A few weeks ago Nicole Kidman told the press that she thinks she got pregnant by swimming in “fertility waters” in Australia. After I heard that, I thought, “oh no! If people can afford it, they will be buying tickets to Australia first chance they get to go swimming in these mystic waters.” Apparently 7 out of 9 of the women she was with got pregnant from these waters. What Nicole failed to mention was that she most likely used clomid, or another fertility treatment. That was most likely the REAL cause for her getting pregnant. Why do celebrities feel the need to hide how they really get pregnant? With the surge of twins in Hollywood to older actresses, it’s most likely that they had some help in getting them. There’s only about a 3% chance of having twins in a normal pregnancy, so it seems very likely, more times than not, these actresses had some help.
But the real point for this blog today, was to talk about what women will do to get pregnant. I have tried some crazy things to get pregnant. If someone told me to shave my head because longer hair messes with fertility, I’d probably go to the salon right now! I have tried baby Tylenol (no clue why, someone else told me to try it). I bought instead cups, but never used them because I chickened out at the last minute. If you don’t know what these are, then you probably got pregnant on your first try. I have tried drinking teas and acupuncture. I have gone off caffeine, gone back on caffeine, eaten only cooked food (no cold salads), and given up carrots. Basically, if I heard about it might work, I’ve tried it.
I have heard women trying crazy things like taking Robitussin, drinking grapefruit juice, drinking fertility shakes or standing on their head after sex. Now, there are fertility waters in Australia I need to check out. I guess I should start looking into plane tickets. Or maybe I will just stay with my current plan of going through IVF another time.
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i did the cough syrup thing too! chinese meds, pre seed, standing on my head, crazyness!
ReplyDeletethere are also these fertility statues that are at ripleys believe it or not mueseum that if you touch you get knocked up! so many crazy things out there.
Why not shave your head to do something different...or even donate it for charity?
ReplyDeleteUm, excuse me? What is the point of the above comment? NOT helpful!
ReplyDeleteAs someone who has done the Instead cups (and gotten one STUCK in there!) let me just tell you that you're not missing much!
I'm right there with you! I've done a little bit of everything - if I read an article about it and thought that it would work I'd try it. HECK! I'm wishing that I could afford a trip to Australia!
Oh the crazies! In my 5 years of TTC some of the craziest things I have done include: cough syrup, grapefruit juice, clary sage oil baths (but I think that did something, made ovulation kill!), I even used to make Chris drink a strong cup of coffee 1/2 hour before DTD to give his soldiers a little jolt in hopes they'd swim faster.
ReplyDeleteBut the strangest thing I ever heard was from a message board group of girls in Europe that were TTC. They said along with tracking your CM, to TASTE IT! If it was sour, you had already ovulated.... now tracking CM is quite a personal experience in and of itself... but sampling the sample... that's just too much!