To ask if anyone’s tried these and they’ve worked?!

[Floofboopsnootandbork]

The Seven Seas trying for a baby pills.

They were recommended by a friend who got pregnant before they even finished their first pack. They have very good reviews, a lot of them saying they got pregnant during the first month but wanted to ask people who definitely aren’t paid to write a good review

um OP they are not pills that make you pregnant.
They're just folic acid and vitamin D (possibly not even the full recommended daily amount of vit D iirc) that will support your body if you do get pregnant.

If you're expecting anyone to know whether the pills had any factor in getting them pregnant then you don't really understand science (no offence).

I obviously meant if they felt they helped. For example, the friend who recommended them had been trying for 2 years, started taking these and got pregnant the first month. Therefore she says they “worked” for her. I didn’t expect anyone to come on and say yes I took one and the next day I was pregnant and it was definitely these. 🙄

I know what they are and I know what they do. No need to the bitchiness.

They are just multivitamins OP. They had no bearing on her ability to get pregnant that quick. It was fluke. You have to take any for 3+ months for them to even improve your egg quality and overall cycle/lining quality. Wellwoman Conception are better quality by the way. And switching to full fat dairy.

What do you want us to tell you, OP? It’s just vitamin pills. They might have a placebo effect, who knows? When I was trying, I didn’t take prenatal vitamins mostly to help with folic acid and help me as I was underweight and a ex-smoker.
Good luck.

*did take.

They don’t help you to get pregnant. They supply the right amount of folic acid if you do conceive.

Lots of people attribute getting pregnant after trying for a while to all sorts of stuff.

I didn't think knitandpearl was being bitchy OP, just explaining. The tablets won't help in any way with conception but provide you with vitamins / nutrients to help support the embryo / baby when you become pregnant
Best of luck with it all 💐

knitandpearl perhaps you didn’t understand what she was asking. I’m pretty sure if OP is trying for a baby, the only reason she’d be asking about the pills, she knows what they do and doesn’t think they’re a magic pill. No one knows for sure if this or that is what helped them get pregnant or if it was just a coincidence they did something and then that month it happened but many people recommend things that worked for them. Also they are not to support your body when you’re pregnant, these particular pills are for when you’re trying to conceive, so before you’re pregnant.

Op, I haven’t personally tried them but my SIL who had only been trying 3 months and a friend who had being trying for a baby years took them and both got pregnant the same month before they even finished a whole pack, another friend took them for a year and nothing. They will work differently for everyone and it’s up to you to believe these pills were the reason or if it was just a coincidence.

i doubt if they helped at all but I got pregnant after 1 month of trying.

After three years TTC, I stopped taking all vitamins/folic acid etc as I thought it would never happen. Then I got pregnant. I don't think those two things are in any way linked though. I think vitamins like these are just a massive con, targeting women when their vulnerable. All you need is folic acid + vitamin D.

OK, OP. How would I know whether or not my pregnancy was due to taking these?

Thank you guys, just wanted to know what sort of experience people had as my friend wouldn’t stop going on and swore they were the reason. Won’t bother wasting my money then. :)

*they're (totally blaming pregnancy brain for that)

How would I know whether or not my pregnancy was due to taking these?

You wouldn’t, but if you’d taken them you’d be able to give me your opinion on whether you think they helped and what your experience taking them was.

Er - I took them both times TTC and in the months preceding. I liked them - nice and small, easy to swallow, no side effects for me. Check the vitamin D level as I don’t think you get it all from them. I was happy with them after first so went straight for them second time around. Moved onto the Seven Seas preg vits both times and also got on well with those.

So in as much as that they did “work” for me. Good luck :)

They are very misleadingly named in my opinion. I’m sorry if you’ve been misled, OP. It wasn’t your fault.

If it helps, I took them and conceived immediately with my first.
Then I took them and did not conceive my second without fertility treatment.
Conception is a massive massive crapshoot down to millions of factors. Taking these might optimise one of these factors.

They don't improve your chances of conceiving but help ensure that if you do successfully conceive that you will be getting the correct amount of vitamin d and folic acid until you can test.
Pregnancy vitamins will probably do the exact same thing

I think that's what pp meant when they said they wont make you pregnant

errm I didn't see anyone being bitchy?
just someone pointing out that
taking folic acid helps the embryo develope which is after conception, it doesn't help you get pregnant.

I didn't see anyone being bitchy

If you're expecting anyone to know whether the pills had any factor in getting them pregnant then you don't really understand science Seemed bitchy to me, maybe it’s just the way I read but like a PP said I obviously don’t think they’re a magic tablet that will work miracles, I just wanted peoples opinions.

And honestly, no, I don’t understand science.

Well they can't do any harm anyway, can they? Give it a go?

Actually, now i’ve ReD the packet a bit more carefully, I think they ought to be reported to advertising standards. They really do suggest that they help you get pregnant- and that is obviously bollocks. Horrible.

nope not bitchy, and spot on given this

And honestly, no, I don’t understand science

if you’d taken them you’d be able to give me your opinion on whether you think they helped and what your experience taking them was.

Are you simply asking for chronology - did people take them and then fall pregnant within X amount of time? That is not the way to judge whether something 'works' or not.
Sorry to sound bitchy , I'm not trying to, your friend is clearly delighted which I'm glad to hear and looking to find a reason for what she had been doing right/wrong but this kind of thinking is what lets snake oil salesmen con people.
And what lets people blame themselves for not doing the 'right' magical combination of things to get pregnant when in loads of cases it's beyond their control.

Fertility can be a touchy subject. Best of luck OP and to be honest, there's no harm in taking them (although check the recommended vit D levels)

Vitamins ensure a healthy body for both mother and the developing fetus. However the male in all of this should also consider the same 3 months prior to conception. Taking them within a few weeks won't do much of a change to the egg or sperm as it takes longer for them to develop pre conception.