The beginning

2011 was a rough year for me and DH. We had our marriage tested and am glad to say that while we are not on the other side of our challenge, we are getting through it together! We were diagnosed with infertility in late 2010 and didn't really get into the issues of what that would entail until early 2011.  We're in the middle of the journey. I know we'll be parents, one day. How that happens, I haven't the faintest idea at the moment.

Anywho, some background on us. DH and I were college sweethearts, meeting in the fall of freshman year through some friend that we've fallen out of contact. We dated steadily through all four years of college, getting engaged our senior year. We spent the next two years getting him through Grad School and planning our wedding. We married in December 2007. We are the proud pet parents of one contentious cat named Tony and one sweetheart of a cat named Tabby. Interesting fact: the month we got married, we did most of the major life stresses. I quit my job; he graduated. We moved, got married, and he started his career job. There was a death in the family. The only stresser we didn't have that month was have a child. You see, we always thought we'd be that couple that would have a child before marriage even though I followed the directions on birth control to the letter and used back up methods. We were relieved each month that it didn't happen to us. (Oh how we laugh about this now....) After we got married I stopped the birth control and we figured that it would just happen, naturally. (Again, how we get a chuckle) Little did we know that 3 years later we would still be childless. .... They were happy years. We bought me a new car to replace the one that was falling apart. We bought a house (in a good school district, for those kids that were surely coming soon). We adopted our second cat, Tabby. We didn't worry about it.

It was after the second yearly visit to the OBGYN that the Nurse Practitioner brought up how to time intercourse. That maybe we weren't timing it right. But not to worry, we were young. Oh so young. Was I sure I didn't want a new prescription for birth control? No. I started temping and using OPKs. Six months later DH finds me bawling in the shower because it happened again. I had my monthly. He demanded that I demand testing. If there wasn't anything wrong, fine. But it would be a worry off my shoulders.  I thought I was broken, less of a woman.  So I went to the doctors office. I demanded testing. Again, I was told we were too young for problems. Oh how I wish I could laugh at this So we were tested. There was an issue. This was my "aha" moment, I knew she was going to tell me I was incapable. Nothing insurmountable, just some hormonal imbalance that was corrected. The doctor asked if I'd like to increase my chances. Of course I did. She put me on clomid with a trigger shot and we had an IUI performed.


I think this is enough for now, maybe a little too much.