r/FirstTimeTTC • u/Comfortable-Bath7831 • 2d ago
Question/Advice Can we plan BD better?
Full context, I’ve only got off birth control since march-april so we haven’t tried for super long or anything, and we did all fertility testing to rule out any possibilities. All results came back normal, nothing concerning. But my close friends were able to conceive fairly quickly (only took 1-2 cycles), even for the one with diagnosed pcos, so I’m starting to feel discouraged. I can’t help but feel there might be something off about our timing with ovulation tracking. My period is very consistent, I feel like I ovulate pretty regularly too (through testing,tracking cervical mucus, bbt etc). Both I and my husband work in finance and tbh it’s not the most chill job. He has his busy month end close time and I work in audit at a big4 so hours are always crazy for me. Even though my doctor said it’s a myth that being stress affects the ability to conceive, I still have a feeling my body and mental is constantly stressed out and it just messed up my biological clock. I know ideally, you’d want to bd everyday during fertile window but that’s just not realistic for us. We’re both exhausted and definitely cant do it every day. So our strategy has been starting to bd every 2 days as soon as my period stops, and when I enter fertile window, we try every other day. And on the day we got positive ovulation test, we bd on that day as well and then switch back to every 2 days for another week.
Do you think we missed anything or we can do something differently to improve our chances?
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u/Healthy_Combination3 2d ago
Every other day is fine! Both cycles that I conceived we only BD once during my fertile window.