Trying to conceive before ivf starts....give me your tips!
ZiggyStar
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Tips, tricks and advice needed here!
I've been trying to conceive with ovulation drugs (Clomid) since Dec 2010 (I have polycystic ovarian syndrome - PCOS). My ob/gyn told me last week that if the next 3 months don't work, ivf is the next step....at $9,000 upfront per cycle. :shock: I'm booking my initial ivf appointment next week with the specialist....but I really don't want to go down that path.
I see so many things on the internet about natural fertility therapy etc. Have any of these worked for anyone here? Or is it all bullshit?
Also, has anyone here had a baby by ivf?
Cheers!
I've been trying to conceive with ovulation drugs (Clomid) since Dec 2010 (I have polycystic ovarian syndrome - PCOS). My ob/gyn told me last week that if the next 3 months don't work, ivf is the next step....at $9,000 upfront per cycle. :shock: I'm booking my initial ivf appointment next week with the specialist....but I really don't want to go down that path.
I see so many things on the internet about natural fertility therapy etc. Have any of these worked for anyone here? Or is it all bullshit?
Also, has anyone here had a baby by ivf?
Cheers!
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Awesome! Are you pregnant now? Or trying?
And thanks! :thumbup:
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neither...we're a few months away from trying...but if it happens in the meantime, that would be great as well!
best of luck, Zig!
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Go to a bar, get really drunk, and "meet" your man there, go home, have crazy wild uninhibited sex, let him leave in the morning without a word. I can almost guarantee you'll be pregnant. LOL.
Just kidding, Ziggy. Good luck, and if my wife has any thoughts, I'll pass them on. In the meantime, you can always check their website. I don't know, but there might be tips.
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So um. Not much advice but good luck!
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I'll never forget that awful image when Roseanne and Dan decided to try having another kid. Never watched the show, but I happened to flip past it when they had obviously just "tried", and Roseanne was lying on the bed in her nightie with her legs in the air.
*shudder*
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I think you need to be really relaxed and try not to stress about it too much. I had an ectopic pregnancy (which was extremely painful) and I was stressing after that there was something wrong and I couldn't get pregnant. Hubby took me away for a little while and I just tried to relax while we were away and soon after we got back, I was preggas. So my advice to you would be just try to relax about it and not get too stressed. The very best of luck to you both Ziggy.
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my sister's first pregnancy ended up ectopic as well. they had trouble conceiving after that. but now they have a wonderful 2 and half year old boy! never give up, Zigs!
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Yeah, I've started doing the whole tilting pelvis trick....and making sure I have plenty of orgasms to push those little spermies along.
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Thanks....I'm not really stressed at all about it yet. I am getting a bit sick of the internal scans each month on day 12, and the blood tests, and waiting at pharmacies etc and the crazy side effects I'm getting from the Clomid (awesome visual trails like I'm on acid....but which make me feel sick as well)....but all in all we're in pretty good spirits about it all....and having a hell of a lot of fun in the process.
However now I've been told "three more months max until ivf", I'm starting to think "Fuck! This needs to happen NOW damnit!!" :x
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Yeah my sister's first pregnancy was an ectopic....and she lost one of her fallopian tubes. She has a 20 month old now....but has been trying for 13 months for number 2.
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It's bullshit that ivf is so fucking expensive!
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haha Several people on the pit have called my future baby "Ziglet". I think it might stick.
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Yo. My wife has polycystic ovarian syndrome and had some cysts removed when she was 18 or 19 and wasn't sure if she could have babies. Then a while before we had she had an ectopic pregnancy. Just one day she woke up in extreme pain and couldn't even get out of bed, and yeah she had had an ectopic pregnancy. Wearied for ages before we had zara, like over a year. Then tried for even longer before we had Stella. But yeah, all I can say is keep plugging away.
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Ziggy is living in sin and gonna have a child out of wedlock. She probably won't even have it christened or baptised or something. And she cusses a lot.
haha Thanks Jen! If I have the baby in NZ, I'll have kiwi kids....how strange. I think it's kinda cool.
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Having children out of wedlock....I am a bad BAD human being. :twisted:
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Yep....twice. All good.
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