Hey Everyone! ~ Update ~
I disappeared from Glow for awhile (I created this group). Some of you may remember my fertility testing and being told I was possibly on the spectrum for PCOS. The doctor told me my egg reserve looked normal for 25 years old but I had low progesterone and it looked like I might possibly have an anovulatory cycle every other month. I was to have an HSG to evaluate my tubes but I couldn't because of a severe Iodine allergy. Then my husband was to have a SA. We finally paid off our debt and were about to have him complete this, as we were signing the legal paperwork to start forced ovulation with follicle US and eventually IUI if forced ovulation didn't work didn't work with natural BD. After three years of no birth control, our third wedding anniversary came and went. I was severely depressed and some young couples in the family got married and all of the cousins were popping up pregnant and my SIL is trying for her second. I got a really bad cold and was taking multiple medications and decided we were probably going to adopt. We knew it would take a couple of years but we went out to dinner on our 25th birthdays and had agreed it was time. We would give fertility one year and then knew it wasn't for us and if that's what was in store for us we knew we could give an adopted child the same loving home we could provide for our own. The funny thing is.... I'm now 19 5/7 weeks pregnant- naturally. Pre-seed, CM monitoring, acupuncture, geritol, $100 prenatals, positions, times of day, temperature.... None of it worked for me. Had my fertility specialist bothered to test me at my last appointment, I would have known I had gotten pregnant in October and was pregnant on our wedding anniversary. I gave up. I stopped stressing. I decided we would adopt or do four treatments of IUI. I left it outside of my control. And PTL because when I quit, it happened (and saved us a lot of money). The tears I shed over the years were worth it. The depression was not.
I want to encourage you all today. I don't share this to brag. I share it to give you hope when you feel like there is none. I've been there. My pregnancy has been scary. I had to do weekly injections at three times a week and a weekly ultrasound throughout the first Tri after this pregnancy threatened to abort. I'm so thankful for my DH and I and the time we had together and I believe we are closer because of our infertility journey. I pray the same for you! -K
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