All I ever wanted to be when I grew up was a Mommy. I remember in 3rd grade filling out one of those beginning-of-the-school-year-get-to-know-you pages and putting down "homemaker" in the blank after the question "What is Your Dream Job?"
I come from a long line of fertile myrtles. I mean my great-grandmother's name is Myrtle for goodness sakes! I always assumed I'd be the same and whenever I wanted - I'd pop out a baby. Twas not so.
I only have my personal experience. God's timing in regards to Motherhood is different for all of us, so I can only share how TTCN (trying to conceive naturally) happened for me and my husband, Tim.
Soon after we married I was diagnosed with PCOS - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. These are tiny cysts that appear as though there is a pearl necklace around your ovaries. This stacks some major odds against conceiving naturally, and if you are lucky enough to get pregnant, now the odds are against carrying your pregnancy full-term. Doctors say PCOS is incurable.
Good News: We were able to conceive naturally without the use of any drugs and I carried our daughter full-term. It took 4 years of trying, but we have a daughter. Healthy. Thank you, God.
More Good News: The first ultrasound I had once pregnant showed my ovaries to be normal size and there was not a single cyst.
Four Years. That amounts to a lot of trying and hoping and waiting...rinse...repeat. There is a VERY long list of steps we took to get to the point of a positive pregnancy test.
I won't be covering everything in one entry or I would never be finished. So here is a little Table of Contents in the works:
1. Prayer and Submission
2. Finding the Right Doctor
3. The Role of Hormones
4. Diet - Hers
5. Diet - His
6. Herbs, Extracts, and Supplements
7. Exercise
8. Chiropractic
9. Acupuncture
10. Massage
11. Timing: Ovulation Calculators, Ovulation Predictor Test Kits, and the Rhythm Method
12. The Fun in Trying :)
I may take a break from the Conceiving Naturally series, but all these parts will be covered in time.
I come from a long line of fertile myrtles. I mean my great-grandmother's name is Myrtle for goodness sakes! I always assumed I'd be the same and whenever I wanted - I'd pop out a baby. Twas not so.
I only have my personal experience. God's timing in regards to Motherhood is different for all of us, so I can only share how TTCN (trying to conceive naturally) happened for me and my husband, Tim.
Soon after we married I was diagnosed with PCOS - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. These are tiny cysts that appear as though there is a pearl necklace around your ovaries. This stacks some major odds against conceiving naturally, and if you are lucky enough to get pregnant, now the odds are against carrying your pregnancy full-term. Doctors say PCOS is incurable.
Good News: We were able to conceive naturally without the use of any drugs and I carried our daughter full-term. It took 4 years of trying, but we have a daughter. Healthy. Thank you, God.
More Good News: The first ultrasound I had once pregnant showed my ovaries to be normal size and there was not a single cyst.
Four Years. That amounts to a lot of trying and hoping and waiting...rinse...repeat. There is a VERY long list of steps we took to get to the point of a positive pregnancy test.
I won't be covering everything in one entry or I would never be finished. So here is a little Table of Contents in the works:
1. Prayer and Submission
2. Finding the Right Doctor
3. The Role of Hormones
4. Diet - Hers
5. Diet - His
6. Herbs, Extracts, and Supplements
7. Exercise
8. Chiropractic
9. Acupuncture
10. Massage
11. Timing: Ovulation Calculators, Ovulation Predictor Test Kits, and the Rhythm Method
12. The Fun in Trying :)
I may take a break from the Conceiving Naturally series, but all these parts will be covered in time.
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