Yodeling Mamas

When my husband and I met nearly nine years ago, our priorities were work, friends and having fun. As our relationship progressed and the years passed, we began to think about buying our first home, traveling, spending time with our aging parents and saving money for a wedding. Now that we have bought our second home almost two years ago, a home big enough for a family, we focus on filling this house. This chapter in our life together has been a challenging one.

We started “thinking” about a family almost two years ago – discussing things such as how many kids will we want, boys or girls, share a room or separate rooms for the kids, who will take care of our children while we work, etc. So we started trying….and trying….and trying….and trying. Telling inquiring individuals that “we’re practicing” has become old and now, a year and half later, we are seeking alternative methods of starting our family.

First we started with ovulation tests – smiley face, one bar vs. two bars – you name it we’ve probably tried it. Trying to get pregnant started to become a chore and took the fun out of our intimacy. After a year of trying to get pregnant the “good ole fashioned way” we turned to my OB/GYN, and she suggested we try Clomid. So we did four months of Clomid and my poor husband survived my hot flashes, extreme moodiness and the ongoing disappointment of a negative pregnancy test. While extremely nice, considerate and very empathetic my OB/GYN realized that she didn’t have an answer for us and recommended a fertility specialist.

From here we experienced a barrage of various tests from blood work to semen analysis and finally a Hysterosalpingogram, and ultimately the answer was not really an answer and we were diagnosed, if you could call it that, with unexplained infertility. At my age these were words I never expected that I would be associated with. How could I? I’ve always taken good care of myself, ate healthy, exercised regularly…I had followed all the rules growing up. I don’t have endometriosis, not a cyst in my medical history, my husband has good quantity and quality of sperm…there just wasn’t a straight answer for us.

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