Tips to get pregnant ????

[stephbecominglittler]

Trying to get pregnant and extend our little family I know all the basics but anyone have any storeys on how they conceived I'm taking folic acid but nothin happening I hve a LB aged 3 x

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Well I lost some weight. I was very overweight when we decided to start a family so lost six stone to have a healthier and easier pregnancy. We also started tracking ovulation with an app called 'My Days' and monitoring my temperature daily.

Ironically this all sort of went out the window as the month we did conceive was when we were so loaded with the flu that we were just trying to cheer each other up

I have lost just under a stone through healthy eating reduced
My coffee intake currently taking folic acid I have a lb and my oh has a lg . Mc in may this year and every month is upsetting as I get my period I have cb ovulation kits too x

Oh and I stopped drinking as much. I cut back to a single G&T a week.

But really as this was our first who knows as to whether any of it made an ounce of difference really lol.

I only allowed myself one caffeinated drink a day (so no cola type drinks either). I drank lots of hot water instead. Have sex every 3 days except during your fertile week (usually but not always around the middle of your cycle) when you should have sex every 1-2 days. Make sure your partner isn't 'wasting' any sperm on days you aren't having sex! Intercourse in the missionary position with a pillow under your bottom to create a better angle. Make sure you have an orgasm after he has to help sperm travel upwards and finally after intercourse stay lying down with your bottom raised and preferably legs in the air (against a wall is easiest) for about 10mins. How romantic does all that sound?!
Ps. Hubby has to be fairly healthy too, no tight pants, plently of zinc, no laptops on lap etc
Good luck!

For us it was a healthy diet: 10 fruit & veg a day; no caffeine; limited to 4 units of alcohol a week; exercise; zinc for him; pregnacare (or whatever was on offer) & acupuncture for me. Sex every 3 days apart from in the days before ovulation, then it was every day
Laying still with a pillow under the bum for 30 mins after
Took us 5 months
Good luck!

Lots of sex. No calendar checking. Worked for us.

What Fliss wrote. ^

Sex every other day from the end of one period to the beginning of the next. Didn't change anything else - did this the second month of trying and it worked!

We carried on with lifestyle as normal but did take folic acid as well. We tried for one month with no assistance and then tried Clear Blue Ovulation Tests to tell us which few days are best for bonking. Got pregnant on second month trying and the first month using the Clear Blue. Good luck!

I will add, first time I conceived in the first month, second time was second month.

I have unexplained subfertility, so took 3 years to conceive my little boy and this current pregnancy took about 14 months after a mmc.

When trying for this current baby, I got a clearblue fertility monitor and used it for 5 months (stopped after that, as it says contact a doctor if you're not pregnant in 6 months, and for some reason, I just didn't want to pass the 6 months on it!) and although I didn't conceive in that time, I did learn that I ovulate much earlier than I thought, so when I stopped using the monitor I started ttc much earlier in my cycle than before (I have a 26 day cycle so was iniitally aiming at ovulation around day 13, but actually it was day 10/11 for me, and this current one was conceived on day 9!)

I also noted that when I was pregnant with my boy and the mmc, I conceived on both occasions as a result of some afternoon loving..., so I scheduled a few lunchtime nookie sessions as I figured that might work better with my cycle, and it worked (OH was happy with this approach too :-)

Ultimately though, all anyone tells you is to relax, don't count days or times and enjoy yourself and it will happen (that may be true, but when you've struggled with infertility, all you want to do is thump them! so I think having an idea of when you're ovulating and then just roughly timing nookie to coincide is a good way forward - well, it worked for me :-)

Having lost nearly two stone and a really naughty weekend away!!! Worked first time. x

Thank I all so much for ur advice I will surely use it all hehe xx will keep u all posted xx merry Christmas everyone

I'd second the lots of sex advice as well. All this messing about with tracking ovulation is just going to stress you out, and turn sex into some kind of obligation, which isn't great news if you want to conceive. We did it every day and it took a month. There is some truth to the theory that the more you get the more you want, and the sexier you feel the more likely you will produce all the right hormones.

We used opk and dtd alot 1-2 times a day for the fertile week. Also used convieve plus and laid on back with raised legs for 15 mins after dtd. Concieved first cycle twice using this method. Good luck.

I have tried the conceive lubrication I starting to think something's Wrong :( twitchy tail what is pre-seed we have lots of sex whenever we can lie down for good few mines I Bremen told to orgasm after oh is this correct ? Xx

Also what is ok and dtd x

gong bath. it is a hippie dippy alternative therapy that was a gift and not related to ttc,i was a bit but the experience is amazing, all the cells in your body vibrate, and something 'popped' in my reproductive area. don't know any other way to describe it! also just used a simple ovulation app on phone. conceived within 3 months.

How oni get one of these things pod lol ?? X

Folic a I'd doesn't assist with conceiving. More just helps that if u do get pregnant it helps with the spinal chord thingie mabob

But I cut alcohol. Ate 5+ fruit an veg every day. Never skipped meals. Sex and lots of it. Tbh I didn't do anything special. I just looked after myself

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Thank u I love fruit Nd veg so will b eating more of it x x tbh don't even feel like drinking over Christmas maybe a white wine with soda water or something but not a big drinker anyway hate the hangovers lol I been told to try and not thing about ttc but it's the most important thing we want we want a baby before our wedding in late September it's ok people tellin u not to think about it but how can u not xx

We got pregnant incredibly quickly after stopping birth control, even though we're both getting on a bit. It could just be luck and good fertility, but we were also v relaxed about it (weren't trying, but weren't doing anything to prevent it) and are both fit, healthy active people with good diets. I think being relaxed makes a huge difference - we all know those couples that try for years and have umpteen rounds of ivf only to get pregnant the day they sign adoption papers, etc...