I wanted to take a few minutes to share our story, because I was always scouring these message boards trying to find “the answer” to help us get pregnant. I don’t know which of the different things helped (or maybe a combo) but I hope it helps someone else at least feel a little hope. I apologize if this is long:

We have been married since 2/2016, off of birth control since October 2016, trying since January 2017. I was diagnosed with PCOS in March, but it took several more tests (and an international trip in between) before we were given the go ahead to start Clomid in June.

Progesterone to start my cycle for ten days, then starting on day 3 of my period: 50mg clomid for 3 days. That got my day 21 levels only up to .9, so clearly no ovulation. In July we tried 100mg clomid, which brought it up to 9.6 (almost there!). In August, doc boosted up to 150mg and I started Whole30. Still nothing. I realized I was ovulating later so I started using opks. Got a couple of great progesterone numbers after I figured out ovulation: 11.9, 16, 9.6 none of them got positive pregnancy tests though. So when I started my period right before Christmas, the doc said let’s skip a month of clomid and do some fertility testing. In January I went and got an HSG test, husband had semen analysis. We made an appointment with the fertility specialist but the first available appt wasn’t until our anniversary (2/21).

Everything was fine for him, but the radiologist resident who performed my hsg said that my left ovary filled up slower than the right during the dye study and that it’s POSSIBLE I had a very small blockage that the dye pushed through and cleared up. In January we also Baby Danced every other day during my fertile window, and used pre-seed. Progesterone levels were 11.3 on 1/24, exactly a week after ovulation even though I didn’t ovulate until CD 27.

Less than a week after my progesterone test I was laying in bed on a Sunday morning, looking at ways people had announced to their partners, I knew it was too early to test (11DPO) but tried anyways and somehow in my early morning blundering, I peed on an ovulation test instead of a pregnancy test, saw the faint line and still didn’t understand that it was an ovulation test. Apparently my body knew I was pregnant though, because after hubby and I both freaked out (over what we THOUGHT was a pregnancy test) we bought a first response digital test and it came back “Pregnant”.

Doc had me go in for blood tests every two days for the first two weeks after we got a positive. Now I’m 5-6 weeks and today was our first ultrasound. Doc says everything looks great, she’s not worried at all anymore, she said at our next appointment in two weeks we should be able to hear the heartbeat and See the little human growing inside me.