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Sperm Meets Egg Plan. (SMEP)
Sounds intriguing enough doesn’t it. The SMEP can give you a better opportunity of ensuring that the sperm gets to your egg. Obviously if you have blocked tubes or other physical conditions preventing conception including NOT ovulating, this plan will not work for you.
Warning: This plan requires some serious BDing, so make sure you are up for it.
Here are the basics to the SMEP:
1. Get yourself 10 OPK tests PRIOR to CD10
2. Starting on CD10, do one OPK test EVERY DAY
3. BD EVERY OTHER DAY starting on CD10 (Tip: try elevating your hips for 10-30 minutes after each BD session)
4. When you get your positive OPK, BD that very day and the next 2 days in a row (making that a total of 3 days in a row, see I told you its hard work)
5. Skip one night and BD once more the next day just to seal the deal (...by now you are really fit)
6. Take a home pregnancy test 14-15 days after the day you ovulated provided you haven’t started your period obviously (but if you want you can start taking your HPTs at 10-12dpo if you like testing early)
A few facts to take note of:
Remember you might need to do a few months of the SMEP to get your BFP. It doesn’t always work first time round.
As you are trying out the plan, be sure to "refresh" the sperm in your partner at least once or twice during the 2ww and before CD10. Ensuring that no more than 10 days elapse without new sperm production. If you don't get your BFP the first month, it is not because your sperm did not get to your egg. 75% of eggs are lost within the first 14 days due to normal genetic damage or failure to fertilize. So just keep trying!
Many websites and books will tell you that sperm can live up to 5 days in the uterus and the egg can survive for 24 hours. For most people, sperm can really only survive a few hours if you do not have good quality cervical mucus to sustain the journey and the wait.
BD too often can actually cause more harm than good. Don’t BD every day from CD8/10 until you get your +OPK! Not only will you be exhausted, but you will also use up your cervical mucus reserves before you ovulate. Therefore BD every other day until +OPK and then every day at that point will hopefully be enough to seal the deal.
Forget about stress affecting TTC. Regular every day worries about falling pregnant, and wondering if you will ever have children, are perfectly normal and do NOT affect your fertility in any way. Ignore people who tell you just to relax and stop thinking about it. They don’t know the emotions you go through every month. The only thing that could actually affect you is serious stress, like moving to a new house, losing your job, family deaths, and other things that make you physically ill or depressed. This can delay your ovulation by a few days, or make you not ovulate in a cycle, since you will produce an excess amount of the stress byproduct called prolactin. It will not affect you for a long period of time, and by the next cycle you should be normal again.
Good luck and plenty of BABYDUST!
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