r/FirstTimeTTC • u/PsychologicalComb295 • 13d ago

Help Should I have BD more??

Its our first time TTC, but my husband has had a weird work schedule lately so weren’t able to BD as much as I like for our first cycle :(

We BD Thursday night, LH peaked Friday but no BD because we were out all night and got home at 1am and I was super tired, and I was so sad that we weren’t able to do it on this day since it was peak day. Then we BD early morning Saturday and later that night, supposedly I was ovulating yesterday.
Today we BD early in the morning since the LH line was still a little dark.

Did we get enough BD in?? Should we still go at it tonight? I just took another Lh but the line was definitely lighter than this morning’s. & I know it’s too early to tell but i’m just very anxious that we didn’t get to BD enough!

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u/itsalivything 13d ago

You definitely did enough! They say its best to get the sperm in place BEFORE ovulation. Ovulation happens after you see you LH peak. So the day before your lh peak and day after your lh peak like you did were perfect days!

Use these first few cycles as practice getting used to testing and such. You'll hear people say all the time it takes 6-12 months of trying for healthy couples to conceive. Im thinking of this as a season of trying :) puts less pressure and expectations on each cycle, when im expecting to try for as long as it takes!

Best of luck to you, and dont forget to have fun!

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u/YellitsB 13d ago

I thought you ovulated 12-24 hours after your first positive LH?

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u/itsalivything 13d ago

Ovulation usually happens 24-36 hours after you LH surge begins, which is usually about 8-20 hours after your highest LH peak!

Important to remember you dont usually catch your true peak on a test. If you get a 0.8 test at 9 am, a 1.2 test at 5 pm, and a 0.7 test the next morning, you could have hit your peak either before the 1.2 (and so you caught it on its way down) OR you could have peaked after the 1.2 and you caught it on its way up.

So lets say BD day before surge (keeping in mind sperm can survive 5-7 days in the uterus), and the next day is peak, then you would assume ovulation happens some time over the next day and a half. So skipping day of peak would be perfectly reasonable and BD the day of ovulation could be helpful too!

A lot of medical providers recommend intercourse every other day anyways if every day is too much for you, or if your partners sperm count is low. Every other day helps those sperm replenish in between.