Hi! I just found this forum. I have a two year old son at home but went through a great deal of tragedy in order to bring a baby home. My first son was born by crash c-section at 41 weeks. He died 35 hours later. I then miscarried twin girls nine months later. Three months after that I got pregnant with my son who is now at home.
We waited to start ttc after I stopped nursing when my son was 20 months old and thought that with our track record of getting pregnant the first 1-2 months of trying that it would be the same way. Six cycles later and I had a chemical pregnancy at the end of August this year. My cycles were way off so I went to see a naturopath who put me on five different herbs. It stopped the bleeding I had had for six weeks but it was at that time I had an appointment with a RE who did an ultrasound and said that my ovaries are "much older than a 39 year old's" because I had less follicles than she expected. I was devastated. She went from "Let's monitor you a month to see if you are ovulating" to "I don't feel comfortable waiting at all, you should start treatment your next cycle." Turns out though that four of the herbs were reducing the blood flow to my uterus and ovaries so I stopped them right away. My FSH and Estradiol levels came back pretty decent but she wanted me to repeat them.
She told me I could stay on one of the herbs so I did until two days before my current cycle started last week and I had my levels drawn again. This time my FSH and Prolactin levels were abnormally low. Turns out that this one remaining herb affects your pituitary gland and suppresses the production of both of these hormones. Needless to say I'm off EVERYTHING now.
Had an HSG on Monday which was normal. Going in for another ultrasound tomorrow because my RE is trying to figure out why my labs are all over the place.
It just seems like every step of this process from the death of our first son to my low follicle count now has been heartwrenching. I just want one more baby to bring home to raise.
I'm am hoping to find help and support here because I'm really an emotional mess. Thank you for reading so far. I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you!