Pillow under the bum and other tricks.

[Pipbin]

So I'm on cycle 13 and it has actually been 14 months now and I'm getting very fed up.
I'm willing to try almost anything. Is there anything to be said for a pillow under your bum etc?
Any other tricks you recommend?

When i was trying to fall pregnant with DD i tried everything i heard of, nothing worked. After 2 years of trying, i gave up, thought i'd never become a mummy. It was hard, but started to enjoy life again (i'd been so caught up in wanting a DC that i'd been stressing every month when it was that time) within months of relaxing, i fell pregnant. So my best advice i can give, is to relax and enjoy :) hard i know, but if you're feeling stressed, it does weird things to our bodies and good luck

Ha, I'm totally doing this method! x

Well Charllie I'm off work for six weeks soon. I'm hoping that does the trick.

Good for you Pipbin :) even better that you have time off to relax too

Good Luck!

We are about to start trying for our first, after 2 years of umming and ahhing about when we were ready!

We finally feel there, and are both so excited at the prospect of being parents.

Any advice on how to help conception would be much appreciated.

here's what worked for us... started trying on Christmas Day, pregnant by New Year's Day. me 28, DH 29, DH with thyroid issue.

shoulder stand after sex
try to get an orgasm in every time
ovulation tests and temperature tracking
guanaifesen (sp?) syrup 3 x per day for 5 days before ovulation
sex every day for 5 days before ovulation, on ovulation day, and for two days after.

...and just have fun with it. i think that's the hard part when you've been at it for a while. your time off is likely to help.

wishing you much luck. it will happen in its own time :)

Have sex. Lots of sex. Have a bit more sex. Try to make it at the right time.

Really that is all there is to it apart from keeping yourself in good health. Doing headstands or dangling your legs in the air or any other gravity defying trick is pointless. The good swimmers will have already got through the cervix by the time you have finished having a kiss and cuddle. There is no point going upside down to keep the crap swimmers in, if they cant get through a cervix without help they have fuck all chance of swimming all the way up a fallopian tube.

I agree with kit kat, sex every other day throughout the month is your best bet. Don't get to consumed by ovulation kits etc..at the start, you might be one of the lucky ones that's gets pregnant after the first few months. Just enjoy lots of stress free sex! X

hahah i like you advice kat very well put- I have been doing head stands and legs in the air - but its just pointless. I never realized that the good ones get through that quick!

I am trying Evening Primrose Oil this month 2 x 1000mg a day only up to ovulation as they are not good to take after. Definitely saw an improvement in CM after EPO pills.

I think relaxing is the best advice, but its so hard when you want something so bad.

Pipbin

Have you visited the GPs yet?. If not I would now do this and seek a referral to a hospital's subfertility unit.

What are your periods like?.

Both of you should be tested to see where the fertility problem lies.

Putting a pillow under your bum is a fertility myth; it has no scientific basis in fact.

Subfertility is no respecter of persons. Has nothing to do with "relaxing" or a supposed lack of.

Something is stopping conception and it is certainly in your interests to find out where the problem lies. You will need to be persistent in order to get answers, it is too easy to be fobbed off.

We have been referred to the fertility clinic. DH is off to have a third SA at the weekend.