What helped get you pregnant?

Apparently, alcohol and rare meat 😏been TTC for 6 months, barely drank a glass on that time and rarely eat red meat. Decided I'd enjoy Christmas given lack of success so far. Haven't got trollied, but a couple of glasses each night etc plus had rare steak multiple times. Just got my BFP 😂Woops! Now trying to work out how to turn down booze when I've been drinking happily thus far (don't want to tell family yet).

I have PCOS. I didn't use contraception for years. The 2 times I got pregnant I was drinking a shit ton of water for my skin (like 2+ litres per day) and was a low weight. Once on honeymoon and then 2 years later. It might be a coincidence but I swear this was the reason.

We did sex every other day from when period stops. Last baby we got pregnant straight away but with our 4th it took forever!! We had a deadline because we were getting married april 2018 and I wanted to breastfeed for a year so march 2017 was the latest. Can't remember exactly now but think we started ttc sept 2015 when DS was 1 as we wanted a 18m to 2.5yr gap. In the end we used conceive plus gel to get pregnant. Had DD3 in jan 2017. Good luck x

I lost weight ( weighed ten stone when I conceived)

Ate really healthy

Little caffeine or alcohol

Tracked ovulation

I think I did the legs in the air thing afterwards too

Hi everyone.

Quick question: What role does Vitamin D play in fertility? I've always been deficient. Why does that matter when TTC?

Thanks

Oh and the clear blue ovulation tracker was a must- turns out my ovulation cycle wasn’t as regular as my menstrual cycle and it really helped us narrow down my peak ovulation.

I highly recommend the FertiLILY (a conception cup, similar to the diva cup method) and conceive plus lube, they actually worked wonders for us! After many, many months we used this for one cycle and it worked! We literally only dtd one time during peak ovulation and I fell pregnant! I was sceptical and desperate but now I recommend to anyone ttc

good luck OP!

Exactly this though. There’s not always a pattern of ovulation. Your luteul phase usually remains the same but ovulation isn’t necessarily the same every month. I mostly ovulated day 12-15 hence thinking it would be when I was home from holiday but actually that month it would have been much earlier

Tracked my cycle using clear blue digital ovulation tests and the cheapie ovulation tests,
pom juice,
omega 3,
sex every day in the fertile window and 2 days after (just incase)
coQ10,
high dose vitamin D,
folate rather than folic acid,
acupuncture

Tracking cervical mucus seemed to work for me. I had months and months of data in an app (and had been quite reliably on a 28 day cycle) but I'm pretty sure I ended up ovulating later with a 31 day cycle. My dating scan confirmed my thoughts.

What you’re describing is using opks incorrectly. Ideally they are used to identify a pattern of ovulation and support you in dtd in the five days in advance of OV. Until I started using them I thought I ovulated day 14 whereas actually it was consistently day 20. No wonder I wasn’t getting pregnant, regardless of how relaxed I might be.

I think that sometimes with tracking ovulation especially with sticks you can end up DTD too late as once you get a positive OPK and the LH surge you’re basically already at ovulation and also the month I got pg on holiday I wasn’t due to ovulate until I was home and I got a positive pg test at 3 weeks and it was a good positive definitely not 7dpo so I ovulated early. If I had been tracking I would have probably just been starting to do opks and DTD and probably would have missed it. Obviously “just relax” isn’t scientific and there will be those who relax and don’t get pg and those who are tracking everything and still manage to get pg.

Fertilily! You can buy in boots

I use pregnacare and think it definitely helped me x

Soft cup and preseed. Left soft cup in for 12 hours. Worked every time.

Pregnacare is just a multivitamin. Generic ones contain the same for a fraction of the price.

I've got pregnant twice (although the first time was a miscarriage).

Climaxing during sex i think is what worked for me.

I really liked the CB ovulation tracker sticks

@justwantobeamum Glad it happened on holiday for you though, sounds like you had a great time :D

Sorry for your MMC loss too. They're really horrible :(

Can I ask though, what truth do you think is in 'just relax'? What do you think it was preventing pregnancy before? Tracking your cycle can't affect your biology, surely?

My MMC was in April and it took me seven months to get pregnant again. All of that time I was obsessing over it and doing everything I could to help myself and my husband. I didn't relax or forget about it but it still happened.

I took prenatal vitamins, DH took CoQ10, we DTD every 2-3 days in fertile window and used Preseed.

I have slight PCOS and was ovulating infrequently but started taking conceive plus ovulation support support and have fallen pregnant twice this year (one sadly ended at 14w).
I really think the tablets are the thing that helped me conceive.

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I got pregnant quite quickly on a “stop contraception and see what happens” but then had a mmc so was desperate to be pg, tracking ovulation, symptom spotting, so upset for 7 months then we went on holiday, I thought ffs my fertile window is when we get home how annoying (obviously would have more sex on holiday), got drunk, had frequent and dirty sex, got home and about 3 days later threw up - yup pregnant. 8 month old ds asleep on me now. I HATED people saying “relax forget about it” in those 7 long months, how could I forget about the only thing I wanted in life?! I hate to say but there is some truth in it. And I wouldn’t be able to relax and forget here so I’d definitely say go on holiday. We’re now TTC no2. goes to look up holidays

I took this for four months or so as I have had hormone imbalance/cysts and while I wasn't diagnosed PCOS something was definitely off.
I heard about it from a course called "Get Pregnant with PCOS" that I subscribed to during lockdown as I'm in late 30s and wanted to start trying soon. It's run by a US dietitian and I didn't do it fully but I adopted some of the concepts including inositol.
I can't tell you for sure if it worked as I wasn't TTC prior to this but I got pregnant one month after I came off the pill. I hope it works out for you!