What TTC tricks do you do?

[rockinrobyn]

Use coconut oil and olive oil.
Hips up for 15 min post BD
Temp, use OPKs, check CM
Decrease caffiene intake around O

[kellikans]

We were very casual in the beginning, too. Besides opk's (which I've used from the beginning) we also started using PreSeed, and I stay laying with my hips elevated for like 10-15 minutes after. I also have pretty much cut out alcohol, especially during my 2ww. I know it probably doesn't matter, but it's worth a shot I guess.

This cycle I'm also going to try eating pineapple. Last cycle (first IUI cycle) I didn't test out my trigger shot (which was 10,000 units - so 10 days out of my system), and I had faint positives 11dpiui, 12dpiui and 13dpiui. I started spotting 14dpiui, then cd1. I'm wondering if I did get pregnant but did not implant.

[oneslybookworm]

OPKs, CM, and Cervical position
I try to avoid Aleve/NSAIDs

otherwise, that's about it.

[miamigirl]

It took us 9 cycles to get our BFP (which ended in mmc).
The first 2 or 3 cycles we were casual, just estimating O day ad taking prenatals. Then I started using OPKs. The last couple cycles before our BFP i also took FertileCM.

Right now, I'm waiting for AF ao we can start trying again. I bought PreSeed so we'll give it a try next cycle.

[Mushe]

Last time, it took us 6 months. I temped one month, just to get the feel for it, then the last two cycles I used opks, and the last cycle I ate pineapple core.

This round, we didn't do anything the first month and got pg, ended in MMC.

I bought pre-seed, but MH hates it. I'm just using OPKs now, and debating whether to do anything else. I keep meaning to temp at least through ovulation, but then I wake up and forget.

[Deleted]

We used OPKs. If our last cycle hadn't worked, I had purchased FertileCM.

Another trick I heard was morning BD as opposed to nighttime.

[belle55]

Temps, digital OPKs, ConceivePlus (I like it better than PreSeed), FertiliTea.

It took 7 cycles to get a BFP before my m/c, which was also the first cycle I used digital OPK's. So I'm a convert to those over the wondfos.

[raangoli]

Just temping using FF, but I do have a digital CBE fertility monitor that I may use the next time around.

[woowoo]

I am going to acupuncture and using her recommended herbs. I'm not all that crunchy...but I do believe in it and was already seeing her twice a month.
We're using OPK's and I'm laying off the NSIAD's and also green tea during the LP.

[boiler717]

Well now we are monitored with trigger shots. Preseed for post IUI sex. Lay down after IUI/sex.

I've always taken fish oil and folic acid, but would have added those if I wasn't taking already. I added CoQ10 specifically for TTC. I go to acupuncture 3x/cycle. I've decreased caffeine, eliminated alcohol, and follow a lower carbohydrate / high protein diet. No NSAIDs.

[ginkgoleaf]

Currently doing iuis so it's almost a science... Ha. If only.

Anyway.

Prenatal
Vitamin D
Extra folic acid
Pregnitude - just started, so quit extra folic cause it's in this
Limit caffeine and alcohol
Lay down for 10 min after IUI
Acupuncture - going 2-3 times this cycle

Think we're also going to try back-to-back iuis.. This is our "pull out all the stops" cycle before moving to IVF.

[awick14]

I will hopefully start temping again soon, and then using opks next cycle. But that's about it for me.

[Chrysanthemum]

Nov 14, 2014 15:21:51 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

Preseed for post IUI sex. 

Why only for post IUI sex?

[toutsuite]

My favorite thing in the entire world (ok, ok, maybe sometimes in addition to pasta), is pomegranate. A year before DH and I started TTC, I ate at least one a day (I also lived in a location during this time where they were in season year-round and was able to get them already cored so I didn't have to deal with the hassle). My dinner usually was pomegranate, strawberries, and kiwis. When I returned home, I started drinking pomegranate juice just to get my fix since they weren't in season year round here. I had no idea that there were old wives tales that pomegranates supposedly can help your fertility until after I got pregnant. It could have been pure dumb luck the times I got pregnant during this period, or maybe there was was some stock in the OWTs.

I still drink pomegranate juice (or eat a pomegranate) every day FWIW.

[boiler717]

Nov 14, 2014 20:20:22 GMT -5 Chrysanthemum said:

Nov 14, 2014 15:21:51 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

Preseed for post IUI sex. 

Why only for post IUI sex?

DH isn't a fan of it, so I figure it's nbd to use other stuff when I'm unlikely fertile. Like we used it for the day of IUI sex, but not sex days later.

[Blackout81]

Vitex & b6, pressed, CBEFM, stopped taking Advil, trying to cut down on caffeine. With our first I temped and drank a ton of green tea and stuff, this time around I keep adding another layer each cycle. This is cycle 4 for us (1st took 6) andim considering temping, I'm only on CD3 so I have another another day or so to decide.

[Deleted]

I'm thinking of building a time machine to go back to high school, get drunk, and do it on the backseat of my H's car. That would probably work.

[rockinrobyn]

daisyfay25 lubrication

[shauni27]

we use preseed and this cycle I started laying in bed for 10 minutes with a pillow under my hips. I also got acupuncture this cycle.

[pooh8402]

Nov 16, 2014 17:53:59 GMT -5 rockinrobyn said:

daisyfay25 lubrication

Those can kill sperm

[caramia]

have sex

haha, really I've just used OPKs so far

[rockinrobyn]

Nov 17, 2014 14:05:30 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

Nov 16, 2014 17:53:59 GMT -5 rockinrobyn said:

daisyfay25 lubrication

Those can kill sperm

REALLY!?!? I have heard they were better. Well, then scratch those off the list.

[pooh8402]

Nov 17, 2014 15:03:16 GMT -5 rockinrobyn said:

Nov 17, 2014 14:05:30 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

Those can kill sperm

REALLY!?!? I have heard they were better. Well, then scratch those off the list.

Preseed is the only lube, natural or otherwise, proven safe. But your own cervical mucus is best. It's better to try tricks to increase CM rather than using lube.

[MrsMB]

Drinking more water has increased my CM. Sounds so basic, I know. But it wasn't anything I thought of in the past. I've kept a little tally by my desk of each 8 oz glass I've drank. Making sure I get 8-10 has been key in seeing more CM for me.

[callmehales]

not a trick, more of a mental thing for me but when i'm in the 2ww (like now) i try and wear a few of my alex & ani bracelets at least a few times a week. today is one that says "miracles do happen" and one that's got a design called the path of life. i've also got one that says "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon". they just put a positive thought in my head, which is what i struggle with.

[becwheat]

I chart and use a ovulation monitor. Other then that I just let it ride.

I also avoid NSAIDS