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What are the best TTC tips you've ever received?
For an upcoming article, we want to know...
What are the best TTC tips you've ever received? Whether it's from a friend, a doctor, a family member, or even a total stranger, we're wondering what you think has been the best advice.
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Re: What are the best TTC tips you've ever received?
LO#1 - 19 cycles, 3 IUIs, 1 m/c, gonal-f, ganirelix, ovidrel, progesterone
Totally worth the wait!
Getting ready for #2
Back on Met, PCOS diet, prepping for treatments 1/12
Good luck to the wonderful ladies of 3T
Always cheering on my girls Gymnst1013 & MrsJohns
My Chart / Info for Newbies
The best practical tip was to drink 2 cups of green tea a day to improve cervical mucus. It really worked for me!
The best "emotional" tip I got was to keep sex hot!! It can be baby makin' and love makin' at the same time!
Back ground, I had long cycles and most doctors will see you after 60 days of no AF to "help her show"
My doctors advice:
"Some ladies have long cycle, they are not fun, but nature works in weird ways. I hate to move along nature when there is a plan for everyone. If you have not had a menstrual cycle in 90 days, then come see me will go from there"
Thank goodness she said that because I got my BFP on CD73, I would not have the beautiful one year old I have today if she would have interrupted nature at cycle day 60.
Nature has it's plan for everyone, worked out wonderful for me!
DEFINITELY this. I've only been charting for a month and I feel like I have learned so much about my body.
From the wonderful ladies on this board:
1. Charting (temps, cervical fluid)
2. Drinking green tea
3. Drinking pomegranate juice
4. Using Pre-Seed
2 years, 2 surgeries, 2 clomid fails, 2 IUIs, 1 loss, IVF #1 - 10/25/10 = BFP!, DS is now 3.5yrs!
TTC #2 - 6/12 surgery #3, FET #1 & 1.2 = BFN, 12/2012 FET #2 = BFP! DD is 1.5 yrs!
Surprise! 12/16/14 BFP, loss #2 12/31/14
I can't wait for the "im getting a divorce" post in 5 years or so because your husbands were fed up with your disgusting chair asses from playing on the knot all day and getting fired 4-5 times for not doing any work. you guys are all winners!! ~ Laur929
Charting, charting, charting--from the awesomely knowledgeable ladies on this board.
Well, we'll see how this advice works out on this cycle, but the best TTC tips I've received have been from this board - charting temps on fertility friend, where to order "internet cheapies" and the suggestion to use Pre-Seed.
Ovarian cancer survivor
DH= low motility
2/9/11 lap & hysteroscopy- uterine polyp & scar tissue removed
3/25/11 IUI#1= BFP m/c; D&C at 7w3d (Trisomy 16)
IUIs #2, #3, #4 and #5= BFNs
Onto IVF #1= BFN
FET 4/6/12= 2 extended blasts transferred, with one hatching
Beta 1= 607; Beta 2= 1,564; Beta 3= 24,439; Beta 4= over 64,000
First u/s on 5/10= TWINS! Heartbeats 158 and 160!
It's a boy and a girl!
My Blog
Huge congrats to my beautiful BFPB lmj8284, due June 2012!
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -FDR
One of my friends told me to "get it on on days 12, 14, and 16 of your cycle."
No, but really, charting is the best thing ever. It's gives me a sense of control over what's happening even if nothing is happening. Also, observing CM is great (even though I don't do it enough).
Read Taking Charge of Your Fertility
Chart using FertilityFriend.com
DON'T use "ovulatation calculators" to determine ovulation because they are useless
Don't go to your OBGYN for treatment. See an RE.
And RileyGrace's Post:
New to TTC or TTGP? Read this!
The best TTC advice I received was to realize that it can take a healthy couple up to a year to conceive. If I hadn't learned that here on the Bump, I may have believed I was infertile after 3 months of trying because everyone else in my family got pregnant so quickly. I am now on cycle 8 TTC after coming off BCP, but I know that I am still well within a 'normal' time frame for acheiving pregnancy.
Also, thanks to TCOYF and charting on fertility friend, I *know* my cycles are regular.
Knowlege is power when it comes to TTC.
This! I have learned so much on this board. I would have never know anything without the ladies on TTGP!
This exactly. I think I would have be very disappointed and scared after a couple of months of not getting pregnant, but knowing this fact puts my mind at ease, going into TTC.
I honestly did not know that and I am glad I lurked on here and found out.
~Declare it..Claim it..It will be!!~
5/9/09
Here We Go Again!!
I don't have to lay in the bed with butt and legs up in the air, the strong sperm are already well on their way and don't need extra help from gravity.
BFP 3/17/10 Missed M/C Confirmed 4/12/10
MIF+Unexplained DX Feb 2012: Femara+Trigger+IUI=BFP
To have a sense of humor about TTC - it can be an emotional roller coaster, and you have to have a sense of humor to stay sane. The ladies on TTGP have helped so much with that!