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Seeking answers and help before going to Clinics and spending a lot of money on Doctors
I am 34, married and TTC. We started trying Oct. 2015 for a few months, but Hubby wanted to wait to see if he got deployed. Due to my age I wanted to start trying again in June. I have not had children, and never been on BC (briefly in college, but it made me gain a lot of weight so I got off pretty quickly), and have never had a scare. I've always thought I was being careful and got lucky. I also realize the majority of women miscarry on first child, my mother did, and I'm pretty convinced I will miscarry. My husband may deploy in September (where abouts unknown at this point). I am taking prenatal and other essentials vitamins. I am at a healthy weight, do not smoke and do not drink, normal cycles. What should my next steps be or when should we seek professional help? Would a clinic be able to freeze his sperm in the event he is deployed? Thanks for any input
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An RE office would be able to freeze his sperm in case he gets deployed. A regular OB/GYN probably wouldn't. A lot of RE offices in the USA won't see you until you've been trying to 1 year (under 35) or 6 months (35 and over) without a successful pregnancy. Alternatively you can be seen if you've had 2-3 losses without a successful pregnancy. I know I couldn't get in to see an RE till I had been "actively" TTC (temping, charting, etc) for 11 months with 3 losses.
My suggestion would be to start at your OB/GYN and just ask them to do all the basic testing. So you'd want hormones checked on CD3 and 7DPO, a pelvic exam and possibly a transvaginal ultrasound just to make sure your uterus is normally shaped and free of polyps and such. If all that comes back normal you're *probably* good. And obviously if something comes back abnormal your OB/GYN can tell you how to proceed whether it's a referral to an RE or some simple treatment. You probably also should have your husband do
BFP #2: March 15, 2016. MC: March 21, 20167 years ago
Apparently it cut off the rest of my comment. :O
I was going to say that your husband should probably also have a semen analysis done. Having all that basic testing done should give you a pretty decent picture of your fertility and your husband's fertility.
The other thing I'd suggest is to start using OPKs, temping and charting if you're not already. The rationale for this is that it's the best way to tell if you're ovulating each month and to find out when you're ovulating. Not only will this help you be sure you're timing sex appropriately but *if* you're not ovulating you'll know so you can start taking steps to work on that with your doctor. Temping can also help you identify lutael phase issues and such. The information is just so nice to have if you end up needing to troubleshoot your fertility. And it's basically free which is a huge bonus.
Hopefully that helps!
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