Moondancer - Not truly up to date on the computer abbreviations, but I am assuming that your TTC#3 was that you and hubby are trying to conceive? If so we are too. Have you found any fertility diets?? :lol:
Crystal yeah your right ttc#3 is trying to conceive #3. Sorry I'm on 3 other boards that are pre-pg related and sometimes I forget which board is which lingo. I haven't found any diets for ttc that sound like they would even work but I have found supplements that are supposed to work. I have a page on our family website about herbs and ttc. www.geocities.com/babcocks2004/home.html Currently I'm taking Vitex, Vita-mom prenatals, and vitamin e. Fertility Friend is a pretty decent temp and cycle charting software and they have a discussion board as well.
The therapists at my school would take a balloon (not blown up!) and fill it with about a cup of flour (using a funnel) and then tie it off. It works just like Crystal's play dough. For a while you could buy them already made at various stores for about $5. They would also "brush" our kids on a regular basis. I know this sounds weird, but they would come into the classroom first thing in the AM and right after lunch with a very soft vegetable brush, and just brush the child's arms. I sure don't understand the way it works, but somehow the sensory REALLY helped settle the child down!
I like the balloon idea Jackie. The play doh can get messy sometimes. He can end up picking at his nails because of it. :shock: I will have to try that. I bet the arm brushing thing works. Sometimes at night to calm my son down I run my fingers down over his face. That seems to really calm him. I have to be careful sometimes becasue as he says I get tickley. :wink:
Also I forgot! For those of you (like me) that are trying to get pregnant. I just read that oysters aid in fertility. I skimmed the article, but remember is was becasue they are packed full of zinc. Infact they contain ten times as much as any other source.
Oyesters! Yuck. Sorry just can't handle seafood. Vitex is supposed to be the herbal equvalent to chlomid. Stimulates the ovaries and regualtes your system. It works great for most women. Also false unicorn root, but you have to be careful I heard of one woman that took it and got pregnant with quads.
We do the boxer shorts, elevated hips, I am taking folic acid and watching my diet. I wouldnt mind taking an herb to help the process along, but with seven little ones already I dont think quads would be a good thing. I think I will research the Vitex. We have only be trying since May. All in His timing.
Jackie, False Unicorn root is an herb supposed to be very beneficial to fertility. Crystal, we've been trying for a year come October. Our problem really isn't conception its unknown cause recurrent loss. So I'm looking into herbs that are miscarriage preventatives. We quit doing the elevated hips thing and moved on to Instead cups. Works great.
Okay fill me in. What is Instead cups??? :shock: How many miscarriages have you had? I had one a few years ago. I was just begining my second trimester. NOT something I ever want to go threw again. :cry: I am not "due" until next week, but already feeling crampy. So I think it will be another month of trying ahead. :wink: Is false unicorn root harmful in any way?
Ok the website for instead cups is www.softcups.com Basically they were designed for use during "that time of the month" but alot of women have been using them to get pregnant. THey serve the same purpose as a cervical cap. You slide one in after and it traps the little guys up near the cervix. Sorry tried to keep that as clean as possible. I had 3 single and 1 twin m/c before ds was born and 2 more singles since we've been trying this past year. I'm completely on the verge of giving up and going with a surrogate but I just can't bring myself to do it. I love being pregnant. I'm not sure if there are any bad effects to false unicorn root. I haven't done much research into it after hearing about the woman having quads. That scared me away from it.
Moondancer, don't worry about how you say things. When it comes to topics of this nature, the only thing you can do is come out with it, and if the language is too graphic for some, then they can switch threads.
Moondancer, Sorry to hear about your losses. Right on Jackie. Sometimes there is just no other way to describe something.
There is a magizine that I have been getting for a while now called sensory comfort. I has some things that some of you might find interesting. The internet site is www.sensorycomfort.com. I got a major Pepsi problem that I'm trying to break right now, I was drinking 2 liters a day. Today I have only had three 12 oz sodas plus a few caffeine pills -- not liking it. :x headache to spare :cry:
Thanks for the kind words crystal. Susan thanks for that site. I found a yoga tape I might have to try with ds.
When my husband got his vasectomy the doctor sais a very strange thing. My husband has this funky vein on this right inner thigh, that I always assumed was some type of varicose vein. The doctor said no, it was some type of vein that affects the men's reproductive system somehow, and he was actually surprised my husband was able to father a child. That doctor wasn't the only one surprised!! :lol:
My parents tried for over 6 yrs to get pregnant. Back then they only seemed to ever test and check the woman. Finally after all those yrs my father went in to get checked. They found a vein out of place so to speak, similar to that of your husbands Becky. After having it removed I came along! :lol:
Frankly, for 10 years we never used birth control, because my husband was told that since he had chicken pox at 21, he was sterile. The vein was never a question. God had a plan, though, because Jeannie showed up in 2000!
Well thankfully now they test both partners but usually not until after about a year of trying. We were lucky though with dh's age and the fact that he had a visectomy reversal years ago and my history, they started doing testing at about 5 months. So far there aren't any problems with him. It seems to be all me. It will happen when the time is right. I know it will I just sometimes get into these "when is it gonna be my turn" modes. Yesterday was a particularly bad one but I'm doing much better today (think it was just hormones due to my "friend" showing a week late) We're gonna continue to try until Febraury and if we haven't had any real success by then then we are turning to a surrogate. My youngest sister has voluntered so at least we know the person well as well as her medical history.
