Another Pregnancy Blog

It may be cliche, but I've decided to keep a blog for my first pregnancy. This will feature all the fun details of the journey toward motherhood (if we're doing cliche, why not be corny, too). So here's a little background. And I promise, I'll eventually explain the name of the blog.

Tim and I have been trying to conceive since September 2006. I think we had just gotten home from a seven day cruise when we decided, "Hey, let's throw away the birth control and see what happens." Obviously, we assumed we'd be pregnant pretty quickly. By January (with no bun in the oven), we decided to try a more proactive method - FAM (fertility awareness method).

So here's a public service announcement (and sort-of advertisement): every woman between puberty and menopause should be REQUIRED to read "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" (TCOYF). It teaches you way more than you ever wanted to know about your body and your monthly cycles, but it is incredible information. So for the next 12 months, I charted my basal body temperature, my cervical fluid (definitely TMI, so I won't get into it) and used Ovulation Predictor Kits (OPKS) to identify when I was ovulating.

By the next year, having no success and starting to lose that loving feeling, I made a call to the Center for Applied Reproductive Science (CARS) and began seeing Dr. Kennedy. All my bloodwork came back normal and my initial ultrasound didn't show any problems, so he suspected an ovulatory disorder since my cycles were very irregular and usually on the long side. He prescribed 50mg of Clomid to be taken Cycle Days 5-9.

On the day after I took the last pill, we left for a family vacation at Edisto Beach, South Carolina. This is also where we had our honeymoon. We were joined by Mom and Dad, Aaron and Mallory, and Daniel and Amy (for part of the trip.) It was a blast!

We arrived back home Monday, May 27. Everything seemed to be going well. I knew I had ovulated on May 28th, so by Saturday, June 6th, I was starting to get antsy and decided to pee on a stick (take a pregnancy test).

Imagine my complete shock when there was a beautiful little PLUS sign on the test, rather than the minus sign with which I had become very familiar. When looking at my chart, I realized that the miracle had happened while we were on vacation in Edisto, one of our favorite places in the world. Thus, the name of this blog.

So, all that being said, I hope to record all the incredible events that will (with God's help) lead to a healthy, happy baby in February 2009. I hope to post soon about how I told Tim, how we told our parents, our first and second ultrasounds and much more!