How much do you "do it" around ovulation?

SaintCity · July 2011

I'm using the CBEFM and got high fert on Wednesday. No sex - DH out of town.

High fert on Thurs - - we did it that night.

PEAK Fert this morning and we did it this afternoon.

That's it - - DH out of town this evening thru the weekend.

Is that enough???? I know that sperm can live up to 5 days...but DHs sperm is....well....old!!

(sorry if this is TMI)

THanks.

stove-stamp · July 2011

Well with baby no. 1 I was opsessed with BD for four days straight, but my DH has told me that with no. 2 that will not happen, so my plan is every other day a few day before and make sure I do it on the day of O (i'm pretty reg on my cycles). It sounds good to me. GL.

Mrkyrain · July 2011

Before I was doing monitored cycles, my RE said to BD cycle day 10, 12, 14 unless you know that you ovulate earlier or later than day 14.

lhcooper · July 2011

This is a funny question to me just because *usually* we do it as soon as I get a +opk and the day after, and maybe the day after that too (when we're TTC naturally, that is....). But last week I kept waiting to get a +opk and it didn't happen when I thought it would (delayed, probably, by having done an IVF cycle the month before), and then I also read somewhere that it's good to do it the day before you get a +, too....so I made DH do it 6 days in a row! Suffice it to say we were both exhausted..... Tongue Tied

Tina224 · July 2011

I think it depends. I've read that every day isn't necessarily best as DH's sperm count could decrease.

stever · July 2011

That seems like enough to me. When we conceived DS we did it everyday or every other day around when I thought I O'd and did it the night I got a smiley face on the OPK.

solarflare · July 2011

We do it every day around o, maybe skipping a day or so in that 4-5 day period. We don't have any sperm issues, though.

SaintCity · July 2011

Thank you everyone!

benoitfan · August 2011

We do every other day, starting four days before ovulation and going at least a few days after. My cycle is pretty regular, but this is just in case. We'll go at things this way for a few months and if no BFP, we'll try using a OPK.