for the Pregnant ladies...what did you do different?

[Mumita]

So what did you guys do different on the month that you got pregnant?

[lilpixie]

We stoped "trying".  We were moving that month so we were both preocupied with packing and what not.  The estamited date of conception the doc gave me is actuly the last night at our old place, and we had decided to go to the bar down the street one last time and have a few drinks(mind you i hadnt drank in 3 months because we were ttc) That seemed to do the trick.

[louieforlaughs]

hey!
glad to hear you are having fun! but sorry to hear hubby feels that way. hope you guys can have a good chat about that cause that is no way to feel.  i mean, its a hope and dream to conceive but you are doing it out of love for eachother. hope he realizes that and has more fun too!
laters

[Mumita]

Believe me sex is never pressured and its always fun ;) I think I always want to have sex more than my husband just for the sake of sex.  But lately he thinks that I want him only for his sperm and he feels like a donor, and its soooo not true, I just want sex.  Anyway I'll get him during O ;)

[louieforlaughs]

hey,
just thought i'd throw in that an orgasm doesn't hurt. if this is tmi sorry. but it certainly relaxes you and i am sure that the contractions will help push his little worker bees to where they need to be. personally i dont understand the idea that sperm count is somehow magically higher if you dont do anything for a few days. as far as i know  (as far as sunday night sex show) goes, the man is always producing more sperm and it organizes itself so that it delivers old sperm and new sperm at the same time.  and there are so many that one go is a small % of the entire collection. there was a couple, for example, who did it 10!!! times a day and were trying to conceive. sue said that was fine and wouldn't make things more difficult at all for the above reason.  he wont run out and healthy sperm are distributed throughout.  so no worries there. also!!! if you are having fun at least every two nights that is more than enough. remember they say sperm can survive for 5 days inside you. so after six days you still have like two go's worth in you searching for that egg.  so instead of holding back and making sex feel pressure or pressured cause you're not having sex, just have fun. cause those days you're waiting could be days of sperm getting comfy for five days yet. remember ewcm is your friend. : ) and have fun, relax, try new things, new positions even toys if you want. it is simple, natural and fun but feels like its difficult sometimes when it shouldn't be. have faith that it will happen and it will. cheers to a summer baby!
smiles!! have fun and best of luck!

[AnitaRFrith]

I went to the alter of my church an prayed.  I put in in God's hands an I'm now 11 weeks.  I have always heard people say that you will get pregnant when your not trying.  My husband an I also had sex less often.  ( He didn't masterbate either... I know its TMI)  but that makes the sperm counts higher.  Anita

[KellyA74]

I figured out what week I would ovulate and made sure to BD EVERY day that week!  And it worked after 4 months of trying every other day (and it not working)!

[msgorgeous]

yeah i agree mumita i hope it works too! ive been trying 8 months and still nada lol af came today stupid B#*&h lol i wish she would take a 9 month vacation already


cheers to not trying

[Mumita]

Seems like the moral of the story is don't TRY, Just go with the Flow, Have Fun and have regular sex around O days.  It seems too easy.  So I guess I'll just keep having sex, don't worry about positions or supplements, work out as usual and don't worry about it and then I'll be pregnant.  Well I hope this un-trying remedy works ;)

[kikicoates78]

We made the appt. to see a RE had our consult than ran off to the BEACH! Got home and BAM BFP! Still in shock! LOL

[shadowserpent]

i started working out alot more than i had been, and BAM pregnant!

[pmperez]

We were trying to get pregnant but I wasnt really tracking or anything and I miscarried that pregnancy and was closely monitored  to make sure everything left my body, even though I wasnt really supposed to try again till after I got another cycle, on my last u/s to confirm everything had left my body they said I was ovulating and we BD that night, Im pretty sure that was the day of conception

[sadiesmommy]

With my first I took prenantals and used an online ovulation calculator to find out when my most fertile days would be according to a 28 day cycle and made sure we bd-ed everyday during that time. It worked like a charm!!! It only took two months after stopping birth control (been on it for almost 8 years). With the two m/c I definately sensed I was putting more and more pressure on myself to get pregnant that month and it definately took longer to conceive then. The first time it took almost five months after stopping depo-provera and the other, three months without any BC in between at all. After the second m/c I got my period four weeks later and said to myself 'don't even bother looking at that calander - three weeks later the docotor that we were seeing for the m/c testing said go ahead and try to get pregnant but as it turned out we already were - currently 19 weeks and everything is going great.
The docotor did put me on folic acid and a baby aspirin, being that we were already pregnant before I started taking it I will never know whether or not it had an effect as far as sustaining the pregnancy but maybe it is something you could ask your docotor about trying!!! I would love to think this pregnancy would of been successful regardless but you never know!!!!

[sweetangel7]

We had been ttc for 7 months after my mc...we were (I was) starting to get a little consumed with it and the temping and the opks etc.  But the month I got pregnant, I kind of was lax about it all and we used to always finish with him on top, then a pillow under my bum and I would lay down for awhile but the time we bd'd that produced our baby, we had fun, we weren't even in bed...I didn't lay down after...So for us, it was not trying that got us pregnant.  Good luck!

[Gina209]

What I did was...I didn't TRY! We had been trying to get Pregnant since our first M/C...than we had another M/C...so we gave up on trying. I stopped charting, keeping track of Ovulation, having sex just whenever and not forcing it and BAM the very next month I was Pregnant! I really suggest just letting loose and going on with your normal life and see what happens. Good Luck!

[Latrice414]

Well i bd 5 days b4 ovulation up until the day after ovulation and all i got was AF, so im also looking to do something different to mumita, but i wont be trying after this cylce, the next cycle i will be.

[northrncwgrl]

Hey Mumita, just wanted to let you know I've read in quite a few places that pregnant women should not drink green tea at all.....maybe not a good thing when trying to conceive then either? Just food for though....hope you get your summer baby! :)

[njrohe]

We only had sex right on the ovulation days and not for an entire week before.  The idea being a larger sperm count when it really counted.

[krushing]

I threw caution to the wind this time.  I put the RE on the back burner and didn't do blood work, u/s, trigger shots or OPKs.  I kept my O day in the back of my mind and was not going to stress if we didn't bd at the right time.  Time went by and I started having weird cramps, not AF cramps and I tested and BFP!

[msgorgeous]

I hope you get pregnant this month i really do want you to have a summer baby too!! SSBD

[Mumita]

Well I think I'm going to not do anything other than take my prenatals.  Last couple of months I've been taking Omega3 along with the prenatals AND i've been drinking green tea a lot.  I noticed that on my period this weekend I only bleed a lot if I took the Omega 3, if I didn't then I'd stop bleeding. So maybe that's doing something in there so i'll stop.  When I got pregnant last time I was only taking half of the regular dose of prenatals.
This month, nothing just prenatals and my regular cup of coffee in the morning. That's it.  Oh and I might take up my husband's suggestion on the quickie in the morning since he doesn't want me to do bbt or opk because he thinks its "weird"  I'd really like to get pregnant this month.  I want a summer baby :)

[louieforlaughs]

hey!
just found out i am pregnant! the first two months of trying i still felt the birth control was playing in the game. so i dont know if that counts as trying really. but this last month i just knew i was regular again. i had ewcm for four days only about a week after my period. i didn't experience it quite so much the first two months, so i knew that the birth control was still active.  ever since we decided to start trying i have been pretending that i am pregnant. taking my vitamins and making sure to eat right and not do things above my capabilities. asked for help when i needed it and stopped drinking my favorite tea in preparation to give it up completely.  so i just had the mentality that i was already there. also, we are quite an active couple and there was more than enough sperm swimming at all times throughout ewcm. but that is just us and it seems to have worked. at that point in time i was also looking into laying down vs. standing up after. i decided that i wouldn't worry this past month and would get up after anyway. and apparently it doesn't really matter if you lay down or not after.  so that was something interesting i learned. also, i did my best to not stress out over stuff. i figured it will happen when it happens and it will be wonderful. if this isn't the month then we will try again next month. i also thought i would take my temp (the regular way as they say that works too) next month if i was concerned. i was actually looking forward to making a chart for myself by the bed so i could have it on the wall and post my temp daily. and it was going to be a craft i was gonna do. (kinda made me want to work at it next month, wonder if that helped me psychologically?!)
i think the big thing is trying to have fun with it. i know its hard doing tww and its stressful!! but you have to have faith in your body, it will happen.
good luck and have fun!!!
p.s. i also told myself that if after a year i was still having problems i would go to the doctor. maybe knowing you have a year to play with will help you subconsciously?

[jennymay]

I tracked my BBT for the first time, and it worked!! We had been not trying, but not preventing for over a year when I got pregnant in April, but I had a miscarriage 2 weeks later. Then after my first AF after the m/c, I tracked my BBT. We BD'd three days before and the day after O, and to my complete surprise, it worked!! I am now 13w4d.

Good luck to you!!

[KM604]

For me, I didn't really do anything different.  We had been trying since August 2007 and had a m/c in December 2007.  What was weird, is I looked back in my little calendar that I keep track of any signs or symptoms of anything, as well as when I tested and got AF.  I noticed that every time I got EWCM I got my period exactly 14 days later (after the last time, because I usually got EWCM twice each month, few days apart).  Well I had already known it was a sign, but I realized it for sure the month we conceived.  We basically made sure to BD around that time, but didn't freak out about anything - we pretty much just took it as it was and nothing more.  I knew about a week before AF was due that this was the month (no signs or symptos, just intuition).  We even put off going to Busch Gardens for our anniversary, even though it was 3 days before AF was due because I had a feeling.  Sure enough, the doctor estimated our conception date the day after my last day of EWCM.  I know you don't know when you ovulate, but if you just go with the flow it'll happen.  Honestly, my cycle was so screwed up and EWCM was the only consistency!  Just be patient, stressing will only make things worse.

[FEOT]

Well i conceived on the day Dr told me to try, she said she thought i was O. Sure enough i did and well we made a baby. I didnt think it worked since i had tried for 6 years. Then after we found out i was preggos, hubby wouldnt let me do a darn thing lol (no picking up heavy stuff, eat right, not miss a meal, stay off my feet)  After the 3 or 4 months then we relaxed a little more and realized this was going to be normal pregnancy and it has. I was always more relaxed then hubby was, im my mind i knew this was going to be good pregnancy. Hubby in the other hand was always like no it took us this long dont do this and that. Now that ive made it this far, i think its best to just relax and enojoy the ride.