How long did it take?

[poppyfairy]

Well done!

It took us about 7 years altogether although alot of those years involved alot of half hearted TTC because we were moving back and forth from UK or moving interstate in OZ etc. We also tried naturally for about a year when we were waiting the year on our medical cover in the middle of it all. I had alot of false starts with the constant moving because I would get to know one gynae/FS and then have to start from the beginning again in the new country or town.

We gave up contraception in 2002 when we got married but of course nothing happened because I had no periods due to my PCOS. We were going to start fertility treatment but then decided to do a bit of travelling and then go to Australia.

When we got to Australia in 2004 we started on clomid. However we couldn't get jobs in Brisbane so we needed to move again. So another new gynae/FS and more clomid.

Then we needed to move again in 2006 due to lack of jobs (can you believe there were no jobs for a Queensland trained teacher in Queensland!!?) so it was new gynae/FS and a new approach with FSH injections.

Then we found we needed IVF due to me producing too many follicles so we needed to wait a year for the medical insurance to cover us for IVF. In that year we decided to come back to the UK. So in September 2007 when I would have been doing my first cycle of IVF I was on a plane back to the UK!

Get to the UK and get immediately put on the waiting list for National Health Service IVF (1 year wait)and ovarian drilling (6 month wait). Got the drilling done June 2008 and wanted to give it a good chance (was really avoiding IVF as I felt it was our last hope and I wasn't ready for that yet) so even though I got to the top of the list for IVF quite quickly I kept on refusing treatment month after month.

Finally my husband and gynae convinced me that the ovarian drilling hadn't worked enough for me to get pregnant on my own but may help still with the IVF so in March 2009 finally started IVF.

After all those stops and starts I wonder if I would have been pregnant sooner if I had just gone for IVF straight off but then I think obviously this is the baby that was meant to be conceived so everything happened for the right reasons.

Good luck in your pregnancy!

[juniper76]

Krikkit, congrats! I just got my first BFP too! It took us 2 years, 8 months and 19 days, not that I was counting! In that time we did 6 IUI, 3 IVF and 1 FET unsuccessfully and we just got a natural BFP!