BD every few hours

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Registered: 08-26-2003
BD every few hours
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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 4:33pm
Hey, I've had an idea. A lot of the things that can go wrong - lack of EWCM, hostile vaginal environment, etc - basically mean the sperm don't survive long in there.

SOOO I think the critical thing is - How close to O can you BD? I know sperm "can live for 5 days" but it's only "CAN!" - if there's little EWCM or something else that is going to kill them off within hours, and if the egg may only live a few hours ("CAN" live "UP TO" 12 hours).

If you can pinpoint O to within two days, how about making love every few hours on those two days? Or at least twice a day, say every 12 hours.

WHAT do YOU think???

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Fri, 09-26-2003 - 4:44pm
The reason why they say that won't work is because you need to give your husband's sperm time to regenerate. But yeah, it DOES seem logical to just BD all the time, but I think unless your guy's stuff is super healthy, it won't work (that's what I've read tho)

Camille
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Registered: 06-16-2003
Fri, 09-26-2003 - 5:09pm
Yeah, I think that would be overkill. The weak die upon contact, but the strong push along for at least a day or so. Even if your DH has a normal sperm count and you BD say, twice a day, that's really decreasing the number of strong swimmers each time.

Angie

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Registered: 09-12-2003
Fri, 09-26-2003 - 5:25pm
I have heard doctors agree with both. Some say you should BD every other day and others say that doing it everyday or more than once a day around "O" time is fine. I have never done any research but I guess a couple could at least try it for a month or two and see. You never know!

Sheree--BTW...this month DH and I are doing it everyday around "O" time. We usually do it every other night all month long (well except for AF's visit) so this month we are spending next weekend in a motel room "cooking"! Once, twice,.....you get the picture. Guess we'll see. Even if we don't get pg, we'll still be having lots of fun! Hehehehe!

Sheree    

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Registered: 08-26-2003
Sat, 09-27-2003 - 2:00am
Thanks for the feedback girls!

I guess it's trying to reach a compromise between BDing enough so you're close to O and not sapping your man too much!

I think I'll try for twice a day this month as an experiment, but also abstain until as close to O as I dare so at least the first time he should have a high sperm count.

Assuming I can seduce DH twice in one day of course!!!!