We have been married since October 18th, 2002. Not long after we got married, I woke up from a horrible dream. In this dream/nightmare I found out that I wasn't able to have children. This bothered me for weeks. Looking back, I am thankful I had this dream because I was somewhat prepared and therefore able to cope a little better with the problems we would have down the road.
In January of 2003, I had some kidney problems that made me stop taking birth control pills (and my prescription ran out at about this time). We decided that we were at the point in our lives that we would love to have children. So we decided to start trying.
The first year we didn't worry about timing things out. We just thought that it would wind up happening. After a year, I started taking my basal temperature and timing our "activities" according to that. We were nervous about seeing a infertility specialist, so unfortunately we put it off. These years were very hard for us. We hated going to church every week because there were so many babies. We felt like people were tip toeing around us so they wouldn't offend us. Our friends and family were reluctant to tell us they were pregnant. We finally decided that it wasn't going to work naturally, we needed to get help.
In August 2006, I asked my doctor to refer me to a infertility specialist. Someone finally called me in September to go over the process. At this point James had just found out that he got a new position in the company that would cause us to relocate to Clovis. The nurses decided that it would be best if we waited until we were settled before they helped us. So once again we started the waiting game. We moved to Clovis in late October 2006. It took a few months to get our Kaiser switched over from Southern to Northern. Once that was done, I found an OB/GYN and told him that I wanted to do infertility treatments and he refered me to the appropriate department.
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