Queenie, congratulations on your news, wishing you all the best for the next 9 months.
I pop on here every so often to hear how everyone is doing, this thread helped me so much in the past. My daughter turned 1 last week, it has gone so fast and felt very emotional. She is such a miracle and I’m so grateful to have her, but I can’t help myself from wanting another baby and for her to have a sibling to play with.
We have ttc naturally a couple of times now, but I had such a traumatic birth that physically and mentally it has taken me along time to recover, I’m still not ‘back to normal’ and doubt I ever will be now, I’ve spent so many years feeling my body is defective with the infertility and now the birth injuries, but if thats the price I have to pay to have my daughter then its worth it.
We still have a couple of frosties at Create, not great quality but neither was the embryo that gave me my daughter. Before we use them I want to ttc naturally for a while, tbh I can’t bear the thought of being messed around with and examined anytime soon. I’ve started taking agnus castus as my cycle which has always been 23 days is now a little shorter, and also plan to give DHEA and clomid a try in the future. I can’t go back down the IVF route as much as I’d love another child I can’t let it take over my life again, and I know if I started I wouldn’t be able to stop. Also we couldn’t really afford it now as I’ve given up work to enjoy a few years with my daughter.
I hope everyone else is doing ok xx