I am currently pregnant with my third child.  This pregnancy came as something of a surprise!  It took three years of trying, lots of infertility testing, various treatments, and finally IVF to have our last baby.  I was told that I had tubal infertility, and that IVF was almost certainly the only way we would conceive.

I got pregnant with my oldest child at the young age of seventeen as a result of missing only four birth control pills.  I wasn't planning to get pregnant obviously, but clearly fertility wasn't an issue for me years ago.  So, clearly something happened to my fallopian tubes sometime between then and my early thirties when my husband and I started trying to conceive.

I admit that I was rather careless about using protection during my twenties.  I had quite a bit of sex with quite a few people during those years, and likely contracted an infection, such as Chlamydia, which scarred my tubes.  Upon finding out that my tubes were damaged, I was immediately filled with grief and regret over my earlier sexual behavior.  However, there is no undoing the past.  Moving forward is the only option.

Most of this website will focus on the changes I made that I believe resulted in my current pregnancy and quite possibly a cure for my infertility, which is completely natural, after being diagnosed with tubal infertility. 

I am thirty eight years old as well, so this pregnancy is really quite miraculous upon first glance.  However, I did in fact start taking the fertility product FertilAid a few months before I conceived.  I hadn't yet reached the point of doing any charting or ovulation testing.  I just thought I would take it regularly for a good six months and "see what happened".  Also, I had purchased a good infertility hypnosis mp3 and was listening to it every night as I went to bed.  Often I fell asleep with it running and let it loop over and over into my ears as I slept.  I'm a firm believer in "sleep programming".  Finally, I gave up actually trying.  The stress, depression and outright grief from my former era of infertility were gone.  I've been the happiest I've ever been over the last year.

Happiness is healing.  Stress is most definitely not.

My infertility testing showed that one of my fallopian tubes is completely blocked somewhere in the middle of the tube, which is the hardest blockage to repair.  My other fallopian tube, the left one, is very narrow and it took lots of pressure to force dye through it during both of my HSGs.  Our RE said that it was clearly damaged and likely not functional, or we would have already been pregnant.  After three years of very intense "trying" I believed her.  Combining my tubal infertility with the fact that I was just turning thirty-five, meant that we didn't have time to waste.

Due to my hormone testing results, and my antral follicle count, we were given about a 60% chance of success with out first IVF.  We did in fact get pregnant...with twins actually (lost one to premature birth), but at this clinic about half of the time no pregnancy resulted from IVF.  If I had been even a few years older, our chances would have gone down even further.  Most fertility clinics have an even lower success rate than the one we picked.  So, countless couples spend thousands of dollars ($12,000 in our case), go through the grueling daily self-injection process, and end up with no baby to show for it.  I was terrified that this would happen to us, but it didn't.  We do in fact have a beautiful two year old daughter.

I would always advocate doing everything you can to get pregnant naturally.  While we do have a child as a result of IVF, we originally conceived twins.  I gave birth to our daughters at only twenty-five weeks, both weighing only  1 lb. 7 oz.,  at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco.  One of our daughters died of an infection only seven days after birth.  Our living daughter spent three months in the NICU on oxygen and almost died a few times.  Both of our baby girls suffered as a result of this premature birth.  We were told that this was almost certainly a result of carrying multiples.  I am not likely to have a premature birth this time since I am only carrying one baby.  I don't regret doing IVF since we wouldn't have our daughter today if we hadn't done it, but I know that any sensible person would not want to conceive twins on purpose knowing the horrible risks involved.

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