Secret tips

for getting pregnant...what ideas do people use?

ie, is it true about holding legs up, missionary possie, hmmm actually that is about all I know...

So what ideas do we need to be trying? DF is keen to do anything pretty much...

I wonder about the whole EWCM - does using a sperm friendly lubricant help the spermies to swim as if there was abundant EWCM??

For the last 6 months we have been bding at the right time so there must be something we are doing wrong

That's the thing about TTC, even if you do everything 'right' and there are no fertility problems etc it still comes down to a matter of luck. I think even if you time DTD at the right time you're only got a 25% or so chance of getting pregnant?

Apparently if your DH/DP/DF looks at you a certain way .. then wahlaa ... one bun in the oven.

Well thats what my DH thinks anyway as thats all it takes for him to knock me up lol.

Haha Millie, that is my theory for this month as if this is the month then my wedding plans go out the window! (Jan 2010).

Thing is that if there is a 25% chance every month, then how come after 18 months of unprotected sex, and at least 12 months of those have been tracking cycles...how can I not be pregnant? When there is nothing wrong with me...we have to be doing something wrong don't we?

Jezika - i sooo agree, easier said than done though. I know someone who's specialist doesn't want to try any treatment until her stress levels are significantly reduced as probably won't work... and when I think about all the times Ive been preg I was never stressing about getting preg it just happened... but I can understand how hard it would be to not get worked up about it when you have been trying for awhile!

Oh I have seen specialist and there is nothing wrong with me of DF. Even had a lap done, so know tubes are all clear and everything.

And yip, do OPK and check EWCM and now started temping.

Stopped drinking coffee and on diet to lose weight. Don't smoke, hardly drink at all, don't do drugs.

Cycles are super regular and I def ov every month so don't see how stress could possibly be affecting anything.

So no reason at all.....other than being a wee bit chubs and a little old!

PS Lilfatty - funny, I think we are doing that right at least!

Nat wrote: So no reason at all.....other than being a wee bit chubs and a little old!

I was way old (35+) ... and I managed

Oh and with number two .. I was even OLDER and way past chubs lol

BD BD BD
When TTC last year, this is all I did (apart from taking pregnancy multivitamin).
Took 6 months and $$$ on HPT but well worth it
Thanks for the thread, will take on some of the advice for TTC #2

my best tip - is to not even think about getting pregnant! Just relax!! (easier said than done!)

When I conceived the first time, we had just come back from honeymoon and were just enjoying each other (lol!) not actually in baby making mode - and fell pregnant straight away - unfortunately though, we lost that pregnancy at 12 weeks, and it took 9 months before we conceived Lily!

During those 9 months though - I charted, took temps everyday, checked EWCM, made sure I was ovulating using tests etc etc - quite over the top, now that I look back - I thought it would be so easy to get pregnant again - but the stress of each month not falling pregnant and BDing on my 'fertile' days just didn't help, as well as a stressful job. We conceived while on summer camping trip - on holiday with no worries - no charting or temperatures or anything - and we fell pregnant!

With my current pregnancy it was the same, we BD a few times, but not to make a baby - if it happened, then it happened and it would be great and if it didn't, we wouldn't stress!

So yeah, to cut a long story short - try to relax - it could be the miracle way!!

Please vote for Lily in the Coverbaby competition here! !

DH and I were TTC for about 7 months before I got pregnant. It was frustrating because DS was conceived while I was on the pill so I thought getting pregnant straight away would be easy. A friend of mine had called me to tell me she was pregnant I was happy for her but so envious. I asked her for some tips. She told me all she and her DP did was BD 4 days both sides of OV , so basically BD for 8 days straight (she was told to do this by her doc). So I took her advice and I was pregnant that month. It was exhausting but hey it worked!!