My Journey to Pregnancy

I always thought that it was "easy" to get pregnant. I mean, how many women a year get pregnant from one night stands??? Or the first time they have an encounter with a guy?? A lot... but apparently not me... 

After Ian and I got married, we talked about wanting to start our own family. The conversation continued in the following months and we decided to ditch the pill... that was in December 2011. I knew that it might take a little bit to get everything back "normal" after having taken the pill for 11 years. This summer, we started paying more attention to the infamous "optimal time" to conceive. Being the OCD person that I am, I started charting my Basal Body Temperature (BBT) every morning just on the off chance that I might need it to share with my doctor. 

My primary practitioner recommended that I see an OB-GYN this year since we had been "trying to conceive" for almost a year with no success. The OB sent me an email asking me a kazillion questions, all of which I had already researched and written down my responses prior to getting her email. At my first "get to know you" appointment, the nice OB looked at my BBT charts and stated that she didn't think that I was ovulating every month, which would explain the varying lengths of my cycle. I have had so much blood drawn since January that I feel like a pin cushion! In January they drew three vials of blood- for two testosterone tests (free and total), progesterone and prolactin along with a blood pregnancy test since we had multiple early signs of pregnancy. In February I had the progesterone test run again (it was good... very good in fact!).

Last month my wonderful (and I truly mean this, my OB is awesome and specializes in infertility and she isn't much older than me!!) OB started me on Clomid. I will know in a few days if it worked this month, but from my day 21 Progesterone test, I don't think that it did. So she wants to increase my daily dose of Clomid for April...

I know that so family and friends know that we have been trying to get pregnant. I can't tell you how many of my friends have gotten pregnant, are pregnant and/or have had a child in the time that we have been trying to get pregnant (over 30 let's just leave it at that)... I know that everyone has their suggestions for getting pregnant - relax, don't stress about it, have fun, don't think about it, it will happen in God's time, blah blah blah. I haven't been stressing about getting pregnant nor am I uptight about the idea... Yes I think about it and I wonder why it isn't happening for us, but no I am not stressing about it. Relaxing and getting a massage isn't going to magically make me pregnant, so don't tell me to relax. 

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we continue on this journey.