And So It Begins

I have always assumed that someday, whenever I got pregnant, I would write a blog. I'd blog about my morning sickness, backaches, if we were having a boy or a girl or twins (gulp!). I would keep track of all the details I could, just to seal away the memories to share with our baby later. I always assumed I would be pregnant by now. I assumed it would be easy, a walk in the park for us. It would seem that I assumed wrong.

I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Jen, and I'm married to a fabulous man name TJ. We've been married for two blissful years now. In November on a whim we decided to forgo any birth control methods and "just see what happens". This was a little ahead of our planned schedule, but we figured we were ready so lets "do it". So to speak. I have been charting (link to the right --->) and wishin, and hopin, and hopin, and prayin. I never thought it would take us this long to have a baby. I take that back, I worried we would potentially have problems, but every month I would get my hopes up. Each month that passed a little more disappointment would wash over me.

In June I told myself if we didn't get pregnant I would just call my doctor and get things rolling. Being the big fatty-fat-fat chicken that I am I did not call the doctor. No, instead I told myself that maybe July was our month. July, sweet-sweet lucky July, it was not our month. So today I called my doctor to get in next week for my annual check up and to get the ball rolling on any testing we may need in order to check for infertility issues. Now instead of a blog about a pregnancy in process I have a blog about how we're going to get there. And so, it begins.