AF is here. On to TTC next cycle (TMI)

[geek96]

Okay ladies it is dead around here. I want to spice it up a little and have a question about sex. After sex, is there an optimal time one should wait before using the bathroom or cleaning up when trying to get pregnant?

[vmars]

I've read to use the bathroom right after because you could risk a UTI. Also all the fast swimmers are already on their way to the egg. I go almost right after sex.

[geek96]

I hear you about the wetness I run so fast to the bathroom. I think I will try to put a timer for 10 minutes this cycle.

[blindyswife]

I try to wait as long as possible. I'm paranoid I'm going to pee out all the spermies and be left with no chance. Probably ridic, I know.

If I'm planning ahead, I make sure to pee before sex. Then, afterwards, I prop my hips up on a pillow and try to sleep. This obviously doesn't work as well with daytime sex, though.

[glauren]

Before TTC and for the first few months, I'd go right away. However, for the past 2 or 3 cycles I've been trying to stay put for as long as possible - usually 20 minutes or so. Sometimes I'll prop my hips up, sometimes I stick my feet in the air...I'm pretty much willing to do anything I think might marginally increase my chances!

[blindyswife]

glauren, I've tried the feet in the air. In fact, one time I tried to get H to stand up and hold my feet up and shake me (sometimes i feel desperate!) He refused. lol :-D

[geek96]

I can't imagine sleeping like that. What happens when you wake up and stand up? Does it all fall out?

[blindyswife]

Dec 3, 2012 15:35:28 GMT -5 geek96 said:

I can't imagine sleeping like that. What happens when you wake up and stand up? Does it all fall out?

Yeah, when I inevitably wake up in the middle of the night some of it does kind of spill back out. But by then its hopefully only the rotten swimmers anyway, 'cause all the good ones have made their way to the holy land.

J/k. Mostly.

[glauren]

Dec 3, 2012 15:35:18 GMT -5 blindyswife said:

glauren, I've tried the feet in the air. In fact, one time I tried to get H to stand up and hold my feet up and shake me (sometimes i feel desperate!) He refused. lol :-D

Hahaha! My H thinks I'm totally nuts when I do things like this; maybe I'll ask him to hold my feet up and shake me next time and see if he'll comply!

[littlemisschatty]

Dec 3, 2012 15:35:18 GMT -5 blindyswife said:

glauren, I've tried the feet in the air. In fact, one time I tried to get H to stand up and hold my feet up and shake me (sometimes i feel desperate!) He refused. lol :-D

OMG I am rolling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I stay flat for about 10-15 mins and then get up to pee (for fear of the UTI) and wipe myself a little.

[geek96]

I guess I have been doing this all wrong. I immediately hop out of bed pee and jump in the shower to wash anything off since it seems to be wet for a while after.

[winecheery]

I do the waddle to the bathroom after also lol...it's pretty sexy tho I swear. I don't prop up really, but sometimes I rest for a minute or two before the waddle. The smarties are already swimming! In theory...

[bonkers412]

I wait 20 min. Before ttc I waited 20 seconds.

[mkesweetie]

Laying there makes me feel better mentally, but physically you're no better off if you lay there for 5 minutes, 15 minutes, or all night in terms of your odds of getting pregnant. Get up, pee, wash up, do your thing. The best sperm are already so far up there they're not coming back out if you pee. You'll also prevent infection this way.

But, alas, the last two cycles I have found myself flat on my back feet in the air. lol. Like many of you, I'll try just about anything these days.

[awick14]

I get up too pee after a minute or two. Mostly to catch my breathe thought.