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- Cari (2010/07/16 at 6:26 am) Her worst fertility advice was- “My aunt told me to eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich so the egg would somehow stick to my uterus.”
- Julie (2010/07/12 at 1:06 pm)”Worst advice, ever: take a bunch of laxatives to “clean yourself out”. If your clean, then the embryo will want to “stick”. Ugh.”
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Other than relax, take a vacation, don’t think about it, all in God’s time…the normal I’ve also been told to douche right before you have sex because it gets you all cleaned out. When my sister in law and I were talking about things people say and I told her relaxing wouldn’t improve her brother’s sperm, she was like oh my, I’m so sorry! It was one of the few people I could be honest with!
1)wear rose quartz- it is a female stone(sad thing is I’m actually wearing a bracelet right now)
2) Plan a vacation where you really don’t/can’t be pregnant then you will get pregnant and not be able to go..(yeah I really want to risk loosing $1000’s on a nonrefundable vacation just to get pregnant- now I’m scared to go anywhere or plan anything
3) From my own DH…We got pregnant last time we made an appointment with the fertility doctor, just do that again. REALLY?! Did you forget it ended in miscarriage?!
Ugh
Someone told me to pretend my husband is raping me…
I’ve been told more times than I can count that we will get pregnant when we adopt.
How about my coworker telling me that “You’ll get pregnant in July because I conceived twice in July! It’s a great month!” Because apparently you can’t get pregnant if you’re coworker hasn’t conceived in that month.
“well it took your grandmother five years after me to have your aunt so it can happen”
After five years of TTC number two (last month) and not having anymore funds to proceed- I was told God has another plan for you, just get over it and move on. As my sister who was on her 1st anniversary 2nd honeymoon forgot to take the pill and is due in a week.
My doctor (yes a qualified medical professional) told me to “have a glass of wine”. Maybe she thinks the sperm will be so drunk that they can be tricked into fertilizing the egg? Something they don’t realize they are supposed to do naturally?
I was given a “Gypsy cure.”
Take a raw egg, poke a hole in each end, have DH stand over me with the egg, lean over, and blow the egg into my mouth and I swallow it……
I’m still trying to figure this one out.
I’ve been told to relax (by someone who claims it worked for them… I recall clearly that they were totally stressed out that month)
I’ve been told to have more sex (yes, because having more sex will somehow make me ovulate)
I’ve been told ‘you better be pregnant by X date’ as if pressuring me into it will make it happen
I had a doctor tell me to ‘wait a few cycles’… when I wasn’t having any because I wasn’t ovulating
Not exactly advice, but my friend who started TTC the same month as me and got pregnant within 4 tries ‘well my husband really wants a boy so if the ultrasound shows its a girl, you can have it’ she was joking and I usually have a sick sense of humor but that made me cry.
I was told (by a teenager at my niece’s high school grad party) “Isn’t there a book you can read?” I guess she didn’t think we looked intelligent enough to figure out how to “do it.”
I’m so sick of hearing “just be patient, it will happen when it’s time.” Really?!? Was it time for that 16 year old to get knocked up, or that crack whore to leave her newborn in a dumpster? Yeah, ok….when it’s time….
Of couse we’ve been told “Just relax”, “Take a vacation, “Pray”, and my favorite “Have you considered adoption?” But the most outrageous was someone once told me to write the word baby on a piece of paper, seal it in an envelope and put it under my pillow. Just recently my brother’s girlfiriend asked me if I’d ever thought about cheating to increase my chances. I think she was shocked when I told her I had. Hey, it works on soap operas!
My aunt told me to eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich so the egg would somehow stick to my uterus.
I was told to put 6 feather pillows under my ass. Darn. I was putting only 5 under my butt. That’s the problem! Not sure why it had to be feathers though.
“just don’t have sex for a whole month, so then the next month there is extra stuff- doubles the chances then” oook..well that don’t fix whats broken inside me now does it..not to mention I have to contend with one cranky hubby..lol
We’ve all heard “there must be something in the water!” when a bunch of people get pregnant- my mother actually asked a girl who made the comment to bring her some of the water from her office (where there were nine women pregnant).
When she came to visit my husband and I, she brought with her a bottle of this water and sat there and watched as I drank it.
She did the same for my sister.
My sister had a baby last week.
My mom asked if I wanted her to send another bottle of water because maybe I hadn’t had enough to drink.
Insane.
“Oh your husband’s sperm is bad? Just get a sperm donor.”
Gee, thanks.
I had my annual gyno appt yesterday and she asked me “have you thought about getting more aggressive?”
Uhhhh….with 5 IUI’s and an IVF behind me, What exactly does she consider MORE aggressive? Kidnapping?
a friend told me to get drunk and have sex in a car. been there done that lol. we got pregnant on our first round of clomid only to miscarry at 9 weeks. i got tons of advice after that. a so called friend said “it has been 2 weeks you should be over it by now, its not like it was a still birth it was just a miscarriage.” i could not believe what she said. as if my pain was not real because i didnt give birth. some people say things to make you feel better and just end up making you feel like shit. sometimes i just wish people would not say anything.
I’m open and honest with everyone about my problems with IF, so when a girl I had gone to school with, and never particularly gotten along with, messaged me out of the blue on Facebook to ask if I was pregnant yet I wasn’t shocked.
She told me that since it was obvious that I couldn’t get pregnant, that she was GOING to be our surrogate, then proceeds to ask if she would actually be able to have sex with my DH, because she thought that might make things weird between us, and didn’t want to strain our relationship!?!?
REALLY!?! So you TELLING me that you’re GOING to be my surrogate, when I haven’t even talked to you in 2 years isn’t weird enough, and then you want to know if I’ll let you bone my husband.
I’ve heard all the “normal advice” rest, relax, take a vacation, stop worrying about it, stop trying, use pillows, stand on your head, eat ice cream, etc. But that took the cake.
I was told I need to visit this so called getpregnantnowDOTcom site, to which I smugly replied, “Hmm, and I thought all along we needed to have sex. Who knew it was so simple…thanks for clearing things up for me.”
“RELAX….It will happen!!!!”
I have quit my job, take bubble baths every night, exercise,diet and practically live like in a retreat every day …..now besides this how exactly do you describe relax….induce a coma???
I have been told we are doing it wrong, oh…you mean anal sex won’t get me pregnant??? Shoot, I wasted 11 years trying it that way!
By my mom: “well, my mom had me and my sister in October and I had you and your brother in October–you must need to get pregnant in January because we only have October babies!” (How many Januarys will it take, mom?) I actually thought this was funny, so its not really the worst advice I’ve received. That came from my CNM, before she referred me to an RE after a year of trying: “You have to stay positive and really want that baby, then a pregnancy will come.” My MIL recently visited The Great Stupa to make an offering so that “we may receive its blessings.”
Above all the “relax and it will happen” and “if it’s meant to be …” the best advice (AKA WORST) was ….
“Take three shots of vodka before you have sex and you will definitely get pregnant. My sister was drunk every time she conceived.”
Wonderful!
Sorry but Jen wins hands down!!
“She told me that since it was obvious that I couldn’t get pregnant, that she was GOING to be our surrogate, then proceeds to ask if she would actually be able to have sex with my DH, because she thought that might make things weird between us, and didn’t want to strain our relationship!?!?” Seriously??? PMSL!!!
Although I still quite like the pharmacist telling me I needed to be “less stressed out.” Ok so deep breathing and thinking calming thoughts will make my fallopian tubes grow back and unscramble my eggs will it???
Or how about a certain “fertility guru” exhorting me via her bloody expensive CD to stick both thumbs up my nostrils and imagine an orange light shining out my ass… or something like that – !