As all of us familiar with PCOS know, carrying additional abdominal weight is a big factor in PCOS. Metformin is known for helping those with insulin resistance and, I believe, those with insulin resistance tend to carry more abdominal weight. So to me, it makes perfect sense to put a woman on Metformin who has PCOS.

By the way…in the months that I took Metformin I was able to have a somewhat regular cycle of 35 days and I was definitely ovulating. Prior to taking Metformin, I never got a regular cycle and did not ovulate.

It worked for me and it can work for you!

Our little baby Sally just turned one month old, but it’s been a long road to get here. We started working with the Fertility Center over three years ago, after having gone through a miscarriage, a neo-natal death, several D & Cs and a molar pregnancy that required chemotherapy and a year of waiting before we could start trying to get pregnant again. Once we started working with Dr. Dodds and the rest of the staff, we had two more miscarriages, an ectopic pregnancy and another D & C before “lucky number 7″ – the pregnancy that stuck! One thing I really liked about the staff at the center is that they never made us feel like we were being unreasonable or unrealistic to keep trying to have kids, so if anybody reading this feels like they want to keep working towards a family, I’d encourage them to listen to that feeling – sometimes a happy ending does come after a string of disappointments.

Sally was a donated embryo, and we couldn’t be happier that we went with that option after trying IUIs, IVFs, etc. of our own. Christine (the donor coordinator) really helped us as we navigated all of the donor possibilities and was very supportive as we waited on the list for our turn. If anyone reading this is a considering donating embryos – I know it can’t be an easy decision, but you should know how very, very grateful we are to the family that gave us Sally. If you are considering receiving a donated embryo, I can tell you we were proud to be able to give our baby the opportunity to be born. I think the Fertililty Center is very nurturing in this process, and I hope more couples will consider it – we certainly feel blessed to be able to build our family in this manner.