Daniel took us 6.5 years to conceive and we have been TTC #2 for 18 long months.
Our story of TTC Daniel
I met DH in 2000, we got engaged after 3 months, and had a long engagement.
We decided in 2002 to stop any contraception and "If it happened, it happened."
We got married in 2003, we decided to actively TTC, but in the year we had stopped the contraception I had only had 3 periods. I left it a few weeks to settle into married life then took myself to the DRs. I was told it was just the BCP coming out of my system. I thought OK I can deal with that and we were due to go on honey moon any way so I left it another couple of months and still only had 1 period. So off to the Drs I went again.
Again I was told that it was just the BCP coming out of my system, I had stopped taking it 18 months earlier, I came away from the Dr's unhappy with them, but decided to go with the flow for a couple of months.
In 2004 and after 3 more visits to the Dr's and being told the same things I went to see another DR and was referred to a fertility nurse, who after lots of tests and scans diagnosed PCOS and irregular cycles.
I waited 3 months to see the specialist who prescribed Clomid, but had to take povera due to irregular cycles.
However we had already booked a holiday so I held off taking them as we didn't to risk flying when pregnant. When we came back I gave myself a couple of weeks to get back into the swing of things, I was told to take a pregnancy test before taking the Clomid as it can cause birth defects if taken when pregnant. To my amazement the test was positive, after TTC for 4 years I WAS GOING TO HAVE A BABY. Unfortunately a week after getting a BFP I started bleeding and our angel went to heaven.
FIRST CYCLE
AF showed up 12 days after 1st povera pill. I took Clomid, 50mg, CD 2 ~ 6. I had to go for a scan every other day, and after 28 days the nurse began to see the follicles growing. I was told to go home and BD as much as we could in the next 24 hours. We BD'ed 6 times. Went back after 48 hours for another scan, the follicles had gone and I was so excited. I was sent for a blood test to see what my progesterone levels were. I went back for my results and were told the were too low and I hadn't even ovulated. I was to wait for AF and start another round of clomid.
SECOND ROUND
AF showed up 5 days late and started a higher dose of clomid 150mg. Again I had to go for scans every other day. After 26 days they saw the follicles and was again sent away to BD. Went back for my blood tests and my levels were higher this time and I had ovulated this month.
THIRD CYCLE
AF was late again this cycle. I started the whole cycle again and was going back for scans, this time after I ovulated and went back for my scan, the follicles were still there, I was told not to take any clomid the next cycles as it can cause the follicles to grow too big and it can cause it to "strangle" my tube. I had to wait for AF to start another cycle.
FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH CYCLE
I had to back and ask for some povera to kick start my AF again. This cycle I didn't have to go for all the scans as they knew everything was working. So I took the clomid but unfortunately this cycle didn't work either, neither did the fifth or sixth.
I went back to the fertility specialist and was told that there was nothing else they could do and I needed to wait for IVF. However there is a 4 year waiting list in the UK, unless we pay and we can't afford, our IVF is scheduled for 2011.
I had 1 cycle of comid left and pinned all my hopes on this cycle working, and was heart broken when AF showed.
So we are here still TTC naturally, I was told if I stopped smoking and lost some weight I MIGHT conceive naturally. I stopped smoking and have lost 10% of my weight, and within 3 months we were pregnant.
October 2ND 2008 at 1:02am my baby was born weighing 8lb, it felt so surreal.
On to TTC #2
we decided to start NT NP when Daniel was 10 months old (end of July 09) we were in no rush but as it had taken us so long to conceive Daniel we thought we better get to it, however Paul had a stroke in august and was in hospital for 6 weeks and so we obviously had to put TTC on hold.
we started again as soon as he got home and here we are still trying, i have been back to the Dr's and have been told that they will not do anything for us as we conceived Daniel naturally and they know what caused my infertility so there is no more testing they can do :(
This cycle I have used a CBFM, and I am waiting for AF or BFP
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