Intro

[mrsbunny]

Hello, everyone! A few years ago I spent a lot of time on the Getting Pregnant board and I believe I posted here as well. A quick rundown of my story is that DH and I first started trying for children a month after I turned 24. We got pregnant and then had a miscarriage at 8 weeks. I had a D/C following that. After over a year of not conceiving again, we sought out an RE who ran several tests and finally diagnosed us with unexplained infertility. Although my husband has low testosterone, it has not affected his sperm at this point. We went through three IUIs w/Clomid - the first one resulted in a chemical pregnancy, the second one didn't work, and the third ended in my pregnancy with my now newly-turned two year old son. We are so grateful to have finally gotten our little IUI baby.

Since my son was born, we never used birth control because we figured we couldn't get pregnant anyway. Everyone was telling me stories of how they or a friend needed to do IUIs to get pregnant the first time and then they accidentally got pregnant when their child was, like, 9 months old. Yeah, never happened. I've been ovulating pretty regularly and having regular periods, and we've been timing intercourse. No results.

So last week we went to the RE who discussed a new plan. We are going to pursue IUIs w/Clomid again. Tomorrow DH gets a semen analysis done and I'll be meeting with a high risk OB because I had heart palpitations with my son and our RE wants to see if there's anything we should do before I get pregnant next time. They also put me on thyroid meds because my thyroid, while in the normal realm for an adult, was just higher than what they'd like for getting pregnant. 

Anyway, looks like I'm starting the infertility journey all over again. Both DH and I are getting really nervous and it's bringing up lots of emotions from the last time, so I'm hoping to get in touch with others going through similar experiences for some support.  

[woowoo]

Hi and welcome. Hopefully you're only here a short while. Good luck.

[seeyalater52]

Welcome (back) to the board! I hope your stay is very short but in the meantime glad to have you here.

[icedcoffee]

Welcome back! I got pregnant in 2016 with IVF and I also thought I'd be one of those people who would "accidentally" get pregnant with #2. It was a bit of a shock to be starting IVF again, but here I am! I hope your stay is short!

[pickel]

Welcome!!

[stellelinds25]

Welcome aboard!

[grover]

Hi! Just chiming in to say I had a similar experience- needed IUI to conceive my daughter, didn't prevent since cleared after birth, no luck on our own, needed IUI again. Hopefully tests come back clear and your infertility journey is short this go round.

[mrsbunny]

Oct 3, 2018 7:07:57 GMT -5 icedcoffee said:

Welcome back! I got pregnant in 2016 with IVF and I also thought I'd be one of those people who would "accidentally" get pregnant with #2. It was a bit of a shock to be starting IVF again, but here I am! I hope your stay is short!

Since I'm so young (28) and have unexplained infertility, everyone was telling me that I'd probably get pregnant without needing treatment this time. Mind you, even the doctors thought I would get pregnant several times before doing the IUI and that didn't pan out either. I wish people would stop saying "this will probably happen" cause it makes it that much worse when it doesn't.

I hope your stay is short as well, and best of luck as you start the IVF process again!