All Posts Tagged With: "unable to get pregnant"

Taking a Break from Fertility Treatment…

We are taking a break from fertility treatment. I just can’t take it anymore, all the popping pills and injections – it was sending me crazy. The intrauterine insemination was so clinical. Don’t get me wrong, the guys at the fertility clinic are amazing, they really are, but I just need to [...]

27Jul2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Positive Thinking for Pregnancy

Positive thinking for pregnancy is something that I have never really thought about until now. We went to a kids birthday party a couple of days ago. There was a couple there who I hadn’t met before, my husband had worked with the guy so he introduced me to him and then both [...]

23Jul2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Fertile Cervical Mucus at Last…

This month we have been stimulating ovulation with Gonal F Injections instead of Clomid and this is the first month for a long time that I have had some of the egg white fertile cervical mucus. I have mentioned this to my fertility guy who says this is a good sign. The only [...]

13Jul2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Intrauterine Insemination Number 2 didn’t work

Well, it’s official, the second month of Intrauterine Insemination was unsuccessful. So sorry, but this post is going to be a bit glum. How much more can we take of this, not sure. I don’t know whether to have a break for a couple of months and recharge ourselves. The money involved [...]

23Jun2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Intrauterine Insemination Videos….

I made a couple of videos I wanted to share with you on where we are at with trying to conceive…..

21Jun2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Intrauterine Insemination – Round 2

When I went back to Paul Stokes on day 18 and told him about the negative results of the LH surge test he said that was good. He didn’t want there to have been a LH surge on Sunday as this would mean that day 18 (when I was seeing him) would have been [...]

19Jun2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Intrauterine Insemination on day 19…..

It’s been a while since I have posted about what is happening on the baby front, so I thought that I would let you know where I am at. I was due to have a scan 5 days ago (day 12 of my cycle) to see if the size of the follicles and hopefully [...]

7Jun2010 | Hayley Louise | 2 comments | Continued

Intrauterine Insemination – didn’t work for us this month…

No, the HCG shot and artificial insemination didn’t work this month. I actually found out on Friday, but I have been upset about it all weekend so only now feel able to do this post, sorry for the delay. I had my appointment yesterday with Paul Stokes, fertility guy who did an internal [...]

24May2010 | Hayley Louise | 1 comment | Continued

Blood Test was on Friday – did I ovulate ?

My blood test to follow up on the intrauterine insemination was on last Friday – but I don’t find out the results until this next Friday. It will confirm that yes I did ovulate, hopefully. Paul Stokes words to me were ‘we well see whats going on’ that’s at this Fridays appointment. [...]

16May2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Intrauterine Insemination – fingers crossed XXX

Well, today was day 12 and it was the day for the artificial insemination. I was quite nervous about it to be honest, hoping that everything would go ok. I kept myself busy in the morning to try to distract myself from thinking too much about it all. Here’s how the day [...]

8May2010 | Hayley Louise | 1 comment | Continued

HCG shot – I didn’t feel a thing….

I went in yesterday for my internal scan which would verify whether or not I would ovulate this month and if yes, how soon. This would determine when they would give me the HCG shot.
I don’t know why but I got myself really stressed out about the whole thing, which I know will not [...]

6May2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Cant get Pregnant…..now it’s onto injection and IUI…………

Since my last post a couple of days ago – things have changes. We scraped together the $800 and are now doing the the IUI and injection treatment. I know that I said I would wait and have another month on Clomid but when I got home and thought about it – I [...]

2May2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Not Pregnant………..Last Month of Clomid…..

Well, I am still NOT pregnant – why, I don’t know. I had my appointment today with Paul Stokes and I ovulated again last month with the Clomid but still no pregnancy. That’s 3 months of ovulating with 100mg Clomid and no pregnancy. I could see that he was mulling over what [...]

30Apr2010 | Hayley Louise | 1 comment | Continued

Is April the month ? Please let me be Pregnant……

I thought that I would do a quick post to let you all know where we are at with trying for a baby. I am on day 29 of my cycle today. It’s been another month on 100 mg Clomid. At the moment I am crossing everything – hoping that April will [...]

24Apr2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Ovulation and Conception – it comes around so fast

Ovulation and conception time comes around so fast every month. I spend the week when I discover I am not pregnant upset and wondering if it will ever happen and then before I know it the time to try to conceive is upon us again. I am trying to relax and tell myself [...]

9Apr2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Cant Get Pregnant……. March was not the month for us

Another month with no pregnancy, got my period a couple of days ago. I was a bit down for a couple of days, but now I am ok. I had my appointment yesterday with Paul Stokes who said that I had, had a good cycle this month. He can tell this from [...]

29Mar2010 | Hayley Louise | 3 comments | Continued

100mg of Clomid is working – Yippee, now just need to get pregnant !

I had my appointment yesterday with Paul Stokes who confirmed that I ovulated this month again with the second dose of 100mg of Clomid. The only thing is that I ovulated late, he thinks day 16 was the day I ovulated. The dates he gave us to try to conceive were days 11, [...]

25Mar2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Clomid Again For Me

Well, I had my appointment with Paul Stokes, fertility specialist this week who confirmed that increasing the dosage of clomid up to 100mg had made me ovulate. I was so pleased about this that it took a bit away from the disappointment of another month of not actually getting pregnant (I got my period [...]

8Mar2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Can t get Pregnant – Short Luteal Phase

Well here we are again, it comes around quick doesn’t it ? I have reached day 27 so far this month so compared to last months 26 day cycle and the previous months 25 day cycle it’s an improvement. My fertility guy has told me that I have a short luteal phase so [...]

24Feb2010 | Hayley Louise | 2 comments | Continued

Having Trouble Getting Pregnant – are you stressing?

Are you having trouble getting pregnant and stressing like me? Signs of pregnancy keep occuring month after month but then I am never pregnant. So that’s it! This month I am not taking any notice to any of them. Sore boobs, stomach cramps around implantation time, mucus, feeling sick and any [...]

16Feb2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Ovulation and Fertility – with Clomid

Ovulation and fertility is just not happening for us. I had my appointment yesterday with Paul Stokes my fertility guy who went through what had been happening over the last couple of Clomid attempts. By looking at my progesterone levels that he has because of blood tests, it seems that it’s not working [...]

29Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 6 comments | Continued

Clomid not worked again

To follow on from yesterday, I got my normal period this morning. I contacted my fertility guy yesterday who asked me to call him again today to let him know what was happening – whether it was still a light period and my temperature was still rising. I am going to give him [...]

28Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Am I Pregnant ot Not ? – still haven’t got my period

Just thought that I would put an update on here from yesterday. My temperature has gone up again a little today to 36.82 and I still haven’t got my period, even though I feel like I am going to get it. I can remember feeling this way though whilst I was pregnant with [...]

27Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 2 comments | Continued

Am I Pregnant or not ?

Am I Pregnant or not? Every month you find yourself asking the same question – it’s starting to drive me a little crazy! I am on my second month of Clomid and I am now on day 27 of my cycle and to be honest up until yesterday, I did begin to think [...]

26Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

Period and Pregnancy

Ringing Paul today, I got my period last night.
Its hard to not get down about the fact that I cant get pregnant and keep positive. My heart goes out to any woman who does not already have children and is going through this. Much as I really and truly want another child to complete [...]

11Nov2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued

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