Getting Pregnant
brij2006
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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GTKY: TTC Story (LR, PR)
I had been on BC for almost 10 years when we got married, due to very heavy periods in my teen years making me pass out and spend the first 2 days throwing up. For a few years before our wedding I had been having problems with BC. So in October 2012 we decided to do NFP for BC. However, that was hard to do when you didn't get a cycle. So on Christmas day 2012, we decided to NTNP. In April 2013, after getting Provera twice, I had bloodwork done and was diagnosed with PCOS. In August 2013 we did one round of Clomid and had a BFP. That ended in a miscarriage in November 2013, and our entire life went crazy. H got serious about losing weight, got baptized, started Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover, and forced himself to focus on everything but TTC. I on the other hand had a prescription for the next round of Clomid sitting in the bathroom, but had a lot of emotions trying to figure out what was really happening to our life.
In January 2014 I started the PCOS diet to see if it would regulate anything. We considered ourselves NTNP at that point. Then in February I ovulated on my own and had a very long LP. I called the doctor about it, and he wanted to run a beta just to make sure. My beta came back very very low and they considered it a chemical pregnancy. I couldn't handle it, and neither could H. We decided to TTA until we handle the emotions of loss, I scheduled an appointment with a therapist, and went 100% gluten free with the PCOS diet to see if it would help more.
March, April, and May were all 30 day cycles. Something I had never seen before, and my charts for each month showed that I had actually ovulated too.
In March we also found out that my new insurance plan covered infertility. So we discussed scheduling an appointment with the RE and just getting a gameplan together for moving forward. H kept putting it off and saying he wasn't ready. Then in May before Memorial day weekend he dropped the ball that he wasn't sure he wanted kids at all. It was a few days of a lot of anger on my end and we were having friends come from far away to stay with us that weekend, then we had 3 days off the next week to spend time together. I told him that I couldn't "act" like everything was okay between us for those 6 days, and we needed to speak with someone about this. So I schedule an appointment that Friday night with our pastor to talk about it. Many tears were shed, many fears were discussed, and our pastor helped us realize why we were both finding excuses to not continue with what we wanted.
We decided to "let things be" during those 6 days of our staycation. I drank, ate gluten, and had all of the things the PCOS diet is against. We also did not prevent during that time. When the staycation was over, we decided that we would prevent again and I would continue the diet. The next day my temp spiked and a few days later FF confirmed that I ovulated.
June 7th, 2014 was the EDD of our miscarriage. We had plans to spend the day together and meet up with our parents that evening to set off sky lanterns up to baby. Unfortunately we got rained out and had to do the lanterns the next day. That next morning I tested and shakily, sobbingly woke H up to the positive. His response, "thank you for giving us a birthday gift, angel baby." We are due February 17th, 2015
Our journey has really made us into who we are today. We never would have focused on our faith, me handling some emotional things from my past, or getting out of debt as much as we have, if it weren't for going through all of this.
Also, as you will see in my siggy, we have had 2 chemical pregnancies. The first one was actually less than a month before our wedding. We were not TTC, but found out a little over 2 weeks before our wedding that the baby did not stick. At the time we really thought nothing of it. We had gotten a positive only 3 weeks before our wedding, then a few days later AF came and was very heavy. My primary care doctor acted at though it was nothing and told me to start up a new pack of BC pills. Little did we know then...
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
www.5yearstonever.blogspot.com
Re: GTKY: TTC Story (LR, PR)