Things that may have worked for me :)

[xMillie]

Hope you don't mind the post x
Just some guesses and changes as to what could have helped me!
I was thinking back over this cycle (and the last) for things I've done differently!


1. Over a month without vitamins!
I had been taking pregnacare ttc since Nov and before that I was taking sevenseas trying for a baby for many years. Then of course all sort of random things I'd added here in and there to try like: royal jelly, coq10, baby aspirin, bee propolis etc. At one point I was taking 16 different vitamin pills a day. I stopped taking so many after visiting a fertility acupuncturist who told me off.
After my second failed ivf cycle I said sod it. Vitamins really do get expensive (and become a chore!) so I stopped completely apart from folic acid. I only started taking tescos own ttc vitamins the 4th of this month and I think I would have implanted by then. So not sure they even helped!

2. Not thinking about it!
This is the one that always annoyed me if anyone ever said it. But thinking back over the last 2 months I really had stopped thinking about it. After the second failed ivf I had given up on the idea of having our baby. Emotionally I just couldn't keep putting myself through it, I found the 2ww so much harder during ivf just knowing there is a fertilised egg inside me and it still could not work out.
Even with our 1 frozen Embryo waiting for us I had straight out said I didn't want to try it. Hubby did convince me otherwise and I thought sod it I guess whatever happens will happen but surely it wouldn't work because the 2 ivf rounds didn't. I did opk in June to try track where I was in my cycle but never saw a positive so gave up with them. No idea when I ovulated just dtd as and when we felt like it!

3. Live yoghurt
This one probably sounds so stupid but it's the only 'diet' change I've made in the last 2 months and funnily enough mil (who is desperate for a grandchild and forever trying to give me advice) mentioned live yoghurt is good if you're trying to get pregnant. She actually said that last weekend - I was already pregnant lol. I started having it for breakfast everyday with some granola just after my egg collection last ivf cycle. It was hubbys suggestion because I fancied cereal but not the milk as I'd been quite sick following egg collection. I was never much of a breakfast person before but it soon became an everyday thing, it's great because there are different granolas and different flavour yoghurts (the brand - the collective dairy is so yummy!) so I never get bored!


Wishing you all get your bfp soon xx

 

[Sunflower1]

Thanks for sharing. I barely take any vitamins now as I took tons in the past and think they messed with my health. The thing people forget is that your body still has to process them and it can be too stressful!

I might try the live yoghurt!

Big congratulations...that's awesome.

 

[_GG_]

100% agree on the vitamins. If you have a balanced diet and no health issues leading to a diagnoses of being deficient in something, you really don't need a multivitamin. A multi billion pound industry has been built on clever marketing that tells people they can rely on a pill and not worry. It's proven that our bodies only use a certain amount if everything anyway, so if you have a healthy diet, you're literally throwing money and vitamins down the loo!

As for the live yoghurt, mw last month told me that obviously folic acid should be taken, but that extra vitamin D was being recommended. I hate pills as they easily lodge into my tonsils so...I now have 1 Actimel a day and I love it.

Thanks for sharing, sounds like you've had quite the journey. X

 

[liz85]

Thanks for sharing I'll try anything now. Need to learn how to forget about it and just let it happen. Cant seem to
Do this. Plus iv to have a laparoscopy soon which I'm worried about. Must try the live yoghurt. Congrats again happy 9 months x

 

[xMillie]

Pregnacare especially used to make my pee bright yellow! Which I think means I was getting too many of some vitamins?
I think the values on the Tesco ones are slightly lower and I haven't had the bright pee since I started taking them!

I think it is very hard to just stop thinking about ttc altogether. It's always there in the back of your mind.. Must have sex because ovulation.. did I dtd enough?.. I really had given up completely!

Could have been the extra vit D too yeah!

Liz, I hope the laparoscopy goes well x

 

[liz85]

Thank you Millie can't wait to get it over with to start some fertility treatment x

 

[millielaura]

Congratulations again
I hate pregnacare vitamins lol they make me throw up!I thought it was the irom but then I wasn't sick with my iron tablets in pregnancy! Taking seven seas vitamins atm but when done might just stick with folic acid and vitamin D. Think I'll pick up some yogurt too! xx

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[xMillie]

Thanks x

Oh really, I never had that problem with them. I've read people cutting them in half before because the values are too high. I bet those vitamin companies make a fortune because of us trying anything!

 

[millielaura]

I bet they will!I used to take so many when ttc Imogen and had OH on about 10 a day too lol! All the bee propolis and royal jelly etc etc etc haha. Xx

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[xMillie]

Oh wow 10? Ha, I could barely get my hubby to take just the 1! He was always forgetting! You could tell because I got the his and hers packs and he was always like 2 or 3 behind me! I think he still has a few sheets of his left.. and now all the Tesco ones too!
Bee propolis always stank so much, I've still got probably 50 capsules of so left of that ugh.

 

[phonixgirl]

Congrats again! I'm so so happy for you xx

I've just had a quick look and the live yoghurt is worth a shot. Apparently it's full of vit D which helps the follicles mature but also gets rid of any thrush. I didn't know vit D helped them mature. I've always wondered if that's where my issues came from...

 

[xMillie]

Thanks! xx

I'd be awesome if it was what did it!
Who knows!

 

[millielaura]

Oh wow 10? Ha, I could barely get my hubby to take just the 1! He was always forgetting! You could tell because I got the his and hers packs and he was always like 2 or 3 behind me! I think he still has a few sheets of his left.. and now all the Tesco ones too!
Bee propolis always stank so much, I've still got probably 50 capsules of so left of that ugh.

Haha yeah there was so many in the glove compartment in the car and he had written with marker pen the amount of each one to take lol!
He cycles to work now and keeps having energy drinks ..has done since Imogen lol. This week I decided to approach him about the caffeine but today he's had a coffee so I think I'll be fighting a losing battle there haha. He pretty much stopped caffeine when ttc Imogen. He has wellman vitamins now but has taken 1 in like a month lol! xx

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[xMillie]

He was very willing too then?

Aww I once wondered if caffeine was an issue with my hub but SA always said he was totally fine!

 

[millielaura]

Lol no he prob just feared the wrath of me if he didn't take haha he knows I don't have as much time to nag now lol!
I think the vitamims did help as he used to have high count but low motility etc but then after the vitamins it was all really good xx

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