Most women take about 6 months to conceive. Some women conceive on their first cycle trying. Thanks to the depo, even though I feel like I've been "trying" since September, I only know for sure of once that I ovulated since then so I already missed getting knocked up on the first try.
Here's hoping round 2 will be met with more success!
In light of that goal, I've been doing some research. I've learned a few things: caffeine= right out. Go me, I've cut back drastically. :-) Tuna fish, alcohol (not that I drank much, if ever, anyway), ibuprofen, my trusty old KY jelly we've been using since the honeymoon (not the same bottle, heheh...), also right out.
Then I found a website that suggested drinking pomegranate juice would help the lining of your uterus with conception. I thought juice- that's all natural, what can it hurt?
The internet is a funny place, people. When I researched pomegranate juice more, I ran into some discrepancies. It might make you get pregnant. However, if you're a guinea pig in participation with this one study I read about, pomegranate juice will make you infertile. (I do mean a literal guinea pig, not just any old test subject, although in this case, the guinea pigs were... guinea pigs.) In the same study though, the lab rats had better sperm production. ("Here Mr. Rat, just go in that darkened room and when you've got your sample in this sterile cup, come on back out.")
I'm thinking orange juice is safer... :-\
It's crazy to think about what IS good and what ISN'T. There are so many different opinions. DH and I aren't officially trying until this fall, but I did buy the book "What to Expect Before You're Expecting" and there was a whole chapter about that.
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