I have always wanted to have children.  Ever since I was little the only thing I remember ever wanting to be was a teacher and a mom.  A stay at home mom while my kids were young and a teacher once they were in school.

I always assumed that when I wanted to get pregnant I would just get pregnant.  When it didn’t happen in the first few months I just figured it would take a little time, I never thought anything could be wrong.

During the time when we were trying to get pregnant we moved.  So things were put on hold with the trying.  After we had settled in I finally saw a doctor.  Even though I was “young” and hadn’t been trying all that long, because of the fact that I wasn’t ever having a period, they started treating me right away.

I used Clomid for three rounds through my regular ob-gyn, which did not work and then they sent me to see an infertility specialist.  This was several years ago so I don’t remember everything— The infertility specialist did the HSG test on me.  One side of my fallopian tubes was blocked.  In addition to that I had polycystic ovaries.  I can’t remember if that diagnosis was made at that time or a different time

We wanted to wait on having surgery since one side was clear and decided to see if we could get pregnant.  I went through several rounds of infertility shots that George had to give me.  You know the ones where some people end up with 4 or 5 kids at once.  Of course it was very carefully monitored- I had blood work done every single day while I was getting those shots.  The eggs would mature but I would never ovulate on my own, so once the eggs were mature I would go in and have an HCG shot to make me actually ovulate.  After a few rounds it didn’t work so we decided to have the surgery to clear out my fallopian tubes.  The infertility specialist did a laparoscopy and I had some endometriosis, which he cleared out.

The next month I got pregnant without medication.