Feel like I'm loosing hope!

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Dreaded period arrived late last night after spotting on and off in the afternoon.

I feel like I'm at my whits end with this TTC malarkey so please feel free join if your I'm a similar situation or can offer some friendly advice.

TTC 3rd baby, with my current two there was no trying as such, I fell pregnant very quickly (not the case this time round 🙈)

My periods are regular but cycle lengths differ slightly each month so for example this cycle that's just finished was 30 days, the one before that was 29 days and prior to that 27 days.

I did opk testing and tracked bbt in April but it wasn't our lucky cycle, got a peak opk on CD15, BBT spike on CD16, I then went without doing both in May and just dtd pretty much everyday if not every other day in my FW but then yesterday my period arrived so another unsuccessful cycle.

I'm now CD2 of a new cycle, what can I do to increase my chances? Any vitamins I should take? Should I go back to opk testing?

Help a girl out please 🤍

It took me years to fall pregnant with my dd. I’m a ftm and I felt so disheartened with how long it took. I tried all the ovulation kits, different apps to track and log my periods but honestly none of that worked. My periods used to be irregular but got into a good cycle and I could pin point everything but still nothing worked. After speaking to my doctor she told me to ditch the apps and ovulation kits and go on how j was feeling. I noticed when I felt a bit hotter which related to when j was naturally more in the mood so I believed that to be when I was ovulating. I removed all the stress from ttc and just tried to relax and take it easy with my dh. After 2 months of that I fell pregnant and was so happy. Honestly for me I think just relaxing about it helped. I hope you get your bfp soon!

One vitamin I would recommend is folic acid. Might be others but definitely that one. Pregnacare for example.

Is your age a factor here? In which case it does make it harder to conceive.

Male factor? I included L-Carnitin with my DHs daily vitamin/omega3/probiotics and it worked. Supposed to help sperm.
Well, hard to say actually, I also used multiple other things myself so there are too many factors at play tbh 😅

@Tothepoint99 I'm considering ordering the seven seas trying for a baby vitamins as I've heard good things they they FA in.

@cottagegardenflower Can't say my age is a factor im only 29 🤭

@Flederjo My OH does take vitamins, I'll have to have a look at exactly what.

Yes anything along those lines will be suitable

No advice, but im cd2 as well, on cycle 2 of ttc. Thinking of avoiding opk this month as maybe it just causes more stress. Best of luck!

Ah good luck @Sawa75 🤞 I do think the opk testing ect adds to the stress that's why I didn't bother last cycle and went without but still didn't have any joy. Hopefully taking some pre conception vitamins will help 🙏

For me it’s opposite, I am more stressed without opks as no idea when to DTD. I can’t just have sex every other day as others do as I don’t think I want to do that often. With opks at least I have an idea of timing. Tried quite a lot with and without opks, but still nothing.

@GingerFox2021 same! Ironically the month I decided to not to do opk I of course ended up being late. Without BFP ;)

I totally get where your coming from @GingerFox2021 I went of EWCM and Ovulation Pains this time round which was during my calculated FW but no luck.

I'm honestly tempted to revert back to OPK's as we don't DTD every other day throughout my cycle either 🙈🙈

I've got the seven seas trying for a baby vitamins on order so I will start those when they arrive.