XP: A VERY Cautious Intro... (Sorry--it's kinda long)

winofairy · June 2012

I feel so blessed and excited to be able to make an intro on this board after 32 cycles and many failed IF treatments.

In April we had our 1 and only IVF cycle. It ended up being a failure. Even the Crinone didn't keep AF from showing her ugly face. I didn't schedule a WTF appointment because I knew we were done with all ART treatments. I was completely heartbroken.

DH and I had a very long heart to heart a few days after Mother's Day. I?m going to be 41 in October and have a dx of DOR. After our talk I started feeling like maybe it just wasn't meant to be for us to have a child together. It's funny how I really started to feel at peace about the end of our TTC journey.

I stopped taking ALL my vitamins, baby aspirin, drank like a fish, ate raw oysters, etc... I even put all the baby items I had been collecting over the years on CL. The very last bit sold on 06.05.12. Just before our last buyer was to arrive I had DH help me carry the remaining items downstairs. While doing so he looked at me and said "are you sure about this." I said "yes."

AF was scheduled to arrive on 06.03.12 but she decided to stay MIA. Finally after a week DH talked me into taking a HPT (he even drove me to the drugstore himself). I just knew for sure I wasn't pg and that the IVF cycle had somehow messed up my cycle. Well much to my dismay two lines showed up almost instantaneously.

I have been very hesitant to announce my OMFG BFP SURPRISE or add anything to my siggy because I didn't want to jinx myself but after all this time it's kind of hard to contain my excitement.

I had my first beta on Tuesday and my number was 2,770. Beta #2 was this morning and I just got the call from my RE's office. My number is 6,300. We have our first u/s scheduled for Monday morning. I'm so nervous but will start to feel better once we get to see a heartbeat (our last bfp ended up being a blighted ovum).

I have my Fx that I'm here to stay! I look forward to getting to know all of you Smile

kirac · June 2012

Welcome! A happy and healthy pregnancy...

Not really like your pregnancy but sort of.. it's like when I resigned myself to being single and ok with it... then I met my DH .

Sounds like it was a long road to get here... best of luck.

hrock74 · June 2012

your story made me cry! My hormones are raging at 36 weeks but none the less it's such great news!!! And isn't it amazing how sometimes things just happen that way. Best of luck!!

StaceySMC13 · June 2012

Congratulations and I really hope this is a sticky baby! Was reading your siggy and saw you were diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I'm sure your doctor already has you on medicine but your TSH should be between 1 - 2 during pregnancy. If you aren't being monitored regularly, you may want to ask about it. I have to get blood work done every 6 weeks because of my non-functioning thyroid. My TSH is holding around 1.1 right now.