I am 41 and have children from my previous marriage from when I was a young pup. lol My DH now and I have decided to have try for another child. We were able to successfully achieve a DD after 18months of TTC and 7 IUI's. I was Dx back in 2008 with an elevated FSH of 10.6. Well, here we are 3 years later and went back to the same RE to see about starting one more time. Day 3 testing told me that I now had an FSH level of 22.6 and an AMH of .38. I also had an AFC of 10. My RE told me that the only way I would see success would be through DE. He told me that I had less than a 2% chance of achieving a pregnancy through IVF. My DH and I left deflated.

Realizing that we could not afford IVF (He recommended at least 3 cycles because of my low numbers) We also could not afford DE either. My husband was not on board with the idea anyway. We decided to try TI for a few months with my CPFM. While I did see Peak results each month, which was a huge plus, we never got to see a BFP.

After a few months of BFN's, I just felt like I needed to do something more. Something proactive. I started going to acupuncture a few months back and that seemed to help me, and also taking some vitamins etc. I decided to call up my RE and beg him to let me do IUI's with injectibles because we could not afford IVF and I needed to do something. He reluctantly agreed and set me up with Gonal-F for the month.

Well, today I am 10DPIUI and I have officially received a BFP on a digital test! I somehow got pregnant on my first IUI this time. No one could have guessed that I would respond so well to the medicine given my poor numbers. Of course it is still early and it may not stick, but I DID get pregnant which is half the battle!

I just want to say that there is always hope even in the grimmest situations. Don't ever give up! If I had listened to them, I would have believed that I could not have anymore children with my OE.

If anyone wants to know what I did exactly regarding supplements, medicine, etc... please ask.

Baby dust and hope to all of you TTC.

And thanks for posting. It would be really helpful to many of the women here who are still in the trenches if you could continue to keep us posted on your progress. Many post on here with their good news of a BFP over 40 and we are thrilled for them but sometimes they are never heard from again after their initial post. So please let us know how you are doing. I wish you an uneventful happy and healthy 9mos!

I completely understand what you are saying about coming by and then never seeing me again. I promise that as I receive updates, I will put them here. Good or bad. I go for my first beta on Wednesday so we'll see.

Just an update like I promised.

Had my first beta at 13dpo and it was 131 and my second beta at 15dpo was 288. They were very happy with the progression and said that they would not need to check any further until my 6w4d appointment to check for viability. I am praying for a heartbeat.

My appointment is on the 17th. I will be back to update after that.

Fingers crossed for a sticky baby.

I promised to keep updating so I am. My beta was taken again at 18DPO and was 900 and my progesterone was over 40 so all is well so far. I am keeping my fingers crossed we get to finally hear a heartbeat but I won't know that for another week and a half. I will let you know what comes out of that appointment.

I am just now back from my appt to check for a heartbeat. I was pretty nervous going in as you can imagine. When my RE came in to see me I told him how scared I was so he did'nt wait around and started the u/s. First he saw the sac as did I but nothing was in it. Then he saw the yolk sac but no heartbeat. My blood drained from my body. He asked me how far along I was to which I said "I'm 6w4d. I should have a heartbeat by now." He agreed and kept looking. And then he said...

"Here's the heartbeat right here." I couldn't believe it. I asked him if he was sure again and again. He showed me the two chambers and said it was about 120bpm. He said it all looks good.

I am so relieved but I'm a realist. I have a long way to go to consider this a success but for now I am going to rejoice in the news. I do have a subchorionic hematoma like tI had with Ava so I was told to take it easy because they can cause problems but hopefully I will reabsorb it over time. The good news is that it is below the gestational sac so if I do pass it, the baby still has a good chance of staying behind. I know these are pretty common so I am not horribly worried about it. My biggest fear is going to be that the heartbeat will go away by the next u/s. I know I have a lot of hurdles to cross before I get to hold a baby in my arms again.

One day at a time right?

That is so exciting. I have a good feeling about your little one growing nice and strong. Keep up the positive thoughts. Keep us updated.

Just know that this gives us hopeless 40 somethings some hope!