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1st Trimester
What did you do differently the month you got your BFP?
Congrats everyone!
Just curious (and slightly obsessive): what did you do diferently, if anything, the month you got your BFP?
Temp? OPK? Fertile Aid? EPO? Exercise? No booze?
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Re: What did you do differently the month you got your BFP?
Every time I have gotten pregnant its been within two months of trying. I swear by preseed, cbefm, temping, and opks. The OCD combo seems to work.
I temped, used opk's, drank POM and ate the core of a pineapple from O to 5dpo. The only thing that changed that cycle was we had sex ED rather than EOD during my fertile week.
Good luck!
LOTS of sex and opk's! We were super relaxed about it, not sure if that helped.
ETA: lots of water too, like 140-160 oz per day
First M/C - March 2006, pregnancy not known about.
BFP#1 03/17/12 DD 11/09/12 Missed MC 05/14/12 (No growth past 9wk1d) D&C 05/22/12
Removal of Ovarian Cyst 07/27/12
BFP#2 09/17/12 DD 05/29/13 STICK BABY STICK!
PgAL MARCH SIGGY CHALLENGE: PET SHAMING
In all honesty I was trying to abstain because I just felt something was off, go figure the next day after having sex I found out my husband was cheating. I think I either O'd abnormally early or he just had super sperm that day because it was 5 days before O, I know which is possible but just kinda took me by surprise. When things were good and we were trying we would do it 0-3,0-2,0-1 and nothing.
I fully believe it will happen when it happens no matter what you do or what different little things you try without medical intervention.
We were not going to try until my October cycle but I was on my way to get my new pack of pills and we thought..maybe we throw in an extra month of trying just in case it will take a few months! Then BAM we got BFP!
DH is happy but not at the thought that the sexy good time won't be like when we were trying we were doing it like twice as frequent than usual, sorry TMI.
Our first was conceived the first month trying without doing anything.
This one took 18 months, countless OPK, the dildo cam multiple times a month from January through July, I did 5 months of clomid but stopped that in May, a miscarriage in July and checking CM, B6, EPO until O, lots and lots of sex around O, tons of water, robitussin and mucinex around O.
Everything is different for everyone. Good luck!
Married: 6/27/2008
DS: 3/14/2010 Planned, PG first try
M/C 6/2012
DD: 4/22/2013 Planned, UnDx Infertility, PG on our own
BFP: 10/28/2016 Unplanned, HUGE SURPRISE!
M/C 12/12/2016
BFP: 10/27/2017 Unplanned, HUGE SURPRISE
EDD: 7/2/2018
This!
This pregnancy was unplanned. But I should have known to be more careful after people starting to warn me. Back in August I started working out...I was trying to drop some pounds before a class reunion and was doing a great job losing the weight. Several people told me "You better be careful, you getting back in shape and you are going to end of pregnant!"
LOL Here I am! On baby #2
Married: December 19, 2009
....continued....
My DH had been working out for a couple of months two. So I guess we both were getting our bodies ready to put another bun in the oven
Married: December 19, 2009
This too. We had sex because it was our anniversary and we were out celebrating and just enjoying each other. It took all the pressure off of us.
Good luck!
it was my first month temping and using FF.
We were having lots of sex (hello newlyweds!) but I think for the first few months we just weren't having sex at the right times. Temping def helped
My BFP Chart
me:40; DH:41; 4/30/12 1st visit with RE; 6/30/12 IUI #1 BFN; 7/19/12 IUI cancelled (overmedicated); 8/2/12 IUI cancelled (cyst); 9/1/12 IUI #2 BFP! EDD 5/28/13; 10/9/12 1st U/S at 7w3d--missed m/c (trisomy 16) D&C 10/19/12; karyotyping results normal!; 1/31/13 IUI #3 BFP! EDD 10/25/13
nothing, infact, i thought we were way off. for some reason, and we only had sex on CD 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21. It was our 3rd month, and I was hoping to have sex every other day starting on CD 8, but my H & I got into a fight on CD 11 and so we missed a few days of sex, and then we had made up by the weekend and I said "oh the hell with it, we're probably out this month" and we just had sex all weekend and I drank a ton of sangria
bam! mommy's preggo!! lol
We didn't use condoms.
Seriously though, it was our first month trying so I don't know if any of this helped, but it certainly didn't hurt. I used OPKs and checked my cervix. I had cut out caffeine and alcohol too, but that was for something unrelated (anxiety).
Evelyn (3.24.10), Graham (5.30.13) & Miles (8.28.16)
Things that I was already doing: temping, checking CM, OPKs, and using Preseed.
The one thing we wound up doing different was hitting ED during my fertile window (O-4 through O+1 actually).
I also actually ovulated, which is a rarity for me, so I'm sure that probably made the most difference ;-)
DS born 6/2013
We have always had frequent sex, so I thought for sure I would get pregnant fairly quickly and I didnt chart or use anything extra. It didnt happen, though. So the last cycle, which was our 5th or 6th, I used OPK's and sure enough, I got a BFP.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but I'm giving the OPK credit!
I tempted and used OPKs
It helped me to realize what was going on with my body
BFP #2 - 7/5/14 (total surprise!) EDD - ????
my happy boy