TTC 4 2 long... seeking help

Hello i am new here. But my DH and i have been TTC for over 2 years nw, with nothing. We are being refered to a speciality clinic by our GP now. Has anyone had any experience with this? GP doesn't know anything and we feel blind and unsure about the whole progress. Any (ANY!) advice would go along way to help. It just feels like we have given up,,,

Hiya. Welcome to Oh baby.

We TTC for 2 years also but were referred a bit earlier than you. After multiple investigations they determined it was "unexplained infertility" and we ended up doing 3 cycles of clomiphene and got pregnant on the 3rd one. We tried for a total of 27 months before we got pregnant.

The good news is that since then, I have got pregnant first month twice (I lost both but it wasn't because of problems with DH or me...one was a chemical pregnancy and the other was a partial molar meaning 2 sperm fertilised one egg leading to too much genetic information).

I understand how hard it is to TTC for so long but many many people have been in our shoes and do achieve a pregnancy in time. For now, hard as it is, try to just relax as much as you can and hold onto hope.

What area do you live in?

Hey FionaS
Thank you for your story. I think sometimes that hope is all i have! I do like to hear success stories!
I have only recently returned from 4 years overseas, hense the delay in seeking help, but am now currently in West Auckland, Bless'd Be

Are you going public or private for the fertility investigations? We went privately through Mary Birdsall at Fertility Associates in Auckland. She was wonderful. They did various test on me and my husband to rule out any obvious fertility issues and we went from there in working out an action plan.

Hey Emily281
It is weird that it has finally come to this. We are going public at the moment as nobody can tell us how much private will cost. Plus am about to buy a house and am getting married in 8 months so cash is short. It's good your health insurance will cover your AF problems, i read that no NZ insurer covers fertility stuff. Do you mind if i ask who you are with??? Just got back into the country and am organising my health Insurance this week.
I think i have had 21 day test (is that progestgone? sp?)
I hope the AF problems are fixed. Keep me posted :)
Bless'd Be

Yay for waffle!
(and thanks for the tip top advice!!)

Hi Bessy
It depends on where you are and what you need doing as to how much it costs. I looked at the Christchurch Fertility center website and it lists some of the costs on there. But it didn't list costs for some of the common early tests (eg. HSG, lap etc) but I figured they would be expensive.

I am with Southern Cross health insurance and luckily I have been with them for about 3 years now but because it was organised through my husbands work and in a corporate scheme pre-existing conditions were covered from the start (I had my gall bladder surgery 2 months after getting health insurance!) otherwise I would have had to wait 3 years.

That is why I currently have 2 separate referrals - one for fertility through the public system and one to a private women's clinic here in Christchurch for my AF problems as general gynaecology is covered by health insurance but infertility isn't. And you are right, as far as I know no health insurance plan in NZ covers infertility - we are on the best plan that Southern Cross offer and they don't do it so I don't imagine any of the others would either.

Hey Two Blondinis
I just clicked that you were are in my neck of the woods! Do you mind if i ask what clinic you were going to go to?
Thanks XXX

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