In depth of my story, what I've tried and more

Here is an in depth view of my story, where I've been, where I'm at currently and where I'm going.

I am a 28 year old women with a 28 year old husband. We got married October 6th and are coming up on 4 years in a couple weeks. We have been through a lot but we are getting stronger every day. I am excited to see where we end up.

I personally have wanted to be a mom since I was a very young girl. I had the idea that I would fall in love and have my first child at 19, now almost 10 years later I am still childless. I met my soul mate when I was 23 and we got married when we were 24. Sadly I have had two losses in my life and both were horrific. The most recent one was 3 years ago, it was February after we got married and 100% on accident. We lost that baby at 7 weeks in an early miscarriage. We lost Baby A because of stress and anti-anxiety meds. I was working a very stressful job and so was Patrick. It wasn't ideal but we were going to love that baby more than anything in this world. It was heartbreaking when we lost the baby and it has been hard since even though it has been 3.5 years.

When I was younger I was about as regular as it gets, always on time and never had any issues with anything, I got older and my PCOS came out of the woodwork. It is hard to find out that you have PCOS, always figured I did since my mother had it and she is sure her mother had it also. My mother had to use clomid to get pregnant with my brother and myself. I never wanted that I wanted natural pregnancies and I wanted plenty of them. I have always wanted a huge family and will have it even if we have to Foster->Adopt the majority of them. We want 3-5 kids and we will make it happen no matter what my body throws at us. Over the 4 years I have done it all and taken it all but there is so much more to take and do that I am on the pathway to. This blog is about the natural approach to fertility. There are no doctor mentions and there aren't any prescriptions. I do not claim to be a doctor and I don't have any factual advice, everything is 100% my opinion or researched opinions.

I will make specific blog posts to go over all of the over the counter supplements and herbs I have taken and how they worked for me. I will also go over all of the products I have used and how they worked.

In the past 3.5 years we haven't had any positive pregnancy tests or ovulation tests. I don't currently ovulate and I am working on getting my ovulation back because who can have a baby naturally without ovulating? My current regimen is listed below, if you have any questions about it at all please ask and I will answer the best I can with my opinion. I recommend doing all of the research that you can on everything I list on any of my posts and see what works best for you. This is what is working for me currently.

My daily Regimen:

Wake up
Eat Breakfast
2 Berberine supplements, 2 Fallodox
10 drops of Vitamin D3 in Olive Oil
1 dropper of Liquid Folate
Lunch
Workout for 30 minutes on a treadmil
Dinner
1 Berberine
Bedtime
2 prenatal gummies

Last 14 days of my cycle I use progesterone in the morning and at night, one pump each with equals 20mg per pump

I also diffuse stress relief essential oil in my living room

The benefits of these supplements are wonderful and can be researched on your own time.
Berberine works like prescription metformin, it is also taken the same. It can help with regulating your cycle, lengthening your luteal phase to a healthy length or shorten to a healthy length, helps with weight loss and testosterone. There are so many great things berberine does so do some research on it.
Fallodox has many different brands that are the same thing out there so just make sure that you get a highly reviewed product. I take this to boost fertility, to get healthy and to balance my hormones.

Vitamin D is great if you live in Seattle or you don't leave your house. Most people with PCOS have a vitamin D deficiency and 5000iu is recommended. I use this for all of those reasons

Folate is the pure form of folic acid which if you take folic acid and have PCOS most research says that you can't absorb folic acid and you should consume folate instead.

Prenatal Vitamins should be taken 6 months prior to trying and the whole duration of trying while continuing it during pregnancy and breastfeeding. I enjoy gummies because I can't take much iron and they don't have any, plus they taste good.

Progesterone is recommend for PCOS because we are normally high in estrogen, progesterone in the luteal phase is great for keeping a pregnancy, making your uterine wall nice for an egg to attach too and also to regulate your cycle if you aren't regular or ovulating. There are many ways to take progesterone and should be discussed or researched fully before starting it.

Before staring a new supplement or herb you should either talk to your doctor or do your own research if you are on the natural path to fertility. If you have any side effects you should discontinue immediately.

As I try things I will write posts about them and my experience with them, I will also compare all of the products and give my opinion on everything.

Question: What have you tried and what are you taking now? Is it working?

Cari