Trying to conceive any advice?

[pocopearl]

I am very new to this so I don't have all the abbreviations, but my husband and I have been ttc since march. I know its not all that long but I am 25 and he is 30, we are both active and healthy, neither of us are overweight. We don t smoke, we rarely drink, we eat healthy and I have been taking vitamins etc. We are using what I can only describe as a 'flooding' method in that we are having sex at least once a day min. I am using ovulation sticks everyday, and checking my temperature etc, and when these suggest i am ovulating we are having sex at least twice a day. I don't know what else to try and things are really starting to get me down now. Can anyone make any suggestions of something else we could try... am desperate.

Since March is no time, relax.
You mention neither of you being overweight but in fact if you are very slim that can be unhelpful when ttc, so make sure you eat plenty. Two of my friends were ttc for a few years and both conceived once they let themselves go over size 6/8.

Don't worry i'm not very slim either. Thanks though. I know I shouldn't worry, but knowing that doesn't necessarily stop you, does it.

The advice we got from my doc was not to worry about tracking ovulation and so on, and have sex every second day - better for your partner to replenish supplies, apparently. We conceived in 5 months, I was 31. Good luck!

Ah, as a born worrier myself I know how hard it is not to
Just please don't get down about it, and make sure you still have fun trying. Not sure I could manage get putting my leg over 1-2 times every day for months, but I'm much older

'get putting' = getting! Damn iPad..

Take a deep breath. You've only been TTC for 5 months. 80% of couples will conceive within 1 year and 90% within 18 months.
You have nothing to suggest that you have any problems, so you really do just need to chill out a bit! Stress will not help you to conceive. I say this as someone who has been trying for over 2 years.

You don't need to have sex several times a day - the egg will live for up to 24 hours after ovulation and sperm can live for as long as 5 days. Do you have regular cycles? If so you should have an idea of when you are ovulating. Just remember that OV tests cannot tell you that you are definitely going to ovulate, they can only tell you that you might - many women experience several LH surges through their cycle.

I have told my hubby that we are cutting our SWI to every other day from every day. Bless him, he looked proper upset. Fingers crossed for this month!

The best thing you can do is accept its going to take longer than you expected, your putting so much pressure on yourself. I am a similar age to you, like you very healthy, don't smoke/drink much etc...18 months later I'm still waiting for my BFP. It's hard but over the months I've learnt to accept that my time will come its just taking me longer than others.
I too would recommend every other day.
Good luck, your time will come :)

it's just possible that swi every day or more often than that is hurting your chances. Men produce a small quantity of good swimmers but mostly bad ones - if you abstain for a couple of days it will give your dp a chance to build up the % of good quality ones. This is why when you have a sperm analysis test they ask you to abstain for 3 days so that they get a good quality sample.
All men are different but I know that if we were swi every day my dh would essentially be running on empty!