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Janet Heller
At Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Amber wrote:
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>Wow, Congrats to those who are now pg.....I myself just found out a few
>days ago that I am pregnant also. My husband and I have been trying to
>have a baby since our miscarriage three years ago. We had been charting
>our temps, on 1000mg of Metformin, and just hoping for the best. My
>doctor didn't want to do anything extreme until we went a little longer
>on the Met. Well after 8 months of trying on the Met, we started to
>look into adoption, and trying to talk our doctor into some more
>fertility type procedures. I had decided to go on the Atkins diet to
>lose weight, since I I had heard it was a great diet for women with PCOS
>and IR. I had lost about 5lbs and was on my way to a leaner me. We
>didn't pay much attention to my temps this month, used lube during sex,
>and only had sex once around my ovulation. Well after I noticed that my
>period was late, I took a HPT, and BAM, it was postive. I totally was
>in shock, I thought it would never happen again for us. I can't believe
>that losing 5lbs did it for me. I am still on the Met and will continue
>it until I am at least in the 2nd trimester. I would like to stay on
>it, but we will see. May be a huge battle with the doc.
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>I hope all of you out there who want to get pg try stuff like the
>Atkins...I can't believe what a difference it made!!
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>Good luck all!!
>Amber
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>Feel Free to email me! buttercup_97140@yahoo.com
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Email always welcome
Janet at JanetHeller@msn.com
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