The Pregnant Pause:Our TTC Journey

Hey everyone! I'm wanting to discuss how your cycles can be affected by a chemical pregnancy. Considering, I have first hand experience with this now I think it might help others who are currently or have recently experienced a chemical pregnancy. Even though chemical pregnancies are miscarriages before 5 weeks (mine was 4 weeks, 1 day) they can still impact the following cycle in different ways. Some women find they take a long time to ovulate afterwards. Some find they ovulate very quickly afterwards and much earlier than usual. That was the case for me. I had read some advice to start OPKs right after my period ended because my hormones could be all out of whack. My period was longer and heavier than normal with a ton of clots. I was finally period free on CD8 and that is when I started OPKs. It was crazy for me to already see a fairly dark line. Granted, it was still negative but I knew that a positive OPK was only days away. On CD10, I had a really dark line on the OPK but...

Well, I'm uttering the words I never thought I'd say. We have just experienced a chemical pregnancy. It sucks. This is how it all went down. We were in Colorado for our two year wedding anniversary and had the most amazing time. Towards the end of our trip I started feeling off. I'd get nauseous and headaches, insane hot flashes, I was drinking water like I was in the desert... Not to mention I ate part of a hard boiled egg in my salad at dinner one night and about died. Anyway,that night we had actually went to see a psychic. Yes, I'm sure some of you just rolled your eyes. It was for fun and I was taking everything she said with a grain of salt. I kid you not though... The first thing she said to me when we walked in was, "Are you pregnant?!" I replied with, "Not that I know of!" She then said that I'd be pregnant this year. She could see that. Well, two days later I was home and decided to take a pregnancy test. I was prescribed 100mg of pro...

Hi everyone! So, we got all of our test results back... Everything looks great! I had CD3 bloodwork done testing my Estradiol, Prolactin, and FSH. *Estradiol was 40 (normal is between 25 and 75) *Prolactin was a 6.6 (normal is under 25) *FSH was 6.8 (great numbers are under 9) DH got his semen analysis results back as well! *Sperm Count was 35.92 million (normal is between 12 and 20 million) *Motility Pre-Wash was 64% (normal over 40%) *Morphology 4% (normal is 5% and under...still not sure how to understand the morphology results but if it's normal, what do I care?) So, overall everything is great with us! I'm scheduled to do an HSG next month just to make sure my fallopian tubes aren't blocked. I don't think there's an issue with them but I guess we'll find out next month! I've also just started a Youtube channel to document my TTC journey as well! Please, feel free to follow along! I'm finishing up the edits on my first video and I...