FOr those who were TTC - who only conceived after giving up?

[Maxi]

Just curious - personally I think if we hadnt given up we would never have conceived and never be parents!

We gave up after I saw a note on my doctors screen saying "Deny Contraception - Infertile" and we had started looking at adoption procedures... almost 4 months later I found out I was already in 2nd trimestre!!
Meaning we literally conceived straight after giving up!

Also the day we gave up, after seeing doctors note, was the day we had gone in because we suspected a mc - turns out it was, but the one little angel must have made it possible for this LO to come.

SO wondering how many others also reaped the benefits of "giving up"

 

[SabrinaKat]

We were about to start first cycle of IVF (after an mc two years before and two chemicals) and I was waiting for AF (first time I wanted the damned thing!) and was naturally pregnant!

I had also been told due to PCOS and my age (43), it would be impossible to get pregnant and have a sticky....well, on the countdown to meeting baby in mid- to late- February. To be honest, tho, having to do all the pre-IVF blood work probably meant I got pregnant naturally as we discovered underactive thyroid, I lost weight, did acupuncture, etc. and was probably in the best health for years. Now, the full effects of pregnancy have finally hit, e.g. swelling, on the cusp of GD and PE (but I don't have, just being monitored more carefully), and with about 4-5 weeks left, am able to handle....

but, yes! We proved them wrong!

best wishes

 

[Maxi]

We were about to start first cycle of IVF (after an mc two years before and two chemicals) and I was waiting for AF (first time I wanted the damned thing!) and was naturally pregnant!

I had also been told due to PCOS and my age (43), it would be impossible to get pregnant and have a sticky....well, on the countdown to meeting baby in mid- to late- February. To be honest, tho, having to do all the pre-IVF blood work probably meant I got pregnant naturally as we discovered underactive thyroid, I lost weight, did acupuncture, etc. and was probably in the best health for years. Now, the full effects of pregnancy have finally hit, e.g. swelling, on the cusp of GD and PE (but I don't have, just being monitored more carefully), and with about 4-5 weeks left, am able to handle....

but, yes! We proved them wrong!

best wishes

Yes definitely!!

Scary how much PCOS can affect fertility though and most ladies dont even know about it until they find out they have it!

I know I didnt know about it until I found out I had it

 

[pooch]

We didnt give up, per se, but we conceived the first month i stopped stressing about it because i was really busy that month plus i started using a cbfm. Before that i was stressing about when i was o'ing and if dh would agree to sex that day

 

[SabrinaKat]

also, my ob/gyn said that if you were overweight with PCOS, just losing 10% of the weight was the equivalent to trying with clomid -- I went from BMI40 to BMI29/30 (so lost about 15-20%)....!

also, my GP gave me metformin, which I continued until wk 20 of the pregnancy as it had been shown to decrease mc (from 58 to 10%), altho other studies naturally disagreed!

and pooch -- pretty much same here, I wasn't stressed in June as we were about to start IVF!

best wishes

 

[Kaede351]

We had been trying for 2 1/2 years with a mc in the first few months and we had just started the process of testing fertility. DH had put in a semen sample at the hospital and when the results came back they were going to arrange for me to have tests. So we hadn't exactly given up, but I had given that month up as useless (if you know what I mean?). The same month we put DH's sample in, I had a sickness bug around my fertile period and we only dtd once about 4 days before my chart showed ovulation. I never in a million years thought that we would conceive that month! But I guess because I wasn't stressing about it it was less pressure on myself. I have never been so greatful to be sick iny life haha. And we never did get DH's sperm results back!

But congrats to all you ladies! You got your miracle babies

XxX

 

[xPH03N1Xx]

We hadn't "given up" but had gotten over trying...
We had stopped monitoring everything, and I didn't even know I was ovulating as we would have conceived a week later than my normal ovulation going off every other month. Did that make sense?

We definitely wouldn't have conceived that month if we were still "trying to".

 

[Whitbit22]

On our 4th year we were trying steroids while waiting to do IUI. Did it one time the cycle we got pregnant. We pretty much did give up and accepted that we'd need extra help. Amazing how things turn out isn't it?

 

[sequeena]

We gave up after 2 years and 3 mcs. The month we gave up is the month we conceived our son

 

[Sew_Sweet]

My husband and I were not trying and not preventing for about 6 or so years. So it's safe to say we were very surprised by this little guy! I thought our time had run out or something wasn't working anymore. I mean 6 years is a long time... especially when you consider our first child was conceived in the first month we started having sex - not trying even but just having sex.

 

[xdxxtx]

OH and I TTC for 15 months. Then, we took a month off to focus on weight loss and ourselves... That's when we got pregnant. lol

 

[jennifer28]

My BF and I had been trying since 2009, and I couldnt figure out why I was getting pregnant because I already have 3 children. I went to my GYN and did blood work-everything normal, had a laproscopy done-normal, was put on clomid @ 50mg for two cycles-didnt work......with my last f/u my GYN said she would give me one more round of clomid @ 100mg, so I said okay but after this I really just want to give up. I dont have the money for fertility treatment. I left my faith in Gods hands. Durning my last cycle of clomid I was like I am not even worried about getting pregnant, but I was going to finish the cycle since I had already started it. Well when my period was due I just blew of the fact that I was late and for me that was normal, but my boyfriend just keep saying I think you might be pregnant and I said well i will wait until the first of July to take the test cause I am always late and I wasnt really pressed to see a negative pregnancy test.....July 1st rolls around and I still dont have my period so I go and take the test and it comes back positive....YAY!!!! I was so happy I cried. I had been waiting for my little angel and I finally was blessed with her. Now I cant wait to meet my precious little girl.

 

[Mrs.Ping]

we had been NTNP for 4 yrs and were TTC for 2 yrs when we finally concieved our little miracle. after the first year we had not concieved we got DH sperm checked and it came back devistating! we were give less then a 1% chance of ever having a child naturally! we tried so may vitamin to increase his sperm and finally after another year I had decided that I would focus on what I had and not what I couldn't have. we had got married May and I ovulated on june 21 and got my bfp on july 4th! That month i prayed that we would be blessed with just one child and we were! only 5 wks to go and we are so excited. If we had not let go of control and left it in Gods hands I think we would still be TTC!

 

[pandinha]

We had pretty much given up trying. I took a test in June only to find out it was negative and assumed that it would never happen due to PCOS. Then I found out November 18th that I was pregnant and on December 7th that I was 24 weeks 4 days along already. Still hard to imagine that I could go that long without realizing it or having any definite symptoms to make me question it. But happy to know that so far everything is looking good and I'll have the baby I've always wanted in a little over 2 months.

 

[Borboleta]

We ttc for 1 year and took Clomid for 6 months. The month I got my bfp I had the worst sunburn ever!!! I mean water bubbles all over my body! And it hurted so bad! I was mis arable for at least one week. So we didn't ttc that much that month but maybe the extra vitamin d from the sun and the help of a sperm friendly lubricant did the job for us ! Got our bfp on father's day last year.

 

[DollPosse]

My husband I had finally given up after years of losses and and no information as to why we had kept having them. We had a beautiful daughter and became pregnant time and time again only to lose the baby. After my daughter's 5th Birthday in 2011 we found out that the baby just stopped growing and that it did not have a heart beat so at 12 weeks I had to have a D+C. I gave up completely. I would go down to my basement and stare at my daughter's crib and cry.

Finally by summer of that year I started letting go and I gave away a bunch of baby stuff. I posted all my baby stuff online to sell but it wouldn't sell regardless of its excellent condition and great price. I finally decided then that the world was mocking me.

Then July came and almost went and my noticed my cycle was off. I had to pick a couple of things up at a store and as I was grabbing a couple of items I saw that pregnancy tests were on sale. I grabbed a box and didn't really think I was pregnant but I thought I would take a test just to rule that out. I got home and I maybe had saved my urine for 30 minutes and I decided to take a test. Immediately the lines turned not pink but red. I started screaming and my husband came running into the washroom. I shoved the test in his face and he looked as if he might was going to faint. I had blood work done and it was great. A couple of weeks later I saw the heartbeat. I haven't been so grateful since.