First time and trying for a girl! Please help!

[atomic sagebrush]

Sounds good! Yeah, BDing will REALLY bring your pH up - though it sounds like you are having nice fertile, EWCM, too, whuch is also higher in pH. That's definitely the best for fertilization, though if you have a lot, you might want to take some Zyrtec to dry it up a bit.

I prefer people only take antihistamine before attempt and not after bcause the sperm and egg will need some fluid to move thru and we want that to be thin enough to allow the process to happen.

[EveSweetheart]

yep, a good question!

[maidentomother]

I prefer people only take antihistamine before attempt and not after bcause the sperm and egg will need some fluid to move thru and we want that to be thin enough to allow the process to happen.

Even if you have HUGE amounts of EWCM? IME, antihistamines dry up most but not all of my EWCM; I still have some right at my cervix (as per speculum). Fortunately when I'm actively on the LE & Vitex I don't get much EWCM at all, but if I were ever to try randomly while not swaying, I'd be concerned about my mega EWCM.

[atomic sagebrush]

As always, your call to make on that. Trouble is we honestly don't know how it works, how much or if the egg is even negatively affected by antihistamine, etc.

[atomic sagebrush]

sooo...i tend to err on the side of not having anyone use it after attempt, just for caution's sake.

[NikkiB1986]

I know it's been awhile but I'm just popping in to get some more advice. We tried for 3 cycles and nothing happened so I went to get everything looked at on my and he got a semen analysis. Turns out I've got lots of healthy eggs and my tubes are open, so nothing is wrong with me. His count is high, his motility is high, his ph is 7.6 but his morphology is 4% (which the doc said is normal). So I'm not sure why nothing has happened yet.

We're trying again, round 2! So now he want to know if there's anything on his end he can do to help. I saw that some pages suggested taking cranberry supplements, abstaining from coffee, low salt and the doc suggested taking walnuts to improve morphology. What do you think? Anything you would add?

Oh by the way I've tried to keep up eating salmon twice a week, and two yogurts a day but money has been tight since hubby lost his job for a bit. So I am eating more like 1 every day or two, and salmon every once in awhile (maybe on a few times a month). He got a job again so I will be going back to salmon twice a week, and yogurt once a day (it's too expensive for 2x day). Hopefully that's enough. Oh plus I have been taking the multivitamin gummy 3x day, fiber gummy 2x, and folic acid 3x day consistently (for the most part, sometimes I forget a day or two).

[NikkiB1986]

I know it's been awhile but I'm just popping in to get some more advice. We tried for 3 cycles and nothing happened so I went to get everything looked at on my and he got a semen analysis. Turns out I've got lots of healthy eggs and my tubes are open, so nothing is wrong with me. His count is high, his motility is high, his ph is 7.6 but his morphology is 4% (which the doc said is normal). So I'm not sure why nothing has happened yet.

We're trying again, round 2! So now he want to know if there's anything on his end he can do to help. I saw that some pages suggested taking cranberry supplements, abstaining from coffee, low salt and the doc suggested taking walnuts to improve morphology. What do you think? Anything you would add?

Oh by the way I've tried to keep up eating salmon twice a week, and two yogurts a day but money has been tight since hubby lost his job for a bit. So I am eating more like 1 every day or two, and salmon every once in awhile (maybe on a few times a month). He got a job again so I will be going back to salmon twice a week, and yogurt once a day (it's too expensive for 2x day). Hopefully that's enough. Oh plus I have been taking the multivitamin gummy 3x day, fiber gummy 2x, and folic acid 3x day consistently (for the most part, sometimes I forget a day or two).

[atomic sagebrush]

Well, 3 cycles is not unusual at all to not conceive in that time and I"m actually surprised your doctor was willing to check you out, usually they'd make you wait 6-12 months.

Are you talking about swaying or getting pregnant??? If you're having trouble conceiving I would not do the cranberry but would do Olive Leaf instead for him. Skipping coffee and salt are debunked and we have gotten better results for pink without dropping them. Walnuts are fine in moderation.

CAn you tell me the other stuff you're doing so I can help you increase your odds of conceiving?? Supps, jellies, etc.

[NikkiB1986]

Yeah you are but I lied, since I was getting worried. I didn't want to waste time waiting that long to find out something was wrong or not. Before I had my miscarriage, we only tried once and got pregnant right away, so this made me nervous that nothing has happened in 3 tries. But if you say it's normal I guess I won't worry so much.

I still definitely want to sway pink! Olive leaf? What's that? He's supposed to be taking 1cup walnuts daily according to the doc.

As for what we're doing, all my updates are in my new post here: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...help-asap.html

[atomic sagebrush]

olive leaf extract 500-1000 mg dry leaf a day taken daily and then weaned off gradually at BFP

think I covered everything else in other thread