Natural Pregnancy After Infertility

So, I am truly one of those women now!  I am experiencing natural pregnancy after infertility.  I didn't think it would ever happen to me, but it did!

My husband and I tried to get pregnant for three full years with no success.  After tons of fertility testing, including and HSG and laparoscopy, it was determined that I have one blocked fallopian tube and one tube which was likely narrow and therefore possibly not very functional.  The dye spilled very slowly through that tube and it took extra pressure to get spillage.

We had IVF when I was thirty five, and I ended up pregnant with twin girls.  Unfortunately, I went into premature labor and gave birth to the twins at only twenty five weeks.  One of our daughters didn't make it, and one is still with us and is now two.  She spent a full three months in the NICU before she came home.  She is doing well now and I would go through that experience all over again just to have her.  However, when I was going through it, it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me and there were days that I wondered how I was even still standing.

A full two years have gone by since my daughter's birth and had fully accepted that there was a strong possibility that I would never get pregnant naturally.  We talked about dong IVF again "someday" when we could afford it, although being in my late thirties I was coming to grips with the idea of using donor eggs to maximize our chances at IVF.

Several months ago my mind started turning to again trying to conceive naturally, although I swore up and down that I would not lose my mind charting or using OPKs.  I would not be anxiously pressuring my husband to have sex if he didn't feel like it just because I was ovulating.  I also had reached a point like I mentioned where I was OK with it not working.

So, what I did do was purchase a good infertility hypnosis track for my iPod, a DVD on fertility massage and a three month supply of FertilAid.  I have listened to the infertility hypnosis track almost every day for a few months, sometimes letting it auto-repeat as I slept with headphones on.  I took FertilAid for only about a month.  Seriously, still have a sealed bottle of FertilAid and FertilCM.  FertilCM is designed to increase your fertile quality cervical mucus, and I did notice this happen while taking it.  I never actually got around to using the DVD on fertility massage.

So, here I am at age thirty eight with a natural pregnancy after infertility!  I can't say which product, if any, actually got me pregnant.  All I know is that I am.  Currently I am about seven weeks along, and have my first prenatal visit next week.

Wish me luck!