Please let me interrupt myself for a brief moment…

I began writing the Infertility Series simply as an intro to the subject of Infertility for my First Impressions blog, but then I started getting threatened (I slightly exaggerate) that I should not stop the story there, at me getting pregnant.  I have a few non-fun EXTREME morning sickness stories to tell you about my first pregnancy, but I ask you - do you really want to know?  Let me see a show of hands, please.  Otherwise, I’ll bore you with the new baby.  K?  (And, yes…I can do both.  I’m grand at multitasking, you see.)

Here’s a bit of catch up (answers to your questions):

1.  No we weren’t *trying*.  That was going to start eh…this month.  Sort of.  We weren’t not trying, either.  Truth is, I was convinced that this time would be much like last time, where there would be OPKs and Clomid involved.  Around Labor Day, I was a few days late for a 28-30 day cycle, which is NOTHING for me, as mine used to last up to 55 days.  I know, right?!  So, I grabbed a test and peed on it, expecting it to be negative, but needed to know for sure before I began my herbal supplement that would help reshape my cycle.  The test said positive.  We didn’t believe it.  A couple more tests later, we finally believed it and then let ourselves be excited (we were afraid it was a bad test…or two.)

2.  I found out on Labor Day.  This year, dummies.  And, I couldn’t keep it a secret for any more than a few days.

3.  I am not depressed or sad about it.  I want a large family (preferably Steven could deal with the morning sickness, however.  I dislike that part).  We are both excited and can’t wait to begin.  The timing is even perfect.   Better than I could’ve ever planned.

4.  The herbal supplement I was taking to fix my cycles?  Vitex.  By Gaia Herbs.  It works.

5.  No, we don’t know if the baby is a boy or girl yet.

6.  No.  Our insurance is not back up yet.  Long story slightly shorter: Insurance company hasn’t updated all of their worker bees on the changes in policies that have been in effect for the year we’ve not had insurance there (another long story) and they gave us the wrong deadline.  We WILL have insurance the beginning of October.

7.  The baby is 6 weeks along (DUE DATE: May 6).  And, we are both doing okay.  I had a bout with some confusing symptoms that were mistaken for something else, which led to a prescription for a drug that made me incredibly ill (when I took it), but it’s all fixed now!  And, so far I’m having NORMAL pregnancy morning sickness.  And yes, I’m excited about this - compare that to 3 FULL MONTHS of torture I endured last pregnancy, I figure I’m doing good so far.  So, while I may not feel like logging on a lot and may have some bad days, I’m definitely not making weekly visits to the ER, and I’m pretty stoked thankyouverymuch.

There you go.  The updates.  :)  If I seem to be MIA a bit, it’s because I’m chasing a 17 month old around and trying to keep down the bowl of food it just took me an hour to eat.  Or, I’m sleeping.  So, tell me if you want more of the Infertility Chronicles, and I’ll be back later.  Love you all!

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