Thursday, May 29, 2008

Do Not Disturb

Well after having my period for 14 days it has finally ended. YAY, on to the sex-a-thon, starting tonight.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Bragging Rights

Let me just say my husband really amazes me. I am so proud of him. It has been a pure joy to sit back and watch him accomplish his dreams. Just got word recently that the State Police is interested in him. This is something he has worked for for three years. It would be a great opportunity for him (us). He has been working really hard the past week to meet the standards of the physical fitness test and without a doubt I know he will do great. He is really inspiring to me. It amazes me to watch him set his mind to something and achieve it. The world needs more people as him. He has passed the written and oral tests. On June 17th he has the physical fitness test then the lie detector, medical and physc. evaluations. He's not nuts and has not done anything to lie about so when he gets through the PT test he will be fine (I just know)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Yes, I am starting to blog

I have decided that I am going to start blogging. After reading some blogs of friends and family I thought why not give it a try? I feel that this will help me get some of the issues I have been having lately out of my system. I plan on blogging about the process we have been going through with trying to conceive.

Yes, Dan and I are trying very hard to expand our family by welcoming a baby into our lives. This started out as a very exciting journey for us, one that we can dream about and we didn't think that we would be where we have found ourselves today. They always tell you in high school how easy it is to get pregnant, not that I am condoning teenage sex it isn't by any means as easy as they say it is.

On to our process-- May of 07 we decided that we were ready to get off the pill and take the "not try but not prevent" route. We were going to put into the hands of God and see where that would take us. But as luck would have it I was having trouble getting into a "regular cycle" To back peddle a little bit my body has never seen a "regular cycle" not even while on the pill. I had my period in July, September and November and then not until February. I went in February for my yearly exam and explained what was going on the past year and that we want a baby but I felt like it was impossible with the current 90 day cycle. (Do you know how much $ goes into HPTs when you are waiting to start?) They looked through my history (two ruptured ovarian cysts both ending in surgery) and my irregular cycles and thought the problem could be lack of ovulation. So they told me once my cycle started to come in on day 21 for blood work to see if I had ovulated which the results showed that no, I did not ovulate that cycle. Which brings me to a few weeks ago.

After finding out I don't ovulate on my own Dan and I met with my Dr. to explore our options. He said that we can start with Provera and Clomid, I would have to monitored and they also wanted Dan to give a "sample" although this was not comfortable for him he was a trooper. After we got the results and found that his numbers are all a-OK we could start the meds. The Provera is meant to bring on my period 5-7 days after the last pill and is to be taken for 5 days. After waiting 66 days for my period (pre provera) the provera worked and I got it after being off the pills for 5 days. Once my period came so did the planning.

I started taking Clomid (which is to help me ovulate on my own) on day 5 (Monday May 19th) and I take that for 5 days. On days 12-21 is our "sex-a-thon" Day 21 I go to the lab for blood work to see if I ovulated and on day 30 I go for an ultrasound and to meed with the Dr. We will see if it worked, if not we will up the dose of Clomid.

Lets hope it works!!! :)