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..