Our Story- Part 3

Ok, so when I last left you I had made the appointment to see what the deal was with me not getting pregnant. It was a pretty good Dr. appt... she told me that I have a fairly common disorder called PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. In a nutshell it means that I have a lot of very small benign cysts all over my ovaries, which keeps me from ovulating and makes have a regular cycle close to impossible. It not very dangerous but there is no cure. So wait... we have been "trying" for almost a year and I have NEVER even ovulated?! NOPE! What a waste!

Good news? Its still totally possible to get pregnant with the help of some good ole' medical intervention. The weird thing is, aside from irregular cycles I don't have any of the symptoms of PCOS. I am not overweight (well not a lot anyway), I don't have acne, I don't have a lot of facial hair, and the biggest one...I am not diabetic or pre-diabetic. A very high percentage of women with PCOS are at least pre-diabetic if not full blown. I am super lucky!! So what do I need to do to fix this so I can ovulate and get pregnant? Answer, take a diabetic medicine called Metformin. Wait, I thought you said I am NOT diabetic?! Nope I am not, but that's still the meds they gave me to fix this problem! My Dr. also wanted to go ahead and put me on a round of fertility meds called Clomid. Its just a small pill that you take for 5 days during specific days of your cycle.

So I started on Metformin and 4 days later my cycle came. WOW, that worked fast!! So on day 5-9 I took my fertility meds and then I scheduled a sonogram appointment for a week later. This is because the Dr. wanted to see what my ovaries looked like to see if the Clomid was working. It would also show if I was going to ovulate or if I still had all the cyst. If I still had all the cyst I would have to do another round of Clomid the following month. So the sonogram showed that one of my ovaries looked pretty good! I had a nice size follicle that was growing. For those who don't know what that means... every month your ovary grows a follicle (or cyst) and when it breaks that releases your egg and that's when you ovulate. So I had to schedule another sonogram for 2 days later to measure the size of the follicle to see if it was going to be big enough for proper ovulation. So I went back and the sonographer was soooo excited! She said, oh it looks awesome! I think this may be the one that gets you pregnant!!

I was excited but not as much as her... I didn't want to get my hopes up. I mean what are the chances that after just ONE round of fertility pills and one ovulation that I would get pregnant?! We pretty much knew when I was going to ovulate, but I went ahead and peed on one of those over the counter ovulation kits just so we would have an exact time. Well I was super stoked to get a positive ovulation result... I had NEVER experienced that before! So that was it, I knew I was ovulating... lets get to work on making that baby!! I called my Dr and she said that if I didn't start my cycle in 2 weeks to take a pregnancy test.

Well a little less than 2 weeks later on Tuesday November 10, 2009 I took a test before I went to work.... STUPID NEGATIVE AGAIN!! Damn! Oh well, its still kinda early... I'll take another one on Saturday. Well I couldn't wait that long...Thursday morning I thought what the hell the tests are only $1 I'll take another one. So Thursday November 12, 2009 I woke up and peed in my little cup (the cheap $1 store ones you have to pee in a cup and use a dropper to drop the pee on the test strip). As I waited on the test I turned the shower on and then looked at the test.... OMG ANOTHER NEGATIVE!!! I was definitely disappointed. I poured out my pee cup and started brushing my teeth. A min later I glanced down at the stupid negative test.... wait is that a faint line?? CRAP!! IS THAT A FAINT LINE?? I need to take another test on one of my high dollar test. CRAP!! I poured my pee out!!

So I took a fast shower and stared chugging water. I wasn't going to go to work until I had taken another test to see if it was a faint positive line or just my imagination. So I get ready for work... totally ready to go. I THINK I might be able to pee again. Lets try... So I tried. This time using one of the test that says it works 5 days early and it actually says the words "PREGNANT" or "NOT PREGNANT". That 30-60 seconds watching the hour glass on the display was the longest time in my life. But when that hour glass went away the word PREGNANT came up!!!!! WHAT???? Holy cow, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG! I started crying and hysterically laughing at the same time. My dog was sitting there staring at me like I was crazy! Where is Brett?! AT WORK! Now what?! I am NOT going to tell him over the phone... does that mean I am going to have to go to work and not tell a soul all day?!

Well that concludes today's post... My fingers are tired. I'll be back soon to continue on Our Story. At least you all know what we went through to get our precious baby! We couldn't be more excited. Stay tuned to see how I told Brett he was going to be a dad, and to see what happens next!

Our Story- Part 2

Now, lets see...where was I? Oh getting back from our honeymoon...back to reality! Well Brett was working in construction and hated his job! The income was not steady because they didn't work when it rained, he didn't like the people he worked with (except his boss), and he was just burnt out. A great opportunity came up to go work for his Uncle in the oil field working on natural gas compressors. It was a pay increase, steady income, gas and truck paid for, and working with family...whats not to love? Well it was almost a 2 hour commute from where we lived one way! YIKES! So he took the job and started work a few weeks after we got back from our honeymoon...it wasn't long until we realized we HAD to move! Not only was the commute hard on him, it was hard on me too...he was a grouch after a 2 hour commute! lol

We started looking for a new house that was closer to his job, but still close enough for my job too. Well we found the perfect location pretty quick. It was only an hour to his job- a straight shot with no traffic, and only about 45 mins from my job (with traffic). SCORE! So we found another rental house (much bigger and nicer) and we packed up and moved in June of 2008. We settled in nicely...we had AMAZING neighbors and loved our area. It was close to all the city amenities but it has country feel, and best of all NO TRAFFIC within our immediate area! We were loving the married life, Brett was loving his new job and things were going awesome! So what next?

We had always known we wanted children. We had both been in previous relationships where there was a child involved. So we had our hand in raising kids and knew we would make great parents. So in December of 2008 I chose a new OB Dr. and went in to talk about getting off the pill so we could start trying to have a baby. I know we had only been married for 7 months but we had been together for 5 years and knew we were not getting any younger! I had been on the pill for 10 + years because I never had a regular cycle as a teen. So the Dr. told me to get off the pill but to "protect" for the first 2 months to get all the extra hormones out of my system.

So in February of 2009 we technically started trying. By trying I mean we weren't doing anything to prevent it. I really didn't want to be one of those women who stress over it because I think that makes it harder for it to happen. Well as luck would have it, I never got regular cycle. I was only having one like every 2-3 months or so! I knew something had to be wrong but I was still trying not to stress about it. I kept saying that it was just because I had been on the pill for so long and my body needed time. I can't even tell you how many of those stupid, mean, negative sticks I peed on thinking that maaaybe I was late for a different reason than just my stupid body! lol Let me just tell you this... those dollar store pregnancy test are a life saver...better yet a wallet saver! lol So I guess it was about 9 months into the "trying" process that I realized something was wrong... it just wasn't happening and I still wasn't having a normal cycle. I tried those over the counter ovulation sticks but those weren't working either. It looked as if I was never ovulating. What gives?!

So I made an appt with the Dr. to get some test run in September of 2009. So 8 vials of blood and a urine test later I got the call... yep there was something wrong! I made an appt to go see what the deal was and see if it was going to be possible for us to have kids. Well I am gonna leave you with that cliffhanger for now cause I feel like I have written a novel. Don't you hate cliff hangers? I am like a season finale of Greys Anatomy here! Key the music...Dun Dun DUNNNN...

Our Story- Part 1

Well here I am, finally starting this blog that I have been talking about for months! I am going to give you the short version of our story to catch you up to where we are in our lives now. I'm sure most of you know, I am Leila and my husband is Brett, and this is our blog "Happily Ever After". I know our lives are just starting but it feels like a fairy tale sometimes and that's why I named this blog the way I did.

It all started in April 2003 when I met my future husband (although we had no idea we'd end up together!). We were both dating other people but we were in the same circle of friends. So for months we were friends and hung out on a regular basis...until we both became single in November of 2003. Our mutual friends decided to set us up on a date, so on November 7th we had our first date and we have not spend a moment apart since! Since we were already friends our relationship moved quickly because we got to kind of skip the awkward "getting to know each other" part of dating. I think that we both realized early on that we had connected on a new level that neither of us had ever experience before. A year and a half later I graduated college and moved in with Brett and his roommate. A few months later we decided that we were ready to get our own place and we started looking for a house to rent. So in 2006 we moved into our first house together in the same neighborhood I grew up in... with my mom only 8 houses down the street. We started our life there...and on February 22nd, 2007 Brett popped the big question on a Caribbean cruise. And of course I said YES! I couldn't wait to spend the rest of my life with my best friend and the man who stole my heart from our first date! For the next 15 months we were in wedding planning mode! We were on a mission to plan the most spectacular day of our lives... and I think we can say that we DEFINITELY succeeded! May 10th, 2008 was by far the best day of our lives! We married at a gorgeous 3.5 acre garden that was just breathtaking. That day was followed by a week of pure bliss in Maui, Hawaii on our Honeymoon. Words cannot describe the absolute joy that filled our hearts for that week. We will never forget what it was like to be living in total happiness. Well that's enough for one night... it gets us started on Our Story. I'll be back soon to post pictures and continue with Part 2.