overcomer79
LT-TTC success 3.5yrs
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Hello ladies,
I am here to share my story and hope it provides some inspiration. Back in may 2005, I learned that I had a tilted uterus to which my gyno said it has been said that it is "nature's birth control" and I asked her "you mean I won't be able to have kids?" and she said that I would still be able to.
I got married in July and we started trying in september of 2005. Every month, I had hoped that it would be the month. I didn't stress OH out about it but knew he wanted a baby as we had agreed to try. I kept charting and tempting to no avail. I knew I was ovulating because I felt it! I had a friend that would spend upwards of 500 dollars a month on fertility drugs and I decided that I didn't want to do that. A year down the road we still had nothing. Two years, nothing. Three years, you guessed it, nothing.
I finally had a talk with myself about resolving the issue of me never being a mother. In fact, I stopped charting and tempting and turned my focus on to some family issues arising at the time
(TMI alert). I have chronic yeast infections but have been able to resolve them on my own. I started getting one the beginning of december and started taking measures of treating them. Fortunately, I didn't do a lot of medicines but tried the nature yogurt and probiotics. I finally went to the doctor dec 22nd and realized I was five days late. I became heartbroken as they knew I was trying and she didn't say anything so I assumed that they did a PT and it came back negative.
We then started making a "list of action" to figure out what was causing my infertility. (Keep in mind we had been trying for OVER three years!) It turned out that the yeast infection was BV and I was given antibiotics to treat and sent home with a plan of action. We were due to do some testing Jan 7th.
The next morning, I decided to take my temp. It was a little high for the beginning of a menstrual cycle but I still didn't think I was because I had thought they did a test. Wednesday (Christmas eve), I called them and asked and they informed me that they didn't do a preg test. I still was in denial as my temp was still hoovering borderline and I kept getting AF type cramps. My OH and I are Catholic and sang at midnight Mass that night. I suddenly got so dizzy that I couldn't stand for the remainder of the Mass. Keep in mind that I was approaching 8 days late, BUT that means nothing because I think back in March of 07, I had a chemical as I was ten days late but didn't test until I was a few days late and at that point it showed negative.
I told my OH on the way home from Mass those words that I thought I would never get to say: "I think I'm pregnant." Neither one of us slept much that night and on Christmas Day managed to find a pharmacy open, got a test and
!!!
I thought it was amazingly funny how I got to call my dr. four days after making our plan of action and telling them that I needed to confirm a positive HPT!!!
I know I didn't use any fertility treatments but I do consider us a LT-TTC success story as it took over three years. We are expecting a baby boy at the end of next month!!!!
Here's hoping you all get your much longed fors!!
I am here to share my story and hope it provides some inspiration. Back in may 2005, I learned that I had a tilted uterus to which my gyno said it has been said that it is "nature's birth control" and I asked her "you mean I won't be able to have kids?" and she said that I would still be able to.
I got married in July and we started trying in september of 2005. Every month, I had hoped that it would be the month. I didn't stress OH out about it but knew he wanted a baby as we had agreed to try. I kept charting and tempting to no avail. I knew I was ovulating because I felt it! I had a friend that would spend upwards of 500 dollars a month on fertility drugs and I decided that I didn't want to do that. A year down the road we still had nothing. Two years, nothing. Three years, you guessed it, nothing.
I finally had a talk with myself about resolving the issue of me never being a mother. In fact, I stopped charting and tempting and turned my focus on to some family issues arising at the time
(TMI alert). I have chronic yeast infections but have been able to resolve them on my own. I started getting one the beginning of december and started taking measures of treating them. Fortunately, I didn't do a lot of medicines but tried the nature yogurt and probiotics. I finally went to the doctor dec 22nd and realized I was five days late. I became heartbroken as they knew I was trying and she didn't say anything so I assumed that they did a PT and it came back negative.
We then started making a "list of action" to figure out what was causing my infertility. (Keep in mind we had been trying for OVER three years!) It turned out that the yeast infection was BV and I was given antibiotics to treat and sent home with a plan of action. We were due to do some testing Jan 7th.
The next morning, I decided to take my temp. It was a little high for the beginning of a menstrual cycle but I still didn't think I was because I had thought they did a test. Wednesday (Christmas eve), I called them and asked and they informed me that they didn't do a preg test. I still was in denial as my temp was still hoovering borderline and I kept getting AF type cramps. My OH and I are Catholic and sang at midnight Mass that night. I suddenly got so dizzy that I couldn't stand for the remainder of the Mass. Keep in mind that I was approaching 8 days late, BUT that means nothing because I think back in March of 07, I had a chemical as I was ten days late but didn't test until I was a few days late and at that point it showed negative.
I told my OH on the way home from Mass those words that I thought I would never get to say: "I think I'm pregnant." Neither one of us slept much that night and on Christmas Day managed to find a pharmacy open, got a test and
!!!I thought it was amazingly funny how I got to call my dr. four days after making our plan of action and telling them that I needed to confirm a positive HPT!!!
I know I didn't use any fertility treatments but I do consider us a LT-TTC success story as it took over three years. We are expecting a baby boy at the end of next month!!!!
Here's hoping you all get your much longed for
s!!
