In early 2011, my then boyfriend (now DH) and I decided I should come off of the pill "so it would be out of my system" by the time we got married in July and we would start trying right away. Well, after just 3 months off the pill, I conceived #1 (we found out I was pregnant 10 days before our wedding!!!) On Feb 29, 2012 (yes, leap day) I gave birth to a very healthy, bouncing, bubbly, 9lb 9oz baby boy.
As DH and his sister are only 14 months apart (and have always been very close to each other), we decided we wanted the same for our own children. Despite breast feeding, my period became regular when DS was just 3 months old (late May, early June 2012)... Thus, the TTC journey started. And it continued and continued and continued (to my disbelief and dismay).
We were finally able to get some help from an RE starting in March of 2013. His first words (after hearing my story of months of charting, temping, timing intercourse, cycles like clockwork, an AMAZING sperm analysis for DH) were "Your case confuses even me. There is no reason why you shouldn't be pregnant!" Not exactly what you want to hear the doc say, ya know?!?!
He scheduled an HSG and that showed both of my tubes blocked. I was devastated, depressed, and beating myself up over that news. I jumped at the first chance to have a laparoscopy to hopefully fix the issue... When he opened me up (this was early May), he found no blockages - in fact, he said everything "in there" looked perfect! Maybe the dye from the HSG cleared things up??? Maybe the HSG was wrong??? There is no way to know which of those occurred, and that's frustrating!
In June, I began my first cycle with Letrozole (femara), but had no such luck that month. We're trying the letrozole again this month and I took an HCG trigger shot (didn't do that in June). I'm currently 6 days past the trigger shot, 4 dpo and going crazy inside.
I desperately want THIS to be THE month! DH deploys in 7 weeks... If this isn't THE cycle, we have 2 more chances to do this "naturally" before he leaves If it doesn't happen before then, we're on to IUI's... And insurance doesn't cover those (nor IVF). Fingers crossed good ol' fashioned sex (with a little help from medicine) works!
Would love to hear your stories/experiences (good and bad) with letrozole/femara, trigger shots, IUI's...
As DH and his sister are only 14 months apart (and have always been very close to each other), we decided we wanted the same for our own children. Despite breast feeding, my period became regular when DS was just 3 months old (late May, early June 2012)... Thus, the TTC journey started. And it continued and continued and continued (to my disbelief and dismay).
We were finally able to get some help from an RE starting in March of 2013. His first words (after hearing my story of months of charting, temping, timing intercourse, cycles like clockwork, an AMAZING sperm analysis for DH) were "Your case confuses even me. There is no reason why you shouldn't be pregnant!" Not exactly what you want to hear the doc say, ya know?!?!
He scheduled an HSG and that showed both of my tubes blocked. I was devastated, depressed, and beating myself up over that news. I jumped at the first chance to have a laparoscopy to hopefully fix the issue... When he opened me up (this was early May), he found no blockages - in fact, he said everything "in there" looked perfect! Maybe the dye from the HSG cleared things up??? Maybe the HSG was wrong??? There is no way to know which of those occurred, and that's frustrating!
In June, I began my first cycle with Letrozole (femara), but had no such luck that month. We're trying the letrozole again this month and I took an HCG trigger shot (didn't do that in June). I'm currently 6 days past the trigger shot, 4 dpo and going crazy inside.
I desperately want THIS to be THE month! DH deploys in 7 weeks... If this isn't THE cycle, we have 2 more chances to do this "naturally" before he leaves If it doesn't happen before then, we're on to IUI's... And insurance doesn't cover those (nor IVF). Fingers crossed good ol' fashioned sex (with a little help from medicine) works!
Would love to hear your stories/experiences (good and bad) with letrozole/femara, trigger shots, IUI's...
