Since we're now on our 9th month of ttc, I figured I'd start a journal to have a place to vent.

Here's my story...(every last detail you probably don't care about!)
I met my DH Adam in high school, we were both dating other people, but after hanging out a few times we definitely knew there was something there. A few weeks after we met, I broke up with my bf, for not at all related to Adam reasons. And then a month or so after that Adam's gf broke up with him. The next few months after that were very funny looking back. We hung out with 7-8 people throughout high school and one of them happened to be an ex-bf of mine who I was on-off with a lot of high school. Well for some reason Adam decided to ask him if he thought I liked him (Adam). My ex told him no and proceeded to ask me out.I said no because I was waiting for Adam to ask me out! Finally Adam asked me out and of course I said yes and I asked him what took so long. He told me that my ex had said I didn't like him. I then informed him that my ex had been asking me out the whole time he was telling Adam not to. Let's just say to this day even though I'm still friends with this ex, Adam isn't exactly his best friend. LOL. Ahh high school drama, gotta love it. Well thats when it all started, we started dating junior year of high school and by the end of senior year knew that we'd be together forever. So when it came time to pick a college we discussed doing the long distance thing or going together. We ended up both getting accepted at Purdue and decided to go together. Things were pretty rough at the beginning of college and we "broke up" several times the first year. Broke up is in quotes because I would break up with Adam and not even several hours later he would ask me out again, lol. Well we made it through that year and the next two and then the summer before senior year he proposed!! I told him back in high school that I wanted to be engaged for at least a year before we got married and he definitely put off asking me to the very last minute!! I loved him but going into that summer I had to think about what would be happening the following year if he didn't propose soon. He would be getting a job and I would be deciding on grad school or working and trying to end up in the same place. Luckily though those worries didn't last long!! He got a job in Iowa and we decided that I would put grad school on hold and get a job out there after we were married. We got married on July 1st, 2006 at the most perfect Cinderella wedding I could have ever imagined. We decided right before the wedding that I would stop taking BCP when I finished the July pack. So we went into married life NTNP and decided that if we got the suprise of being pregnant we would love it and if not that was ok too. Obviously we are still waiting for that suprise!! We moved back to Illinois, where we both grew up, after living in Iowa for about a year and a half and moved in with my mom (Adam' s idea NOT MINE) we hadn't sold our house in Iowa when we moved back, so Adam signed a rental agreement with his work through the relocation benefits. (We had to choose between buying and them paying all fees and getting an interest rate break or renting for 2 years and getting rent money every month) Well Adam decided that living with my mom for that 2 years would make it possible to save up an awesome down payment on a house when we moved out in 2 years, all I could think about was after 18 years of waiting very impatiently to move out I was moving back in!!! I love my mom, don't get me wrong, but she still likes to treat me like a child, even though I am married. We had decided in Oct. 2008 to start trying for real to have a baby because we had hit the 9 month mark of time left on his rental agreement. Things were so stressful living at my moms and after a year and a half living with my mom, I told Adam I was moving out for good and he could come with me or not!Of course he came with me , we got an apartment, since we still had 6 months left on the rental agreement with his work. And that brings us to now ( you are a trooper if you made it all the way here!!) we are just starting our 9th month of trying and HOPING that this will be it. This month seems to be especially hard because I think that had I gotten pregnant in Oct. I'd be having a baby soon, instead here I am still trying. Well anyways thanks for reading my book and I promise future posts will not be this long!!

[Lulubelle]

I'm glad you started a journal! You'll be able to vent and meet girls that are in similar situations as you.


We're on our 5th cycle and no luck so far. Hopefully our turn will come very soon (like this month!)

Keep us posted and best of luck.

I already posted this on the main board, but I just realized today that our 3rd wedding anniversary, July 1st, is also the day AF is due. Hopefully she doesn't show and I will get the best anniversary gift ever!! I had been thinking I would still be in the 2ww on our anniversary, but I will be testing on the morning of our anniversary!! YAY!! I'm feeling pretty good about this cycle now, I just feel like it's going to be our time!! I hope hope hope it turns out to be. We're trying a new recipe of BDing this month. We've done the every other day, every other day until + OPK then every day, every day around when I think I'm gonna O for a few days. Well this month we are going to start about a week before I'm supposed to O and BD everyday until about 4-5 days after I O, along with maybe 2x's a day the day before, of and after I O. We are going to make sure there are spermies waiting for that egg and lots of them!!

[hopeful3853]

hi aimee! i'm glad you started a journal. and hope you get your bfp on you anniersary this cycle!!

Not too much to update on as far as ttc goes. I went and bought OPK's today. I am supposed to O next Tuesday-Thursday, sometime in there. Tonight begins the marathon BDing though!! This is my plan... BD every night from now until a few days after I O and then 2x's a day when the OPK's turn positive until a day after I O. I know that is going to be a lot of BDing, but I am determined to make it happen this cycle and if that means there needs to a spermie in every corner of my uterus, then that's what I'm going to do!
This is OT, but we only have 12 more days until we close on our new house!! I am sooo excited to put apartment living behind us for good! Although I said that when we bought our house in Iowa and look at us now, but this time is for good for good!

[hopeful3853]

congrats on your new house! how exciting!