And So It Begins

This as you can tell is my first blog, and I am a little nervous. I simply wanted to share my journey of being a military spouse, a PhD student, and trying to begin our family. My husband and I met in Phoenix Arizona in 2004. We got married and immediately moved to Monterey, CA in 2005 to attend language school. After language school we moved to Italy for a three year exchange assignment that we had hoped would allow us to expand our family. After actively trying for a year & half we saw the military doctors & were prescribed clomid, amazingly we got pregnant on the first try. We soon realized that the pregnancy wasn't normal & the fetus wasn't growing, we opted to have a D&C and over a year later are still trying to conceive.

We are not back in the good ole US of A stationed at Maxwell Air Force base & loving life in AL. We recently visited our new fertility doctor & can I tell you how pleased I was to have a positive, upbeat, and generally nice guy as my doc! I have had such reservations about the whole getting pregnant thing & really just thought about it way too much. This doctor made me feel so comfortable and at ease. He said "you are relatively young ;), have had a successful fertilization in the past, and there is no reason to think that we should do anything but adjust your dosage of clomid". Can I just say WHEW!!! I mean all along people have been telling me you are thinking too much about it, you work out too much, you this, or you that & here sits this smiling doctor telling me everything is going to be okay. Even if we don't conceive on our own using this doctors techniques at least we have a positive educated person on our side, helping us do all that we possibly can to make it happen.

On a more positive note, my hubby & I early in our relationship determined that we would adopt one day. We had anticipated it would be our last child, but we are now prepared to adopt not only our first child, but our second & third if this is the Lord's will. So we have used this small amount of time that we have been here in AL to research this option. We soon realized that since we will only be here one year we would not realistically be able to adopt a baby during our stay in AL. That is just fine with us, we will use this time to work on having one of our own...exhausting our options (those of which end at clomid induced IUI, because that is as far as we are willing to go on this fertility journey). So our adoption plan is this....as soon as we get our next assignment (which determines where we will live the next 2 or 3 years) we will begin researching non profit adoption agencies in that community. We were able to visit the social worker at the AL Catholic Social Services and she was able to answer all our questions & get us a good plan of action for our next home state. So basically we have the knowledge and ammunition it will take to accomplish adoption in the future how ever far or near that may be!

I don't plan on talking about fertility and my obsession with it daily on my blog, but I will take you on our journey, and see how it all plays out!

I can't wait to connect with people through this blog, and am so happy that I have other blogs such as www.momdiggity.com to encourage me along the way! I wish you all a blessed day & will hopefully come up with something clever to write tomorrow, and the day after that & so on!!!

Ciao, JoRie