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@Samantha congrats and sticky vibes for you. What do you mean about the banana and pineapple? I take a prenatal already have some maca powder but have not used it.

@bugttc i did a lot of reading and have discovered that pineapple (especially the core) contains bromelaine which helps reduce any inflammation and can help increase fertility which is the same with the MACA powder.
Bananas are good source of folate as well as essential fatty acids such as omega-3 and omega-6, vitamin C, vitamin B-complex, and minerals like manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, copper, and selenium. All these nutrients help in the healthy development of the baby in the womb.

I truly believe that all of these things helped in my first month of TTC.

@samantha thanks for the info. I'm sure I have read that at some point in my journey since it's been an on going thing for me.

Ladies, my HSG came back and my tubes are clear. My fibroid grew a little but doc isnt worry about that. My SO did confirm again he has low sperm count so now I'm praying God heals his sperm to where we can conceive a beautiful babe together.

Hi ladies, I hope its not too late to join the group. A little about me: I´ve been with my husband for 5 years, and we´ve been trying to get pregnant since April 2016. We got pregnant on the first year mark back in March 2017 but had a 13 week missed miscarriage. Its been a tough journey with a lot of ups and downs and we are really hopeful 2019 is our year.
Since we started our journey 2 of my best friends have gotten pregnant and now have healthy babies, and three of them are pregnant right now. The truth is I´m happy for all of them, but I really hope our time comes soon.

I see you´ve been talking about vitamins and minerals that are good for both the mom and the baby. I been taking prenants since we started our TTC journey and it hasnt really helped. We have been to a fertility specialist but they found nothing to be concerned, except for my husbands low sperm count, but since his motility and morphology are fine they told us to hold the fertility treatments a little longer. Thats when we decided to keep trying until we reach the second year mark and if we are not pregnant by then we´ll go straight to IVF.

I really want to get pregnant the "natural" way, so we did some changes and now my husband is taking some vitamins too (all in the hopes of raising his sperm count) and he have adjusted parts of our diets too.

Bug, if your husband has low sperm count I suggest you read this post, it helped us decide on the vitamins my husband should take. And by the way Im glad your HSG came back fine.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/boost-male-fertility-sperm-count#section6

Welcome VS. Sorry to hear your journey has been so long. I feel my journey even though actually TTCing parts of it have been short. I have been yearning and not preventing since I was 18 years old.

I will read the article thank you for sharing and I hope you get that natural BFP!

Hey ladies! It has been a while since I have been on here. Life got crazy with the holidays and my cycle just wouldn’t start again. Then around the 3rd of January I had some brown spotting and figured AF was finally showing her face. Well AF never showed and life got even crazier!! Our apartment caught fire and we lost just about everything a week ago today. We are now living with my in-laws and I jokingly thought “ha it would be my luck that we get pregnant now when nothing is going right.” I then realized AF never started and my chest has been hurting a lot lately. So I went and got an FRER today.......do you see it?

@Shay, sorry to hear your news of the fire. Yes, I do see something! Congrats on this wonderful news.

TS I see the bub. How exciting. Did they give you an EDD?

I have been trying for 3 years. I am 41 and have only been pregnant 2 times. I had an abortion in college and a miscarriage in my early thirties. I have had a problem with fibroids and have had 2 myomectomies the latest last august. I am currently in my first cycle of doing IUI and i am praying it takes on the first go. I had my ultrasound on Monday and they saw 3 eggs on the right and 1 large on eon the left. I am on letrozloe and will do my shot on the 20th. Keep me in your parers I need this to work the first time! Good luck to all of you ladies!!