Pink Sway Plan - TTC in three weeks, what douche to use? Please help

[atomic sagebrush]

DO NOT BD every day through O. That is immensely boy friendly and doesn't even boost odds of conception in many cases because sperm count is lowered so much before the egg arrives and the earlier batches have died off.

I would have you have sex every 4 days in the 72 hour pattern (not that number of hours exactly but that is how you count the days.) if you want to boost odds of conception to the max, then add in one more attempt at positive OPK as well but continue with the e4d before and after.

I would drop RepHresh as it doesn't work and really cuts odds of conception by a lot.

[pinkpink24]

Ok, this sounds like a good plan. How about cranberry, cal and mag Supps? I will cut rephresh. What can I use as a lube? Given amount of BD, would it make sense to keep PH low?

[atomic sagebrush]

I do not recommend cranberry and never have (even though I have the instructions on here for those who insist on it)

Calmag is at your discretion, as long as it doesn't have Vitamin D in it. Personally I think it sways blue and I got boys with cal-mag, but I understand many people still want to use them.

Keeping pH low kills sperm. It makes no sense to give up RepHresh to add in some other pH lowering lube. It is up to you of course but generally I'll have people use a very small amount of sperm safe jelly like Preseed. Larger amounts sway blue, so use the barest minimum possible.

[pinkpink24]

I did my attempt last week. Couldn’t sway much as I was on vacation. We BD’d Cd 8, 11,13 ,14 (positive OPK) and then added attempt on 15 (likely O day) and 16 early morning ( likely O+15 ish).

It was certainly more than I had planned but just went for it. Really hoping for a BFP this time which I think I care more about than the gender. I was really dry so used a very teeny tiny drop of Rephresh on Cd 11 and Cd 14 but did not use any on the other days. I’m hoping the LE diet will help with the sway and also the frequent back to back BDs.

[atomic sagebrush]

Good luck and pink dust headed your way!

[pinkpink24]

Bfn at 12 DPO

Wondering what we’re doing wrong. DH and I got pregnant the first attempt with our DS three years ago. My period is like clockwork, we did an at home sperm count test for Dh and it came out normal. I get LH surges and ovulation pains every month on the same day. I am clueless now as to why we are not getting pregnant?!

[atomic sagebrush]

Did you keep the jellies?

[pinkpink24]

I only did on two out of the 5 attempts.l and that too a very very tiny drop. Did not do jellies on O day and O+ 16ish attempt.
Next time I plan to try Pre seed or conceive plus ..even though boy friendly. Do you think those would work? Should we avoid lubes altogether?

[atomic sagebrush]

Well, O Day and O+16 would not have high chance of success.

I would like to offer a compromise. Instead of going right to Preseed, I suggest you take a month without any of the jellies and see how that goes. I hate to see anyone go from using low pH jellies (which cut odds of conception hugely) right to Preseed (which may sway blue) without even giving it a single month trying without anything.

[pinkpink24]

Ok. Sorry I forgot to mention that we did not use jellies on O-2 also.

I think we can try that but I tend to get really dry at times and we have a need to them use jellies. But will definitely give it a try and see.

Other than jellies, don’t know if something else is preventing us from conceiving. Maybe we just BD every other day.