(Long and detailed for my own documentation)!
Today I was so lucky to speak to not one but two doctors... both female! I love this community clinic... it's wonderful to have a female doctor, and one who's very attentive and takes all the time that I need to talk out all my concerns. For some lucky reason, a second doctor joined my regular doctor for my appointment. She seemed very knowledgeable about pregnancy, conception, fertility, etc. This is what I learned during my appointment:
1. I may be stopping the
too early and therefore may not be catching the egg at the right time. She also says it's quite possible that I ovulate two times a cycle and don't even know it. So, she says I should start BDing around CD 10 and continue all the way until CD18.
2. She strongly recommended regularly BDing every 48 hours instead of two nights in a row. She said allowing the sperm adequate time to build up a good amount is better than back-to-back BDing.
3. I prefer to BD in the evening but it could increase our chances if we BD both am and pm.
4. DH can do a couple things on his end too: #1 Stop wearing briefs and let his parts hang loose and cool in boxers. #2 Get a sperm test done (Dr. recommended this as the first test to do because it is cheaper and easier to get done than any tests they'd have to do on me).
5. When it gets close to the one-year mark, I can go back and get a FSH test done.
6. After DH "leaves his seed", it certainly wouldn't hurt to have a "good time" myself right after, then to keep the bum elevated for at least 20 minutes too.
7. She suggested using the lubricant "Astroglide" (not sure of the spelling) to address my dryness issues. I told her I'd read that Astroglide was one of the sperm-unfriendly lubes but she's known many couples who got pregnant using it. She says a lube is very important for making sure that
is as pleasurable for me as it is for DH.
8. I don't need to worry that my menses has been showing a lighter flow over the last two cycles or so. Doc says I should worry if it gets very heavy or if I bleed at the end of a cycle (that could show that I don't have a good environment for the egg to implant in). The lighter flow could be caused by any of a number of factors (e.g. how thick the lining got built up before being shed).
9. Finally, both doctors very kindly listened as I explained why I feel so anxious to get P and that it's taking longer than I expected, how naive I was, etc. They did not utter those words I'd expected to hear ("You're still young... you still have lots of time..."). But, both did stress that it's important to relax and it could not hurt to not get so anxious about it.
So, neither one of them is worried about me. They say I'm healthy, have good, regular cycles with a good rhythm (so, they know I'm releasing an egg regularly), and that this is a very normal length of time to conceive for someone in my age range.
I wanted to hug those doctors at the end but settled for a handshake and a squeeze around the back!
whatever the doctor says!!! So, they reckon to 
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