What's the secret weapon that helped you get pg?

[decafgirl]

Ok folks, I'm sure it's been done before but I'd like to compile a list of all the magic potions, herbal teas, old wives tales and secret places you've used to get pregnant or you've heard of so that my friends and I over on conception can come and join you over here!

No skimping on the details please and thank you in advance!

[suzywong]

booze

[gothicmama]

sunflower and pumpkin seeds for dh and me
bd every 36 hours at least
vitamin tabs without vit A

[tribpot]

I'm not sure this counts, but the secret of my success is (or was) having crippling ovulation pains every month. Hey presto: you may not want feel like it but at least you know when you are most likely to conceive! They do seem to have settled down a bit since I had ds, so not sure what trick I shall use next time ...

[tribpot]

Btw, not sure what "want feel like it" is meant to mean, v tired!

[Pruni]

I have heard:
give up caffeine and alcohol
whey protein
pineapple
75mg aspirin daily
smoothies daily
spirulina

Much of these related to ivf though and getting egg quality and womb lining up.

(* the baby aspirin one is for improving blood flow to the ovaries/uterus and comes with the warning that higher doses of aspirin may cause early miscarriage.

• one ivf clinic is doing a trial to see if a smoothie a day makes a difference. Unbelievable but true. Don't know if it's a fruit smoothie or yogurt-based one.
  
• I checked out spirulina in holland and Barrett and it has absolutely no link with fertility at all, and in fact all its magic properties are anecdotal rather than proven so I wouldn't bother spending £14 on this myself.)

[catj]

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[catj]

Would like to add I didnot try this out

[Pruni]

Apparently Toyah Wilcox did so bear her in mind when you go there... (not)

[gothicmama]

Iman david bowie's wife followed a tradition from her country and held babies

[Maddison]

DS1 - Lots of partying and alcohol

DS2 - DH & I had a bet with each other about who would back out of sex first We bd every night for about 3 weeks when we were both too knackered for any more!!

[intergalacticwalrus]

Booze for me too, both times.

[moondog]

Tickling my big toe with an ostrich feather every third night.
A litre of beetroot juice nightly.

[saltcod]

reflexology...... I had secondary infertility & we'd been trying for 1.5 yrs for no. 2. Booked a course of 6 x weekly sessions of reflexology & bingo..... I was pregnant before the end of the course!

[Lact8]

Getting dp to sit on frozen peas
worked though, to ds's to show for it so thank you bird's eye

and for dd, getting all smug that ds2 was finally sleeping and we had started to have some sort of life again

[LadySherlockofLGJ]

Eh............sperm ??

[Lact8]

two ds's

[Lact8]

also meant to say the peas really worked, only tried once for both of them and pg the next day!!

[Beauregard]

Cushion under the bum after sex!

[Axolotl]

...a friend (who, incidentally, is a doctor!) swears it was the reflexology that finally helped her, after years of infertility. She says that even if was just working on helping her relax, she thinks it was what made the difference.

[decafgirl]

These are fab - keep them coming!

[FrannyandZooey]

I and a 'friend' checked out the Cerne Abbas Giant once and the condom split



as was not wanting to get pregnant at all

It should have taught me to not meddle with things I don't understand

[decafgirl]

I may need to book a coach trip for the girls from conception!

[FrannyandZooey]

Take a ladder, there's a fence round it now :)

[FairyMum]

Cough medicine around the time of ovulation. I believe it works 100%

[decafgirl]

I can picture it now...