My fiance and I are trying to have a baby. We have used ovulation tests, he has gotten his little swimmers checked to see if they are ok (his count is a little low, and they are also a little lazy, meaning slow swimmers). I am prenatal vitamins as well to help. We have been trying to have a baby for 7-8 months and every month, I get my period. I am ovulating, but the last 2 months my period has been between 3-7 days late. I took pregnancy tests both times I was late, expecting them to be positive, but they are not. Also, the last 2 months my period has been very light in flow and color.
Nobody in either of our families has ever had fertility problems, or problems conceiving. Actually, it’s the other way around. My cousin, as well as my brother, had children without even trying or being married. My cousin has 2 and my brother has 3. My parents got pregnant the first time they tried. So did everyone else in my family and my fiance’s family.
Before I met my fiance, I was engaged to 2 other men. Both times, we tried to have children. So my fiance would be the 3rd man I have tried to have a baby with. My doctor said that I am normal, my cervix looks great for baby making, my ovaries and fallopian tubes look wonderful, so does my uterus. I do get abnormally sized cysts in my right ovary during my period, but I was told that it will not affect me from becoming pregnant because it is only there during my period. My fiance and I are both NEGATIVE for all STD’s that the doctor had tests for.
I have changed my diet to be more baby-making friendly. I quit smoking 8 months ago, and neither of us drink or do drugs of any kind, other than occasionally taking pain medications. We cut down on soda. I have 2 cats, one of which died recently, so we got a kitten to replace her. Before we started trying to get pregnant, I always cleaned the litter boxes. Now that we are trying, my fiance cleans the boxes so I’m not at risk for toxoplasmosis. If he is not home, and the litter boxes need cleaning, I put on surgical gloves and a bandana around my nose and mouth or a surgical mask and immediately take a shower afterwards.
I was hospitalized 1 year ago for a week because I have kidney problems. I get kidney stones (apparently every male on my fathers side has them, but instead of my brother getting them, I got them). Sometimes, my kidneys act up. I get a little sick, but its nothing that bed rest for a day, cranberry juice, and a lot of water wont fix. My urologist and OB-GYN agreed that my kidney issue shouldn’t affect me from getting pregnant, but I have to be very careful while I am pregnant.
Does anyone know what I can do to help me get pregnant, without doing any hormone therapy or in-vitro. I want to conceive naturally. Thank you!
i did use a fertility calender online, and i also used the Answer Ovulation test 20 strip every month. It says I ovulate around the same time every month. I should ovulate this weekend.
toxoplasmosis.. i have only had cats for 3 years, so i dont think thats enough time for me to build up an immunity. my parents HATE cats. i had one for about a year growing up and it attacked my grandma so they gave him away. i was 7 so i never went near the litter box. i didnt even know where my mom kept it. im OCD, so everything is always clean (cooking surfaces) and i always cook everything thoroughly.
i do however suffer from depression. i’ve had it since about 2004 when a loss in my family occured. the medications for it effect me in an undesirable way, so my doctor told me not to take it, and since im trying to have a baby i dont take it anyway. would depression cause me to not get pregnant? i forgot to ad that in.
also, i want to CONCEIVE NATURALLY. meaning, i want my fiance and i to have sex to make a baby. i dont want some doctor putting his sperm in me, or taking my egg and his sperm and mixing them in a dish. i want this to be natural, personal.
having a doctor help, to me at least, isnt the same as my fiance getting me pregnant. its still going to be his baby, but i dont feel that its the same.
so no, im not going to consider in-vitro, or the procedure where the doctor puts the sperm into me. if it wont happen naturally, it wont happen at all. we have however considered adoption. we want a baby, but we dont want a doctor to get me pregnant.
