc from the chemist do you know?
So O pains have stopped and temp has begun in accent, yey! So almost positive now that I have O’d. On with my 2WW now I guess. Has anyone else O’d yet? If not GL coming up to it girls, fingers crossed this is a BIG month for BFP’s!
Also just for information, I have been checking my cervix this month and am pretty sure that it was high and smooth (not sure about being open) when I O’d, so quite happy with myself that I could teach myself how to do that over the net. I recommend it to anyone else that is not grossed out by it and is looking for another way to know when they O.
Fingers crossed for everyone that our bub’s are just around the corner for us all!
Hey Porche, I have just sent you a private msg with my username and password so you can login and have a look. If anyone else would like it just let me know and I will send you a private msg. Happy for you all to check out my chart and comment, just dont want to post my username and password on this site for all to see.
Porsche, not nosey at all, that's what it's there for. I found looking at your very helpful in the past to see the similarities.
You shouldn't need to give out your user name & pass word so we can all look. You'll need to add your particular link and we should just click it and it shows your chart only.
You'll need to do the folowing.
Menu on left hand side look for "Sharing" then click on "Home page set up".
It has a "Your Charting Home Page Web Address:" right at the top and underneath that title will be your personal web address for your chart. You'll need to copy and paste that address in your signature. That way it's safer for you for us to have a look.
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