Hi all, don't know if anyone remembers me from a few months back, but just wanted to stop by and share the good news. . .I'm seven weeks pregnant today!
I'm 32 now, PCOS suspected since I was 25. I've always been overweight, and this past May weighed in at a whopping 18st when I started Weight Watchers for the 10th time. I'm only 5'3", but luckily fairly solidly built so at most I've been a UK 22-24.
Three years ago I came off dianette to see whether I had any semblance of a cycle, and I starting charting. My now ex-husband and I 'tried' for a while (in quotes because he didn't like sex very much, so we barely did it once a month). My GP referred me to the fertility unit after an ultrasound to look for fibroids showed enlarged and polycystic ovaries.
With the fertility clinic, XH got his sperm checked and it was fine (funny, no one ever actually asked how much sex we were having!). They officially diagnosed me with PCOS, advised me to lose weight and come back in 6 months. GP put me on metformin and reductil, and I did lose some, but not enough. Advised to keep losing and come back again, but they did schedule an HSG.
By the time the HSG came around, XH and were separated and I was seeing my current DP (this was last June). I went anyway, figuring at least I should know if my pipes were clear. They were fine, and then I was discharged from the fertility unit since XH and I were no longer together.
DP and I decided a few months later (about Sept last year) that we would stop using birth control, mainly because we didn't think I'd get pregnant anyway, and because we knew we were staying together and were both ready to have children if it happened. We were responsible and got STI testing just to be safe, and then quit the condoms. I kept charting because I am a data analyst at heart. We had only about two cycles where we managed to BD within the right timeframe; otherwise we missed it completely or I didn't ovulate. Not surprising since I never knew what day of month O would happen, or if it would happen at all (even with charting CM!).
So fast forward a year, and I'm pregnant! Some major changes have happened--I quit my stressful job in London and we moved north to Warrington in Cheshire in April. DP and I joined WW together and I lost a stone. I started having reflexology. I took agnus castus, multivitamins, omega 3-6-9 oils, & cinnamon. My cycles started to get shorter, and I was ovulating more than I ever had before (and not having those mega 116 day anovulatory cycles).
I found with my charting that I really needed to watch my CM and cervical position to clue myself in to when I would ovulate. The CM wasn't as useful as the CP. Because of being overweight, I seem to have gobs of CM intermittently. But the CP does change day to day, and I could tell my cervix was going higher and softer--got much better at predicting O! We finally managed to BD the day before I ovulated. I had an implantation bleed at 10dpo but thought it was my AF starting early since I normally had an 11 day luteal phase. At 14dpo I was pretty sure something was up and had just the faintest positive...DP didn't even believe it and waited until I took another the next day.
So I'm 7 weeks pg now, never thought it would happen naturally (even for us 'morbidly obese' ladies), completely convinced we'd be going for clomid in the next year or so. Now I'm on to a whole new set of worries, basically whether or not the PCOS is going to make me more likely to miscarry. But just wanted to stop and share and say it can and does happen naturally! Even if I have a MC, I'm so pleased that it actually happened in the first place.