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Serious question

What do you do?

SWI - how often and when?

Supplements - which?

Temping/charting/opks?

Other stuff - honey & cinnamon? Egg whites up your fanjo?

First month ttc so looking for tips

Your first month trying you just need to shag as much as you can Save all the faff for if you find you have trouble ttc. For now just chuck some sperm at the egg and see what happens

Start taking folic acide first though

Foilc acid every day
cut out alcohol.
cut out all cafinated stuff
healthy diet
I write on my calender when i have ovulation pains, then when af arrives
sw every other day from day 1- day 20ish.
try not to obsess.
good luck

Stop using condoms. Have some sex.

Absolutely no point in stressing and charting etc unless you have trouble. Doesn't hurt to have a rough idea of when you ovulate but then you end up stressing about having to have sex then and stressing makes you not want to have sex so best to just forget about it.

Folic Acid
Pregnacare vitamins for mum AND dad
SWI every other day at the right time
No alcohol for dad

Folic acid, opk to determine when we should be having swi, then swi on those days. Zinc for DP.

I also chart and am starting on evening primrose oil.

Agree that knowing your window is all very well, but I have definitely been stressing about having swi on the right days, which actually my sex life no favours at all...

Good luck

Thanks all.

@ northern

Will get on with throwing some sperm on the egg

Definitely going to try and stay relaxed, not chart just yet but will be isn't opks.

They say to have sex every 3 days, DP has a low sex drive so is worried about doing it everyday

Also to add, we have been relaxed ttc for about 18 months now, we didn't really SWI that often and probably not on the right days. We've decided to try 'properly' now using opks etc andshagging more

Zinc for hubby
Folic acid for me
Sex every other day
Using ovulation sticks

I think this book by Toni Weschler is brilliant. Ignore the feminist bits (if they don't appeal) and just take the information about how to read your body and know when you're fertile. I have conceived 3 times, and always know when I am fertile...

^ that book is brilliant. As above. Sex three times a week, every week is proven to be most effective. Nothing like going for every other day in your fertile period to create pressure and sore bits!
Try not to put too much pressure on. Buy some massage oil. massages are do sensual for us it often leads to sex but the mood isn't right you both still feel better afterwards. It's a non-confrontational way to suggest sex!

Folic acid. And a phone app to keep note of periods and square.

Oh, and I stopped taking the pill.

Folic acid. And a phone app to keep note of periods and swi.

Oh, and I stopped taking the pill.

I like using fertility friend to track periods/symptoms/swi even though I'm not temping at the moment.

I use the lady timer iPhone app

Take the pre-conception vitamins
Have sex 3 x per day from last day of period for at least two weeks...

(seriously..... I'm almost infamous for having this TTC regime you can search MNet for 3 x per day and I come up!!)

3 times day!?

I think we've only achieved that twice in the 3 years we've been married!
surely she meant week?

3 times a day?! My DP is finding it hard doing it once a bleeding day!

Thanks for the replies, hopefully this is our month. We SWI all days leading up to ov.

Good luck to all ttc

3 times a day...no way that's sustainable. How do you even fit it in if you both work full time?!
Jammy I think there's sound advice above. There's no secret to conceiving, just regular sex! And take your vitamins and folic acid. Hope you get your win soon.

Knitter does mean 3x a day glareswithenvy

Sex 3 or 4 times a week from day 10 or so through to day 20 ish should cover you. I sometimes have a 35 day cycle so will go through to 22/23.

Cut down on booze and caffeine, eat healthy, take a pregnacare vitamin and buy some sexy undies and chocolate spread (last bit optional)

Try and have a snooze for 30 minutes after sex with a bum under your pillow. I've never bothered, I'm too scepitcal but two years in without a BFP and I'm willing to give anything a go. I'm even eating brazil nuts!!

*pillow under bum. I'm not yoda honest!

@ bum under pillow.

Started SWI at day 8 and have done it everyday since, got a positive opk day 11, EWCM day 13, cramps day 14.

What's the deal with brazil nuts? I've heard the honey and cinnamon thing but not that!

Not actually sure about the science behind brazil nuts but apparently they are good for fertility. I'll do some googling!

Have you heard of the macca root too? Better for men's fertility apparently. Might slip some in dps horlicks as it's very malty <evil grin>