Hypothyroidism and PCOS — My Journey to Pregnancy

Jenna Louise Barrett
4 min readSep 3, 2020

Meet someone, fall in love, get married, have kids. That’s how it’s meant to work right? Well I’m here to tell you it doesn’t work that way for everyone out there. Sure, I had the first two points down, and we are engaged. But we decided not to wait until we are married to have a baby, if only it were that easy.

Shortly before a family wedding, we decided to start trying for a baby, I had an appointment with my rheumatologist so the timing worked out. We knew going in that getting pregnant wasn’t going to be straight forward, I have an…

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Jenna Louise Barrett

Toddler-mum and freelance journalist based in the south of England.