Baby In The Making

I want to share our journey to our first baby! My husband and I got married in November of 2017. Miscarriage- January 2018 Miscarriage- August 2023 Ectopic Pregnancy- May 2025

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Here we are again trying to catch a peak! This morning my test was .35 and the test I just took was .81 so I should peak tonight. We BD last night and this morning so that is perfect timing and I’ll probably try again in the morning.

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I’m thinking I hit my peak overnight, which is fine I just didn’t get it on a test. My test around lunch today was .33 so it’s dropped significantly. I’ve had quick surges pretty consistently so it just a matter of catching it. I will keep testing thought to make sure it doesn’t rise again. We also baby dance early this morning so it should cover my ovulating window!

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I retested this afternoon and it is now .63 that’s a great jump! I’m wondering if I’m going to ovulate early this month!

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CD11

Ovulation test are looking significantly better than last month. Last month it was reading .08 on cd 11 this month im at .42 so im feeling a bit more positive about the changes I’ve made for my cycle!

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New year new methods

After missing my period in December I decided to try some new things this year. After I had my period this month I started taking a new supplement in addition to what I was already taking.

Currently I’m taking

Methylated folate

Inositol (both kinds)

Vitamin D

Iron

B12

Asprin

Mounjaro for the first two weeks of my cycle, after ovulation I stop taking it

Progesterone (previously I started it about a week after ovulation but I will be starting it around 3 DPO this cycle)

What I’ve noticed so far, while I’ve been extremely tired I think that’s due to my absolute mess of a sleep schedule. I’ve noticed my appetite is not as bad as before and when eating the urge to eat more cause it taste good is gone and if I eat to much I’m Nauseous. I’ve lost about 5 lbs in a week since adding the inositol.

A positive: it’s CD 14 and I’ve got a positive ovulation test today. So fingers crossed and it time to make a baby!

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Grief comes in waves and I’m in middle of the ocean right now.

This holiday season is really hitting me hard. Earlier this month would have been our due date for our ectopic baby.

Yesterday my husband said on the drive home that it’s really sad we don’t have kids to share the Christmas magic with and look at Christmas lights with.

Tonight my family always reads the night before Christmas, while my mom was reading the story on FaceTime it really hit me that I should be sitting here listening to this story with a baby in my arms or a toddler next to me, or reading the story to them myself. The tears started flowing and had a hard time bringing myself back to enjoy the moment.

I just hope and pray next year brings me the baby I have been hoping, wishing, and praying for. I hope that all this struggle will be worth it. The tears, the pain, the heartache, the uncertainty. I pray that it comes to an end in 2026

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10DPO

I am expecting AF around the 20th, and if you asked me earlier this month how I thought our chances would be I would have said not good. We baby danced maybe 3-4 days before ovulation and then didn’t have a chance when I ovulated. But this morning I got what I think is the faintest of lines so I’m holding out hope it was enough to get the job done !

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October 15th is a day that touches my heart deeply 💔 Today I remember my three precious babies — the ones I never got to hold but will love forever. I would have a 7-year-old, a 19-month-old, and be 7 months pregnant right now. Though my arms are empty, my heart will always carry them 🕯️👼

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I had a Dr appointment about two weeks ago. I went in for my yearly check up and I talked to my Dr about my cycle and the weird bleeding patterns I’ve been having, I also talked to her about the positive test. She is classifying that as a pregnancy and an early miscarriage. When we talked about my periods and I said that I saw it could be low folate due to the methotrexate and that my lining may not be getting thick enough for a normal period, she brushed it off and said there was no way to track it because we are not using fertility medication right now and said it could be because I’m not ovulating. Which if I’m not ovulating how would I get pregnant..

So I took matters into my own hands and started hating methyl folate, which is the natural version of folic acid, which your body doesn’t have to break it down for it to start working. People that have the MTHFR gene have to take it because there body doesn’t break down folic acid. I haven’t been tested for that but I think my next appointment I will because it has been linked with miscarriage as well.

Since I started taking it a week later I had my period which was on time, and the first day had some light brown spotting that went pink and then I got full red flow, the period was still shorter than it use to be but I’m not to worried about that.

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sending you hugs it is so hard TTC. but it really is so awful to your mental health to symptom spot. I did it forever trying for my second and I'm trying to be healthier for another.

I even found myself symptom spotting when I wanted to go into labor since I made it full term with both.

it just makes things too focused I have found it's better to get distracted with something else.

I wish you all the luck in the world!

Thank you!! I really try not to but sometimes it’s hard. After our ectopic in April I am terrified of it happening again and the symptoms with that pregnancy weren’t even there.

Since then I have started being healthier I started going to the gym 3-4 times a week and that really has helped a lot with my mental health and my physical health. If I’m feeling out of sorts a gym session will have me feeling like a whole new person! I’m hoping when I get pregnant again I don’t have to give it up but with my pregnancy history I think I will or at least tone it down cause I do a lot of heavy weights.

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Someone somewhere is having a good laugh.. after my cramping yesterday I started bleeding again it was only enough to be noticeable when I wiped but it was bright red and then lessened to brown spotting by the end of the day. Not spotting today and my test this morning was negative 🙄

I’m just going to change my dr appointment to a check up and have her test my levels and talk about my cycles cause this is an absolute mess

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I don’t know if this is some sick trick but my bleeding stopped last night so I had a 48 hour “period” it was light not a lot of cramping except at the beginning and a mix between brown and light pink bleeding. Today I had some cramping which was weird cause again not bleeding anymore, so I took a test and what do we have a positive, so naturally I took 2 more and they were positive too…. I have already scheduled an appointment for 9/11 cause I’m absolutely terrified, I just don’t want to go through another ectopic pregnancy. I want everything to be okay and if I’m not pregnant I need the test to stop lying..

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CD1

Here we are again starting another month of trying… the closer I got to cd1 the less confident I felt that I would be pregnant. The lines I had faded more and this morning I had a very clear negative. This is why they say not to test early!

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10 DPO

That test was definitely a fluke, while I am still seeing a faint line on test they are not as dark as that one was. I’ve had these test do that before, I’m just hoping that the lines get darker. I’m not out yet!

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9 DPO

I officially got a line so I know I’m not crazy lol

Now I’m just crossing my fingers that it wasn’t a faulty test, but we all know I’m about to frantically test for the next week!!

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8 DPO Update

I have been having some symptoms the past week, it started with light cramping off and on, my trips to the bathroom have really picked up, the breast tenderness really kicked in today, and my favorite symptom of all vivid dreams, I don’t know why but that last one is something that ALWAYS happens when I get pregnant so I’m fingers crossing.

I took a test this morning and got the faintest of lines on a wondfo, so I’m hopeful but I’m going to keep testing till I have a bold line or a period. I’m hoping this month is the month and that this time next year I’ll have a baby in my arms.

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CD 15

We got a peak yesterday and BD twice so fingers crossed we get pregnant this month!!