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This frustrating and painfully long 8-year journey has certainly led me somewhere good – to God. Yes, I have cursed at him and expressed my confusion at his choices of whom to impregnate with great regularity. But over the past 6 months I have felt a great calling. And I am beginning to trust in [...]

I am so conflicted when it comes to adoption. Will my family be able to love a baby that is biologically not ours? Will my husband? Will I? Will be be able to get a baby? We can’t handle adopting an older child. We simply dont have the psychological skill. But the process here is [...]

 To be honest, I feel so jealous of my 14 year old pregnant neighbour. Today is her baby shower and she looks so pretty in her pregnant dress. I wonder what it would be like to feel pregnant and have a baby growing in me and here this little girl gets to experience it. Oh, [...]

Apart from poor endometrial receptivity which I wrote about in a previous article apparently there are other factors which can affect the quality of the lining. As most women trying to conceive a baby know, estrogen and progesterone are critical factors in uterine lining and implantation. Adequate estrogen is required early in the cycle to ensure [...]

From my research into finding our more about my fertility challenges, I have investigated and continue to investigate implantation issues. Given how beautiful my Basal Body Temperature (BBT) charts have been over the years and the fact that  I seem to ovulate successfully every cycle, I have always suspected that there might be issues with [...]

There is an advertisement for a popular early home pregnancy test that talks about how wonderrful it would be to know that you are pregnant hours after you conceived.  And to the many women struggling with infertility and desperate to have a baby, it certainly would be wonderful. Pregnancy refers to the successful implantation of a [...]

In the past few weeks my hope has disappeared. My focus on the positive has evaporated and my belief that surely we will succeed and get pregnant has become a myth that I keep trying to force myself to believe in.   I believe that focusing on trying to conceive has something to do with it. The [...]

So today I had my first acupuncture session for this cycle. My acupunturist decided that she is going to be very aggressive this month. She needled the points in the back for the first time – these points are specificially geared towards increasing blood flow to the reproductive system. She also did a whole slew [...]

So, here I am at the start of cycle # 90. Yep, you read it right – its been 90 cycles since I first started on this journey to conceive a baby. I conceived once. No baby yet though. But maybe this will be my magic cycle. Maybe 90 will be my magic number. It [...]

Well, here is a question I never thought I would be thinking of. I always thought that financially it would be so far out of reach that we could never consider it. But now my mom has offered to help with the cost – out of the blue. That is so sweet of her. The painful [...]

I have been trying to have a baby for over seven years now and the insanity and mercurial nature of the emotions that accompany this journey never cease to surprise me. Over the last cycle, I was on vacation with the Dear Husband. We totally relaxed for the first time in years. We had alot [...]

The dear husband and I had another fight about money. Alot of couples with fertility issues do. Everything about not being able to get pregnant costs money – from finding out why we  cant conceive to trying new treatments to get pregnant. And not a little bit of money either. The diagnostics cost so much. [...]

Yes I know I will get pregnant at the perfect time and in the perfect situation because whenever it happens will be the perfect time and perfect situation. But I so wish that it were now. There was a time when I resented that drug addicts and twelve year old girls would get pregnant but [...]

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.” In March 09, we decided to be very focused about our use of Traditional Chinese Medicine to help enhance our fertility. So in April, we enlisted the services of an internationally recognised Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner who [...]

~ Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ~ So today I made a decision. I had my acupuncture appointment and my acupuncturist who is just wonderful, commented that I need to relax and be flexible and not try to control everything. And it totally amazed me that in just a few sessions [...]

~ Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.  ~ So today I was supposed to visit my ob/gyn to get a pap smear and investigate the bump on my cervix. Here is the kicker that only those actively trying to conceive will understand: Today is 13 dpo (days past ovulation) for me. And I was terrified that having [...]

This final tip to help you lower your FSH is very simple: Wheatgrass. Wheatgrass has been shown to help lower FSH levels. You can purchase it as a capsule or a powder and have it in some water. Taken daily, it can literally works wonders. I know several women who have followed these tips and have brought [...]

~ Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. ~ We have talked about using herbs, acupuncture and making dietary changes to help lower your high FSH. Now we are going to talk about making another important lifestyle change; one which can be challenging for those of us leading [...]

~ Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, to those who still love even though they’ve been hurt before. ~ Ok, this is totally freaky. As soon as I decided to try to stop obsessing over the possibility of being pregnant, [...]

Well I am either on 5 dpo or 7 dpo today. For the first time ever I am not sure what day I ovulated on. Go figure. From my temperature jump, it might have been cd 10 or cd 12.The thing is that I have never ovulated on cd 10 but then the new Herbal [...]