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To feel like I really did "everything I could", I needed to follow my diet/medication/supplement plan exactly. Otherwise, I was convinced that it was that glass of wine/missed day of pills that caused the cycle to fail.

@PawPrints: I'm pretty much in your camp. I've done cycles where I tried to be really good about xyz and it didn't help. and the cycle I conceived LO I wasn't doing anything special outside of meds and sex timing. I wasn't even avoiding Advil which my RE tells me to do in the TWW now. I figure IF causes enough suffering by itself, so you should only worry about additional pieces if you are doing them for other reasons (eating healthier and working out to feel better and have more energy, etc). otherwise you end up bitter you did all that "work" for nothing if cycles don't turn out.

that said I know some people swear by little changes they made making the difference. I just don't believe it is the right thing for me.

I am such a perfectionist that I don't think I ever feel like I've given it everything I can. I try to be really good about regular exercise, healthy eating (with some holiday exceptions of course), supplements, prenatals, and taking my medications. I do drink one cup of coffee per day, although I might try to cut that out with IVF coming up. I drink 1-2 drinks very very occasionally (less than once a week), although now I am not having a drop of alcohol while going through IVF.

I think if I had a lot of sex, then I did all I can do.

I agree with most of the girls; the cycle I got pregnant we were not even thinking about anything out of the norm and I was def drinking over Thanksgiving! A couple months later we had our 1st iui and I was on point during the TWW--no luck. I've had a glass of wine each night this week in this current TWW. I know I should start exercising more (a lot more), but once I time and use opk's, I like to believe it's out of my hands!

Honestly, "everything I could" gets really tiring when dealing with IF. At some point I just had to stop worrying about it constantly because it was eating away at me trying to follow so many rules. I really don't think that much in the TWW makes a difference! Pretty much all I did was go easy on any ab exercises.