I'm 35, married for 4 years and DH thought we never wanted kids. Very recently we started thinking 'maybe' we did. I'd been on the pill almost 15 years, and they say if you are on it that long it can take 6 months or longer before you can get pregnant. I had just quit taking it in June, thinking we could decide after the 1st of the year what we wanted to do. I got pregnant in August, so they were wrong about it taking awhile to start functioning in my case! LOL.
I had a natural m/c on Sept 15, no D&C needed because my HCG was at a 3 soon after. I did ovulate again on 10/2 but I was using the OPK to not try yet. I wasn't ready emotionally. We weren't even trying to begin with so it was quite a shock, then losing the baby only 48 hours after getting used to the idea was unbelievable.
This month, I am ready. I'm having my first AF now since the m/c. While the cramps have been unbearable and very unusual for me, the flow has been barely above spotting and light flow only for about 36 hours. I'm so glad I waited a month because there is NO way I would have had enough lining if this is how light my period is. My doctor took a blood test just to make sure my HCG was still low so there was no leftover tissue and that I wasn't pregnant again. I was actually relieved not to be yet. I expect to be OV around 10/29 and will start my OPK testing next Wednesday.
I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but I'm pretty excited. My mom was a fertile myrtle, having 4 kids right in a row and a 5th (me) after a procedure that should have kept her from getting knocked up. I look exactly like her from my toes to my forehead, so I'm hoping that I am just as fertile. Getting pregnant so fast after taking BC without trying makes me hopeful that I'm going to be successful soon.
Also, from my HCG levels on my first blood positive, my doctor did think I was correct about my ovulation date on 8/17 (it was the first month I tried to figure out and didn't know if I was right) and that I conceived somewhere between 8/17-8/19ish, or at least that week. That is more good news because my husband left to travel the middle of that week, so it means his swimmers were amazing and hung around for like 5 days! My doc and I discussed this at great length because we had also tried NOT to that month, I wanted to be careful since I was so soon off the pill. I thought I had calculated the date wrong and that I OV later than I thought I had and got prego when he was back a week later, but my HCG was too high to only be 3 weeks along. The husband, needless to say is VERY proud of is Irish scraggly swimmers!
This has been an emotional few months for me. I think I was trying not to get prego because I was scared I was too old to, so if I tried and didn't have any luck I'd be crushed. It may sound weird, but this has given me hope. I know that I am ovulating and can get pregnant, and I know that my DH has great swimmers! And I know beyond a doubt now we want to be parents. I didn't know I could be so happy as day 2 when I knew I was pregnant. (day 1 I was still freaking out).
Now, I am taking prenatals, and have been for a month. I quit drinking. I didn't drink much before, but unfortunately I did celebrate my 35th bday in August having no idea I was getting pregnant. And, I hadn't increased my thyroid meds, so it was very low by the time I got it checked. They had to almost double my meds. Now I am taking them about 1 1/2 times over what I normally do, so that if I am preggers soon it won't drain me. I have read a lot that the thyroid is important when developing the placenta and blood supply to the baby, and this is when I was extremely low.
Praying that I can be pregnant before the end of the year and praying that because I am paying attention to what I'm doing it sticks. Sticky baby dust to all!