List of things that help when TTC

What I found amazing was that this woman said if your feet are swollen under the ankle, right on the edge of the foot, on the inside then that shows something going on in womb area. so I looked at mine and they were swollen in that area so she said that's showing a problem with my fertility. So had the reflexology and accupuncture,(also saw a brilliant healer woman) the swelling went and I got pregnant!
Then it came back with pregnancy which is normal and now its back again and my periods are mad again but not bothered this time! One's enough for lazy old me!!!

Wow Manuka. Thats amazing...... Will deffo look into this...

I am a huge believer in accupuncture and reflexology after conceiving with no periods!! Definitely recommend both of those treatments.

Hi everyone

I too am TTC!

Am interested in reflexology to see if it would help... anyone a good reflexologist in North West (pref. Liverpool area?)

Taa for any pointers.....

Acupuncture for definite!

Read 'Taking charge of your fertility' by Toni Weschler. She goes into charting etc in great detail and you really learn to understand your own cycle.

After a year and a half of trying, I conceived on a day when I had 'egg white' consistency cervical fluid (apologies to the squeamish). I'm currently pregnant with no.2 (age 40) and again it was an 'egg white' day, even though very early in my cycle (we weren't planning to have another one just yet, but thought we'd risk it and, whoops!)

Big hug to anyone who's desperately hoping against hope each month.

Thanks Janus that's good to know!

Redbush, I'm using the clearblue fertility monitor which tells you when you are ov and for the first time it seems I have not ov this month. I have used this in the past though and always got a day when I had ov so just putting this month down to a 'funny' month (which is quite normal, every so often women just have a month like this). I'm sure you're the same, just thought I'd tell you to put your mind at rest!

Has anyone experienced using an ovulation kit and not getting a proper reading? I've tried one this month - very clearly nothing happening for the first couple of days then got a faint line where in the positive bit but it never got darker than the control line and now it's disappeared again. I know you're going to say I need to try a couple of months but wondered if anybody else had had this experience?

2 years???

I struggle with 2 days... With you on that one Pinkmartini.

Detoxing for two years?!
There's no hope for me.

Chinese fertility herb sounds interesting!
You didn't have twins did you?

I agree about the very painful periods and looking into causes.

I have pelvic congestion syndrome, which was picked up on laparoscopy after me wanting to know why I was doubled up with the pain.

I suffered a miscarriage and my periods didn't return for over 6 months which was very stressful. I had acupuncture and started taking vitamin B and zinc. I also took Milk Thistle to clear my liver of excess oestrogen. I then joined the Oxford Conception study and was supplied with an ovulation prediction kit as well as having to write down every time we had sex, amount of alcohol drunk, cigarettes smoked (although don't smoke). I found that this really concentrated my mind and enabled me to accurately see optimal time to have sex (I know this sounds very boring but frankly we all know that there is that time during the month when you can conceive).

I detoxed for 2 years and improved my diet and took vits and then 2 or 3 months after i started taking a chinese fertility herb (was it Dong Quai?)got preg for 1st time.

I have to say that I concieved during an ofsted inspection which was very stressfull (we weren't trying DD was a lovely suprise) my colegue who was trying also concieved during ofsted!!

Legs in the air did do it for me - old wives tale or not !

The month I eventually conceived DS3 I had been having cranial osteopathy, taking cough medicine (not after ovulation) and agnus castus (also not after ovulation as far as I remember). It was our 13th month of trying having had a missed miscarriage in our 2nd month of trying - we just tried everything we could think of!

iwillbe she's near dundee actually

I lost weight and did more excercise, which helped I think.

I also found that getting stressed stopped me conceiving for several months: as soon as the stress went, bingo!!

Also did the whole "predictor" thing and examining mucous and ovary pains etc

PinkMartini

It was me who mentioned about the very painful periods. Mine were excrutiating up to and during the menstrual cycle - painkillers did not take the edge off it. Have been known also to bend double on the floor in agony.

I say this because in my case at least there was an underlying cause and that was endometriosis. Not suggesting at all you have this but if your pains are really bad and cyclical in nature it ought to be checked out further.

Both of us took vitamins and we had regular sex at the right time but that was it!
The best thing we did was decide not to worry about it for 'that' month as we would go and see the GP to start investigations in the New Year. We conceived in early December - relaxing for the month made the difference.
Good luck!
xx

What do sunflower and pumpkin seeds do?

Attila I'm so pleased you said that about legs in the air. Not something I ever feel kike doing after bd'ing but feel guilty for not doing it.

Interesting about the sunflower and pumpkin seeds - I eat those all the time as a snack mix with sultanas. I must have been making myself super fertile without realising!

sunflower seeds and pumkin seeds in your cooking, on cereal on sandwiches etc

basil
Who did your magic relexology?! Not anyone in Edinburgh by any chance (think you are north of the border too) - wondering if I should add that to the ever increasing list of people helping me to conceive. Am quite nostalgic for those innocent times when only DH and I were party to our sex life