I am starting this thread for support!
I am 28, my husband is 29. We have been married for 3 years. We have been TTC #1 for 1 year (started January 2013). My mom and sisters and family have never had any history of problems with TTC and neither has my husbands. As a teenager I didn't have regular periods but they also weren't completely abnormal. I cannot remember exactly how abnormal because at the time as a teen I was just happy I wasn't getting it every 4 weeks (lol). Thinking back I want to say it was probably every 6weeks ish. I went on the pill when I was 20 years old since my periods weren't regular and I decided with getting a real job after college I needed to be able to know when my periods were and not be stuck somewhere being surprised and "bleeding through". My OB at the time put me on Lo Estrin 24fe. I took this up until the time we started trying last year. I finished my last pack in December 2012 and then we started trying right away in January 2013. At the time my OB told me just to come off and start BD since you are "most fertile" when you come off. Unfortunately I don't think I understood completely how to "try". I obviously knew we had to BD but didn't know how often, when, etc. I also didn't get my period right away when coming off the pill (which I knew could be normal). For the first few months we didn't do anything but track my periods (which were far and few but still happening) and BD. After a few months of no BFP, we decided to start OPK's I had found out about online. I started First Response OPK's. We BD right when it told us to but again I don't think we did it "often enough" around the right time. After a few more months of OPK's we were getting very stressed since EVERYONE around us started to get pregnant including one of my best friends (which REALLY killed us, VERY hard for us to handle). Therefore we decided just to get rid of doing the OPK's and just BD more often (this was around June). Well now that we decided to relax a little more about it we were all excited to try and OF COURSE I had a VERY long abnormal cycle of 81 days! I didn't end up getting my period until August 2014 from May 2014. This had never happened before. My cycles all prior to this were in the 40-50 day range. After August we started trying to BD again without OPK's and my periods started to come more frequently as well which was great! This made me envy those that had regular 28 day cycles since they have SO many more opportunities!! Since August, my cycles have been 30-40 days in length. Well here we are January 2014 and despite BD and "trying to be laid back" more about this whole thing, still no BFP
I really thought I could have been pregnant with this last cycle but of course the witch showed up this past Wednesday! My OB referred us to an Infertility physician to just have a consult and my husband is VERY happy about this since he feels like we are FINALLY "doing something" about this. I am upset, I cannot believe I have to go to the infertility dr and I REALLY want to do this naturally! My OB told me that just because I go does not mean that they will intervene, they can just follow me naturally for now and see how they might be able to help.
I have been really kicking it up a notch the past week reading threads and seeing what others are doing and I've decided to do everything for this month since we have to wait for out appt with the infertility dr till January 27th anyway. I went today with my husband and bought a basal thermometer, OPK's and we also decided to do the SMEP plan which I just learned about.
My GOAL is to hopefully just go all in and PRAY to get pregnant this time before I have to be let down by the infertility dr! I know that I won't know until after our appt if I get a BFP or not but I am excited to at least have the possibility by time we see her.
Thank you SO much for reading this, I think I just needed to get it all out.
Any support is welcome and please feel free to share your journey. I don't know when to predict my next period or when I will O but I will continue to share my journey on here each day. Right now I am on CD4 and I am getting to the end of my period ... can't wait for it to be over to start trying everything!!!
** Trying to stay positive **
Let me know when you will be testing and I will start a list!
How exciting, we could all be Valentine's month BFP's!!
~Testing Dates ~
Springermommy - 2/24
Maltesemom - 2/26
disney - 2/7
Sunshine 3/27
I am 28, my husband is 29. We have been married for 3 years. We have been TTC #1 for 1 year (started January 2013). My mom and sisters and family have never had any history of problems with TTC and neither has my husbands. As a teenager I didn't have regular periods but they also weren't completely abnormal. I cannot remember exactly how abnormal because at the time as a teen I was just happy I wasn't getting it every 4 weeks (lol). Thinking back I want to say it was probably every 6weeks ish. I went on the pill when I was 20 years old since my periods weren't regular and I decided with getting a real job after college I needed to be able to know when my periods were and not be stuck somewhere being surprised and "bleeding through". My OB at the time put me on Lo Estrin 24fe. I took this up until the time we started trying last year. I finished my last pack in December 2012 and then we started trying right away in January 2013. At the time my OB told me just to come off and start BD since you are "most fertile" when you come off. Unfortunately I don't think I understood completely how to "try". I obviously knew we had to BD but didn't know how often, when, etc. I also didn't get my period right away when coming off the pill (which I knew could be normal). For the first few months we didn't do anything but track my periods (which were far and few but still happening) and BD. After a few months of no BFP, we decided to start OPK's I had found out about online. I started First Response OPK's. We BD right when it told us to but again I don't think we did it "often enough" around the right time. After a few more months of OPK's we were getting very stressed since EVERYONE around us started to get pregnant including one of my best friends (which REALLY killed us, VERY hard for us to handle). Therefore we decided just to get rid of doing the OPK's and just BD more often (this was around June). Well now that we decided to relax a little more about it we were all excited to try and OF COURSE I had a VERY long abnormal cycle of 81 days! I didn't end up getting my period until August 2014 from May 2014. This had never happened before. My cycles all prior to this were in the 40-50 day range. After August we started trying to BD again without OPK's and my periods started to come more frequently as well which was great! This made me envy those that had regular 28 day cycles since they have SO many more opportunities!! Since August, my cycles have been 30-40 days in length. Well here we are January 2014 and despite BD and "trying to be laid back" more about this whole thing, still no BFP
I really thought I could have been pregnant with this last cycle but of course the witch showed up this past Wednesday! My OB referred us to an Infertility physician to just have a consult and my husband is VERY happy about this since he feels like we are FINALLY "doing something" about this. I am upset, I cannot believe I have to go to the infertility dr and I REALLY want to do this naturally! My OB told me that just because I go does not mean that they will intervene, they can just follow me naturally for now and see how they might be able to help.
I have been really kicking it up a notch the past week reading threads and seeing what others are doing and I've decided to do everything for this month since we have to wait for out appt with the infertility dr till January 27th anyway. I went today with my husband and bought a basal thermometer, OPK's and we also decided to do the SMEP plan which I just learned about.
My GOAL is to hopefully just go all in and PRAY to get pregnant this time before I have to be let down by the infertility dr! I know that I won't know until after our appt if I get a BFP or not but I am excited to at least have the possibility by time we see her.
Thank you SO much for reading this, I think I just needed to get it all out.
Any support is welcome and please feel free to share your journey. I don't know when to predict my next period or when I will O but I will continue to share my journey on here each day. Right now I am on CD4 and I am getting to the end of my period ... can't wait for it to be over to start trying everything!!!
** Trying to stay positive **
Let me know when you will be testing and I will start a list!
How exciting, we could all be Valentine's month BFP's!!
~Testing Dates ~
Springermommy - 2/24
Maltesemom - 2/26
disney - 2/7
Sunshine 3/27
we all have to hang there!
