Infertility.

Reagan and her baby ready for a walk to the park.


Making sure to give the baby some love.


What a big girl.


She is looking for a cat.


A nice stroll in the park.


We have a runner.

When you get married did you ever think that having a baby would be so hard? I never did, I thought you find the man of your dreams, you get married, have a trillion babies and ride off into the sunset. Okay, maybe we wouldn’t have a trillion babies, but at least a few. Having a second baby has been a journey that I never thought I would be involved in, but after already having one amazing child I know that in the end it will be worth at least trying. I always thought that I would be okay with just one kid, but after having Reagan I want more.

I met with my RE (Reproductive Endocrinologist) on Tuesday, which is an appointment I had been waiting for since I found out about my issue. It sounds so weird to say that I have “Infertility” issues. Man infertility sounds like I have gotten the scarlet “I.” YUCK. It just doesn’t seem right because I have had a healthy baby. You would think that your body has done it once it should easily be able to do it again. I guess in my case that my body says, “I don’t think so.” I seem to have a hard time getting pregnant and pretty crappy pregnancies, but EASY births. I guess you can’t have it all. Okay enough rambling on. I’m sure your wondering what the doctor had to say. Well, I get to start my crazy drug therapy as I call it. I get to start taking clomid on day 2-7 of my cycle. Then go in for an ultrasound to see if I have produced an egg on day 10 (Jake is scared were going to get sextuplets). Then I get to go back on day 12 to make sure that the clomid isn’t killing the swimmers because as clomid fixes one thing it can break another. Then I go back on day 15 for another ultrasound to check for ovulation. Then I have to take a progesterone suppository for 2 weeks. Finally at the end I get to pee on a pregnancy stick and find out if I’m pregnant. If it says yes then I have to continue the progesterone for 12 weeks so that my body can stay pregnant. If I’m not pregnant I stop the progesterone and start all over. I also can only take clomid for 4 months before it’s onto the next thing, which in our case is all done trying. We figure that we already have one wonderful daughter and were not going to go spend money on IVF. There are so many other ways to be parents.

Well, on a more exciting note the weather today was amazing. Reagan and I went to the park and enjoyed our 62 degree weather. I think that we got 5 days of winter and now spring has arrived on the East coast. She has this new obsession with babies. We had to take a baby along to the park with us. I hope that you enjoy my pictures. I’ll keep you posted on my fertility journey. Keeping my fingers crossed that my body gets scared and gets pregnant on it’s own, but that might just be wishful thinking.