I am a Stork OTC Ambassador. All Opinions are my own
There are really only things I have ever wanted out of life- to get married, have a house of my own and to have a baby or 2! I only have one checked off of that list of course- getting married-and we are working on building up the credit where we will be able to get a house sometime within the next year or two.
That baby thing? Well.. it has been complicated to say the least. I have in the past mentioned having baby fever and I have taken a over the counter test a couple of times that says that I *should* be able to get pregnant. ..it just hasn’t happened in 9 years!
Of course. I did have some minor female sort of issues when David and I first got married, but was assured that it wouldn’t likely cause me to not be able to have children in the future.So other than the fact that it just hasn’t been meant to be just yet for some reason, I don’t really know what the snag is.
We have considered looking more into it and maybe even adoption but we have still been holding out hope that it can happen without having to have invasive procedures and fertility drugs and all of that kind of thing. I really want something as close to natural as possible for sure.
One thing that I have been meaning to do – since we have became more serious about this lately, is to try to be better at tracking my cycle and working with figuring out when I am ovulating. I have always had a really irregular one and it has honestly taken it until the last couple years or so to be “normal” so the option to do this wouldn’t have been as simple in the past.
When a device popped on my radar called STORK OTC I was happy to learn that it is everything that I have been looking for when it comes to trying to further try to continue our trying to conceive journey! The Stork OTC is the only FDA-cleared at home-use conception device to be used during ovulation to assist your chance of becoming pregnant and you can buy it right at CVS for $79.99’
You can use the Stork OTC for a variety of common fertility issues including if you have had diagnosis of low sperm count, sperm motility or a unfavorable vaginal environment.
The Stork OTC uses cervical cap insemination- which actually dates back to the 1950’s and there are many benefits a few of which include pregnancy success rates that are at 20% which is comparable to intrauterine insemination success rates of 16-21% and that it enables sperm to bypass the vaginal environment quickly which reduces the risk of sperm loss in the vaginal tract.
You don’t have to go to the doctor. You don’t have to have invasive procedures or take any sort of drugs. It isn’t too horribly expensive, especially when it comes to doing other fertility options. You still have regular intercourse (sticking with the natural theme) with a condom-like sheath which collects the sperm into a cervical cap, which is then delivered to the opening of the cervix by way of the applicator. The cap remains in place for up to 6 hours, after which it is removed with a simple tampon-like pull cord.
I was accepted into the Stork OTC Ambassador program and I look forward to bringing you more information about the device, fertility, our trying to conceive journey and more in the next few months!
You can also join us for a monthly twitter party! Of course I am late to the program so we already had the one for this month(October), but watch out for the next one which I will be sure to mention in my next post!
