My Infertility Answer is Pregnancy Miracle!
I dealt with infertility for 5 very long years. My name is Blanca Sanchez and this is my infertility story. I finally succeeded using the ideas in the book Pregnancy Miracle. I decided to build a little website to help other women get pregnant.
Blanca Sanchez
I'm a 31 year old woman. I started trying to conceive when I was 25. Yes...this is young. Everyone told me not to worry and that it would happen in its own time. After a full year of having lots of sex with my new husband I wasn't convinced. I was a college student at the time and spent a lot of time in the school library using the computers. We didn't have one at home due to living on a tight budget. I found myself distracted looking up information about how to get pregnant.
I found a lot of information about charting, nutrition, supplements, and lowering stress. I didn't have a weight problem, ate well, and took vitamins. Me periods were regular most of the time. Once or twice a year I would have a funky cycle but nothing worrisome. I did however have a lot of stress. First of all I was pretty stressed about not getting pregnant! I kept wondering if "just relax and it will happen could be true." My schoolwork was pretty stressful at the time as well. I was taking 15 units in the Nursing Program. I had a part time job as well. My husband and had also been getting tense with each other...mostly around my obsession with finding an infertility answer.
I took to taking several OPKs per day when I would get close to ovulation. Then during the 2 week wait after ovulation I would start using HPT's. Typically I would start using them around 4 days past ovuation and keep using them until the 2nd day of my period...just to be sure!
Everything I read indicated that I should have been pregnant by then. I worried...a lot. About a 1 1/2 years after first starting to try and get pregnant my husband found a good job with health insurance. I immediately jumped at the chance to get evaluated.
I was only 27 at the time and the 1st doctor I saw wanted to do more "wait and see". This didn't make sense to me. I found another doctor. The next one was more sympathetic and took our problem seriously. She ran a bunch of tests. My hormone levels were just fine. My FSH on day 4 was only 4 and my progesterone on day 23 was 11. According to my doctor these numbers were good and I was indeed ovulating. My husband's sperm was fine.
I found a lot of information about charting, nutrition, supplements, and lowering stress. I didn't have a weight problem, ate well, and took vitamins. Me periods were regular most of the time. Once or twice a year I would have a funky cycle but nothing worrisome. I did however have a lot of stress. First of all I was pretty stressed about not getting pregnant! I kept wondering if "just relax and it will happen could be true." My schoolwork was pretty stressful at the time as well. I was taking 15 units in the Nursing Program. I had a part time job as well. My husband and had also been getting tense with each other...mostly around my obsession with finding an infertility answer.
I took to taking several OPKs per day when I would get close to ovulation. Then during the 2 week wait after ovulation I would start using HPT's. Typically I would start using them around 4 days past ovuation and keep using them until the 2nd day of my period...just to be sure!
Everything I read indicated that I should have been pregnant by then. I worried...a lot. About a 1 1/2 years after first starting to try and get pregnant my husband found a good job with health insurance. I immediately jumped at the chance to get evaluated.
I was only 27 at the time and the 1st doctor I saw wanted to do more "wait and see". This didn't make sense to me. I found another doctor. The next one was more sympathetic and took our problem seriously. She ran a bunch of tests. My hormone levels were just fine. My FSH on day 4 was only 4 and my progesterone on day 23 was 11. According to my doctor these numbers were good and I was indeed ovulating. My husband's sperm was fine.
An HSG was done to see if my tubes were open. This was a painful procedure! I can't believe they do this without sedation. Anyway, it showed that both my tubes were blocked. I was absolutely devastated. The only explanation I was given for this was that I probably had Pelvic Inflammatory disease at some point. I had only had a handful of sexual partners but I knew that any of them could have given me something.
W were advised to go straight to IVF. Not having the cash in hand to do IVF but knowing it was our only infertility answer, we got a loan. A $13,000 loan. My GOD this better work. We couldn't just keep getting loans for thousands of dollars.
The IVF went well. I produced 10 good eggs. 9 of the fertilized and 8 turned into embryos. We decided to put 2 embryos back into me.
2 weeks later I got my period. Utter devastation. I cried for weeks. My husband mostly stayed away.
We then did 2 frozen cycles, which are considerably cheaper than a "fresh" cycle. Both failed. I gave up. I stopped feeling hopeful.
I cut ties with friends who had babies and turned down all invites to baby showers. People said things like "You can always adopt". "There are plenty of babies in other countries just waiting to be adopted." Blah...
W were advised to go straight to IVF. Not having the cash in hand to do IVF but knowing it was our only infertility answer, we got a loan. A $13,000 loan. My GOD this better work. We couldn't just keep getting loans for thousands of dollars.
The IVF went well. I produced 10 good eggs. 9 of the fertilized and 8 turned into embryos. We decided to put 2 embryos back into me.
2 weeks later I got my period. Utter devastation. I cried for weeks. My husband mostly stayed away.
We then did 2 frozen cycles, which are considerably cheaper than a "fresh" cycle. Both failed. I gave up. I stopped feeling hopeful.
I cut ties with friends who had babies and turned down all invites to baby showers. People said things like "You can always adopt". "There are plenty of babies in other countries just waiting to be adopted." Blah...
Some time went by. I still occasionally felt hopeful about getting pregnant. I would poke around on the Internet for some new tidbit that would give me an answer to my infertility. One day, while looking around on a popular fertility message board I discovered a post by a woman who claimed that a book called Pregnancy Miracle is what finally got her pregnant.
I was wary but intrigued. A few years before I had purchased an e-book called "Miracles Do Happen" and was pretty disappointed. "Miracles Do Happen" was only 30 pages long and contained no information that I didn't already know.
I Googled the Pregnancy Miracle website. It was not the most attractive looking website I had ever seen. I decided to scroll down the page and check it out. For a pretty low price quite a bit was offered.
The book is 250 pages long and written by a Nutritionist and Practicioner of Chinese Medicine. In addition to the book 6 "mini" books are included all written by the same author. The author also offers free lifetime email support to guide you not only through the program but through pregnancy as well.
I was wary but intrigued. A few years before I had purchased an e-book called "Miracles Do Happen" and was pretty disappointed. "Miracles Do Happen" was only 30 pages long and contained no information that I didn't already know.
I Googled the Pregnancy Miracle website. It was not the most attractive looking website I had ever seen. I decided to scroll down the page and check it out. For a pretty low price quite a bit was offered.
The book is 250 pages long and written by a Nutritionist and Practicioner of Chinese Medicine. In addition to the book 6 "mini" books are included all written by the same author. The author also offers free lifetime email support to guide you not only through the program but through pregnancy as well.
Click on the book cover to be taken to the Pregnancy Miracle Site
I took a chance and bought Pregnancy Miracle. I wasn't disappointed. The book was full of useful information that had not learned by surfing the Internet. Specifically, Chinese medicine is stressed. I did know that Chinese medicine had a 70% documented success rate in China. A few other studies done in the Netherlands had shown similar results. In spite of this knowledge, I had not used Chinese herbs. The types, amounts and timing of everything had seemed far too complicated. Knowing that the herbs were powerful medicine that needed to be used correctly had caused me to shy away. Pregnancy Miracle set up precise and easy to understand instructions for how to get and use these herbs.
All types of infertility are shown to respond to Chinese medicine...even tubal infertility. Conventional medicine teaches that blocked tubes are permanent. Sometimes they are but many times they can be opened using alternative therapies. Chinese medicine has shown good results in this area.
I was pretty excited about starting this program. Nervous and afraid to set myself up for disappointment but hopeful for the first time in a long time.
Although Pregnancy Miracle was easy to understand, it was hard to dredge up the discipline on a daily basis. A lot of changes had to be made. In fact, I started telling people that "All I had to change was everything". This is definitely not for the lazy unmotivated person. If you make the decision to follow this program be prepared to work at it. There were days when I faltered a bit but mostly I was on track.
6 months after starting the Pregnancy Miracle program I had lost weight, had more energy than I had in years and I was PREGNANT!
I was terrified that the pregnancy wouldn't "stick" but it did. I gave birth to an 8 lb. 5 oz. healthy girl. Although I'm not trying to get pregnant at the moment I feel pretty confident that when it's time to try again it will work. I'm curious to see what the results of a new HSG would show...
All types of infertility are shown to respond to Chinese medicine...even tubal infertility. Conventional medicine teaches that blocked tubes are permanent. Sometimes they are but many times they can be opened using alternative therapies. Chinese medicine has shown good results in this area.
I was pretty excited about starting this program. Nervous and afraid to set myself up for disappointment but hopeful for the first time in a long time.
Although Pregnancy Miracle was easy to understand, it was hard to dredge up the discipline on a daily basis. A lot of changes had to be made. In fact, I started telling people that "All I had to change was everything". This is definitely not for the lazy unmotivated person. If you make the decision to follow this program be prepared to work at it. There were days when I faltered a bit but mostly I was on track.
6 months after starting the Pregnancy Miracle program I had lost weight, had more energy than I had in years and I was PREGNANT!
I was terrified that the pregnancy wouldn't "stick" but it did. I gave birth to an 8 lb. 5 oz. healthy girl. Although I'm not trying to get pregnant at the moment I feel pretty confident that when it's time to try again it will work. I'm curious to see what the results of a new HSG would show...
