I wanted to create a place where I could share with everyone what is going on in my dramatic attempt to have children. As individual things happen they seem so important, but then the next day brings something totally new, so if I didn't get around to telling you what happened yesterday, you'll miss it.
I'll back up a little...Chris and I decided in May of 2003 that we wanted to have children, after years of saying we would never want any! Two major things happened the week before we made our decision...Chris's grandfather passed away, and our dear friend had a failed pregnancy at 7 months. These two events made us realize that we shouldn't be putting a family on hold. I knew all along that I had Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) which is the number one cause of female infertility. We knew that getting pregnant would be very difficult. We needed to try on our own for 6 months before a fertility specialist would see us. So that's what we did, obviously with no luck. I was put on medication that would regulate my cycles which worked but getting me to ovulate was a bit trickier. I took clomid (a pill) for 3 cycles (sorry chris), one of which was an IUI where they place the sperm directly into the cervix with a catheter...not real fun. When the clomid wasn't working I ended up switching doctors. My new doctor eventually put me on a different medication to make me ovulate. This medication was pure follicle stimulating hormone and was in the form of an injection which Chris gave to me every day. We tried naturally with all three of those cycles with no luck. Which brings us to now.
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