{"id":943,"date":"2026-06-26T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/?p=943"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:52:12","slug":"how-i-got-pregnant-the-second-time-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/how-i-got-pregnant-the-second-time-around\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Got Pregnant the Second Time Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brandi Jeter<\/em><\/p>\n

Brandi works in partnership with First Response to share her pregnancy stories. This story was originally featured on her blog,\u00a0Mama Knows it All<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was a last-minute decision to cancel my appointment with the IVF doctor. Terrence and I had been trying to get pregnant for months, and I was starting to feel discouraged. I wanted to have another baby so badly, but it just wasn\u2019t happening. The first time I got pregnant, I didn\u2019t even try, so I never expected it to be difficult to have a baby the second time around. As each month passed, I started to think that maybe it wasn\u2019t in the cards for us.<\/p>\n

I made the IVF appointment one day when I was feeling particularly frustrated by my fertility woes. It was expensive, but I thought it\u2019d be worth it if I could get pregnant. Terrence was supportive and willing to do whatever I wanted, even though he was still hopeful that we\u2019d get pregnant naturally.<\/p>\n

When I called to cancel the appointment, I had Terrence\u2019s faith in mind. I figured we could give getting pregnant one last, super intentional shot. We would go all in, and if I didn\u2019t end up pregnant, then we would accept our fate and move forward being the best parents we could to the little girl we already had.<\/p>\n

I was thrilled to discover I was pregnant a month later. Being intentional worked! I had been doing a lot of things to improve my chances of conceiving, but never all at once. Here\u2019s what I did to (finally) get pregnant the second time around. I put all of these things together and 9 months later, I was giving birth to my little baby boy.<\/p>\n

Changed my diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before I got pregnant, my diet was terrible. I ate a lot of carbs and sugar, and was desperately in need of more leafy greens. I read a few books that suggested a healthy diet could aid fertility, so I eliminated a lot of the bad stuff I was eating and replaced it with fresh fruits and vegetables. I also increased my water intake and stopped drinking coffee.<\/p>\n

Tracked my cycle<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you may have read in my other blog post, I entered my dates and used the First Response Pregnancy Tracker & Cycle Tracker app to track my cycle to make sure I knew an approximate time of when I was ovulating and most fertile. I became an expert at knowing where I was in my cycle, and which days were likely to be best for conceiving.<\/p>\n

Thought positively<\/strong><\/p>\n

As difficult as it was to believe I could get pregnant, I knew I had to think positively. My energy for the month was one of hopefulness and expectancy. I believed that the outcome would be positive, and I\u2019m grateful that it was.<\/p>\n

Used Pre-Seed Fertility Friendly Personal Lubricant<\/strong><\/p>\n

My best friend told me about\u00a0Pre-Seed Fertility Friendly Personal Lubricant<\/a>\u00a0from the Makers of First Response<\/strong>\u00a0and said that it was suggested in all of the fertility forums that she visited. Pre-Seed is a personal lubricant that mimics cervical fluid to support sperm on their journey!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brandi Jeter Brandi works in partnership with First Response to share her pregnancy stories. This story was originally featured on her blog,\u00a0Mama Knows it All. It was a last-minute decision to cancel my appointment with the IVF doctor. Terrence and I had been trying to get pregnant for months, and I was starting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trying-to-conceive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstresponse.robinsweb.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}