Thursday, July 31, 2008

Infertility to pregnancy.

Well after no AF for 3 weeks I was truly beginning to believe it was finally going to happen for me. AF arrived today and at first I tried to stay positive but I'm only human and the sadness is starting to kick in now. That being said I trust God 100% and I know everything happens for a reason and I will never give up hope. I have never been pregnant. Not once have I ever gotten a BFP. I want so very much to be a mommy. I've been TTC for about 2 years now though I was not doing anything special like charting or checking temps or monitoring CM. I was just going about it the natural way. I don't want to get into all that though because I believe it would stress me out way too much to dwell on it every day with the taking temps and checking CM and all that. But I did decide to keep a simple chart on fertility friend. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am a nurse midwife myself. Coming from a large Irish family, I never envisioned that getting pregnant would be a challenge. Like many women struggling with infertility, I tried month after month for ten long years to get pregnant. Finally at the age of 38, the miraculous event happened naturally on its own.
For me pregnancy was one of the most amazing experiences that I as a woman could go through. During early pregnancy I made a conscious decision to be a stay at home mom. Like many women I worried about money, wondering how I was going to afford to give up my high paying midwifery career and be a stay at home mom.
Sixteen weeks into my pregnancy tragedy struck when my growing baby died and I had to undergo an induced mini-labor to complete the miscarriage process. This miscarriage experience helped me to understand the powerful effect our thoughts, words and actions can have on our unborn child, and the outcome of our pregnancy. Like many couples, my insurance plan at the time did not cover infertility treatments. Financially, paying out of pocket was not an option. A sad situation for many couples!
After my miscarriage, I felt her biological clock ticking and with a turn in events, my insurance plan finally changed providing a limited coverage for infertility. This enabled me to seek assistance from an infertility specialist to become pregnant.
I was fully confident in my assumption that my fertility treatments would work. Six months later, after numerous doctor visits, injections, blood tests, ultrasounds, three failed attempts of intra uterine insemination, while in the middle of an IVF cycle, I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure (premature menopause) and was removed from the infertility program.
On top of this I was then informed that I would never have a biological child unless a miracle happened. Both myself and my husband walked away from the clinic that day in total devastation thinking all our hopes and dreams of being parents were gone. What saddened me more was maybe i was to blame for loosing my one and only opportunity of being a mom because I worried about money.
I had to accept that I may be childless, but on the other hand I felt deep inside that I would have a child, despite the medical picture that was painted. I decided to do personal research about vitamins, minerals and body detoxification to help increase the production of her eggs. The research and nutritional supplement program I devised worked, and at the age of 41, I had her first son. To add to the miracle my second son arrived 17 months later.
Come on over to my web site and request a FREE copy of my e-book Birth, A Conscious Choice, which is great reading for someone like yourself wanting to be pregnant. Click on great pregnancy book.

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