Trying to Conceive for Almost a Year
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
I've been trying to get pregnant for almost a year and I went to the doctor and she said I was ok but I really think something is wrong with me. What should I do?
ANSWER
Hopefully, you have been charting your cycles. If not, now is a good time to start. Generally, if you know you are ovulating (using a kit or even by your temperatures) and you have been having intercourse the week before ovulation and during ovulation, and have done so for 12 cycles, it is time for both partners to have a check-up.
If this doctor does not do infertility work-ups, then you should see someone who does.
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
