TW pregnancy story DOR without IVF
Hello,
I wanted to share my experience in getting pregnant because I hope it's helpful to anyone experiencing DOR. I know I would spend hours scoring reddit for success stories that would give me hope.
I started trying to conceive at 34 (Jan 2025). I had an intuition that getting pregnant wouldn't be easy for me, I had never been pregnant before and my husband and I weren't totally careful. In anticipation, I read, "It Starts with an Egg" and started taking prenatal supplements, omega-3, and COQ10.
After 6 months of trying, I decided to talk to my OB about it and I was referred to a fertility specialist as I was turning 35 soon. After all the bloodwork (Sept 2025), I learned all my bloodwork was optimal (using ISWE ranges) expect for my AMH. I started implementing the Iow AMH portocol from ISWE.
My AMH was .8, my fertility doctor encouraged me to skip IUI and go straight to IVF immediately. He gave me the impression that I was running out of time.
After finding out that my insurance would not cover IVF, I felt stressed and dysegulated. I knew I needed to ground myself before taking action.
My friend gave me a beautiful EFT session (emotional freedom technique) that helped me surrender and release the sense of urgency.
Here is what I started doing:
*continued with supplements: Throne prenatal, Theralogix COQ10, Vitamin C, E, and D, R-Alpha-lipoic Acid, N-acetyl cysteine, Omega-3.
*continued working out 3 times per week
*continued meditations from To Be Magnetic (occasionally)
*back in March 2025, I did a kitchen overhaul to reduce toxins as recommended by ITSWE
*do this EFT meditation when I felt stressed: https://youtu.be/QsCL0wKj05I?si=WOC5OGb_ziNCXv1W
*went to weekly acupuncture (started 6 - 8 weeks before pregnancy).
*read the book, "Real Food for Fertility: Prepare your body for pregnancy with preconception nutrition and fertility awareness". I was already eating in ways this book recommended, but I mad a couple adjustments, mostly continued reducing sugar in my diet.
*started using Premom and strips to time intercourse better.
All these improvements helped me get to the point where I was feeling, "vital".
This is what I wrote in my digital journal before getting pregnant: "I feel grateful for my pregnancy journey. I no longer see months I don’t get pregnant as wasted, I am creating the best environment for my baby. Every month, I am dialing in my diet, supplements, exercise, reducing stress, and reducing toxins. I feel better than I ever have. I feel vital, energized. I am eating better, sleeping better. I have made my health a priority."
There were moments before getting pregnant that I would drive to work and have tears in my eyes because I knew I would be a mother: "I’ve felt a couple very magnetic moments, where I feel so grateful to be pregnant and birth a beautiful healthy. It almost brings tears to my eyes. It reminds me of when Mimi said “stay in the vision; focus on what you want”.
I started learning more about what IVF meant for someone with my bloodwork results. I was not encouraged by success rates for women with low AMH. I decided to start with IUI.
My fertility doctor sent me to get HSG and Saline Sonogram. I think I did the HSG in January, it was so traumatic. I was shaking, crying. It had failed I was told I was going to have to do it again. I felt so defeated at this point, it made me wonder if I wanted to continue with fertility treatments at all. It was just so traumatic.
I decided to contact a medium I work with for reassurance. She told me that to pause all fertility treatments and that she saw me pregnant by April (2026). Of course, I did not believe that, but I did feel more reassured.
I did the HSG again, but it wasn't too painful and successful the second time.
My husband and I decided we would do 3 rounds of IUI at Kaiser (covered), 3 rounds of IVF at CNY Colorado (most affordable option). I was scheduled to do my first IUI in March 2026, but I found I was pregnant!!!
We just had at positive 12 week scan, after feeling some anxiety after getting pregnant, I feel hopeful and confident that our baby is safe and healthy. We are just so overjoyed and grateful.
My intuition tells it was the premom better timing and acupuncture that helped bring everything together. I say that because I remember my acupuncturist, "stimulating my ovaries" and I remember feeling sensation in my ovaries, something I don't remember feeling before, and maybe the HSG.