Update to the bad yesterday!

As you most know I haven't been ovulating. Its been really depressing for me and well I posted yesterday that it just wasn't happening and I was so upset. Ricky can tell you that I've been very very ill and depressed the last few days because it wasn't happening! I've been for two years and two months!!!




Well ............. (drum roll please)

I ovulated!!! Ok so I'm really excited and no it doesn't mean that I'm pregnant or may be pregnant but its a sign that all these meds are doing their job and well it just makes me feel so much better. I haven't been taking them exactly right because well I forget to take them at lunch lots of times. But I'm more motivated now to keep taking them!

Here's how I know that it happened. I have been taking temps and also doing a ovulation predictor kit. I did the test yesterday morning but I don't remember looking at the results, kinda gross to know that a pee stick was sitting on my bathroom counter I know but anyway I was having some pressure in my pelvic area lastnight and I keep telling Ricky it felt like my ovary. I had these pains when I was younger and that was the explanation that I got before. So I went to the potty lastnight and looked down at that stick and there it was (||) I was having an LH surge that meant that ovulation was near. So I retested thinking that it might be that the stick had sat there all day but nope the new one showed || So anyway then this morning I checked my temp and its up! which is another sign that I ovulated!!! I'm just so excited! Its a great start!! WooHoo! Keep us in your thoughts that things keep getting better for our fertility issues. We are so ready for another child!
Bring on the baby dust!!

Umm.. this may be TMI for some of you

Lets start first with my doctor appointment. I have had crazy cycles since Regan was born. I went to the doctor last year and we discussed some differently options especially since we were wanting another baby. I chickened out! I didn't go back like I supposed to. I had to chart temps for a month and I made it like 3 weeks and then life got busy and I just never called.

So it was time for that dreaded yearly exam again. I started last month charting my temps again so we could see what was going on. I absolutely love the doctor I see at Anniston OB/GYN. He is great and makes me feel so much more comfortable than any other I have seen. So we get in there and start talking and he ask me what happened and if I was still wanting another child. We start discussing symptoms and what is going on with me and he decides to run some test for PCOS. I have read about this before and thought this may be what was going on. But I will know for sure in a few weeks. Then we discussed that the meds that would help treat the pcos would also help me for having a baby! I'm really ready to get all of this taken care of. I only wish I would have done this last year. I'll post more when I find out the results.

Possibilities...

Ricky and I have been trying to have a baby for two years this month. I haven't been on a typical cycle since I had Regan. At first it was blamed on hormones, then stress, then body changes, weight gain, not ovulating, stress again and now here we are. I want Regan to have a brother or sister so badly but can't figure out how to get there.

My heart says adoption and more specifically a child with Down Syndrome ( yes you read correctly DS) My brain then says WHAT?!? Financially it will be hard to afford adoption even with lots of the grants out there for special needs adoption, we also worry about who would be here for their future and the financial part of their future. We have a plan for Regan set up so that if we pass away he will have money set aside for his long term care. But to be able to have enough money for two children to live off of would be lots of money.

I have no doubt that Ricky and I would love a adopted child like it was our biological child. We fall in love with our friends kids and love them like they were our own. I feel that we could change our family in a positive way and save a child that needs and deserves a family like ours. We know the process and steps to take to get the services that the child would need and we know the greatest therapist if we could get an infant. Plus we know the joy that Regan brings to our world and would love to double that.

Our other option is to start fertility treatment. I'm so scared about that because of the risk of multiples. I would hate to have to take away from Regan while on bed rest if that was to happen.

We are looking at so many different things right now and are hoping for a door to open either way.

I'll try to keep y'all updated on what our path maybe. Hopefully this time next year we will have more members in our little family.