The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

chickpea

I hop it's more than a little bug vk2008! In my experience, SSing is useless, but it's impossible not to! Good luck, it would be a perfect Christmas present.

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My night out was snowed off last night but I wasn't too sad - at least I side-swerved the 'oo, why aren't you drinking, something to tell us?' 'No, I'm not drinking because I'm infertile and taking Clomid, which might not react well with alcohol, and it's probably my last real chance, and I don't want to muck it up for the sake of a few glasses of wine blah blah blah' conversation!

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I'm working on eating low GI, which is apparently the best way to eat for fertility - just had wholegrain cinnamon toast with a dribble of agave nectar...mmm! I bought something else that was gorgeous and ridiculously healthy - pumpkinseed butter...green, but great!

jiblets1

chickpea wrote: »

I'm working on eating low GI, which is apparently the best way to eat for fertility - just had wholegrain cinnamon toast with a dribble of agave nectar...mmm! I bought something else that was gorgeous and ridiculously healthy - pumpkinseed butter...green, but great!

Hi chickpea - I went on a low GI diet after I found out that i had a polycystic ovary. i found it absolutely brilliant. I hadn't realised how much my energy/moods/happiness was based around my food. Going on the GI diet made a huge difference to how I felt, and my emotions etc were so much more consistent. I also lost a little weight - bonus! It's also how I was eating when I had my successful ICSI...:money:

VK-2008

thanks chickpea, i know what u mean about night out, its soooooooo frustrating. iv got my nightout on thursday and soooooooooooo cant be bothered with it the way im feeling today.

i must look into this gi food plan/diet is there any website links to explain it all? dont really know much about it and when i start googling i always manage to find the wrong information.

well my fertile mertyl SIL is due at end of month but has gone into labour this morning had been having like a mini labour during week but apparently today shes in full labour so should be getting a little niece or nephew today fingers crossed, mind you it would mean that it has the same bday as my other little 2year old nephew whos bday is today.

hugs to all

VK-2008

Little update - I am now the proud Auntie (again) of little baby AVA!

Going up to visit her tonight - dependant on weather

chickpea

Congratulations on being an auntie (again)! At least you don't need to envy that bump over Christmas now! Bonus!

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There a fair amount of info on low GI foods and the impact of diet on fertility out there on the greater wide web, inc. books aplenty.The ones I've just read that left me convinced it might at the very least be worth trying low GI are 'Fertility Foods' by Jeremy Groll and 'Enhancing Fertility Naturally' by Nicky Wesson.

If you do a search on Amazon, there are GAZILLIONS of books on enhancing fertility, and you can get a lot second hand for pennies, with just the P&P usually 2.75 or so to pay.

The main things to avoid food-wise are the usual suspects:

Alcohol and caffeine (liquid contraceptives, for those whose fertility is borderline, to put it kindly.) However, apparently decaff coffee is positively fertility-friendly, because coffee contains ingredients that promote fertility, catechins I think, it's just the caffeine that counteracts them. So decaff is fine.

Sugar, jams and syrups

Fruit juice and fizzy drinks with caffeine

Obvious fast-release carbs like cakes, biscuits, pastry, white bread, pasta and rice

Some other high GI foods like sweetcorn, bananas, potatoes

And to fill up on the usual good things, which I'm interpreting as:

Lean protein like fish, chicken, steak, ham

Eggs and good fats like nuts and avocadoes, cheese, olive oil

Wholemeal bread, pasta rice, oatcakes

Oatmeal (with extra protein like protein powder)

Beans and lentils

Vegetables and salad aplenty

Certain fruits like apples, berries, plums and pears

Downing lots of lovely coconut water and Fertilitea!

I have to remind myself it's not the same as Atkins, so I'm still drinking milk and eating yoghurt, and allowing myself an occasional little bit of v. dark chocolate in the evenings if I fancy.

I'm a bit overweight, BMI of 31.5, so at the very least,hopefully I can drop a few pounds. Every little helps allegedly.

VK-2008

thanks chickpea, it seems i eat what you mentioned already my only thing i would need to watch is pasta, love it! but everything else i seem to do already.
oh well fingers crossed i can get a wee cheapie book and see what it says
just went up to see my niece oh she is sooooooooooo beautiful i could of took her with me, got the usual questions of when are you two having one brave face oh we just like babysitting lol. smiling trying to say it was hard, could feel myself going red in the face i was roasted
arrgghh
oh well fingers crossed onwards and upwards lets hope for a bfp by end of year hehe

gettingthereslowly

Gin, bleugh for the BFN (hugs)

Hope everyones other halfs are all well and you too. This weather is awful but lovely hugging up weather ;-)

CD21 for me. Cycles normally 26 or 27 so xmas eve or day.

Think I may have a sneaky test on xmas eve so at least if its a BFN I can console myself with xmas prep and not spoil xmas day so to speak. Wish I would relax a bit about it though. Got everything worked out in my head for how I will deal with either situation (tests chat if BFN, Wrapping test for hubby for xmas day if BFP)

Keeping my fingers crossed for everyone that is testing soon and wishing everyone a briliant xmas with our fab Dear Hubbys regardless of whats out of our control!

GTS xxxx

VK-2008

gts im due xmas day but i got those digital ones that do 6 days early so mite do xmas eve like urself.
trying not to get my hopes up bt would make alovely xmas gift if we both got a yes!

chickpea

The shops have no milk! I'll have to have evaporated milk in my (decaff) coffee...mmm.

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CD9 for me today. DTD yesterday due to some premature EWCM. Way too early for anything but who am I to ignore EWCM?

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Have a lovely snowy day and I hope those follicles/eggs are doing what they should be doing.

jiblets1

VK-2008 wrote: »

i must look into this gi food plan/diet is there any website links to explain it all? dont really know much about it and when i start googling i always manage to find the wrong information.

I've got a Rosemary Conelly cookbook that we really like. Diabetic cook books do the job too - though everything we cooked from the one we bought was horrible! It's all about eating foods that release their energy slowly, so your body doesn't have peaks and troughs of energy, insulin and blood sugar. There's lots of bits online too.