Thread: Trying to get pregnant with PCOS

Learn about your cycle. Getting pregnant with PCOS is definitely not impossible, but can be highly frustrating if you're not in tuned with your body. Start charting. Women with PCOS may go months without ovulating, and during those months CANNOT get pregnant. Therefore, it's better to know when you're fertile and when you're not so you're not aimlessly trying to get pregnant on a given month when there's no chance you will. Chart your basal body temperature every day. There are many apps and websites available where you can input your temp and it will do the "charting" part for you so you can see when you experience a thermal shift (ovulation). On the 2-3 days leading up to and 2-3 days after ovulation, you are fertile. These are the times to try to get pregnant. On months you don't ovulate, there's no sense in having false hope which will lead to frustration for both of you. So...start charting so you can determine if and when you're ovulating.

Charting will also help you learn if you have a normal luteal phase. On the months you ovulate, there should be a 12-16 day window between the time you ovulate and the time you start your period. This phase is important because in the event you have a fertilized egg, this is the time in which it will implant into the uterine wall. If your luteal phase is too short you will shed your uterine lining (period) before the egg has time to implant, therefore keeping you from getting pregnant. Pay attention to your cervical fluid quality during your cycle. If you find that during ovulation your cervical fluid does not change at all, or is not present, this could keep you from getting pregnant. Fertile cervical fluid is either egg-white like and stretchy, or milky and very watery. This is what transports the sperm to the egg. If you don't have fertile cervical fluid, you won't likely get pregnant. Fortunately, all these things are things that once you KNOW, you can share with your doctor and they can often times help you overcome them.

Many women just spend so much time trying to get pregnant unsuccessfully....and don't realize that they're just doing it all wrong. Learn learn learn. Pay attention to your body and what all it does.

thanks for all that, i will defently look into all this stuff, and keep you all posted. any other tips from people are much welcomed.