Things helped you conceive

[Lily189]

Hi everyone

I got my positive on Tuesday but unfortunately started bleeding last night my and im now bleeding really heavy and have negative tests .im so upset as we've been trying for nearly a year

I was just wanting to know things people used that helped you conceive
I've herd about macca root but can you use it if your cycles are regular?
I've also seen good things about coq10
And pree seed

Any tips and help would be great tia

Hi OP, I commented on your other thread but you didn't reply. Sorry it turned out to be a chemical.

As I said on that thread, I'd recommend not taking norethisterone or period delaying drugs whilst TTC.

Are you tracking ovulation with BBT and LH tests?
I used soy isoflavones (think that's right) to "boost" ovulation for my first pregnancy, along with baby aspirin from CD1 and progesterone pessaries shortly after ovulation.

Conceived second time without all that, but did start the aspirin and progesterone again after getting the positive test.

You could look into fertility tests, also available privately.

I had years of infertility and honestly tried most things and a lot of things you read about have no basis in fact but after multiple losses and then multiple rounds of IVF I suppose I’m in a fairly good position to advice what had the best effect on egg quality (and I then had twins)

1. i lost weight. I wasn’t over weight really just a bit of lockdown excess but I lost 1/2 a stone to get back to an average BMI
2. high protein diet
3. I did an estrogen based IVF cycle but I guess you could have a look at natural supplements which might offer this?
4. ovulation testing a with clearblue digital dual hormone to really pinpoint ovulation

what had zero effect

1. YEARS of Proceive max supplements for me and him
2. infertility acupuncture
3. coq10
4. aspirin / macca root / pineapple core
5. pre seed

@northernlightnights Had you stopped using coq 10 when you conceived?

Hi thanks for the reply I've been using ovulation tests hqvnt done bbt as don't know much about it ,I have children so know i can get pregnant this is just longest it's took me and now I've had a chemical i got bloods done before this cycle and my hormones thyrioid and iron where all checked and everything was okay just so hard after seeing that positive test ,I've herd about the asprin didn't know about progesterone pessaries x

Hi thanks for the detailed reply ☺️ x

@Marvelftw yes had stopped

Orgasm after him, rather than before. I am sure this helped me conceive every time.

It's going to be different for everyone but after a year and a half of nothing happening, this is what I was doing the month we conceived:

• we'd both been taking coq10 for about 6 months, they say it takes 3-6 months to make a difference
• I cut down on sugar and carbs and ate loads of strawberries, spinach, sweet potato, protein
• took mucinex/benylin cough mucus max every day during fertile window
• made sure I was able to stay lying down for about an hour or more after sex, rather than 15 minutes then getting up to make dinner like I did all the other months
• it was during the height of summer and I wonder if keeping warm helped, there's a saying cold feet means a cold uterus, a good blood circulation helps and mine's usually awful in the winter

I think that's about the extent of it... Might be one of those things that helped, all of them together, or none of it at all and it's all just down to luck

I am sorry about your loss. Honestly nothing really helped me. We made so many lifestyle changes, took all the vitamins, tracked everything and it didn't seem to help. I know people don't like to hear this but we fell pregnant when we had given up hope and stopped being restrictive and just lived our lives. I got a positive a few days after a holiday where I had been eating and drinking all week.

I’ve just had a miscarriage but after four years of trying the things that worked for us were…

Mira monitor - really helped get to know my cycle, and learning that sex on the day BEFORE the peak was the key, not the day of.

I lost two stone.

Artificial insemination using cheap kits from Amazon - and we did it 13 times in in my fertile window across a week. AI took the pressure off me and sex and allowed us to have a lot more goes!