I always told myself that if I ever succeed in getting pregnant, I will share or help answer any questions anyone has because I’ve spent 10 months straight obsessively trying to conceive and losing sleep over searched and googled questions and symptoms. So I’d just like to share my personal symptoms in case it helps anyone.

I am 5’4 and 280lbs. Highest weight was 295. I just found out on Feb 19th that I’m finally pregnant! 10 long months. I was literally googling “Why can’t I get pregnant” for the millionth time before I got up to take my test. It was 2 days before my period was to start and the test showed the faintest positive line. I took a FRER an hour later which showed darker lines that really confirmed it for me. I had been having cramps the previous days and that morning so I thought for sure AF was on the way.

What did I do different this time around? Well, the only thing different was drinking Pink Stork Fertility Tea. I started the second day of my period and stopped a few days after my predicted ovulation. I did miss about 3 days I think.

Another odd thing that may or may not have helped when looking back, was every night after we had sex, we’d order from our new favorite local restaurant and always both get garlic fries with our meal. We were splurging that week and it was fun to look forward to a routine of sex and yummy food to follow 😋 We always joked too that there’s no way in hell we would have sex AFTER eating the garlic because it was just too much garlic!

Anyways, I was not dieting, exercising, or anything but living my normal couch potato life. I still had my normal high anxiety but when it came to the TTC process, I had already accepted that I just might not be able to conceive naturally. I took pregnancy tests starting 6DPO and it was always routine to see negatives.

On February 8th I wrote in my notes of something I had not experienced before. While going to the bathroom, I could feel pressure on my left side when pushing. A couple hours later I felt it on my right side while going to the bathroom and then an hour later while laying on my couch I could feel both sides. Not pain but just.. a feeling? Tugging? I’m not sure how to describe it and I’m not sure if even means anything. Make of it what you will but it was totally new to me.

On February 16, after days of feeling like my fiancé was being mean to me, I had a ridiculous crying spell. My head was so cloudy, I was scared I could be slipping into depression that I had battled years before. I was RIDICULOUSLY over emotional 😂 I woke up from a nap a couple hours later and was happy and fine. I wasn’t even sure what I was crying about earlier 😅

Somethings I did try and did not succeed with was Preseed and using Softcups. We sometimes used a little Preseed just on him but after 2 tubes of using it the intended way, we stopped. I also stopped with BBT after 2 months as well.

I think my predicted ovulation was the 7th...

So to summarize, Pink Stork Fertility Tea and possibly garlic during my ovulation week played a part in getting pregnant 🤷🏼‍♀️

No physical symptoms other than random period-like cramps that come and go and more diarrhea than normal this entire week but I do have IBS...

Good luck ladies! Honestly, I probably would not have read all this myself so congratulations and thank you if you did 😂