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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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Has anyone used 'Taking charge of your fertility'/FAM to get preggers?

28 replies

FrenchLimeBlossom · 16/06/2009 13:58

Hello all, am TTC #3 and panicking already that there is something wrong! Fully admit am a bit neurotic about this so feel free to think I am a bit of a loon (but preferably not tell me so).

I am 32 and a half, not underweight (ha! I wish) or obese, eat a fairly healthy and varied diet and manage some exercise sometimes, don't smoke or do drugs, drink very sparingly (DH have up drinking and so I rarely do any more) and always had perfect 28 day cycles - but despite all that I did not get pregnant immediately after starting to try (or stopping stopping, IYKWIM). How bizarre!

Of course I know I am overthinking, some couples take 10-12 months to conceive etc - but I have got typical alpha-wannabe-mum syndrome ("everything else comes to me automatically when i decide i am ready for it so why not a baby").

Some friends recommended TCOYF by Toni Weschler, I've devoured it, become ashamed of my lack of knowledge about own body, and started charting but wondered if anyone had some good experiences to report? Or bad reviews i suppose, but they wouldn't be quite so reassuring at the moment.....

Or any other tips, other than have as much fun practising as possible around when you think the right time will be (we're already on it! )?

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MrsHappy · 19/06/2009 08:10

I have used it for 4 or 5 years to get pregnant and to understand what is going on with my body when not ttc.

I credit it with saving my life (seriously), when I would not otherwise have known I was pregnant (BFN followed by a bleed) and charting helped me know both that I was pg and that something was wrong - it turned out that the pregnancy was ectopic. I reckon it is always a good idea to understand how your body works and to learn how to read it.

bessie26 · 18/06/2009 22:07

I read it & charted, also had acupuncture (to fix irregular periods) and gave up all wine drinking - was pregnant 3 months later

I suspect it was the combination of all the above that did the trick, but after reading the book I was also shocked at how little I knew about my own body... how come they don't tell you in school you'll only be able to get pregnant a few days every month?!

luckywinner · 16/06/2009 14:04

I bought it after a miscarriage 5 years ago and read it and thought it was great, purely because it made me feel in control somehow.

I got pregnant two months later! I am just pregnant with number 3 but felt irrationally that there was something wrong with me before getting pregnant. I kept thinking I couldn't possibly be lucky enough to have another baby. Completely warped thinking I know!

Good luck and I hth