With DD, we had only been married 3 months-I woke up one morning and literally just felt pregnant (I always thought that sounded ridiculous but I can't describe it any other way). I got a BFP 3 days before my period was due. I tested when DH was at work. I didn't want to tell him over the phone so when he got home I gave him a gift to open-a baby's bib
With our loss, we were ttc for 6 months and I was POAS obsessively and finally one day it was positive
This preg-it took me a while after my loss to even think about trying again.....finally we started trying and one afternoon I just felt pregnant. Went to store, bought test and it was positive. DH was with me at the time
I love reading all of these wonderful stories! I'll try to keep my long story short. We had been TTC for months and after being off of BC and never getting a period, I was diagnosed with PCOS. Our infertility journey ended up being a longer ride than I had imagined. I found out I was pregnant after my first Clomid cycle September 2013, but had an early loss. When we were finally ready to try again my body just wouldn't cooperate for some reason (aka never ovulating after increased doses of Clomid). After a few months we decided to see a fertility specialist. After 4 different failed and/or canceled cycles and going from oral medication to Follistim shots, we finally had a cycle in August with two nice sized follicles! We had the IUI on what is probably the most inconvenient day of the entire year for a Kindergarten teacher - the very first day of school.
I had promised myself I wouldn't be crazy and POAS every day to test out the trigger, but after going through so much I just had to know what was going on as soon as possible. (I actually have a picture of all 10 tests I took lined up on the counter which makes me crack up at how crazy I was about it) I tested out the trigger and started to get a little disappointed when I didn't see two lines on 11 DPO...but DH encouraged me to dig that test back out of the trash and it had the faintest BFP you have ever seen! We were apprehensive, but super excited to finally see a BFP after so long. After I was still getting BFPs on day 13, I finally believed the tests. That day we were able to tell both of our families in person by wearing my "preggers" tshirt...they live in different states but we just so happened to be visiting the ILs at the time. I still can't believe that it finally worked and we are over halfway through this pregnancy!
Love reading all these stories. Congrats to everyone!
I was told I probably could never get pregnant without fertility drugs because of PCOS, so for years we never used any contraception.
I had bariatric surgery in May, lost 100lbs...four months later, I gave a urine sample for some med tech students to run practice panels on (I work in a hospital lab), supervisor pulled me aside and said there was a significant level of HCG in my urine, ran a blood test to confirm...I was indeed 6.5 weeks pregnant! Never crossed my mind, my cycles have never been regular my entire life...but a pleasant surprise nonetheless!
Post by justmoiagain on Jan 23, 2015 21:37:23 GMT -5
Great stories everyone!
After 10 years of IF, we were on our last FET. I was convinced it wasn't going to work because the best two embryos were ones that were refrozen from when we tried in October of 2013. I started POAS 6 days after the transfer and had a faint line!
It is ironic how things work out, we had 11 frozen totsicles and this LO was first and last to be thawed. (That sounds so strange, I hope you get the jist of what I mean!) I am amazed every single day that I am pregnant and still feel like it is a dream, until she kicks me in the vag that is
We had been going through fertility treatments for the past two years, so it's not like I wasn't waiting/hoping patiently. I knew I was pregnant about a week after our last session because my downstairs felt extremely swollen. So I took a pregnancy test about 5 days later and it was positive! I also was sleeping like 14 hours a night after the last session and I normally sleep about 8, so that was another way I could tell something was different.
Post by emilyanimals15 on Jan 24, 2015 9:22:01 GMT -5
We were trying for about 4 months and I was feeling depressed. I was sure this was going to take a long time. I took a test when I was due for my period anyway late August. It was negative. One week later still no period. That happens occasionally so I didn't put too much stock in it. But on Labor Day my mom convinced me to take another test. No question it was positive but I still had to POAS a few more times before I believed it. I ran into my parents' living room with the test and hugged DH. And then it wasn't until second trimester when I started to feel like this baby is real!
We hadn't been trying, or preventing sort of method. Didn't want the stress of charting or anything like that. About a week before I was due on, I noticed I was peeing like mad! OH thought I had a UTI or something and I thought the same. The day after I was due, my app flashed at me and said that, so I shrugged and done a test, not expecting anything and my periods always off give or take a few days. My heart dropped (in a good way) when I saw the faint line and I couldn't stop laughing to myself until OH finished work and came home, and here we are 24 weeks later, still peeing like mad!
Post by fikmama1986 on Jan 24, 2015 10:35:08 GMT -5
My husband and I didn't have sex for a month before our wedding. Then the big day finally arrived, THANK GOD! About 2 weeks later I felt queasy during church and had to sprint for the bathroom. Later that same day I got a vicious mood swing and I'm generally not very emotional. Something just seemed off so I peed on a stick and saw the faintest line ever. I showed it to DH and he didn't believe I was pregnant. He said, "You can't be pregnant already. Maybe you're on your way to becoming pregnant." Which makes no sense whatsoever given how pee tests work. So the next morning I went out and bought 3 different brands and peed on 3 different sticks and sent him pictures of each and every one.
I bought a phish onesie to give my husband to tell him that we were pregnant. Let's just say it didn't go as planned. My husband hates when I share this story. I got off the pill 2 months before our wedding and used condoms for a month. (I forgot how horrible condoms were!!!) My fertile period was the week of our wedding. Flash forward to our honeymoon, we were driving to a brewery and I felt nauseated. I hadn't even missed my period yet. So I picked up a test and told my husband that some say to wait until the morning to pee. So he's like "we must wait."
We went out for Thai food. He started vomiting. I thought fuck it, I'm going to take the test. I go to the bathroom and he follows me in just talking. So I had to pee like 3 hours later and again he followed me. I slammed the door. "You pooping?" "Yes, I have to shit." So I lied and said I was shitting when took my test.
I came out saying "josh...fuck....shit...holy shit." "We're you sick off of the Thai too?" "No. Holy fuck. We're pregnant. Shit." Guess it was such a bad reaction that he stepped back and said "I thought we wanted this?" I did/do, but I was just so in shock of getting pregnant our first time trying.
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