First and foremost, I share with you that my vitamin of choice has been the Target brand pretnatal. I've heard a lot about people feeling sick from their prenatals, but I've been on this one for a year now (RE suggested that I start taking them back then just in the event we'd decide to TTC) and I haven't had any issues. They're pretty big pills, which I don't love. Also, I think they smell sorta funny. Someone on the Getting Pregnant message board suggested that I try the Trader Joe's prenatal vitamins and since I'm almost out I think I might switch it up.
I also mentioned that I started taking vitex (chasteberry) last week. I purchased the Solar Ray brand, but my local health food store also carried Nature's Way and one other fertility-boosting blend. I wanted to buy Nature's Way brand (but they were all out) because it seems that their labeling system was more clear and I didn't want to get the blend just yet. So I settled for Solar Ray and I'm taking 1 a day (although the bottle says you can take more) but from what I've read online people don't take huge doses of it.
Lastly, is the Spring Valley soy isoflavones from Wal-Mart. I saw there were recommended very highly on soulcysters.net and other fertility message boards, so I decided to give it a try. As I mentioned before, you're supposed to take them for 4 days early in your cycle to induce ovulation, but I also read about people taking them later in their cycle and having the same results, so I just went for it... because at CD 50+, WTF? Who cares? How much worse can it get? ;-) So I'm on day 4 and wondering if it'll work. I'll be really pumped if it does. Anyway, I take 80mg of these which is two pills--one in the a.m. and one at night. I've read that if the 80mg doesn't work for you, that you can bump it up to 3/day, but I'm willing to give 2 a shot.
So that's my first attempt at a fertility boosting vitamin cocktail.
