Hey!!! Are you pregnant? Did it take longer than 12 months to get your BFP or sticky baby? Did you need a little "help" to get pregnant with IUI, IVF, Clomid, metformin, etc...? Well this is the thread for you! Women who have taken longer than the average bear to get pregnant!
I promised and I'm delivering. I know that we have a different experience than the mom who took a shorter time to get pregnant. I want to talk about them here. I know that we'll all go our different directions as far as birthing, care provider, just like we all did something different to get pregnant. I'd like to start with our stories:
Mine starts in July 2006 when DH and I decided that it would be a good idea to start ttc. We both thought that it would be easy. Well that's what you're told. In middle school and high school, you hear the horror story of it only taking one act of unprotected sex to get pregnant and it will ruin your life so take these pills, so you do and don't think about it until you ttc. Well I didn't take bcp's until right before my wedding and took them for 9 months, so I thought that things would be pretty simple; get off bcp's get pregnant, have baby. Not so.
I even charted from the very beginning and it just didn't work out. Fast forward 6 months and I was feeling really bummed. Then another 6 months I was at the 12 month mark and just about panic stricken. At month 14 I had an early miscarriage at about 5 weeks (had a very faint line BFP) and then we continued trying naturally with the help of Chinese medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic, healthy eating, lots of prayer, and in the end we read Walter Makichen's spirit babies and did the chants there. It all helped and now 22 months from the beginning, we're pregnant with our first little bean! We just got our BFP on May 1st (Beltane), and we couldn't be happier. The funny part was that DH had finally made an appointment with a urologist to get an SA done, but we don't need that anymore.
Anyway, I know that you all have your stories and I know that we would all like to hear them. Not just us to talk about how we're doing, what we're doing, and what we're bringing into our pregnancies, but also to give inspiration to those who are still in the trenches ttc and it's been a while and everybody around them is either pregnant or getting ready to have their baby. It's hard to see that happen and you really want it badly so I want for other women to know that there are some who have been there and triumphed.
So I'm passing this on to you!!! Please come with your stories, feelings, and experiences.
Thanks!
I promised and I'm delivering. I know that we have a different experience than the mom who took a shorter time to get pregnant. I want to talk about them here. I know that we'll all go our different directions as far as birthing, care provider, just like we all did something different to get pregnant. I'd like to start with our stories:
Mine starts in July 2006 when DH and I decided that it would be a good idea to start ttc. We both thought that it would be easy. Well that's what you're told. In middle school and high school, you hear the horror story of it only taking one act of unprotected sex to get pregnant and it will ruin your life so take these pills, so you do and don't think about it until you ttc. Well I didn't take bcp's until right before my wedding and took them for 9 months, so I thought that things would be pretty simple; get off bcp's get pregnant, have baby. Not so.
I even charted from the very beginning and it just didn't work out. Fast forward 6 months and I was feeling really bummed. Then another 6 months I was at the 12 month mark and just about panic stricken. At month 14 I had an early miscarriage at about 5 weeks (had a very faint line BFP) and then we continued trying naturally with the help of Chinese medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic, healthy eating, lots of prayer, and in the end we read Walter Makichen's spirit babies and did the chants there. It all helped and now 22 months from the beginning, we're pregnant with our first little bean! We just got our BFP on May 1st (Beltane), and we couldn't be happier. The funny part was that DH had finally made an appointment with a urologist to get an SA done, but we don't need that anymore.
Anyway, I know that you all have your stories and I know that we would all like to hear them. Not just us to talk about how we're doing, what we're doing, and what we're bringing into our pregnancies, but also to give inspiration to those who are still in the trenches ttc and it's been a while and everybody around them is either pregnant or getting ready to have their baby. It's hard to see that happen and you really want it badly so I want for other women to know that there are some who have been there and triumphed.
So I'm passing this on to you!!! Please come with your stories, feelings, and experiences.
Thanks!