[jbloom81]

27 months ago we had a happy healthy baby boy who has since never stopped growing and has become a happy healthy screaming hyper toddler. My husband and I decided to start trying as soon as we found out we had a new place, from a 2 bdrm in a triplex to a 2 bdrm townhouse of our own. That was May of last year. I had stopped taking birth control pills in January 2006 to get myself ready and get back on natural cycles.

A couple of late periods and now 9 months later I am sitting here waiting again to be able to test. I have spent a small fortune in pregnancy tests so far.

What frusterates me even more is that my hubby's step-mom's sister is pregnant with her second baby after 1 try, her son just turned 1 about a month ago. She announced this to the family at the Christmas party, my hubby's younger sister walks in the room turns around and says, oh did I tell you guys that I am pregnant, 3 or 4 months. She just moved back to Ontario to live with family after her and her fiance split 4 weeks before the wedding. Her son in 6 weeks younger than our son. Everyone on my hubby's side is hoping for a girl to join the family since the last one was nearly 21 years ago and that would be my now pregnant sister in law. We had the first boy on my side in 24 years with our son, and still there has yet to be another boy even though there has been 2 more babies since Gabe. Both Shaun and I would love to have a little girl as well, we have a boy and would like to experience both, plus I feel it is easier to shop for and dress a little girl, and potty training as well. All the girls I know were potty trained by 24 months of age, my nephew wasn't until he was about 3 1/2 years old.

I am frusterated also because my hubby has said now that we should stop with the ovulation calendars and the charting, I never got into temping though. Last time we went for a week vacation to Minn just after Christmas to visit his mom and step-dad and their family, came back and decided to stop trying so we could focus only on finishing our wedding plans. As soon as we got back I started my period, I had been a week late by then and tested while away with a neg. I got pregnant that January and had Gabe 42 weeks later. It would be funny to get pregnant this month as I would have the same due date as I did with Gabe.

I have also in the last month been tested for PCOS since I have most of the symptoms for it and because it is taking so long in conceiving this time. It felt like it was taking forever to conceive Gabe, but that was only 6 months after going off birth control completely. I haven't gotten a phone call back yet, but when they did the ultrasound they didn't say anything to me about anything abnormal.

I am not even sure how to chart my cycles this time around, I have a cycle of 30 days normally, even when I was on birth control pills. Now after going off the bcp's I have started having cycles ranging from 27 days to last month I went for 35 days. My average is now 33 days making my last ovulation January 24. Good thing we made the best of that night.

I just an frusterated, depressed and disapointed at this point. I can't just drop everything and stop charting, checking and put it out of my head and just have sex randomly for the fun of it again. I feel like I have put too much effort into it and can't just put it out of my mind. I even checked my online calendar in the morning of the 24th, that's how I knew.

I don't know where to go from here, and natural is my only option as I have no extra money for fertility treatments.

Mommy to Gabe,
Janine

[Tamaralynnb]

Hi there, sorry you are freustrated but we know how you feel, i never charted or anything, i find it to hard when my DS Ryland (2 years) often crawls into our bed at night and i don't get enough sleep in a row to get an accurate temp. we started TTC on FEbruary 2006 so we are almost at a year again, and hopefully i'll be able to get in to see a doctor soon. When do you hear your test results, i hope you don't have PCOS. let us know your results. your in canada? Does your insurance cover any of the infertility tests? i never had to pay for any of mine ttc Ryland, except for the clomid