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

The Amazon reviews are full of women giving them 5* as they think that getting pregnant was a result of the pills. Err....no...you got pregnant through unprotected sex!

To be fair to the makers of them, does it really need spelling out how to get pregnant? I'm sure they assume that most people know how this works, and that common sense tells you that taking tablets that you can buy in Boots for a couple of quid does not magically increase your chances of getting pregnant?

Come on, a little bit of common sense goes a long way here! Not being rude to you OP you're only going on what your friend has said, fair enough. I find it worrying that people actually believe things like this though, poor advertising or not.

Folic acid might help a little with foetal development, but it just lowers the chance of spina bifida, not prevent it (bitter experience with that). I would recommend taking it, but it doesn't raise the chance of actually getting pregnant in the first place.

“o be fair to the makers of them, does it really need spelling out how to get pregnant?”
The wording is clearly deliberate- companies spend a lot of money on getting advice on how to skate just on the right side of legality/ misinformation.

The wording is clearly deliberate- companies spend a lot of money on getting advice on how to skate just on the right side of legality/ misinformation

This in spades. They know exactly what they're doing here.

I took these and fell pregnant after one 'try'. Don't know if it was connected but that's my experience. I had been off contraception for 3 months and the plan was to stop avoiding pregnancy on the 4th month, this occurred on the first instance of sex. I was taking these pills for around 3 months prior to falling pregnant during the 'preparation stage', I also tinkered with my diet to try to detox a bit and detox from the hormones in contraception too.

“I took these and fell pregnant after one 'try'.”

Did you also have a cup of coffee, wear black pants, read your local paper, eat an apple, have sex in the morning, go to the beach.......

@motheroftinydragons

Yup, people really do believe that sort of thing. Really. See all the Amazon reviews and a fair few comments on this thread.

You'd think some of these vitamins contained actual live sperm.

If any supplement has 15% or higher NRV of a vitamin or mineral they can state EFSA claims on them. That will be one of the standard claims for Zinc

Your question is totally unanswerable, how could anyone know if anything they did helped them become pregnant apart from the obvious.

The fact that you are asking does suggest you don't understand how things work.

There is plenty on the Internet with advice to maximise the chances of getting pregnant that is based on scientific evidence e.g. being an appropriate weight for your height, healthy diet, not smoking, not drinking to excess, same for your partner, not being too old, having enough sex at the right time in your cycle etc

And yet thousands of people who are overweight, drinkers, smokers, older, have sex infrequently etc etc get pregnant every day.

And thousands of people who do all of the above (including me for 15yrs) and don't get pregnant.

If these pills were able to increase your fertility they would be being rolled out at every clinic in the country. It makes sense to prepare yourself as much as you can before getting pregnant but there is no evidence at all that vitamins or folic acid increase your fertility.

@BertrandRussell ohhh well done you for picking one part of what I said... I listed other health and lifestyle changes I'd made as well as taking these pills but apparently I'm not allowed to answer the OP. Well done, give yourself a pat on the back for being so clever 🙄 idiot.

And yet thousands of people who are overweight, drinkers, smokers, older, have sex infrequently etc etc get pregnant every day.

Yep. This why it is so infuriating to be given lifestyle dietary etc advice when you are ttc and your lifestyle is already healthier than lots of people who get pregnant easily.

I've heard having sex is the leading cause of pregnancy so why bother with gimmicks. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We know there is excellent evidence that it [folic acid] helps with foetus development. It isn't far fetched to suspect that the body chooses its moment for conception when vitamins needed for a developing foetus are in supply. I'm sure I had a successful conception after taking antibiotics one time. I can't prove it, though.

People get pregnant all the time without taking folic acid. People get pregnant all the time with crap diets and lifestyles. This is just woo.

I also tinkered with my diet to try to detox a bit and detox from the hormones in contraception too

Detox is more unscientific nonsense.

Yes people do get pregnant all the time who are unhealthy but if TTC trying to detox (more 'woo' apparently ) by eating healthier, drinking lots of water and allowing your body to revert back to natural periods isn't going to hurt TTC!
How anyone can bad mouth and ridicule anyone trying to put vitamins into their bodies while TTC is a joke in themselves, a sad and sorry state of a joke, but a joke all the same. People who are addicted to drugs conceive...and their babies are born addicted (not every case of course I wouldn't expect 'woo' haters to have anything else to peddle their nonsense to!!) so there's a glaringly obvious case of why creating a healthier body can only be more beneficial to a baby growing inside it!

Please take the vitamins OP, the best practice is to prepare as well as possible while TTC!

“How anyone can bad mouth and ridicule anyone trying to put vitamins into their bodies while TTC is a joke in themselves,”
Nobody is doing this. Obviously taking vitamins -and in particular folic acid while trying to conceive is a good idea. The closer to conception you take it the better.

But this product is strongly suggesting that it will help you to conceive. And the feedback seems to indicate that many women read it that way (not surprising- it is very misleading). And that is just wrong, on many levels.