Inital Posting

As my husband and I begin the IVF journey I am frantically seeking a place to vent and get my thoughts and feelings out of my internal dialog.

Our story is not nearly as long and painful as many of those who have traveled down the infertility highway. We were married in June of 2006 and thought that we would wait before beginning our family. In the fall of 2006, after a trip to visit some friends in the hospital who had just had their first baby, we changed our plans and began trying to conceive.

My general practitioner told me that she didn't think that we would have any trouble getting pregnant and not to worry for a year or more of trying. After a year and a half we made an appointment with a OBGYN who couldn't find anything initially wrong and set us up with appointments to do some more invasive diagnostic procedures until she got our semen sample back and decided that the problem is probably not on my end, but rather with my husband. She sent us to see an urologist.

After many appointments and an unsuccessful surgery to fix a varicocele vain in my husband, the urologist told us that if we wanted to have children of our own we would need to take our 1 million slow moving sperm to see a specialist in Colorado or Seattle.

Earlier this month we had a phone consultation with Dr. S at CCRM and he seemed optimistic that he might be able to help us. Therefore we are headed to Colorado next month for a one day work up and then hopefully will experience our first IVF in July.

Although many of my friends and family keep telling me that I need to focus on other aspects of my life, our goal of becoming parents has completely consumed me and every part of my life. Hopefully by blogging about my experience, maybe I can begin to collect my thoughts and feelings and find a balance between this obsession and a healthy life.