Ok. So here I am one of those couples who have been chasing that thought-so-easy-but-realized-it's-damn-hard pregnancy. I really never thought it's going to be this hard! I came from a big family so fertility issue is not an issue until I got married.
Hubby and I married in our early 30-ish. On our first year we took things in stride until those irritating questions, insensitive jokes and pressure on my ticking biological clock took the wits out of me. Actively trying for me is an understatement. When I started wondering why I couldn't get pregnant I began the painful but still funny TTC journey (just in case you're not 'one of those' I'm talking about TTC is an acronym for Trying To Conceive). I did so many research, through the web of course, I came across with so many informations that gave me hope and at the same time scared me. Hope, because I know that there are so many options and ways for me to boost my fertility. Scared, because what if those informations won't be enough for me or my husband to finally conceive?
With all the infos in the net I have a little white notebook where I jot down all that get my attention; the supposed great fertility specialists, vitamins and minerals we have to take, herbals and organics that need to be included in our supplements, TCM, yoga, best sexual positions (mind you!), healing priests and some Filipino beliefs and traditions. I tediously wrote them down just to ensure I won't miss a thing.
From what I've gotten from the web and forums I have visited to several OB/GYNE, endo-repro and infertility specialists. We had several cycles of clomid, femara, 2 failed IUIs, tons of supplements that's supposed to enhance our reproductive health, scheduled BD (Baby Dancing or SEX), 3 hilot (abdominal massage), acupuncture, kilometers of travel to healing priests and several nights of novena prayers to almost all saints related to children or pregnancy: the likes of St Gerald of Mejilla, St Ann Mother of Mary, St Pio, St Anthony and even St Jude for Hopeless cases. (That's how hopeless we came to be!) Went also to the feasts of St. Claire and St. Pio. We're hoping that faith could somehow help us through with science. But, alas! After more than three years here I am even a false positive I haven't got any.
So why I'm still not pregnant? I don't know! Had I known I would be pregnant by now and you wouldn't be asking me that, right?
With all the infos in the net I have a little white notebook where I jot down all that get my attention; the supposed great fertility specialists, vitamins and minerals we have to take, herbals and organics that need to be included in our supplements, TCM, yoga, best sexual positions (mind you!), healing priests and some Filipino beliefs and traditions. I tediously wrote them down just to ensure I won't miss a thing.
From what I've gotten from the web and forums I have visited to several OB/GYNE, endo-repro and infertility specialists. We had several cycles of clomid, femara, 2 failed IUIs, tons of supplements that's supposed to enhance our reproductive health, scheduled BD (Baby Dancing or SEX), 3 hilot (abdominal massage), acupuncture, kilometers of travel to healing priests and several nights of novena prayers to almost all saints related to children or pregnancy: the likes of St Gerald of Mejilla, St Ann Mother of Mary, St Pio, St Anthony and even St Jude for Hopeless cases. (That's how hopeless we came to be!) Went also to the feasts of St. Claire and St. Pio. We're hoping that faith could somehow help us through with science. But, alas! After more than three years here I am even a false positive I haven't got any.
So why I'm still not pregnant? I don't know! Had I known I would be pregnant by now and you wouldn't be asking me that, right?
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