Our
TTC Journey
Since I didn't really make an interesting post last week, I figured I might make up for it with two new posts this week!
So today I thought I'd talk about our
emotional and faith testing journey to conceive baby #2, from the very first
try up until now.
Wifey
and I were talking about trying for another baby for about three months before
we actively started trying. In total it took us only three inseminations to get
pregnant, which in truth isn't as long as most.
Before
I continue with this post, I wanted to put it out there that I am not an expert
nor am I a doctor. I am merely posting my experience and advice as a second
time mom, any opinions on my blog are my own. I have not been paid or reimbursed
to post opinions on any products or services.
I
also wanted to let my readers know I do not have any fertility issues, but
since I am married to a woman it is a little harder to get pregnant. It was
difficult for us schedule wise, and even more so when our first donor had to
back out due to his own personal relationship.
We
can't really inseminate more than once in a cycle due to the distance from our
first donor's residence to ours (3 hour drive). We have had three donors in
total through our journey, two were donors from a private sperm donation group.
In
October 2015, we inseminated using sperm from a good friend. The two week wait
was dreadful, I tortured myself with imaginary pregnancy symptoms. Every
twinge, every bathroom trip, every muscle spasm was a "sign" that I
thought meant I was pregnant.
I
can assure you, that I was definitely not pregnant and I was getting my hopes
up. My period was out of whack after our first insemination, I only spotted for
about forty-eight hours. I went to the doctor for a blood test and it was
negative.
We
had so much going on for the following months that we didn't exactly have time
to try again. Once everything settled down an finally found a new donor, we
planned to start actively trying again.
In February 2016, we inseminated and
got our hopes up too high and we were let down again.
Our
donor was graciously helping another couple out when we were going to try for
the third time.
So, in late April 2016 we contacted another donor from the
private donation group and inseminated again. This third try, I felt I needed a
different approach to handling my two week wait.
I prayed and I told God I would trust his
decisions and I put my faith in him to choose the outcome. I stopped trying to
control the situation, I didn't pay attention to my "symptoms", and I
fully trusted in my faith.
Twelve
days past ovulation, as suggested by Ovia, I took a digital and a dollar store test but both were negative. I personally
thought it was still too early, my period wasn't due for another five days.
That being said I was not discouraged, I waited until the day before my period
was due to re-test with another dollar store test.
Sure
enough I got a faint positive, I was completely shocked and needed to be
certain that I wasn't seeing things. I yelled downstairs for my wife and she
examined the test and reassured me that it was indeed a positive. We threw our
arms around each other and I wept tears of pure joy.
I
was in denial and had Wifey take me to the store to get a pack of First
Response tests. I was most definitely preggo, there was no mistaking those
clear double pink lines. I called the OB/GYN and scheduled my eight week
prenatal appointment with excitement.
I
have not yet had my appointment because I am only six weeks pregnant. I didn't
have my insurance figured out until about week fifteen with Mr. Z, so I never
had an eight week appointment. I am anxious and excited to see what is going to
take place at the first doctors visit.
Well,
that's all for this post tune in
tomorrow for another insider look at our Journey to TTC and Cloth
Diapering..
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