Many thanks!

I want to take this time and thank everyone for their outreach and support.  It's very welcoming and appreciated! I don't want anyone to feel sorry for us though.  We're very hopeful about the whole thing and we just ask for people to stay positive for us as well.

It's amazing what similar stories I've heard from friends and family in comparison to mine since posting this blog.  I want to be able to let others know that fertility issues are very common.  Actually, there's just a slim chance per cycle for a pregnancy to become successful.  Even when you're charting your temperature, checking mucus, counting days, you have to plan the "baby dance" just right.  If it's too early, those little swimmers can die.  If it's too late, they'll just pass right by each other.  Believe me, getting pregnant isn't a breeze.  Sometimes I wish the lie you believed as a child about kissing and getting pregnant was true!

So I really don't have any new updates.  I'm nearing the end of my 10 day stint of Progesterone which helped with my 30 day torture. I believe (and hope) after this, I'll be able to start the next round of Clomid and Metformin.  The great thing about our RE is that she wants to take every opportunity to see what we can do to increase our chances of getting pregnant.  She actually offered us to do an in vitro fertilization (IVF) but I want to see if I'm capable of doing this naturally.

IVF (for those who may not know) is different than an IUI (intrauterine insemination).  An IVF consists of fertilizing an egg outside of the uterus and then implanting it while an IUI is when semen is injected directly into the uterus around the time of ovulation.  IUI's cost less than IVF's but can still run a pretty high bill, even with great insurance.  Something that I've learned is that the State of California does require insurance companies to cover fertility treatments.  The guidelines that meet the definition of "infertility" is being diagnosed by a specialist or by having unprotected sex for over a year without being able to sustain a pregnancy to full term.  This is great because it's giving couples hope to try different methods to become pregnant.  The downside, IVF treatments are not covered.  Insurance companies can offer coverage for it but they are not required to do so.  Our specific insurance company will not cover ovulation induction, IVF, or artificial insemination but they'll cover the underlying medical cause for infertility.  Hopefully whatever treatments we need to go through, our insurance company will be able to cover most of the cost.

Many thanks again for all of you who have read this and have spoken to me, even liked my Facebook post advertising this!! I am simply amazed at the volume of readers I received in just one day! I hope that all of you will continue to come back and read this because I am so excited to keep sharing not only my experience, but my husband's as well!  Thank you all!!

“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”  - Christopher Reeve