What did you do differently the month you conceived?

[tryingforasunshine]

Please share, heading into a new cycle soon and I’d be interested to see what else I can try

Didn't try. Funny enough. Didn't think about it. Spent sometime in the sunshine. Kept busy. Only DTD when I wanted to (2x only that month) walked lots.

Good luck

We DTD more several days before ovulation, instead of waiting until ovulation had actually occurred.

Stopped trying

Went out a lot with friends and had just finished a very stressful time at work so I was feeling really relaxed. More morning sex, stopped trying and thinking about it so much

The flippant answer is we booked tickets to an event 9 months away after TTC for 18 months.
In reality looking back at my tracker we DTD a little earlier than usual, maybe up to a week.

Got married 😑

Bought the ovulation tracker things a month before. Then on 2nd month actively ‘tried’ every relevant day even when not really in mood.
Then from day 14 cut down on coffee and gave up alcohol. I was also in a sunny country from day 15, don’t know if that helped!

I was at a baby shower down country funnily enough the weekend I conceived, we've been trying for years! I'm only early stages (nearly 5 weeks) but looking at my tracking chart we DTD 3 days prior to and on the day of ovulation. Good luck!

Went to a Derren Brown show 🤣. I went up on the stage and was "hypnotised" as part of the show. Was all a bit weird. Maths dictates we conceived that evening.

Forgot to 'try'. We had too much on, I binned off the ovulation tracking and legs cycling in the air and even let the folic acid slip for about 6 weeks.

We'd had over a year of unsuccessful 'proper' trying prior to that.

I hadn't even kept note of my last period and couldn't for the life of me remember. So when I found out I was pregnant I didn't even know how far along I was, just that it was probably between 4 and 8 weeks 🤦‍♀️🤣

Saw Prince live. Sorry, he's dead now so not much use but DH is convinced every woman in the audience spontaneously ovulated when he sand 'nothing compares to you' 😂

Used the medicare femsense ovulation tracker - it's a patch that measures bbt!

Took Norethisterone the month before to delay a period on holiday, I caught on the withdrawal bleed from that, I must also add I had been trying for 10 years and had had several IVF cycles including with donor eggs and only had 1 tube, no idea how it happened and if it helped, I had a 7 month old from donor eggs at the time

Relaxed and stopped thinking about it

I think stress hormones have an impact… I tried for 10months … then got distracted with house move forgot about it and got pregnant . Easier said than done I know

We DTD every day for 6 days prior to ovulation but not on the day of ovulation or after

First time round I was throwing the kitchen sink at it. Used pre-seed and the sperm meets egg method plus the clear blue and easy at home ovulation tests. I was KNACKERED, but it worked 🤣 People are doubtful of this on here but there is loads on Facebook and elsewhere on it.. conceiving like this on ovulation day is more likely for it to be a boy.. and he is 😊 obviously didn’t know all of that at the time so didn’t purposely sway for him to be a boy, was just trying to get pregnant any way possible!

Second time round I was up to my eyes in stress at work and I went off sick. 3 weeks later got a positive test 😅 My time from ovulation to period arriving was really short every month which I had convinced myself was caused by stress and wasn’t letting my body have a chance for a pregnancy to embed. As soon as I wasn’t as stressed I was pregnant straight away.

This time we weren’t trying quite as hard, didn’t use preseed or anything and we ‘tried’ only up until 24-48 hours before ovulation. This is meant to sway things towards girl and sure enough, she’s a girl 😊 Of course could be totally random, would be delighted with any baby etc but I followed what I saw on a facebook group after realising first time we swayed boy and sure enough, now have one of each.

Good luck!

Moved house

Fucked on the sofa.

Had IVF 🙃

Lost weight, not much - did a few months of low carb and clean eating… lost about 10lb and got pregnant after around 14-15mo months of TTC (was 33/34 so was getting a bit worried)

It’s a cliche like everyone else has said but we became a little more careless. I was still tracking ovulation but rather than pestering my partner every 2 days for sex and getting frustrated and living my life by the test results, we had sex when we wanted to. I was actually annoyed at myself after I ovulated because I thought I had missed the window of opportunity entirely as we hadn’t had sex the day of or the day before!

oh and we booked a 10 night holiday to Florida on Easter, Sod’s Law we got pregnant that same month so now I’ll be 27/28 weeks flying long haul!

Went on holiday, decided to stop trying (after 2 and a bit years).

I'm pregnant for the third time and each time we were TTC we had a significant point of stress hanging over us. Each time I managed to get pregnant it was just after each stress had been relieved.

Not a lot of help, unless you have control over the universe!

IVF 🤣 not what you want to hear! Honestly NOTHING worked and I got sick of people telling us all the things we should do.

For my firstborn though it was it was our first month of trying and we had sex ONCE!