1 year mark

Our first wedding anniversary and the 1 year mark of trying to conceive had arrived, we were finally able to see a doctor and get the "quick fix" on getting pregnant!

I had a few appointments with the doctor where she wanted me tracking everything from my basal temperature each morning to my cervical mucus fluids! My husband and I had to have sex on the specific days she told us too.  After a few more months of trying, my doctor said I was not ovulating regularly so she put me on Clomid to make me ovulate "when she wanted me too."  We left that day feeling SO HAPPY and feeling like within no time we would be pregnant!  We had 3 months of Clomid and she finally could not figure out why after trying for 15 months, being on Clomid, losing now 40lbs and tracking everything but how many times I brushed my hair a day, I still wasn't getting pregnant!  She referred us to a Reproductive Specialist; we knew something wasn't right.......

Still trying.....

Christmas 2011 came and it was just another holiday that we pictured ourselves being pregnant for but realized after 7 months of trying, still nothing.  We called the doctor but they told us that we had to be trying for 1 year before they would see us.  We talked to friends and family and heard many "for sure ways" of getting pregnant.  We attempted the ovulation charts, ovulation kits, wedge pillow, legs straight in the air for at least 30 minutes after intercourse....everything! On top of this, my doctor also told me to lose 20% of my body weight, so I was working out like a champ and successfully losing weight! In the 7 months of trying, I had already lost 20 pounds, so I felt like getting pregnant was right around the corner! 

Marriage & Baby Talk!

May 7, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We did it! We got married on May 7, 2011 and right away knew we wanted to have babies!!! We were so excited on our honeymoon because we knew it was that time and that I was ovulating! We figured we would most likely do what all of our friends and family were telling us would be "so cool" to do and come back pregnant! Honeymoon baby!!! But it didn't happen.....