Introductions (warning long post)

[KDinCO]

Can we have an introductions thread? It seems like some of you know eachother because you've been araound the TTC forum, right? I just joined so here is my story that lead me to this surprise but much anticipated pregnancy...

DH and I were married in 2003. We might have TTC sooner but we have overcome many hurdles. We both lost our jobs the first year we were married and became victims of the poor job market. We had just bought a house and were blindsided with the loss of income. It was a long road getting back on our feet after that. Our marriage was surely tested! In 2006 I was in a bad car accident and sustained a head injury. A year later I was diagnosed with epilepsy and the whole medication taper process took a long time. I got a new job where I worked for 3 years and it was horrible. It's a long story. I would be kind to just say that my boss was demanding and I believe borderline abusive sometimes. Last November I walked out. It was something I would never thought I would do but I don't think I would have ever left if I kept listening her yell at me. The moment I left, it was like a ton of brick were lifted off my chest. I would have never had a baby while working there. First of all, she was a small business and offered nothing in the way of short-term disability. Not to mention her expectations and demands of my time and energy, I don't think she would have been sympathetic to my needs during pregnancy or after the pregnancy if I needed to take my baby to daycare and pick her up at a certain time or if I needed the day off because the baby is sick. I was only unemployed for a month before, through my persistant networking, I got my job now as a front office lead at an outpatient diagnostic imaging center. As soon as I was elegible I signed up fpr the STD plan and I saw my neurologist about the risks of being on antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy in planning to get pregnant this year. Then there was another set-back, I hurt my back. I actually have a buldged disc at L4-L5 vertebrae. It's not severe enough for surgery and my pain is controlled 95% of the time so I didn't persue any steroid injections. I am at the end of my physical therapy allowance by my insurance. I am scared about what this pregnancy will do to my back.

I'm sorry for such a long post but here I am at age 33 expecting my first baby! There's no looking back! Don't be fooled by my post about my husband being afraid of all this. He has been a wonderful support through everything and our marriage has never been stronger.

[breabayne]

<3 It is amazing how strong babies can be and what odds they can beat to come into this world!!

and I do not think any of us question how supportive your husband is. Like I said in my response...they all do it! It is scary becoming a daddy so I hear!

okay for my story...I will try to make it short!

I was in and out of hospitals, ER's, and numerous different doctors, and surgeries when I was 11! I was soooo sick and no one had any idea what was wrong with me. At 17 I was diagnosed with endometriosis and was told that with my unknown medical issues and this on top of it that I would never be able to get pregnant. When I first started dating my husband I made sure that he was alright with adoption because I never thought pregnancy was in my cards. After a month of dating he took me in for an exploritory surgery which was canceled due to a positive pregnancy test! (we were beyond shocked!) Shortly after losing this baby I became extremely ill and was put into the hospital when they found out in 2009 that I have adrenal disease and this is what has made me so sick for years and the baby had put me into adrenal shock! The baby was my saving grace! <3 Pregnancy and labor most likely would have killed me if I had gone through it without knowing of my disease and having it treated! It took me months to recover and adjust to the treatments and we got married and started ttc again! we STC for 9 months because I do not ovulate on my own often and when I do I do not ovulate strong enough eggs.....(as if I needed any more issues!) lol After 4 round of fertility treatments and one more m/c we got our beautiful baby boy Jaxon on May 6, 2011! <3

My baby fever got BAD after having him! I breast fed until he was 13 months old and I got my first period back june 4th. We worked HARD to get pregnant that month on our own and we did and lost the baby at 4 weeks and 2 days on friday the 13th! I was devastated because it was so unexpected to wake up bleeding like I did. After discussing things with my doctor and Justin we agreed that I needed to let my body level back out (m/c are really hard on my body and throw my body off balance with my cortisone levels) and we would start on fertility meds again in sept. I was told that my body would not be able to produce strong enough eggs for pregnancy yet again when they were hoping that pregnancy would've changed my infertility issues. When I O on my own I never O before CD 20! So I cut him off after CD17! We did not use baby friendly lube and we used condoms off and on....yeah....my body had other plans. I started to become really ditzy (yes that is a symptom for me) so I tested just out of curiosity and I have no idea how still but it seems we have a very sticky cupcake! <3 I am still in shock and just can not believe it.

[Lunarmoon]

We started trying to conceive in November 2 years ago. I had long cycles, up to 80+ days sometimes. My OBGYN was aware that we were trying but wouldn't do anything because I am young. (25 at the time) Finally in Jan-Feb of this year I was able to convince her that I needed help, she put me on unmonitored CLOMID cycle. It made me over the top crazy, and I would NOT go back on it a second time. (depression was a big problem, especially with everyone around me getting pregnant, which leads me to feel the need to explain (those in the TTC room with me know already) that my IL's are nasty and mean people. ) Anyway, I decided to go to a specialist because my OBGYN did not take me seriously. It took me two months or so because of timing in my cycle, but in May I was finally able to be put on Femara. I could see the differences in my cycles, but after two (what seemed to be perfect cycles) and yet nothing, I was giving up. In August, I had planned to do Femara, IUI, and trigger shot, which I didn't want to do, but whatever it takes... My mind was done though, I was finished trying. I went on vacation and didn't test or temp at all. I came back on 13DPO, and asked if I should test the next day, and I did just for the heck of it. You know how that went! ;) I truly believed I wasn't pregnant and that I never would be! All my hope was gone, and I was wishing not to have to take the next step, and here I am. I am so grateful to be where I am today!! (Now you can see why I want twins so I never have to ttc again, it breaks you down. I know it might be different, but the fear is still there.)

@Brea- I think since this baby fought so hard to get here, it's going to keep fighting!! Strong like momma!! So happy for you!

[mattiehatter]

DH and I met in 2007 both recovering from rough relationships. We weren't looking for a relationship, but very quickly ended up in one. I told him from the get go that I don't casually date that if I get into a relationship with someone it's for the long haul. I also told him that my exes and my relationship ended after I told him about a miscarriage that I had with him (another story altogether). At a year and a half I told him I wanted to get married to him and in June 2010 we finally tied the knot. In May 2010 we decided that if we forgot condoms we didn't care because we both wanted at least one more (he has 2). AF arrived on my wedding day and one of my bridesmaids got pregnant that night. I had a feeling that ttc would be a difficult road and by October I began to temp and use OPK's. I took a two cycle break and upon my return to ttc I found out I was pregnant. It ended not long after in a chemical. I was devastated to say the least. Two months later I discovered yet again that I was pregnant and for a second time it ended in a chemical. I experienced my longest cycle ever after that.

Last year during the holidays we took a very long break from ttc and somewhere in that time I gave up temping. In January we resumed ttc again and in March after an unusual cycle I took a pregnancy test that I swore was faintly positive. Not sure what to call that one 3 of 5 tests all looked faintly positive. Once April hit I became very depressed and stop coming to APA. Every once in awhile I would come in to see if any of the ladies I had gotten to know over time had made it to a DD room, congratulate them and leave again. This pregnancy is a very welcome and happy surprise. I honestly began to imagine if I would be okay if I didn't have kids. After nearly 27 months ttc is exhausting.

[KDinCO]

Thanks ladies!

[mother of seven]

my story DH an i met may 10th "04" i had my oldest son when we met he was born 10-21-03 . we married feb 19th "05" faith was born 4-19-05 then hunter 7-17-06 then jolene 2-16-08 then wyatt 11-30-09 and elizabeth 11-7-10 they were 11 months apart DH had a vast. in june 2010 in may 10th 2012 he had VR 8yr to the day we meet and know we have a wonderful bundle on the way we have been blessed we bought our home last year and then last Dec. we bought a van that could hold 12 it was very luck. i catch a lot of crap from people foe having a large family but i would not change it for the world

[breabayne]

That is A LOT of kids! <3 I would have a ton if I thought my body could handle more pregnancies or the task of raising that many!! haha My adrenal disease limits when I can do and I do not think I could be the mother that I want to be if we go past 3, (but I am pretty sure this little one will be our last....were just leaving the option for three just in case we change our minds!)

Major props to you for being able to have so many little babies! <3

[KDinCO]

A lot of my family members are from large families. My mom's sister had nine kids (seven of them boys) and my brother-in-law is the youngest of tewlve. I have no problem with it. Now that they are all adults, I think it is really cool how they all care for eachother and support eachother and their parents! I am a lot younger then all of them so I don't know what they were like as kids. My aunt and uncle were farmers in Nebraska so I am sure thos seven boys were put to work and the two girls as well!

[mother of seven]

i am from a family of four then my parents adopted my sister my DH just had his sister so he was sure he wanted a big family i just pray i can go to term with this one

[breabayne]

I hope you can too! I always wanted 6 kids! Lol

So I have to ask...what's the reason for three tickers? Is it supposed to be good luck?!

[mother of seven]

one tells me what the baby looks like and one shows me what it looks like and i like FF and i paid for it so why not use it. and the one that show me what the baby looks like tells when each Trimester starts and i think it is my good luck charm i love being pregnant and i love to show it

[breabayne]

Makes sense! =) I love being pregnant too and I am just over the moon that we did it ourselves without fertility treatment! <3 I can't wait to tell everyone but it's far too early

[mother of seven]

i can't keep my mouth shut we told the world a week ago

[breabayne]

Hahaha I have a hard time. But it's even harder to explain to people that we lost a pregnancy do we're trying to keep it to ourselves for awhile. =)

[Lunarmoon]

I'm wishing for you both! You both deserve those bundles in your belly!! <3 My husband is from a big family, he is one of 6. We only want the two though!! Wish I could be done with them!! lol I don't want to ttc again!!

[Lunarmoon]

Bumping up the page for others to add!

[Abbyclayton]

My story-- my husband was my brothers best friend in college. We started dating in 2005 and got married in 2007 after a break up because he was told he probably couldn't have children and he knew I wanted them... He didn't tell me why at first but did when we got back together. After we were married a year I decided to go off birth control since I didn't need it and 5 months later I was preggo!!! Finally we decided to try again and it took over a year and using ovulation prediction test and lots of praying we are preggo with #2!

[christianaaa]

My name is Christiana !! Dbf is Greg. We haven't been together for very long but they say when you meet the right person you just know. We have been together for a year and a half and have been ttc since September when I had my IUD removed. This cycle I had spotting in the beginning and i thought that was weird ... I started to have strange symptoms such as waking up to use the bathroom... And night sweats . I didn't think for once I was pregnant honestly, we had gone so many months with negatives I didnt think we had any chance. Thanks to the poas pushers in the ttc room I tested last night and the line showed up right away! Greg is SO excited. He was like "what do we do now ?!" Ahahah the funny thing is, the only difference between this month and any other month is that I read 50 shades. Hahah Christian grey got me pregnant!!!!

Anyway, we are due April 28th and we can nottt wait !!!

[Lunarmoon]

My story-- my husband was my brothers best friend in college. We started dating in 2005 and got married in 2007 after a break up because he was told he probably couldn't have children and he knew I wanted them... He didn't tell me why at first but did when we got back together. After we were married a year I decided to go off birth control since I didn't need it and 5 months later I was preggo!!! Finally we decided to try again and it took over a year and using ovulation prediction test and lots of praying we are preggo with #2!

That is such a great story!! Congrats!!!

My name is Christiana !! Dbf is Greg. We haven't been together for very long but they say when you meet the right person you just know. We have been together for a year and a half and have been ttc since September when I had my IUD removed. This cycle I had spotting in the beginning and i thought that was weird ... I started to have strange symptoms such as waking up to use the bathroom... And night sweats . I didn't think for once I was pregnant honestly, we had gone so many months with negatives I didnt think we had any chance. Thanks to the poas pushers in the ttc room I tested last night and the line showed up right away! Greg is SO excited. He was like "what do we do now ?!" Ahahah the funny thing is, the only difference between this month and any other month is that I read 50 shades. Hahah Christian grey got me pregnant!!!!

Anyway, we are due April 28th and we can nottt wait !!!

I'm so happy for you!!!

[breabayne]

Welcome ladies

[lalymommy]

I guess I haven't posted here

DH and I got married in 2005, in sept 2007 we decided we were ready to TTC, got preggo on the first try and had the love of my life in June 2008, my DS Fernando, it was a textbook perfect pregnancy and delivery.
In 2010 we got a surprise BFP in June, we were over the moon and told the whole world, everything was fine until around 11 weeks when I went to wipe abd there was very faint pink on the TP, the doctor assured me it happens to many women and all could be fine but sent me for an US, which showed baby had not progressed past 6 weeks, we were devastaded as we never could imagine that could happen to us. Had a D&C and it took forever to get my cycle back about 6 months. Summer 2011 we decided to try again and got preggo on the first try, this time we did not tell anybody, when I was sent to an early ultrasound they saw it was twins and again they hadn't progressed, another hard hit for us. I decided to take the pill instead of D&C, worst mistake. Supposedly I passed everything but again didn't get my period for almost 8 months until I had a huge bleed and had to have an emergency D&C for retained products, ended up with a bug infection in my endo and was even told that could affect my future fertility. This was all this past March.

We started TTC again in June and got our positive the second cycle using OPK's. And we are praying this one will work out

[MaMa2boys]

Hey everyone,

My name is Andrea, I'm 29 from Oregon and I'm currently expecting my 3rd and final child! After the birth of this little jelly bean I'm having a tubal ligation. This pregnancy was very unplanned and actually occured while on low-dose birth control, I was waiting to start a new cycle and have AF and get Paragard inserted... didn't work out quite as planned and now we are due April 27th, though I don't ever go 40 weeks I'm thinking probably closer to April 14th or so.. Haven't had any ultrasounds yet so not 100% sure on dating since I was on BC I know things can get jumbled a bit.

I am the proud mother of two crazy boys aged 5 and 2, they are wild country boys that spend 80% of their time outside and come in dirty at the end of the day. We live in the country and have lots of animals.. there is never a dull moment. Right now it's a little stressful because my husand and I are both students. I'm studying to become a physical therapist assistant and my husband is in the diesel technology program but he's already a carpenter that works a lot of side jobs. We've been together over 8 years and married for 4.

My first son was unexpected as well and was the product of me being lax with my pill procedures and constantly skipping and messing up the times of my pills.. DH and I were not married yet but living together and living a crazy young life. Corbyn was the shock we needed to get on track and he's been so amazing I owe him for truly saving me and giving me a purpose as a mother. Before I got pregnant I had no intentions of having kids, now I can't even remember who that person was when I was 23.

Before the birth of my second son I had a miscarriage, it was very shocking and stressful. My oldest son was 2 and I had a very uneventful pregnancy with him and had no thought that all pregnancies would be the same, unfortunetly the fetus did not develop past 8W and I had no signs until my 11W US when it showed no heartbeat or development. I tried the pills to start the process but nothing happened so finally at what would have been 13W I had to have a DC and it was SOOOOOOOOOOO stressful, I had the worst assistant ever in the room with me and finally had to scream at her to get out of my room and find my husband now. I pride myself and keeping a leveln head because I too am in nursing but she was heartless and thoughtless, she kept asking me why I was upset and why I was crying.. "really?"

We started TTC after the loss but my cycles were so whacky for awhile and I had a couple chemical pregnancies. I started temping and OPKs and 7 months after the loss, on the original due date of my lost pregnancy I got my BFP with Vincent! I took it as a sign and though I was still very anxious and stressed I had a sense that it was all going to work out.

This new pregnancy was so unexpected I don't think the shock has worn off yet! I can't seem to get excited, just overcome with anxiety..

I look forward to see us all get fat and grumpy together. Happy Healthy 9 to all

[SammyGirl]

Hey Everyone!!
Just found out we are expecting another little one (BFP 08/14/12) This pregnancy was definately unplanned but we are happy and its a blessing.

Me and DH have been married since July 2007 and I was diagnosed with slight PCOS (they said on average I only ovulate 6 months out of the year on my own) so we gave Clomid a try, after the 1st round we found out we were expecting a little one who was born on May 19, 2010. He is an active 2 year old who is talking up a storm and copying everything he sees. He is definately a kid with character lol. Since having him, me and DH haven't used any contraceptive or anything and here we are 2 years later with a positive

[tiggerlb]

I remember you. Welcome back. I am in may but joind april also til may gets moving more.