What did you do different the month you fell pregnant?

It's the most annoying thing when you're trying to get pregnant and people tell you just to relax and it will happen, but that's what worked for us! I was tormenting myself with ovulation testing, pregnancy testing, trying to time things etc that I just needed a break, decided to forget about it for a month and hey presto I fell pregnant!

Second time around, I didn't bother going back on the pill after having DC1 because we were getting older and just thought we'd let nature take its course without actively trying. And I fell pregnant a few months later.

Went on holiday, two weeks AI in Tenerife. Decided to give myself two weeks off trying to conceive - drank loads of alcohol, ate everything I fancied, had several ice creams in one day, and conceived my rainbow baby after a year of trying and one mc.

Used progesterone cream. Temp tracking showed that I have a v short luteal phase. Conceived first month after 2 years of trying. I will never know if it was a coincidence.

Conceived dc1 straight away. Took much longer with dc2 (I had a referral to the hospital to investigate which I ended up not needing).
What I did differently that month was to stop planning sex, basically. We both had some kind of horrible flu (this was long before covid, I should say!) and iirc were off our faces on nightnurse much of the time, although I probably wouldn't recommend that! In fact in hindsight I wonder whether I'd been miscalculating my fertile days.

I quit my incredibly stressful job and had a wonderful month off. Then went back to a new, less stressful job and found out I was pregnant in the first week

Similar to you op, first baby conceived the first month, second baby took 18 months. We did nothing different on month 18 so just luck!

Ditched OPK and tracked temperature instead. Most importantly paid attention to cervical mucus. Conceived that month after over a year of trying, and then same again for two subsequent pregnancies.

After ttc for 2.5 years, failed IVF (the round took nearly 3 months due to complications and should have been done in 6 weeks) unexplained infertility. Due to start another round of IVF stressed to hell as we knew what we had to go through! Hoping to god that we don't have to do it again! Had the most unromantic, high pressure let's have sex as I'm ovulating sex.
Fell pregnant!
All this relax and you will conceive is crap in my opinion.
Hope you have your baby soon xxx

We gave up. Had been trying for 3 years and we accepted defeat, went away for the weekend, got drunk and ate loads of bad food.

I forgot to mention that the transfer where I got more sleep was the one which resulted in my daughter!

A bit different because I had IVF, but around the time of my fourth transfer (I also had four unsuccessful IUIs) I got lots of sleep. I made a point of going to bed at a decent hour, aiming to get at least eight hours, preferably nine. Apart from that, I didn’t try the things I’d attempted before, mainly pineapple!

After 2.5 years of infertility my husband was sent to South Africa for 2 weeks. Scheduled to leave the day before I ovulated that month.

We had so much fun saying goodbye 😜 and after 2+ years had ruled out that month.

In the middle weekend I had a Eurovision party and got smashed!

The day he flew home my period hadn't arrived so I tested. Was shocked to finally see 2 pink lines. I FaceTimed him straight away lol.

Oh and lost weight

Changed jobs.
I was very very stressed, so much so I’d be almost shaking coming home.

I later found out that fat read is very bad for fertility.

Stopped tracking ovulation, temps etc and thought we’d try to relax before going to the GP to start the ball rolling after TTC for almost 18m. This might be TMI but I also stopped laying with my legs up after DTD and went straight to the loo afterwards. Kept up the vits etc and I had lost about a stone in weight before getting lucky. Not sure which bit helped though!

Legs up against the wall every single time for at least 10 minutes after sex.

I also stopped tracking a month or so prior and just stopped thinking about it!! Deffo easier said than done and I was so sceptical about it, best of luck. X

Reflexology and progesterone

Err nothing .. wasn't 'trying', DH much keener than me .

SMEP

Nothing.We could only have sex 8 days a month as dh worked away mon to fri

Used a clear blue opk and dtd twice on the day I got the static smiley (we didn't do it at any other time during that fertile window for various reasons). It was either to do with that or relief that we'd exchanged on our new house the previous day 😆. Found out I was pregnant 12 days after moving in.

We'd been trying to move for a good couple of years, and ttc for 11 months so do wonder if the knowledge we were finally moving meant my body decided the time was right.

Both times just after a holiday and no real 'trying'

For me, it was the first month (after 7 months TTC) I used OPKs and monitored CM and realised that I had been mistiming my ovulation every other month. That might have not had anything to do with why I conceived that month though, it’s mostly just luck isn’t it.