Uxeplained Infertility - How did you ultimately conceive?

[HopelessGsyGirl]

Curiosity question. If you were diagnosed with unexplained infertility and you managed to successfully conceive, how did you do so?

IVF. I put it off for ages and ages and just kept trying. I with I had just gone ahead and did the ivf sooner tbh. The ivf was less stressful than all the trying and being disappointed for years.

We decided to give fertility lube a go, first month trying it I was pregnant not sure it was coincidence or not…..

Not me but DIL and DS. Forgive me if I say anything wrong, as it wasnt me that went through the heartbreak.
They took years to conceive but also had two very early losses. DIL was taking Clomid and after six years of trying were about to go down the IVF route Their precious baby is due next month.

We had unexplained secondary infertility. For over 6 years. Could get pregnant very easily but sadly would lose them between 6 and 13 weeks. We gave up trying.

It was too much to deal with.

Fell pregnant unexpectedly. Now we have an almost 2 year old and large gap between kids.

TTC DD for 5 years with no diagnosable reason for sub fertility had IVF and conceived first round. DS was a spontaneous conception when DD was 18 months old.

@HopelessGsyGirl did one of the options work for you? I hope so!

I’m actually currently pregnant… 9 weeks tomorrow. I ended up conceiving naturally and being caught by surprise. It was that “classic” we had pretty much given up and accepted it wasn’t going to happen.

I only tested because I was late - I wasn’t actually expecting to get a positive.

Sending baby dust to you ✨

Not me but my niece. Tried to conceive for 7 years with no obvious reasons for infertility. They had all the tests including a HSG. She conceived her daughter within 18 months of having the procedure. This coincided with her changing job to one with less stress and much nearer home so maybe both of these contributed!

She now has 3 beautiful DC. The second one was conceived when her daughter was only 9 months old.

Good luck with your journey op.

lovely to read @HopelessGsyGirl ! Congratulations:) wishing you a smooth and fun pregnancy

Never. After about 6 years trying inc IVF, we adopted instead.

Through ivf. However I am now a strong advocate for pushing for more male factor testing first. My husband had gone to his GP about a varicocele he knew he had not long after we started trying - and it was not taken seriously. His semen analysis came back normal/low-normal on all counts but they do not test for dna fragmentation which varicocele is known to cause (due to heating up the sperm). Then we went to a fertility clinic and they tested me a lot (surely it must be a woman problem!) but did not run any further tests on him. Like many clinics they were all gynaes. No urologists! They did not even offer a dna fragmentation test as an option when I asked. Given the supposedly unexplained nature of our infertility and not wanting to delay things further we ended up doing ivf. This was thankfully successful for us with our third embryo (first fresh transfer failed and second embryo failed to survive the thaw then the third one stuck after a natural modified cycle using my own hormones). I am now 28 weeks pregnant. Because I wanted to know why we could not get pregnant naturally (had tried for over 2 years before ivf) a few days before this embryo transfer we went to see Dr Jonathan Ramsay who is one of the best people - let alone doctors - who I have ever met. So empathetic and knowledgeable and made us feel listened to and validated for the first time. I actually give him some credit for this embryo sticking because he made such a huge impact on my mental health which really helped to relax me. He confirmed that the varicocele was large and therefore definitely significant and ran a dna fragmentation test which showed high fragmentation. Had my husband been tested in the same way I was from the start we may never have needed ivf. We are very lucky to have another embryo in the freezer which we made decide to try and use but if not we are hoping that a hopeful future second child could be naturally conceived. Best of luck to everyone on this path as we both found it really really tough. The sense of loneliness and shame and feeing like the entire world was pregnant except me is not something either of us will forget.