I want to boost my chances of falling pregnant?

Question

Can anyone suggest any great websites that provide a natural herb or easy at home treatments that will assist in falling pregnant faster?? What kind of natural ways helped you fall pregnant?

Answer 1

You don't really "fall" pregnant, but you can check out preseed or vitex. I think those will work, also charting your cycles at mymonthlycycles.com which is free.

Answer 2

I had a hard time trying to conceive and started taking chaste tree berry tea , it helped me get pregnent within 2 months . I now have a beautiful boy !! This is a safe tea that will not harm you . Also relax and try to take your mind off of getting pregnant, usually when you are not so centered on it , it will happen . Take care.

Answer 3

I'm going to chime in with my $0.02 here and address a couple of things already stated.

First, pre-seed: what pre-seed is, is a sperm-friendly lubricant. Most lubricants -- and saliva, too -- are decidedly *not* sperm-friendly. While pre-seed isn't any kind of herbal remedy or treatment that helps achieve pregnancy, it is what you want to use if you have vaginal dryness and are TTC. It has the proper pH and does not harm sperm. (Note: it's simply not true that "most women" suffer from "hostile" vaginal fluids.)

Second, decongenstant and its role: Actually, decongestants are drying and not what you want. What the previous answerer was probably referring to is guaifenesin (what you'll find in plain old robitussin -- again, I stress that you'd want to avoid anything like "Robitussin-D" (for "decongestant"), etc.) This does NOT magically create lots of fertile cervical fluid/mucous so if you have dryness issues this isn't going to boost production of fluids. What it does, however, is thin already-existing fluid; thus, if your fluid tends to be thicker than optimal, guaifenesin can help thin it out to create a more fertile environment. Because it thins out fluids it can give the appearance of "creating more" fluid. But, it doesn't.

Another thing that can help with the quality of your cervical fluids is evening primrose oil.

Chaste Berry is what you'll be taking if you take Vitex, and from what I've read it is used to address hormonal imbalances in women. It i s not a hormone, but has the consequence, through effecting the levels of leutenizing hormone, of shifting the balance between progesterone and estrogen, raising the former and helping women with amenorrhea to menstruate. I've also read that it can decrease high prolactin levels, which would also help with fertility in that unduly high prolactin levels would inhibit conception.

There are women who use various "natural" progesterone creams but they do so primarily because they believe they suffer from issues of low progesterone. Natural progesterone creams have not been shown to be of consequence, and, as a matter of fact, most of what you can get OTC isn't going to be absorbed in any manner that would help where pregnancy is concerned. Moreover, progesterone comes into play in the latter part of one's cycle, after ovulation; issues of low progesterone are a concern because you need progesterone to sustain a pregnancy. (Although it's very unclear that "low progesterone" is anything like a typical cause of pregnancy loss, and the more prevalent theory is that low progesterone is a symptom of an unviable pregnancy rather than the cause of one...but the jury is definitely out on that one and low progesterone levels are generally treated on the theory that, while the evidence that supplementation can "save" a pregnancy is scant, it can't hurt.) If you believe progesterone is an issue and want to go to natural cream route, do some reading into this specifically (the message boards I refer to below should have lots of information on this). I have no personal experience with progesterone creams although I have had progesterone supplementation: in all cases the supplementation is to occur after ovulation, not before.

I think an excellent site for TTC in general is http://www.tcoyf.com and an excellent book is Taking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler. I don't recall how much of the book addresses herbal remedies and such, although I don't think that much of it does, but on the message boards you'll find forums specifically for such things, in addition to a wealth of information and generally helpful and friendly advice (it's a very active board). Weschler's book is essentially the bible on charting your own cycle and, well, taking charge of your own fertility -- I urge anyone trying to get pregnant to run, not walk, to the nearest bookstore or amazon.com and pick up a copy. If you want to talk about a "natural" way to help you conceive, I firmly believe that learning your own cycle and learning to identify when YOU are at YOUR most fertile is the single best thing you can do. Most of us don't fall into the 28-day-cycle/14-day-ovulation mold, and without proper timing all the herbs, creams, and lubricants in the world won't help!

I hope that helps a bit. Not much about the herbal aspect, true, but I didn't want you misinformed about what preseed, vitex, etc. can do for you.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Take some kind of decogestant about an hour before sex. Most women suffer from Hostile cervical mucus this will help defeat that batte. Also about a week before you begin ovulating use a progesterone lotion on the soft parts of your skin. Directions are on container. Hope this combination does not fail you. Good luck.

Answer 5

any herbal tea i am trying myself good luck on it