3 years ago today.......

3 years ago today we had our very first ultrasound after we found out we were pregnant on April 13, 2006 after taking a home pregnancy test. We tried for about 4 years to conceive a child and our dreams were finally coming true. I never thought I would have trouble getting pregnant as my mom had 4 kids, her sister had 4 kids and her mother had 4 kids, so I was thinking this was going to be easy and we should get pregnant right away. There were many disappointments along our journey of infertility and the outcome was never the one I was hoping and praying for. In October of 2005 I was referred to an OBGYN that was a God send for us. I have done the fertility treatment stuff and going to the doctor twice a week to be monitored and all with no answers and still no pregnancy. This doctor had not even met me yet before he walked into the room, but reading the symptoms and talking to the nurse he finally gave me a diagnoses. I have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) , which seems to be very common and is why we had not gotten pregnant. Basically, it came down to having to take a drug called Clomid which is a medicine that helps with ovulation that women with PCOS do not have. I felt very confident in my doctor and knew this was the right place to be.

From October until early March of 2006 I first took some medicine that he prescribed that diabetic patients take, which is also know to help with PCOS, but in my case it started making me sick and I called my doctor on the phone one day and told him I could not take that anymore and since it hadn't really worked anyway I just thought it may be better to just go ahead and try the Clomid. I had taken clomid about a year before this time with another specialist and it didn't seem to work, but God has a plan for everyone and the first time was not God's plan for us. So of course my Doctor told me the chances of possibly a multiple pregnancy and I understood the chances, but I was just determined that this was it and I needed to try again. So, March of 2006 was when I was put on Clomid and by April 13, 2006 I took that dreaded test I had taken many times before and in my mind I was expecting to get the negative result like all the other times! Well, God had bigger plans here and when I saw the word "Pregnant" on this high tech pregnancy test they sell now, I was kind of in shock, but very excited! I could not believe it really said Pregnant! I was so excited that Larry was actually playing ball that night and wouldn't have gotten home until late and I knew I would be asleep, but I didn't want to wait until the morning to tell him, so Yes, I called him on the phone and told him we had some news to tell our parents that Easter weekend. He really didn't click to what I was saying and so I told him that I was finally pregnant. I could here the excitement in his voice, but do wish I could have seen his face too, but I was just still in shock that we got pregnant our first go with clomid this time!

This was just the beginning of our pregnancy journey.






Here is our first ultrasound taken on 4/27/06. This was our little peanut that we got to see for the very first time! I was only 5 weeks pregnant at this appointment, so there was not much that you could see.
This was just the beginning of our Journey. Stay tuned for the next post when I finish our story of our pregnancy!