https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 04 May 2026 18:33:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-410568 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:22:11 +0000 StrawberryBee 410568@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SouthPaw: congrats on your BFP! The only thing we did differently was BD 4 and 3 days before O, and then twice on O day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-410559 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:00:29 +0000 Beyond2 410559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped charting the month we conceived. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-410524 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:31:55 +0000 SouthPaw 410524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you ladies for all of your replies!!!!</p> <p>I was getting to the point where all of you were.. Fed up and weirdly enough did last month and scheduled a consultation with my obgyn to discuss next steps... Two days ago we got our BFP!!! I got to call and change our appointment:). Went on a cruise and added copious amounts of alcohol to the mix as many of you indicated!! </p> <p>Thank you for all of your replies!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-409479 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:36:35 +0000 mediagirl 409479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Two days of sex, one day off, two days of sex, one day off. The month prior to that we just had sex all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-409453 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:25:30 +0000 Bao 409453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got pregnant the second month of trying, so i don't know if it was really anything different but this is what I did: sex 8 days in a row, 6 or so days before I expected ovulation and 2 days after, stayed laying down after sex, preseed lube, I took a baby aspirin everyday during ovulation week, ate fresh pineapple, took lots of naps, took prenatal vitamins.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-409441 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:17:13 +0000 sarac 409441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugmama: I hated that too, so much. There is a biological basis in it, though. Animals under stress from resource competition are less fertile. And it does seem to play out that way in humans, not infrequently.</p> <p>That being said, no one should ever scold you for 'trying too hard'. I'm still not over my anger at the person who told me that. Who (of course) got his wife pregnant on the first try. I'd kind of still like to punch him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-409438 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:15:15 +0000 sarac 409438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Relaxed. No more laying there with my knees up, no more doing it every day even if I didn't want to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-409154 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:39:39 +0000 dagret 409154@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>had my first IUI. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408963 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:11:13 +0000 whatsarahsaid 408963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used OPKs and I temped...BD'ed every day for the week leading up to ovulation and then the day after! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408492 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:16:36 +0000 MsMini 408492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We gave up ... we were starting fertility testing. I got my BFP the morning I was supposed to go in for my HSG! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408477 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:01:37 +0000 regberadaisy 408477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know every TTCer hates hearing this but I let go. The month I got the BFP was the first time I just let go and not stress about it.</p> <p>@junebugmama: haha I hated it too!! But it's so true! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408451 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:42:13 +0000 mizjl 408451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We BD'd every other day during fertile week and both days when I had EWCM, plus it was the first (and only) month we used Pre-Seed. I'm not sure if the Pre-Seed did it, but it turned out to be our month and I'm now about six weeks along! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408280 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:20:38 +0000 junebugmama 408280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We stopped trying. I got bombed off of sangria at my friends bday and that was the night we conceived. Crazy how many people told me to relax and the advice always pissed me off, but they were right. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408277 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:19:14 +0000 Lindsay05 408277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only thing I did different was made home brewed green tea iced tea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408245 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:03:06 +0000 knittylady 408245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>both months I got BFP's DH and I had a spoonful of royal jelly in the morning until a few days after ovulation. Also for this one I stayed on my anti-depressants the whole time and for two months prior. I had weaned off them before in anticipation for TTC but realized without them I went through to much distress to handle BFN's let alone a pregnancy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408211 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:52:00 +0000 Adira 408211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: Oh, good call! I also started exercising regularly 3 times a week at the gym! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408191 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:45:55 +0000 tororojo 408191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We decided not to try for awhile and also stopped charting out of laziness. BAM! Surprise BFP. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408184 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:43:35 +0000 Cherrybee 408184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stated exercising daily and popped a pillow under my bum after BDing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408135 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:20:21 +0000 SugarplumsMom 408135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I laid on my tummy after (instead of elevating my hips). I just found out I had an inverted uterus and read somewhere it was supposed to help. Not sure if that's really what it was though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408134 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:18:15 +0000 Bookish 408134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped charting, and we were BD-ing every other day like clockwork :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408124 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:13:08 +0000 hellobeeboston 408124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, I had also taken soy isoflavones that month and the month before </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408119 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:10:53 +0000 chrispygal 408119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did it the old fashioned way. We got drunk. :) This was just after we decided to hold off trying for a few months. We were so early in my window I figured there was no way in heck we'd conceive. LO is now 4.5 months old. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408108 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:07:25 +0000 Foodnerd81 408108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I forgot-- I did put my legs up for a few minutes afterwards every time. Not like 20 minutes, not even with a pillow, but just a few minutes with them in the air.</p> <p>I also gave the sperm and egg mental pep talks but I don' think that helped :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-408104 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:05:06 +0000 Adira 408104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><b>Things that might've helped:</b><br /> - Using Pre-Seed<br /> - NOT using other lubrication (including saliva)<br /> - Propping a pillow under my hips and my feet against the wall after<br /> - Actually having FUN sex BEFORE I thought I was ovulating, just for the fun of it</p> <p><b>Things I did that probably didn't matter:</b><br /> - Praying to a Fertility Goddess and lighting a candle for fertility<br /> - Meditating after sex and envisioning Hubs sperm meeting my egg<br /> - Meditating the days after ovulation, envisioning that Hubs sperm met my egg and things started developing </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-407997 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:23:50 +0000 mrsvdv 407997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used the clearblue digital opk's. Not sure if that made the difference though, because I got the same O date through temping! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-407948 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:06:14 +0000 wheres_c 407948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had acupuncture two weeks before the BFP.<br /> Other than that, was NTNP, like we had been for the previous year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-407942 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:05:03 +0000 heartonastring 407942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used preseed. While it gave me one nasty yeast infection (despite all my efforts to avoid one) it also resulted in this little dumpling that's been growing inside me for the last 20 weeks. Worth it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-407938 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:03:16 +0000 hellobeeboston 407938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped obsessing and was focusing on a new job across country! That, of course, was our month after 7/8 months of trying! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-407930 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:00:14 +0000 JoJoGirl 407930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Used the Clear Blue Easy Fertility Monitor + Pre-Seed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/month-of-bfp-what-did-you-do-different#post-407929 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:00:12 +0000 SouthPaw 407929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>haha Blackbird I have heard that before =) </p>