The Steps to a Baby

step 1:   Go to OB's office, and be told you have a little larger problem than you had anticipated. {check}

step 2:   Get 8 (yes, 8) viles of blood taken to have sent off for analysis{check}

step 3:   Have Hubb's sample brought in for analysis {Wednesday a.m. sample will be collected ;) and sent to pathology} {Check}

Step 4:   Return to OB to find out results from afore mentioned 8 viles and Hubb's sample. { July 10}  {Check}

Step 5:   Currently unknown {Clomid 50mgs CD 2-6}

As this process unfolds I am finding it a little overwhelming some day. The fact that we just can't do this on our own makes me really upset some days. I feel betrayed by my body. Why could we get pregnant so easily twice before, and since Ben, we can't at all? 

This has been such a long process. I first went off birth control Jan. 2011. This was when I had 60+ day cycles and had no sweet clue as to what was going on.  Fast forward to July '11. I began charting and by September noticed that I was ovulating late (Or not at all by what Dr. Trites says) and had a very short LP.  Then came Nov. '11 where I started blogging and really hoping it would happen for us, because I REALLY wanted to have a baby in the summer.  I was still excited and hopeful and DEVASTATED when it didn't happen each and every cycle. I think that was when the realization began setting in that maybe it won't happen naturally for us.
Cut to Jan. '12 when we made it to the year mark that it takes for healthy, normal couples to conceive and we still we're not pregnant. Feb '12 I called my family doc. to see me, Mar'12 I had my appointment with him, and was referred on to an OBGYN. May '12 we finally see Dr. Trites and still have an appointment with Dr. Sheppard scheduled for Sept. '12 just in case. 

It has taken us 16-17 months to get here. That's right, almost a year and a half, and I am now hopeful that we will be pregnant by the end of the year.  The long winding road is starting to straighten out and get a lot shorter. 

phew..

A-Typical PCOS

My Doctor thinks that I may actually have PCOS(Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and I am A-Typical in the fact that I am not overweight and I don't have problems with cysts on my ovaries, but she believes that I am either not ovulating at all, OR I am not producing enough hormones to make a good enough egg.

I am being sent for blood work and I go back in 6 weeks for a follow up, where she will put me on Clomid to force the ovulation to occur.
The idea of clomid alone has spurred a discussion between the Hubbs and I.  With Clomid can come Multiples. Multiples also already runs on both sides of my family, so we had to really talk about how we felt about this.

I am excited that I am not in the unknown category now, and I can place a label on my problem. I have secondary infertility with possible PCOS.  I am so excited to be on the right path now. It is helping to calm my mind for a while.

My unknown path has a light shining on it,all of a sudden!

Saturday!!!

This Saturday I have my OBGYN appointment with Dr. Trites!!
I am SO pumped! I also still have an appointment with DR sheppard's office just incase.
::FIST PUMPS::

Dropping the Blogging Ball

Whoops!!
There another few weeks went again!! Time is sliding away from me what with all the meetings and such that have been going on at school recently, I just haven't found time to post! It's May. Where did the time go? I have 6 and a half weeks of school left until our summer break, and I feel like it is going to be gone in an instant.  I feel just about ready to wrap this year up and start fresh.  I have had a challenging class this year, and I am feeling a little burnt out. It will soon be battery re-charge time.

My goals for the summer are as follows:
1. Re-organize my whole house. This includes closets and cabinets too.
2. Finish my curtains for my living room and kitchen. They are cut out, but not sewn.
3. Make a Pinterest craft that I have pinned each week.
4. Continue running, and improve my speed and stamina. 
5. Spend as much time as humanly possible outside with Ben/ Just spend as much time as possible with Ben.
6. Up load pictures consistently to my blog.
7. Have spontaneous date nights with Hubbs
8. Get pregnant.

So that is the start. I am sure the list will continue to grow as the next 6 weeks pass.
Notice #8?? Last month was a bust. I did however have a 28 day cycle which has been unheard of in the last 18 months ever.  I only ovulated on day 20 though, so my Luteal Phase is still effed up. I currently am waiting for another OB office to call me back with an appointment time, and I have an appointment for September 14th with Dr. Sheppard's office in case Dr. Trites is no faster. Hopefully Dr. Trites will see me before then.
It still is a waiting game.  I am getting into my fertile window, and I just hope that 2 weeks from now I will have some fantastic news.
In the mean time, I will try to post more!! Shame on me!