Food to make you ovulate earlier

[SarahMelissa]

Hi girls

Just thought i would share some information with you, a friend of mine told me that eating sweet potato everyday is supposed to be really good for fertility, it is apparently some kind of miracle food. Last month she ovulated on around CD21 and this month she ate a whole sweet potato (about 18cm x 5cm) everyday from CD2 - CD11 and ending up ovulating on CD13. She was really amazed with the results. So if you are someone who doesnt ovulate until later on in your cycle, it could be worth giving a try. The other 2 foods she had been having were avocado and alfalfa sprouts.

 

[WannaB]

Now Ive read the opposite. Native american indians used it as birth control and not to eat it till after you ovulate because it can cause your body to make more progesterone, causing some people to not ovulate. So much info and so confusing! I edited to add this link I found. This kinda of makes me wonder if we eat certain foods at the wrong time or our cycle, namley progesterone making ones, that we are inhibiting ourselves from getting pregnant. https://www.popline.org/docs/0898/063993.html

 

[SarahMelissa]

Really??

 

[WannaB]

Yeah its what modern day bc was based on. Makes me wonder if we eating ourselves infertile!

 

[SarahMelissa]

I had heard that you are not meant to eat pees because they can work as natural birth control, but my grandparents have eaten pees with every meal every day of their life and they have 4 kids, so who knows

 

[NGRidley]

In many countries....people interchange the worm YAMS with SWEET POTATO
Yams are actually found mainly in Asia, Africa, Oceania and can actually be difficult to find in Europe and North America.

Yams have more of a brown skin with a whitish inner, while sweet potatoes have a more brownish/red skin with a more orange inner.

It is actually Yams that are supposed to help in fertility.

 

[2016]

I have ready that linseed (flax seed) can have the same effect. I have been eating some every day for Omega 3 but now wonder if I too am 'eating myself infertile'! :doh: Perhaps I just won't eat, drink or breathe anything until after I am pregnant!

 

[SarahMelissa]

Perhaps I just won't eat, drink or breathe anything until after I am pregnant!

I think that might just be the way to go!!!

 

[Mrs.T]

Perhaps I just won't eat, drink or breathe anything until after I am pregnant!

I think that might just be the way to go!!!

Amen to that. I'll be a skinny pregnant lady!

 

[Megg33k]

I read that yams increase the chances of twins... and I read it in several different, unrelated locations. So, eat carefully!

 

[congo]

we'll all be skinny and pregnant! my dream!

 

[TrishyC]

Oh man, we don't get yams or sweet potatoes here.... and I really miss both!!!!

I don't care what you found out tho.... there is no way and no how that I would ever make a skinny pregnant woman.....

 

[Twinmad]

that'll be a thought.... i've been eating myself silly since starting to TTC officially so the thought of NOT eating is just not going to go down well as my tummy has now expanded from the constant eating

So what's it going to be ladies? Yams or Sweet Potatoes?

 

[beaney]

Sounds like it's yams for fertility and sweet potatoes for progesterone! So should we be eating tons of sweet potatoes in the 2ww?!!

 

[SarahMelissa]

i have never even heard of yams???? maybe called something else here in Australia??

EDIT: - ok i just googled it, and it is telling me yams is a sweet potato ok im offically confused now

 

[WannaB]

There is a difference in wild yam and yam as in sweet potato. Wild yam is Dioscorea villosa the other yam as in sweet potato is Ipomoea batatas, two totally different plants, but from the same family.

 

[SarahMelissa]

Geez how confusing i think i might just stick to the eating nothing and being a skinny pregnant woman

 

[umm]

This thread has really made me giggle this morning
sweet potatoes have more goodness in than normal potatoes and count as one of your five a day!! so i pop them into alot of things in my house

But I thought YAMs where a funny bananna! I have seen them in ASDA and thought they were hard

 

[Twinmad]

There is a difference in wild yam and yam as in sweet potato. Wild yam is Dioscorea villosa the other yam as in sweet potato is Ipomoea batatas, two totally different plants, but from the same family.

WannaB, you really haven't helped with these scientific names I'm more confused than those who don't even know what they are

Yams are dark brown on the outside and look like huge sweet potatoes but with a very rough feel to the touch but when you cut into them, they are very white on the inside and a bit wet and slippery to the touch.

Sweet Potatoes on the other hand are like small yams but big potatoes with a reddish colour on the outside and a smoother feel to the touch and when you cut into them, they are yellow-ish on the inside but feel like normal potatoes.

I hope that helps, and I agree with beany.... lots and lots of yams pre-O and lots and lots of sweet potatoes in 2ww.

SarahMelissa, I think you'll be most likely to get Yams from Asian grocers in Australia cos the big supermarkets may only stock sweet potatoes

 

[beaney]

I'll look out for yams next time i'm in asda!! And I nearly cooked sweet potatoes for dinner tonight, but we haven't got any.... must stock up as i'm heading towards the end of my 2ww!!!