These Are All The Fertility Tests I’ve Done To Try To Conceive Naturally
Conventional medicine doesn’t have much to offer women struggling to overcome infertility. I know because I’ve been there.
When I first started looking into why I wasn’t getting pregnant almost 10 years ago, I went to my local, regular Ob/Gyn. The experience was underwhelming, to say the least. Not only was the doctor dismissive of my natural family planning approach, but he didn’t seem to accept the importance of fundamental parts of female fertility, like cervical mucus. He did blood work to check my reproductive hormones on only one day of my cycle, and then prescribed Clomid for three months. When that didn’t do anything (other than make me moody, give me hot flashes, and dry up my cervical mucus), he ordered a hysterosalpingogram test. When that came back clear, he gave up and referred me – at age 24 – to IVF.