[Erin84]

I feel like this might be a little redundant, but for anyone who wants to play along, I know it'd sure help me get everybody's stories straight! I'm just looking for a little info on whatever you feel up to sharing, including living children, successful pregnancies, angels, testing, plans for this cycle, plans for the future, etc.

I looked back over my charts and it took us 13 months to get pregnant with Drew, our first baby. We got pregnant, I carried him to term, and he was born. Because of cord complications, he spent 5 days in the NICU and passed away.

We are now going into our sixth full cycle of TTCAL, 7th if you count that we were TTC before my first AF. It's hard for me to believe we're still waiting I chart CM, BBT, and OPKs. I took an over-the-counter FSH test today and it came back normal. We have an intake appointment with an RE scheduled for two months from now. I may or may not try and get some testing done before then. DH and I are both taking some vitamins, but we're not on any meds.

So for the next couple months we're just going to keep doing the same thing I guess. It's starting to really wear on me, but I'm pressing forward.

What about you? What's your story? What's next?

[luvmykids623]

I lost our first baby (natural m/c), then had DS at 38 weeks. I was induced due to pre-eclampsia from a combination of pregnancy and my chronic HBP. I lost our next baby (natural m/c), then had DD at 36 weeks. She was an emergency c-section because of severe pre-eclampsia. We've been ttc take home baby #3 since July 2010. I got pregnant right away and then found out the baby's heart stopped beating in early September. I had a D&C on 9/21 at 11w. AF returned November 1st, and we've been ttc since then.

This is our 6th cycle ttc, and I knew that something wasn't right from the beginning. In February I tried to get my OB to listen to me, and he refused. I found a doctor who actually wanted to help. She ran the recurrent loss panels that my other OB refused to run because my losses weren't consecutive. It came back that I have MTHFR- a single copy of the A1298c. She also sent me to an RE. I started with the RE in the beginning of April. He thinks I have an ovulation problem, and I've had it for quite some time. He thinks that it's the reason that I've had my 3 losses. My ovulation has been even later since the D&C, so he thinks that my body reacted wonky to it. He put me on baby aspirin and Clomid (this is my first cycle) and he's monitoring me closely. I went today and had a 20mm follie that he thinks will ovulate tomorrow. I'm praying that this is our answer. It really pisses me off that it's possible that a baby aspirin and a Clomid pill could have kept me from losing 3 babies and having all this heartache.

[EJsMommy]

Hi my name is Lovisa.
Before we got pregnant in 2009 I had before then tried for about 1 yr without any result (I did no charting). After a HSG test done in April 2009 and one cycle of 50mg clomid in May 2009 we got pregnant only to lose the baby at about 18 weeks or so due to placenta placement. After the delivery in early November 2009 we waited until January 2010 to start TTC. We did TTC without help for 6 months and no go. Then OBGyn prescribed 50mg clomid for 3 cycles - no result other than punctual AF. Then one cycle with no hormon assistance and after than was put on 100mg clomid for 3 cycles - still nothing more than punctual AF. In December 2010 I had done a Progesterone blood work and the result was 20.2. Then one cycle with no help. Onto 100mg clomid again following with 1.25 mg of estrogen to make the CM more penetratable. I have been on that for 2 full cycles and nothing. I did a progesterone draw again last day of March 2011 and result was 10.3 and the last one was done on April 28, 2011 and that was about 13. Now is the same round but the doc is having me do one last progesterone draw and then take all the lab results etc and get in touch with an RE. But that will be after my progesterone blood work on May 26th at 8am.

[kaylakay]

I have had 3 consecutive losses... One in Sep 2010, one in November 2010, and January 2011. They were all super early around 5 weeks.

We found out we were pregnant actually right before our wedding so we were more than estatic... 2 weeks later we lost it. We were heart broken. We started trying right away and got a BFP first of Novemver ended up loosing it just a week later... We waited one cycle and tried again this time I went to the doctor right away and got my HCG taken and found out it wasn't viable they gave me a shot of MTX and I bleed for about a week... Now I'm currently on CD9 and TTC. I have an appointment with a midwife on Wednesday see if she can help if not I'll search for an RE... This is for sure the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with. I just want one biological child... And I'll adopt the rest...

[fromustobaby]

It took us 9 months to get Kaiden, I had really long cycles, and 2 rounds of Clomid because of weak progesterone...everything about that pregnant was perfect...

Got pregnant with this baby before I even had AF and thought I was the luckiest person in the world...but, I had a terrible feeling the entire time I was pregnant with this one, I was practically jumping out of my skin with worry...3 U/Ss showed a perfect baby with a beating heart...then at 9 weeks, my U/S showed a perfect sized baby, but the heart was no longer beating...

Right now, I am doing everything possible to get my body perfect for pregnancy...no refined sugar, no fast-acting sugar (white flour, pasta, bread), no wheat, only water to drink, supplements, acupuncture (starting Saturday)...new one is limiting dairy to one serving a day...

Hoping that AF comes soon so that we can begin trying again...we are preventing until I get AF...

[Micksbabe]

Hi I am Megan

I got pregnant with DD after 10 months of trying. It was an easy pregnancy, other than the morning sickness . She was born in dec 09. We wanted to try right away but since i had an emergency section with my DD we waited 6 months and then decided to ntnp. I got pregnant right away and had a natural miscarriage at 8 weeks. I got pregnant again in dec 10 but ended up having a chemical pregnancy. We tried again in march and I found out I was pregnant in march 11, i was just diagnosised with a blighted ovum last Wednesday

The new plan is to wttc until after my 30th birthday next April. That should be enough time to get healthy, lose some weight and get tests done with a specialist

[KeepingFaith]

I'm Lindsey, I got pregnant with DD in 2007 unexpectedly and had a normal pregnanciy(besides hyperemesis) and delivered by c-section in 10/07 at 38 weeks due to her being breech. We decided it was time for another one when she was 2, but since I have a gentic condition(neurofibromatosis 1 or NF) we decided we wanted to do IVF with PGD. This would garauntee a healthy baby, but our insurance would only cover some of it and after fighting with them for 6 months we decided to just try on our own and hope for the best. We started trying in 07/10 and got PG on our 5th cycle trying(Nov 10). I hadn't had any prenatal visits yet and started bleeding on Christmas(nice huh?) at 7w3d. I went to the ER the next evening and everything had been passed and HCG was only 137. We waited until I got AF and started trying again right away, after 2 cycles I started using OPK's and having been doing well timed BDing with nothing. I am on CD4 and think I will also try pre-seed this cycle since I have noticed a lack of CM.

I also have the added layer that hormone changes make my condition worse so pregnancy will be high risk. I did notice a more drastic change with my loss, than with DD's pregnancy. I just want DD to have a sibling so badly, it's worth the risk to me. If I ever get PG, at 10 weeks we will have a CVS to see if the baby has inherited my NF(50% chance) and just pray for the best.

Sorry that ended up longer than I planned, if anyone has questions about my NF, please fell free to ask.

[lindsey2000k]

My name is Lindsey.
2006 I get pregnant on accident. DH & I were not married and I had no health insurance so we did a 2 week rush wedding. The Monday before the wedding I lost the baby at 7w4d.
2007 we decided to start TTC again I got pregnant the first month we tried and that was my first rainbow baby Madison who was born at 39 weeks December 2007.

Aug 2010 I was not planning on anymore kids or at least for not yet. In sept I was feeling really crappy. Something clicked for me to take a HPT and guess what it was positive and I was already well into my 5th week. Called the DR and told them my history and they said no need to come in since I just had a live birth and my first miscarriage was probably just one of those things. So I went to my 9 week appt and the midwive did an ultrasound and the baby looked small for 9 weeks and there was no fetal activity. I was send to another office for a second opinon and it confirmed baby measured 8w1d and had no heartbeat. I opted for a D&C the very next morning Oct 6th 2010.

I started TTC right away and if you count the ovulation before A/F it took 3 cycles and I got my BFP Jan 2011. We did blood work and I was doubling in 22 hours. Had a heart beat at 6 weeks. They told me everything looks good and to come back 10 weeks for my first real prenatal visit. I had a bad feeling the week before but the receptionist would not let me move my appt up. I got into my appointment and I knew there was going to be a good 30-40 minutes in just paper work and signing the papers for what testing I want or do not want. I voiced my fears to the nurse about my bad feeling and she got the midwive to try the doppler... nothing. So the midwive got the DR and they gave me a ultrasound. Baby stopped growing at 8w5d and had no heartbeat.

After this last loss they ran even more test on me and found out I have PCOS and MTHFR (1 copy of each mutation).

April 28th I got a BFP but swore it must be left over from the pregnancy before because I had not gotten A/F and my temps and OPKs were all over the place. But the blood work confirmed new pregnancy. My progestrone has been low so they are still keeping an eye on things. I personaly have a bad feeling this pregnancy is not going to make it because I am 5 weeks and have not a single symptoms.

[StaceygirlPa]

My name is Stacey, Dh and I have been trying for almost 3 years now. I was told that I wouldn't get pregnant on my own. After trying couple of cycles on Ferma my ob recommened for us to do a IUI. My Ob does 2 IUI back to back. The first round worked and we got pregnant. Both of us were so happy. Sadly this is our first angel. We made it to a little over 6 weeks and m/c. My body wouldn't recognized that the baby passed so I had a d&c in July. I ended up having a lot of problems from this d&c and ended up in the hospital with an infection. We were on ttc hold until I got better. We started trying again with opks and soy in November. Beginning of December we found out we got pregnant on our own with the help of soy. I felt something was wrong from the beginning. Sadly I was right. My HCG never did go up the way it's supposed. I had a natural m/c. We started trying right away with taking soy and using opk's. I found out we got pregnant again on our own on Valentine's day. Being the poas addict I am I took 4 hpt's the same day at the same time because I didn't trust just one. Everything was looking good this time. We had our first u/s and pumpkin was measuring a week behind and a low h/b. My ob wasn't worried. We had to wait a week for another u/s to see if pumpkin was growing and the h/b picked up. Sadly we lost pumpkin. This would make our third angel. We it made it to almost 8 weeks with pumpkin. I took baby asprin with this pregnancy which I think helped. I ended up having to have another d/c this time. No problems with this d&c.

We are on a sort of ttc hold right now for testing. We are NTNP right now. Since this was our third loss my ob is doing all the blood testing for miscarries. I had all of my blood work done last week. I was told it can take 7 to 10 days to get everything back. Dh hasn't had a chance to get his blood work done yet. The blood work has to be done before noon and his is working. He is trying to take time off to get his taken.

I got my first af last week since the m/c. The only thing I am using this cycle is opk's and taking DEHA since we don't have all of the blood work back yet.

My ob is very happy that we have gotten pregnant on our own twice now. My ob thinks my age has something to do with all of our losses. I am not going to give up. I want to be a mommy and I want to make Dh a daddy.

Sorry this turned out to be long. Thank you for reading.

[Cait&AngelAbove]

DH and I started ttc February of 2010. I found out in November that I was pregnant but I had a bad feeling. I tried to enjoy being pregnant. I lost the baby December 10th. I was devastated. The ob found a cyst and I had a lap done February of this year. The ob found that I have stage four endo. I am currently on the Lupron Depot shot. I get my second and final shot on Monday. I am working on getting healthy so when I am done with the shot we can get pregnant with a healthy baby as quickly as possible.

[JesSsica]

Coming out of lurking to add mine...
My 2 kids were easy. 2nd cycle of trying, pee on a stick, push out a baby nine months later. I took that for granted. Fast forward through divorce, being happily finished having babies, a second marriage to a man with no kids... here I am.

3 months after my wedding two years ago I found out I was pregnant-- a total surprise. I was shocked because we were NOT in the baby mode. The idea started to sink in and we started getting really excited as I started to show. Went to my 12 week appt and it was a missed m/c, the baby only measured 10 weeks. I had a D&C and then wanted to try again-- this was November of '09.

I got pregnant again easily in December. It ended up a chemical pregnancy in January of 2010. I got pregnant again then after a cycle or two and again started getting excited as I started to show. At 11 weeks I went to bed with a stomachache and woke up to my water breaking. I was shocked that even at just 11 weeks there's the rubber band snapping sound and feeling and then the gush.

We decided that was that. We still owned my pre-marriage home so we decided that two mortgages and getting pregnant was financially irresponsible. We both had some testing done and come to find out my anti-Lupus coagulant (or whatever that is) was high so all it should take according to my doctor is an aspirin a day to solve my clotting problem which may have caused my m/c's. Now we're a big maybe but we have answers.

My house sold last month (yay~) and we're really enjoying the pay raise that having only one small mortgage gives us. We're waiting until August to see if we want to try or not.

That said, I may be in the 2WW if I O'ed early this month. I *think* I O'ed on day 12 after using no condom on day 10. Typicaly I O later like around day 16ish. No symptoms but you never know. Wouldn't that be a kicker...