Pangea
April 23rd, 2012, 05:06 AM
Do you think this would be a risky strategy?
Both my boys were planned and I was very obsessive when TTC. I did the whole lot, charting, checking cm and cp, opks, supplements to improve fertility, preseed, dtd lots and lots in the run up and around ovulation, even changed my diet with DS1. I got really stressed out both times, and didn't believe I would get pregnant unless I had done everything perfectly. Then once I would get to about 7dpo I tested obsessively until I got AF or BFP.
Now, I know alot of the individual things I did swayed boy, like using preseed, taking supplements etc, but I'm wondering if the whole obsessiveness swayed boy. As soon as I would get a positive opk I would definitely feel a sense of achievement and then knowing I did as much as I could to get pregnant helped me to feel in control of the situation.
I've been trying to decide what I'm gonna do about timing for my sway, I was trying to decide between frequent release and abstinence and I was getting stressed out thinking about it!
I was wondering, would it be a good idea to forget about it all, just concentrate on diet and dtd about 2-3 times a week, using rephresh and sylk, and possibly take some antihistamine at the first sign of any ewcm. No charting, or testing with opks or attempts at timing or anything.
It would mean I wouldn't know when I was ovulating, therefore wouldn't know when my period was due as my cycles are irregular. It would be hard for me to get used to.
Would the benefits of it be cancelled out by the possibility of my bd pattern being boy friendly?
Or maybe because it's completely the opposite to what I did conceiving my boys, it's what I should do?
Both my boys were planned and I was very obsessive when TTC. I did the whole lot, charting, checking cm and cp, opks, supplements to improve fertility, preseed, dtd lots and lots in the run up and around ovulation, even changed my diet with DS1. I got really stressed out both times, and didn't believe I would get pregnant unless I had done everything perfectly. Then once I would get to about 7dpo I tested obsessively until I got AF or BFP.
Now, I know alot of the individual things I did swayed boy, like using preseed, taking supplements etc, but I'm wondering if the whole obsessiveness swayed boy. As soon as I would get a positive opk I would definitely feel a sense of achievement and then knowing I did as much as I could to get pregnant helped me to feel in control of the situation.
I've been trying to decide what I'm gonna do about timing for my sway, I was trying to decide between frequent release and abstinence and I was getting stressed out thinking about it!
I was wondering, would it be a good idea to forget about it all, just concentrate on diet and dtd about 2-3 times a week, using rephresh and sylk, and possibly take some antihistamine at the first sign of any ewcm. No charting, or testing with opks or attempts at timing or anything.
It would mean I wouldn't know when I was ovulating, therefore wouldn't know when my period was due as my cycles are irregular. It would be hard for me to get used to.
Would the benefits of it be cancelled out by the possibility of my bd pattern being boy friendly?
Or maybe because it's completely the opposite to what I did conceiving my boys, it's what I should do?