Our Story

Hello All!

I wanted to take the time with the first posting to share with you our story.

DH and I have been together since 2002, married in 2006 and started trying to have a baby in 2009. I met him online through Yahoo Personals (before you had to pay). It was a great conversation and a friendship quickly developed. We talked for 8 months before we physically met and after that it was LOVE...lol.

At that time, I was living in Ohio and DH was living here in Virginia. We were both college students and couldn't uproot ourselves to be together. He finished college in 2003 and we started to make plans for moving in together. Finally in 2004, he moved to Ohio and our life together began...officially. Due to the economy in Ohio DH wasn't able to find a job and a year later we decided to move back to Virginia. The economy here is much better and we were both able to find work in a matter of months.

In March of 2006, DH asked me to marry him and we were married in May 2006. Due to me being in school and pursing my Bachelors degree at the time we decided to put starting our family on hold. In August 2009, I graduated with my Bachelors in Early Childhood Development and we started looking for our first house.

In December 2009 we bought the house...so we decided that it was time to start our family. We knew that some challenges were going to be ahead of us. Mainly the one of me having PCOS. I was diagnosed in 1999 and have fought it most of my adult life. The main symptom that hinders our TTC is that I don't ovulate every month. I do however have regular cycles....but it is a guessing game if an egg is gonna be released.

After 6 month of trying we were blessed with a positive pregnancy test. It was a fluke that I had been testing and it came up positive. However as soon as our elation had started...it ended. We had a chemical pregnancy. This means that the egg and sperm meet, but does not implant into the lining of the uterus.We decided to put off trying for a few months and started up again in October. In December, we got a false positive and this has deepened our sadness and longing for not having the baby that we so very much want.

So with that said...we have decided to start TTC using a fertility monitor and herbal intervention. Over the course of the  next few days I will explain what we are using and how it hopefully will improve our chances for a healthy pregnancy.