After looking back through my Fertility Friend records, I noticed that many months we've been "trying," we only had sex 1-3 times during the period of ovulation (about 5-6 days near O). There was one month we BD 4 times and one 5 times, but the others were no more than 3. Do you think we need to step it up? How often are you having sex around O?
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We did two days of sex, one day off, repeat so about 4 or 5 time around O.
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We stick with an EOD schedule once I start OPKs (CD15 since I O late). I typically get a +OPK around CD19-20 so we try for ED around then. After a year of TTC, we don't want to look back and think "if only we did one more time" so we try to cover all our bases!
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3 times during the fertile period is considered a good month for us. We shoot for EOD.
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I think that hitting the fertile period at least once constitutes trying. You at least have a chance. We aim for 2-3 during that period, but sometimes it doesn't happen.
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We try for EOD starting when AF stops. We try to step it up to every day when I get to around CD13, since that's roughly when I O. I don't temp or use opk's, so I don't know exactly. Though to be honest, DH always gets super excited about lots of BDing at the beginning, but by the time we get to O (all of a week, so not long) he's complaining that he doesn't want to. It's really frustrating. I told him AF hadn't stopped when it had this time, to delay the start, so maybe he'd be less "tired" by the time O came. But now his back is hurting, so nothing yesterday.
When you say "around O," what do you mean? 3 is a lot if you mean just O day or maybe the day before. 3 is fairly little if you mean the whole week preceding or something.
FWIW, the first bfp I got, we managed to BD all of twice the entire month, and neither were as close to O as I'd hoped. So when they say it only takes once, it's definitely true at least sometimes.
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We haven't been DTD on the two-three days FF estimates we shoyld. I only track AF, no charting, so I may not really ovulate acxording to FF. Either way, we are NTNP- more NT than anythibg else. Until my husband makes a more actionable connitnent to TTC, I'm not going to sweat it.
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3-5 times around O is plenty to constitute trying!! I will say that for me, I don't temp and just use OPKs and CM, and the month we got pregnant this time was the one month that we had sex a few days past when I thought I ovulated. I thought I ovulated around Wed, but based on the baby's size, it lines up to me actually ovulating on Sat, so I think that one extra time we had sex was "the one". The previous months I was exhausted from BD by time I got positive OPK and would stop cold for nearly the whole TWW.
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When I was cycling on clomid, I got pregnant the cycle that I stopped stressing about having sex every day or more. Unless you know you're working with a sperm quality/quantity issue, I wouldn't sweat frequency too much. At least not for a while.
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@runnerd: good to know! If we don't get pregnant this cycle I will make sure to BD a few times after O day
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