Good News

I got my BFP yesterday!!!  Pregnitude is amazing! I want to give it to all my friends struggling to get pregnant.  I took Clomid this month with it, so I'm sure that helped.  When I got pregnant with my son, I took Clomid and the 50 mg dose (which I took this time) resulted in a .5 progesterone level.  This time around, my progesterone on day 21 was 13.8!!  I got my day 28 HCG results today and they were 87 (they were only 8 when I got pregnant with my son!)  I am so thankful for the nurses that told me about the Pregnitude.  That combined with a lot of prayer and reliance on the Lord have made this journey hopefully ending with a happy, healthy pregnancy.  Good luck to you all!!

Things Are Looking Up...

I'm not going to lie, I've lost count as to how many days I have been on the Pregnitude but it's been a little over 2 months now.  I have some exciting and encouraging news to report (sorry, it's not a baby.) I think I am actually ovulating and I can actually tell when I am!  I started testing daily for ovulation around day 8 or so.  This past Friday, so day like 16 of my cycle, I woke up and had some extra cervical mucus and sure enough I got a positive ovulation test.  Considering that I ovulated on day 32 last cycle, this is a great improvement!  While the length of my cycles have varied, I can't recall a time when I was sure I ovulated like this cycle and the one before (that I was taking Pregnitude for as well.)  I'm already wanting to take a pregnancy test, but of course I know it's too early.

I went to my doctor two Friday's ago after having an ultra sound and blood work done.  He told me everything looked fine and that my only problem is that I am not ovulating.  My ultra sound showed no cycts or follicles to show that I have had any recently.  The blood work came back normal so he said he did not believe that I have PCOS, which is a relief that I still don't have that.  He wrote me a prescription for Clomid, so I plan on taking that along with the Pregnitude next cycle if I don't get pregnant.  Helpful hint:  When I took Clomid the first time, I was paying a lot of money for it at Meijer, but I did some research and found that I can get it at Walmart for $4.  I hope I don't need it, but if I do, I want it for cheap!:)

Thinking that this chalky drink I've been drinking for the last two months might be worth it...

Day 48: I Hate You Period

Dear Aunt Flo,

I hate you.  Like, you are my least favorite blood relative (get it?)  When I get you after convincing myself that I could be pregnant, I want to listen to sad songs and find ways to make them to pertain to my situation.  It's not like I'm getting any younger here.  Each time you appear, my dreams of a family of 4 (kids that is) shrinks and I realize that we are likely not going to get to have that many kids.  So thanks a lot.  I hope to not see you again for about a year and a half.

Not even sincerely,
Megan

Day 44 or so: Will It Or Won't It?

Here we are, I'm on day 44 (give or take a day) of taking Pregnitude and I am on day 42 of my cycle. I feel like I have been playing the waiting game for the past month or so, since I'm never really sure when I ovulate.  I got a smiley on my OPK test about 11 days ago, but I'm not sure that I actually ovulated, as that has been my problem. 

So I got a little restless this week and called my doctor to get the process started for going back on the Clomid. I know I didn't give the Pregnitude that much of a chance, but we've been trying for 6 months, I had to have Clomid last time and I'm getting older and we want a big family.  I know God has His own plan and I want to be willing to follow that, but I did feel peace after making that call.  I go for an ultrasound on Thursday to check out my lady parts and then get bloodwork done on the 2nd or 3rd day of my period and have a consult with my doctor on the 27th.  Phew.  That seems like a lot of work to make a baby (and that's only a small part of it!)  I mean, honestly, when you were younger, watching episodes of Teen Mom, it never seemed this hard to make a baby!;)

I can feel something starting to brew in my body today, whether it's a period or a baby, I don't know...because I always think it's a baby.  I'm hoping and praying I don't have to go through this again in a month!!

Day 35: Could there still be hope?

Yesterday was day 34 and I was just waiting for my period to start. I was experiencing symptoms that seemed like I was ovulating so I decided on a whim to just take an ovulation test last night.  I got a smiley!!  I'm hoping this time that the smiley means that I actually ovulated and not just because my body was trying to but didn't actually ovulate.  Hoping to have good news to report in about two weeks!

Day 22: I'm Over It

Barf.  It's like day 20 of my cycle and I still haven't gotten a smiley face.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, because when has my cycle ever been any kind of regular, but I just had high hopes for my first month of Pregnitude.  I'm about to order my next box, but really I just want to call my doctor up and ask to be put on Clomid (like I was on with my first pregnancy.)  I mean, at least I know that works, whereas I have no idea if this Pregnitude will work and it's costing me $40 a month. 

Any hope or encouraging stories to keep me going?

Day 16: Am I In High School Again?

My face is breaking out like a teenager...and I'm not happy about it.  I'm choosing to blame the Pregnitude because I am not sure what else could cause this.  I'm sure it has something to do with the hormones changing in my body (or at least I am hoping.)  When I was first pregnant my face broke out a lot so I've decided that this is a good sign for things to come-but I would totally be ok if my face decided to clear up soon.

No ovulation yet, which is fine as I am only on day 12 of my cycle.  I'm hoping to ovulate this weekend while my husband and I are away and childless!  If the OPK doesn't give me a smiley in the next week, I may be tempted to take a hammer to it...

I would love to hear from anyone else using Pregnitude and your experience with it!

Day 14: Just Waiting on That Smiley

I started testing for ovulation on Sunday.  I don't know why I get so discouraged when I don't see a smiley the first day.  I mean, obviously I am not going to ovulate on day 8 or 9 of my cycle, but I just get so discouraged that I am not going to see a smiley.  I have got my house stocked with wine for when I do see that smiley so that the hubs and I can get to baby makin';)

There is a good chance that 99% of my friends and people I know are pregnant right now.  I try to be happy for them as I get their texts that their little bundle of joy will be arriving on so and so, but it's hard when I have no idea when/if mine will.  Well, that's enough Debbie Downer for one night.

Hoping to have good news to report after the weekend!

Day 8: I Had Higher Hopes

Today concludes my 4-5ish day period.  I have to say I'm a little disappointed.  I was expecting some really crampy, really heavy period to let me know that my body was working like it is supposed to.  But alas, instead I got a really light period with little to no cramping (which normally I would be happy about!)  I am thinking I will start taking the ovulation test in about 5 days or so.  Hoping to see a smiley face in about 10 days from now! Keep your fingers crossed!

Day 4: Back in Business

It would totally make sense that when I woke at 4 am to pee this morning and to take yet another pregnancy test that it would come back negative.  That would be because when I woke up at 7, I had started my period.  Thanks for wasting me another $1, reproductive system. 

While I am sad I'm not pregnant, I am so joyful that my period is here.  To me, the hardest part of the whole trying thing is not knowing what to think for those 2 weeks, when I am 28 days past the start of my period, but I have no idea when to test/when I am going to start.  I think it would be so much easier if I just had a regular schedule to rely on so that I don't get my hopes up so much.  Oh well.  What can you do?  Oh yeah, take Pregnitude.

Hoping in 14 days that I report that I ovulated!!

Day 3: Wanted: 28 day cycle

I'm starting to consider making a "Wanted" sign for my period...or at least hanging "Missing" posters on all the telephone poles in town.  I mean, what's a girl got to do to get it to start??  Obviously my reproductive system is on strike because I am now at 6 weeks 3 days past my last period and I've got nothing.  Maybe my uterus is remembering what I put it through 17+ months ago and is refusing to cooperate?  Who knows for sure.  What I do know is that when I was 16 I never thought that one day I would be begging to get my period!

I'm getting pretty good at gulping down the Pregnitude now (you have to be!)  My stomach is still feeling weird and hoping that will pass...but maybe that is because I am going to start my period soon?  I'm also feeling a little emotional, which again, can be attributed to my period starting soon.  That's what's so hard about all of this...it's so hard to distinguish between pregnancy symptoms, PMS symptoms and just for no reason symptoms!

Til next time...

Day 2: Sooo gross!

Drinking the Pregnitude is not getting any easier!  A little bit of Country Time Lemonade makes it a little better, but it still is not easy to get down.  I am hoping that the end result is worth the two 8 oz. glasses of it I have to drink each day.  I am now 6 weeks and 2 days past my last period and if I don't start tomorrow, it will be the longest I have gone without a period since I got it back in May (after having my son.)  Since I have already taken 4 pregnancy tests and gotten 4 negative results, I'm fairly confident that I am not pregnant and that my period is just being stubborn.  I wish it understood that it's essential to my baby making success, but alas it has not. 

The pregnitude package states that there can be some gastrointestinal side effects and I am definitely experiencing some of that already.  Hoping that this doesn't last the whole time I take it and that it is just my body getting used to this new substance. 

That's all for day two, hope you keep reading!

Intro and Day 1 of Pregnitude

So here's the thing, my husband and I would like another baby.  But here's the other thing, it's not happening as quickly as I would like.  In researching our next steps, I struggled to find personal accounts from women who were taking Pregnitude that provided me with hope or at least what to expect from it.  In this first post, I hope to provide you a little information about myself and fertility struggle and then hope you will continue to join me on this journey for baby number 2!

My husband and I have been married for 3.5 years, known each other for 4.5.  About 6 months after getting married, we decided we wanted to grow our family.  After watching several seasons of "Teen Mom", I just thought we had to have sex once and we'd get our little bundle of joy.  Wrong.  After about 4-6 months of going months at a time without a period, I met with the doctor.  They did ultrasounds, tested me for PCOS and other things and tested my husband's sperm but nothing seemed to be wrong...except for the fact I wasn't menstruating and ovulating on my own.  Sure, I had cysts, but not PCOS.  At 8 months of trying, my doctor put me on Prometrium to get my period and then Clomid to ovulate.  I didn't ovulate with the lowest dose of Clomid or the next highest dose of Clomid.  The third month on Clomid, after eleven months of trying, I finally ovulated...and got pregnant.

I figured it would be a breeze after that, but it wasn't.  I had gestational diabetes and had to check my sugars 4 times a day.  Then, two days before my due date, I started bleeding and it wouldn't stop.  I got to the hospital and found out I was having a partial placental abruption and was taken in for a c-section right away.  I am not the mother to a perfectly healthy 17 month old baby boy that I adore, but it wasn't eating getting here (but so worth it!)

My husband and I started to try for baby number 2 after I stopped breastfeeding, so about 4.5 months ago.  I am already discouraged!  All my pregnancy tests are telling me "no" and my ovulation kit is telling me I am having an LH surge, but I'm obviously not ovulating.  I called my doctor and spoke to a nurse and she told me about Pregnitude.  Desperate for something, I decided to do some research and then ultimately decided to order it.

Today is my first day taking Pregnitude.  It's disgusting.  It reminds me of when I had to take the glucose drink for the gestational diabetes testing.  You pour a packet of it into water and then drink it morning and night.  They say it's tasteless but I don't find the taste of chalk to be tasteless!  I called the doctor and they said I could add a little lemonade to it and it helped.  I don't feel much different since it is day one.  Right now, I am 6 weeks and 1 day past my last period and 3 weeks and 2 days past my "positive" ovulation test (lies!) Hoping this Pregnitude will help make my cycle regular and get this baby made!!

If you are reading this and struggling to conceive as well, I'd love to hear from you in the comment section!