I moved to Denver, CO in June 2008 and still adjusting to life in CO which is a complete 180 to the life I lived in Sunny CA. I’ve been married for 7.5 years to an amazing man (Eric). I love to cook & experiment new recipes in the midst of dealing with infertility for the past 6 years.
I value & try to live life authentically while sharing my experiences with infertility so that I can hopefully help give insight on the treatments I’ve had to endure in order to get pregnant and to eventually keep a lasting pregnancy. I love my existing friendships based in LA but I also need to develop new authentic friendships in Denver in order to for me to survive. Most importantly I need to continually have faith and to trust God.
Infertility Diagnosis: PCOS and MFTHR Mutation (both strands).
Fertility methods: trying to conceive naturally (2 years), clomed along with IUI (1 year), metformin, clomed and IUI (1 years), femera along with IUI (4 months), Repronex injections along with IUI (2 years). I have gotten pregnant three times only to end up with miscarriages. Our chromosome tests came back negative so maybe it’s this mutation that is causing these miscarriages.
Treatments: My medicine cabinet consistedof Lovenox injections (40 cc 2x’s per day), extra folic acid (4x’s the regular amount), vitamins B6 & B12, prenatal vitamins, progesterone suppositories (200 mg 2x per day) and metformin (1000mg) until 14wks.
Outcome: On 8/27/08 I was taken off of Lovenox treatments in order get the Lovenox out of my system before I was induced. On 8/29/08 we went to the hospital and finally on 8/30/08, I had a baby boy (Asher Ericson).
Hey! I’m so loving your blog…i just discovered it and i’m going thru something similar. I’m so curious to know about your appointment today. I’m sending you all great vibes…Please post any thoughts or feelings when you can.
I am on my 4th miscarriage in 15 months. My problem does not lie with not being able to get pg, but that i’m not getting pregnant with healthy babies. I’ve had 2 miscarriages tested and each was a chromosome abnormality. I just started to see a fertility specialist and I planned to go thru something called PGD in March and i think i may have accidentally conceived. I’m terrified just like you are……I mean, it could work out, but if it doesn’t it will be my fifth loss and further delay my fertility treatments. I’m running out optimisim….
I am SO praying for you!!
Hi Natalie,
I stumbled onto your blog looking for infor regarding the MTHFR mutation, which I have “both” copies of. I have one son and then three miscarriages. I am now pregnant, yeah! But my ob/gyn doesn’t confer with my specialist as to if the MTHFR mutation is causing the miscarriages or is it my age. Yep, I’m getting the age speak although if I had told them I was trying to get pregnant, would have gotten the same old (but not tried and true!) philosophy from the medical community. Anyway, how are the injections going? My ob/gyn doesn’t necessarily want to go with the injections because he thinks it’s my age but…isn’t he prejucing his medical advice. I mean maybe it’s NOT; maybe it IS the mutation. I am going to tell him I want whatever protocol he would recommend for a woman with the exact same history as me but twenty years younger!!
Congrats on the baby news! I have a question. I have also just been diagnosed with MTHFR mutation (both strands) and am waiting to hear back about PCOS. Were you able to conceive naturally???
I was actulaly not able to conceive naturally. I had to go thru a series of fertility treatments and ended up doing injectables (Repronex) due to the fact that my body wouldn’t produce a period except for maybe once a year. I thought this was great at first until I realized this actually meant I was not be able to produce follicules on my own and would have a difficult time trying to conceive naturally which has been the case. Good luck and let me know if there’s anything I can help you with!
Natalie,
Hi! I am friends with Becky Johnson and my husband and I go to Adullum. I would love to meet you some time. I know our stories are not identical, but maybe a bit similar. I have found peace in Christ, but it has been very hard! I look forward to meeting you sometime……
Aleisha