All about this journey...
Where do I begin? I suppose the beginning would be the best place to start. Let me give you the run down of dates and how things are currently going.
August 2009: Hubby and I decide we want to add a third child to our family. I go off birth control pills and we start trying to conceive (TTC).
April 2010: So far, no luck. We're confused. Our first two children were conceived so effortlessly and I had healthy, picture-perfect pregnancies with both of them. What are we doing wrong this time? We see my Ob/Gyn for my yearly check up and I take along my charts. He takes one look at them (and the length of time we had been TTC) and diagnoses me with "secondary infertility". Basically, he says I'm not ovulating on my own anymore and without medical intervention our efforts would pretty much be useless. He prescribes me Clomid to induce ovulation.
May 2010: Our first cycle of Clomid works!! We happily announce that we are expecting another baby. Sadly, the pregnancy ends in miscarriage.
June/July 2010: We take a break from TTC. No Clomid, no charting, etc.
August 2010: Clomid cycle 2. Not successful, big fat negative on our pregnancy test.
September 2010 - November 2010: I decide I need a break from Clomid. I focus on my oldest starting kindergarten and just take it one day at a time. We are still actively TTC but we aren't stressing out about it. Maybe if we "relax" it will just happen. It doesn't.
December 2010: We pack up and move 100 miles away, back to my hometown. We will be closer to family and we are looking forward to leaving the big city for "small town living".
January 2011 - May 2011: We again are TTC without the help of any drugs or medication. No luck.
June 2011: Cycle 3 of Clomid = negative. Not pregnant. Again.
June 21st, 2011: My period starts. I take Clomid days 3-7 of my cycle. This will mark our forth cycle of Clomid. While using ovulation tests I ovulate somewhere around day 18-19 of my cycle (July 8th or 9th).
July 2011:
July 14-17: We spend the weekend in Columbus, visiting my mother-in-law while my husband takes a trip across the East coast to help his grandfather. July 17th, hubby returns home and give me a big hug - my breasts hurt when he hugs me, but I shrug it off as a weird pre-period symptom.
July 18: My period is officially due. I hate the dreaded negative pregnancy test so I avoid testing today.
July 19: My oldest daughter's birthday. She's six today. I take a "First Response Pregnancy Test" first thing in the morning. To my utter shock and surprise it's positive! I'm pregnant again!!!!
August 2009: Hubby and I decide we want to add a third child to our family. I go off birth control pills and we start trying to conceive (TTC).
April 2010: So far, no luck. We're confused. Our first two children were conceived so effortlessly and I had healthy, picture-perfect pregnancies with both of them. What are we doing wrong this time? We see my Ob/Gyn for my yearly check up and I take along my charts. He takes one look at them (and the length of time we had been TTC) and diagnoses me with "secondary infertility". Basically, he says I'm not ovulating on my own anymore and without medical intervention our efforts would pretty much be useless. He prescribes me Clomid to induce ovulation.
May 2010: Our first cycle of Clomid works!! We happily announce that we are expecting another baby. Sadly, the pregnancy ends in miscarriage.
June/July 2010: We take a break from TTC. No Clomid, no charting, etc.
August 2010: Clomid cycle 2. Not successful, big fat negative on our pregnancy test.
September 2010 - November 2010: I decide I need a break from Clomid. I focus on my oldest starting kindergarten and just take it one day at a time. We are still actively TTC but we aren't stressing out about it. Maybe if we "relax" it will just happen. It doesn't.
December 2010: We pack up and move 100 miles away, back to my hometown. We will be closer to family and we are looking forward to leaving the big city for "small town living".
January 2011 - May 2011: We again are TTC without the help of any drugs or medication. No luck.
June 2011: Cycle 3 of Clomid = negative. Not pregnant. Again.
June 21st, 2011: My period starts. I take Clomid days 3-7 of my cycle. This will mark our forth cycle of Clomid. While using ovulation tests I ovulate somewhere around day 18-19 of my cycle (July 8th or 9th).
July 2011:
July 14-17: We spend the weekend in Columbus, visiting my mother-in-law while my husband takes a trip across the East coast to help his grandfather. July 17th, hubby returns home and give me a big hug - my breasts hurt when he hugs me, but I shrug it off as a weird pre-period symptom.
July 18: My period is officially due. I hate the dreaded negative pregnancy test so I avoid testing today.
July 19: My oldest daughter's birthday. She's six today. I take a "First Response Pregnancy Test" first thing in the morning. To my utter shock and surprise it's positive! I'm pregnant again!!!!
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