(Part 2) Top products from r/TTC30

‘It Starts With The Egg’ should be mandatory reading for all women TTC. Highly recommend! It discusses CoQ10 in depth. Per the book, I ordered this brand from Amazon which has show success in human clinical trials:

Bio-Quinone Pharma Nord Q10 Gold... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GY77TW?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Here’s a link to the book too: It Starts with the Egg: How the... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999676180?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Best of luck on your TTC journey! 🤗🥚

Love the info! Thank you. Mainly I meant the product listing.. Haha! Is it this one or this one?

Thanks again for sharing the study!

Welcome!

The first step is reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility. I'm 34 and I didn't know half this stuff!

I highly recommend buying a BBT thermometer (I use the Mabis one), some ovulation tests (Wondfos on Amazon are a favourite here), and using FertilityFriend to track your temperature and cervical fluid.

I really like The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant, as she looks at the actual scientific research behind most common TTC things and tells you whether they're worthwhile or not.

Hope your stay here is short!

P.S. /r/TryingForABaby is a bit busier than here and there are plenty of 30+ women there too :)

According to the book Making Babies, the recommended vitamins for men are around:

5000IU Vit A (beta carotene)
1.2-1.5mg Vit B1 (thiamine)
1.3mg Vit B2 (riboflavin)
5mg Vit B5 (pantothenic acid)
50mg Vit B6
400mg Folic Acid
100mcg Vit B12
500-1000mcg Vit C
800-1000IU Vit D
400IU Vit E (d-alpha-tocaphenol)
250-300mg Calcium
2mg Copper
2mg Iron
250-500mg Magnesium
1-2mg Manganese
50-100mcg Selenium
50mg Zinc

We were able to find most of this covered in the generic CVS Men's daily vitamin, but I'm sure there are better options!

Taking Charge of Your Fertility, which describes in detail how changes in your cycle impact your body, allowing you to figure out your most fertile days.

Expecting Better, a book by a kick-ass economist. She goes through all the pregnancy recommendations and digs up the initial studies to say what the evidence actually says.

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn - just what it says on the tin

"All Joy and No Fun" and "Why Have Kids?" are interesting reads if you want to examine parenthood in American culture, but are less relevant for the TTC process.

I use a Vick's Thermometer. It isn't a basal thermometer.

Likes:

• big light up display. I can see it without my glasses, when I am still bleary-eyed barely awake (also color coded for fever) and haven't turned on the light. When it registers your temp it beeps and lights up
  
• Reads in just a couple of seconds
  
• Displays last temp taken when you turn it on
  
• Reads to the 1/10th degree
  
• Has a case
  
  
  Dislikes:
  
  
• it beeps too much. It does 3-4 double beeps before lighting up the background up so you can see the temp in the dark. (you can see it before the background lights up if you have a light on)

You sound like you might be struggling with clinical depression. Everyone gets the blues occasionally but when the blues last for more than 2 weeks and interfere with your daily life, you've moved into depression world. In depression world you can't remember what made you happy or that you were actually happy at one point. I speak this because I've lived this and it's just awful. If therapy isn't helping, ask for different types of therapy. If medication isn't helping, try a different type of medication. If that stuff isn't helping the book The depression cure might help.

I agree with everyone that you have every right and reason to be upset and you should try not to judge yourself for that. None of us have the answers on how to get through this process unscathed. It is a difficult process. Big old hugs.