Trusting the Timing
The steps I took during my journey to get pregnant.
✓ Medicines
✓ Old wives tales
✓ faith
My Journey to Becoming Pregnant
I’m sure you have read several posts about how to become pregnant and what works best for getting pregnant as you have been trying to get pregnant yourself. I want to start by saying that even though these things worked for me I’m not going to guarantee they work for you. I want to give people hope that you can get pregnant and share the things I did that helped me get pregnant.
1. First Things First
So a little background to start with. I went off birth control in the fall of 2015. I had been on it since I got married in 2012. I had some issues with my period as a child but I never addressed it with my doctor because I thought it was normal. I went into trying to get pregnant with very high hopes and thinking I had no issues.
Boy was I WRONG!
2. Deciding to get help
After being off birth control for around 6 months my periods were still not regular. I had read online that it takes a month or 2 after stopping birth control to get back to normal but not as long as it had taken me. I decided to make an appointment with my gynecologist in May to see what was going on. During my appointment, we had discussed several things that had been going on with me and to make a long story short she came to the conclusion that I had PCOS. I checked marked off every box on the symptoms list. She decided to put me on Metformin and to go ahead and start me on fertility pills since PCOS usually causes you not to ovulate.
3. Clomid
Clomid is the fertility medicine I was put on and let me tell ya it was an experience being on that medicine. It made me a little crazy. I was having hot flashes, mood swings, and I was an emotional mess! It was awful but I wanted to be pregnant so bad that I kept taking it for 6 months. I unfortunately didn’t have any luck with it though.
4. Ovulation test
While I was on Clomid I read online about ovulation test so I decided to try those. I spent a lot of money on these each month and I did get positives on them but I came to find out that with PCOS that your LH hormone can be high often and throw a false positive on an ovulation test. Talk about disappointing.
5. Pre Seed
I started reading different tips and tricks online at this point and found out that sometimes your cervical mucus can be too thick and that lubricants can kill sperm so they made a special kind for trying to conceive. It is called pre seed and I do think it did help. I also had read that taking medicine such as Robitussin( NOT DM this is important because it dries mucus up) would help so of course I tried that too.
6. Surgery
After several failed rounds of Clomid my doctor thought there may be a bigger problem that PCOS. I was still having horrible pain and I had an ultrasound done on my ovaries that showed no cyst. It also showed I wasn’t ovulating. At this point I was feeling totally defeated. My doctor thought that it was sounding like I Endometriosis. This was something I had never heard of but they told me it could cause infertility. They also told me the only way to know if I had it or not was to do a laparoscopic procedure to look and see if i had it and then remove it if I did. They also told me they would do a procedure while they were in there to make sure my fallopian tubes and uterus were free from obstructions. I had my surgery on February 14th and they discovered I had stage 2 endometriosis. They were able to remove all of it except one spot on my bowels because it was too risky.
7. Femara
When my surgery was over and I had my first post surgery cycle I was able to start taking another fertility medicine called Femara. It didn’t give me the crazy side effects like Clomid. I was actually ovulating on it and it was working.
8. Anointing and Prayer
Another thing I tried which I know what the most important was being anointed at church and having people pray for me. Praying to God that I would be able to be a mother was the most important step I took in my fertility journey. Trusting God’s timing is hard sometimes especially when you want something so badly but on May 1st, 2017 my prayers were answered and I received a positive pregnancy test. I am going to post another post on the power of prayer and anointing so make sure you check it out too.
I hope this encourages someone and I will be praying for you during your fertility journey. If you have any questions feel free to reach out.
Blessed is she who believed the Lord would fulfill his promise to her. Luke 1:45
