TTC

Hubby and I had a long talk last night, and we are now back to "officially" trying. :eek:

I am nervous and excited at the same time.

Nervous...because we tried all last year to no avail (granted, it took a while before his count went back up after the reversal), and I can still remember how heartbreaking it was every month when Aunt Flo came. :(

But excited...because maybe things will be different this year! *crosses fingers*

Who else is also trying???

NOT ME!!!!!!!

but mazel tov!!!
EVERYONE I KNOW IS KNOCKED UP RIGHT NOW!!!!!

We're trying to foster if that counts.

We're still trying to get hubby's vasectomy reversed....so we will be trying, hopefully soon.

Missy, Emzak, I will cross fingers for you. You deserve it and you will be great parents! Missy, you are so mature for your young age, I wouldn't take a risk and foster a kid I guess... I hope you get your hubby's reversal at last and have a kid of your own one day. But even if you foster I'm sure you will do grat!!! Do not give up!!!

fingers crossed but im not! my mum did say she spent a long time TTC and it happened instantly as soon as my dad gave up alcohol, so if ur SO likes a drink tell him NO!

I hope to never try again !!! LOL Sending you some of my ~~~~~ baby dust ~~~~~ !!! Good Luck !!! Have you looked at your chinese horoscope for this year ?Mine says it's a good year for a baby & marriage . :)

I'm definitely not trying, but I just wanted to wish you good luck! :)

Good Luck! You will be wonderful parents :)

First things first............STOP TRYING!! No temp taking, no day counting, no period watching. NOTHING. And the minute you stop trying is the minute you will get pregnant.

I am not trying. I am fixed. Now, it's a sport.:D:D:D

~Jenna

I'm definitely not trying either. Yikes!

But good luck!!! And I agree with Jenna...just have fun and have lots of sex.

Don't turn sex into a chore. That's Nadine's tip of the day. Sex should be fun.

Nadine.

We're trying to foster if that counts.

Yes, you bet it does! :)

First things first............STOP TRYING!! No temp taking, no day counting, no period watching. NOTHING. And the minute you stop trying is the minute you will get pregnant.

Uh uh. I tried that last year and it didn't work, so I am NOT falling for the whole "stop trying" thing again. :D

Actually, I don't plan on going back to temping/charting, though I will keep a (casual) eye on my cycles so that I don't miss any fertile days. The tracking makes it fun for me! :p

Ya, yippee. *rolls eyes* and you didn't not, not try last year. By the time you decided to not try, to try it was already way to late.:p

If you have sex on the 10th day you will get pregnant. It is also easier to get pregnant if you have sex that day, and only once. Worked both times, first try for me. And both times the BC pill shouldn't even have been out of my system yet.

~Jenna

If my calculations are right, it was the 9th day for us (that was the only time I remember him saying "I probably shouldn't have done that" and me thinking well it'll be a boy if I get pregnant). Yes, I had been reading those determine the sex of your baby in advance articles lol.

i want a baby=( financially it just isnt "doable" right now

I dont want a baby right now, i do not feel i am ready to take care of someone's life when not even mine is sorted out. But i dont want to wait a whole lot either.

Good luck to all of you trying for babies!

I cannot wait for our mtag babies :D Malani's is going to be the first right?

I cannot wait for our mtag babies Malani's is going to be the first right?

Yes, I think so.

Malani, I expect lots of pics when the baby comes! :D

If you have sex on the 10th day you will get pregnant.

If my calculations are right, it was the 9th day for us

Hmm. I must have longer cycles because looking back at my old charts, ovulation generally didn't come until Day 15 or 16. :confused:

Malani, I expect lots of pics when the baby comes! :D

No worries, my husband has recently taken up photography as a hobby, I can't wait for him to have a new subject :p He's becoming really good, he got some great pictures of my daughter and I yesterday playing softball.

Ice cream may aid fertility for some

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
Tue Feb 27, 9:31 PM ET



Ben & Jerry might help you get pregnant, but not in the usual way. A diet rich in ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods may lower the risk of one type of infertility, a study suggests. It sounds too good to be true and probably is, some doctors say.

But the findings are bound to get attention because they are from the well-known Nurses Health Study at the Harvard School of Public Health and were published Wednesday in the European journal Human Reproduction.

Researchers found that women who ate two or more low-fat dairy products a day were nearly twice as likely to have trouble conceiving because of lack of ovulation than women who ate less than one serving of such foods a week.

Conversely, women who ate at least one fatty dairy food a day were 27 percent less likely to have this problem.

Even the researchers say women should not make too much of these results, which are based on reports of what women said they ate over many years — not a rigorous, scientific experiment where specific dietary factors could be studied in isolation.

"The idea is not to go crazy and start to have ice cream three times a day," said the lead author, Dr. Jorge Chavarro, a research fellow at Harvard. "But it is certainly possible to have a healthy diet with low saturated fat intake by having one serving of high-fat dairy a day."

Others urged caution.

"A good healthy dose of skepticism is good for people," especially when the results are so hard to swallow, said Dr. Patrick Remington, a University of Wisconsin-Madison epidemiologist.

After all, the Nurses Health Study also found that menopause hormones could ward off heart disease — something doctors believed until a more scientific study disproved it several years ago, he noted.

The new research doesn't even apply to most cases of female infertility — not ovulating is to blame only one-third of the time.

The study also found no link between infertility and dairy foods in general — something that bothered another statistics expert, David Allison at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Instead, researchers only saw a link when they separated non-ovulating women who ate yogurt and other low-fat dairy products from those eating more high-fat varieties.

When they looked at specific foods — and this is where the numbers really get tricky — they found that women eating ice cream two or more times a week had a 38 percent lower risk of infertility than women consuming ice cream less than once a week.

Researchers adjusted the results to reflect differences in weight, exercise levels and other factors, but many specialists said they suspect weight is still mostly responsible for the results.

Weight extremes — being too thin or too fat — raises the risk of any sort of infertility, said Dr. William Gibbons, who runs a fertility clinic in Baton Rouge, La., and is president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Other research shows that women eating lots of low-fat dairy also eat other low-fat foods and try to lose weight, said Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of Weill Cornell University and New York Presbyterian's fertility services.

His interpretation of the new study: "It's not that having high fat is protective. It's that being on a diet may be bad for reproduction."

The Harvard study, funded by the university and a long-running federal study, involved 18,555 women, ages 24 to 42, who became pregnant or tried to from 1991-99. Among them, 3,430 reported infertility, including 2,165 who saw a doctor for it. Of those, 438 said an ovulation problem was to blame.

The women filled out questionnaires every two years on what they ate and how often. Those who ate more high-fat dairy foods were more likely to consume alcohol and to already have had a child, and less likely to exercise than those eating low-fat dairy products. Researchers said they adjusted for these factors and still saw the link to ovulation-related infertility.

If women do eat more high-fat dairy foods to try to boost their odds of conceiving, it would be important to cut calories elsewhere to avoid gaining weight, doctors said. They also should switch back to low-fat dairy foods once the baby is born, to limit saturated fats.

Kinda interesting!:)

Hmmm, it is!

I also read somewhere that drinking green tea helps with your fertility. :)