I've got a nice story!
I'm now 28 weeks pregnant.
When we tried to get pregnant I got ill and needed antibiotics. Then my period didn't came anymore.
I also had pregnancy like symptoms.
We were very happy thinking that I was pregnant. But no positive pregnancy tests. We went to the doctor and again nothing.
Lot's of blood tests to find out what's wrong with me. The antibiotics messed around with my thyroid glans. Because of that my periods stayed away. We didn't know if this was going to be temporary or for a long time. If it was going to stay like this for a long time I'd need some medication.
The doctor knew that we were trying to get pregnant. He advice to wait until he know exactly what was going on with me and if I needed medication or not.
I couldn't use any hormonal contraception, because the doctor wanted to know when my normal period would come.
I couldn't use what I normally did. A computer to calculate when my safe and unsafe days were.
So we used condoms. Only just one time in the heat of the moment we forgot about them.
I had an appointment with the doctor about my test results and nothing was changed. My hormones and everything were still out of balance. I told him about the one time we forgot.
His reaction:
Your last period has been over 100 days ago now. Your thyroid glans are still not working like they should.
The change on getting pregnant from that one time is very very low.
A couple of weeks later I had another blood test.
Everything was functioning like they should and I was pregnant!!! (and still am)
I got another blood test a couple of weeks later and again everything was good.
We were so worried, really worried when my period didn't came back anymore. At that time we didn't know what was going on or if it was going to stay that way.
I felt so silly telling my doctor that we only did it without just ones. I thought he'd never believe that. Over 100 days and then when I finally had a fertile moment after so long. We did it without and got pregnant. But that's how it went.
On that moment it was such a small change on getting pregnant and it happened.
I understand that you're worried. Unfortunately not everyone is as lucky as we were. But it's possible.
Just 1 egg and 1 little swimmer, that's all what it takes.
In my partners family there is a couple and it took them over 15 years to get pregnant. They tried everything there is to try to get pregnant.
After 15 years she got pregnant and not much later they had another child.
A friend of mine told me that her mother was told by her GP that she was infertile. When she met her dad they didn't do anything to stop a pregnancy, because she was infertile.
Then she felt ill. Went to her GP and he did some tests. The result was that she was pregnant. First she didn't wanted to believe him.
My friend said: But here I'm!!! And after me they had my sister.