How I Finally Got Pregnant After 4 Years of Infertility
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Getting pregnant was no easy task for me. I often questioned why it was so easy for others to get pregnant yet so difficult for me. I often felt embarrassed and ashamed, and I really dreaded the “When are you going to have kids” questions.
And after 4 years of not getting pregnant at all, however, I finally got there. Keep reading to find out how I finally got pregnant after 4 years of infertility.
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Getting Diagnosed & IVF
When I first began my fertility journey of finding out why I wasn’t getting pregnant, I was told it could be due to a number of factors. I was diagnosed with endometriosis, on a couple of occasions I had blocked tubes, and also cysts were found in my ovaries. So from there we decided to go down the IVF route.
In the back of my mind I had always wanted to fall pregnant naturally, and going through IVF wasn’t a walk in the park. But once we got through the hard part of getting the daily injections and retrieving the eggs, I finally had the first embryo transfer. After years of failing to get pregnant, finally I was semi pregnant - that is as long as the embryo sticks to the womb, but sadly it didn’t, and so the next hurdle began.
We did two separate embryo transfers over the course of a 4 month period and both of them failed. I felt exhausted, depressed and I wasn’t ready to go through it again. At that point I was done. I needed to rest and re-set.
It was then that I began reading about the miracles of healing your own body in order to fall pregnant. I read from two particular authors - Dr Joe Dispenza and Marisa Peer.
The work of both of these experts was essentially meditation and self-hypnosis. Dr Joe specializes in healing the body from many different ailments and falling pregnant was one of them. The work I did with Dr Joe Dispenza was to work through the different energy centres of the body. For me, I focused primarily on my abdomen and womb area.
Getting Pregnant
Every morning and every evening I meditated on my energy centres. I imagined each energy centre - particularly my reproductive area - feeling relaxed, positive and happy. After a month of practicing this meditation, I did in fact become pregnant - naturally! I couldn’t quite believe it. After 4 years of feeling like my body was a failure, and now suddenly here I was pregnant. And the only thing I did differently was meditating.
Unfortunately however, I miscarried my baby at 8 weeks. I was devastated. I felt like there was nothing more tragic than trying to have a baby for 4 years and for it then to end in a miscarriage. But after I grieved for what could have been, I could only see the silver lining, which was the fact that my body now knew how to get pregnant.
I then decided that I was going to have a baby in 2020. I was quite naive and arrogant about it actually. But with the help of Marisa Peer through her book ‘Trying to get Pregnant (and Succeeding)’, I knew in my gut that I could make it happen.
Getting Pregnant Again And Succeeding
I had lost my baby in June 2019 and I became pregnant again in October 2019. This time it was a success and this is how I made it happen.
Meditation, Hypnosis & Mantra’s
Every morning I listened to Marisa Peer’s accompanying hypnosis track that comes with the book. She has a powerful script that is both inspiring and uplifting and would make any woman believe that she has the ability to conceive a baby and grow it to full term.
I started each day powerful and pumped full of energy. I imagined communicating with my future baby like she was in the ether somewhere during my meditations. I read baby books and what it was going to be like when I brought my baby home.
I repeated a mantra to myself every morning on my way to work; “I am going to have my baby next year, my body can do this, my body knows how to do get pregnant and grow this baby, I am going to look fab with my big pregnant belly, my baby is healthy and is growing absolutely perfectly.”
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During my lunch hour at work I took a walk and repeated that mantra over and over again. I imagined already being pregnant and how wonderful it felt knowing that. I imagined walking with my pram and how happy I would feel looking down at my beautiful baby.
Every evening I meditated to Dr Joe Dispenza’s tracks on healing the energy centre’s. I felt powerful in my body in that it could create miracles.
Vision Board
I created a vision board and placed it in front of my meditation area, so that I could look at it as soon as I opened my eyes. I cut out images of happy pregnant women and baby scans from pregnancy magazines and the internet. I printed out positive quotes and words such as “Pregnant” “My Body Knows What To Do” and “I am Good Enough”.
I even purchased a really cute babygrow set, complete with a hat and mittens. It was something recommended by Marisa. She mentions in the book that most women don’t like to buy baby items in the early stages of pregnancy as it could be bad luck.
But by buying a baby item it helps the mind to solidify the idea that a baby is on its way, and that is exactly what it did for me. So I pinned my babygrow set to my vision board and I imagined dressing my baby in it for when he or she arrived.
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Started a Baby Budget
I then started a baby budget as finances were something that had often concerned me. Marisa states in her book that you get out of life what you expect, so it was important for me to expect that I was having my baby. So due to the fact that money was something that concerned me when it comes to having a baby, such as the cost of baby items and lack of wages due to taking time off work, it was important to me to create a baby budget.
I set aside £200 a month and I asked my husband to do the same. So in total, we were putting aside £400 a month which was more than enough for what we wanted. By putting this amount of money away for our baby, again it helped me to recognise that our baby was on the way and that we were expecting his or her arrival.
I then listed all the items that I was going to purchase for my baby. When I started to do this, part of me felt like a crazy woman but the other part of me felt like I was actually pregnant and that I really was planning for my baby’s arrival. I listed where I was going to purchase the items from and the price of them.
Created a Fertility Calendar
I decided to create my own fertility calendar. I wanted to give myself the best chance of conceiving whether it was naturally or through IVF. So I wrote down which days I was ovulating according to my cycle and on those days I then tested with an ovulation stick to make sure.
I gave myself a 3-month window but I was open to longer. I didn’t conceive naturally that month so I booked in for an IVF transfer and again, I wrote down the key dates on my fertility calendar.
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IVF Transfer Number 3
I then booked in for another embryo transfer and this time I was going to make sure that it implanted. I also booked in for 2 acupuncture sessions because I was determined to use every tool I had to ensure it’s success. The first acupuncture session took place before the transfer, and the second after the transfer. I was lucky to be able to have these sessions inside the IVF clinic itself.
I decided to take the day off work so that I could arrive at the clinic calm and relaxed. I completed my hypnosis and mediations as usual. I repeated my positive pregnancy mantra’s to myself all the way to the clinic.
Here I am just before my IVF Transfer
During the actual transfer, I listened to my Dr Joe meditation. By now my body was accustomed to feeling instantly relaxed when I listened to the track, so much so that I didn’t even feel a thing during the actual transfer.
During the two week wait, I repeated my meditations, mantra’s and hypnosis track daily. By around day 10 I hadn’t felt anything, and seeing as I had already been pregnant before I was expecting the same types of symptoms - except there were none.
So I carried on being positive and I decided that if it doesn’t work this time then the next one will. I was still determined and I was still expecting my baby next year. On day 11 I felt a very sharp cramp, sharp enough to make me sit down for 5 minutes. The pain then suddenly disappeared. I wondered if it might have been the baby implanting but in my mind this should have already happened a few days prior so I just put it down to ‘one of those random pains’.
As a standard procedure at the IVF clinic, I had to take a pregnancy test and email over the results. I expected it to be negative as I didn’t ‘feel’ pregnant. I woke at 5am that morning and decided to take the test straight away. When the test said ‘Pregnant’ I was calm but in disbelief. I questioned it and thought it must be a false positive like some of these forums claim.
So I decided to remain calm and meditate for an hour. I didn’t let myself get excited, I just kept asking myself “is it real?”. I then did another test and to my astonishment, that also came back positive. This time I knew it was real and it was time to get excited.
Staying Pregnant
Getting to this point was only part of the hurdle, staying pregnant was something else. But I was positive and determined. I stuck to the daily meditations, hypnosis and mantra’s, telling myself that my baby is healthy and full of energy. I visualised seeing my baby on the scan perfectly healthy. And I did this over and over and over.
When it was time to have the scan, my husband half expected there to be no heartbeat, but I was confident in telling in him that there would be and that the baby would be perfectly healthy. Even though I didn’t know and part of me was worried, I overcame my fears by visualising a healthy baby in there.
The scan showed a heartbeat and a healthy baby bouncing around my womb. Over the next weeks and months I still got worried and anxious, but I had my visualisations and mantra’s ready to quash the fear. I expected my baby to make it to full term and I expected my baby to be born healthy.
At 38 weeks I gave birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 6lbs. Here she is, we named her Inaya.
When I push her in the pram I remember visualising this very scene the year before and it makes me feel ecstatic. I love my new life as a mother and it is just like how I visualised it would be.
The Key to Success
The key to successfully getting and staying pregnant for me, was a combination of a positive mindset, changing old beliefs and implanting new ones, and physically taking action towards getting and staying pregnant. Making lists, creating mantra’s, seeing your baby in your arms are all essential to making it happen.
So many women are told that they can’t have a baby due to a diagnosis or because of their age or many many other reasons. But doctors are not always right and the power of the mind is a very real thing. If you expect failure but hope for success, then having a baby will remain a wish. But if you expect success and keep working towards changing your beliefs, then having your baby is inevitable.
So this is how I finally got pregnant after 4 years of infertility. Thank you for reading this post, I hope my story inspires you and brings you hope for your personal situation. If you know anybody that needs hope and inspiration then please feel free to share.
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