A great day to make a baby

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

In the beginning ....

I tried using different fertility calendars online and I charted my fertility for months on end.  My periods were normal but nothing was happening.
I awoke in the morning and took my temperature and charted it on a online chart, started counting days after my period....on the 15th or so
a woman normally ovulates.. and that would be sex day...  I spit into a lens that when it dried you could tell when you
were ovulating... There was so many things that I did to try to get pregnant.  I checked myself for mucus in the cervix and I had a chart
that told me, on this day when you see this...this is happening.. when you discharge is clear..this is happening and so on.  So, I would run to the bathroom
and check myself.. how did I feel moody??? happy? Irritated?  I logged the information daily, but still my period kept coming.
I really didn't think that I had a fertility issue or fertility problems because I just thought that for some people it takes a while.
But once my doctor told me that after the age of 35 if you are trying for 6 months and nothing happens to contact them.. So I did.

I made an appointment for the doctor at a fertility clinic and my husband and I went. He told us that he would have to give us
some tests and not to assume anything or jump to any conclusions.. He explained how everything worked and that he needs
to run some tests on us to see what could be happening to our bodies.. I mean, one of the worse things about infertility is having to wait for everything
wait for tests, wait for procedures, wait for insurance to pay before the next item.. wait, wait, wait.....

One that thing was really cool about what he said. "He said that with the couples that he has seen, infertility usually is not just because of one person.
Either the man or the woman. It is usually a combination of BOTH.  There is an issue with the man and woman that creates a problem that causes them
not to conceive".

WHATEVER.....I was thinking.  Boy, I really thought it was my husbands problem..I mean, I take care of myself, exercise and eat right. I don't do drugs and I am a "social" drinker.
It must be because of him....

Did I have a rude awakening..


One Tip -
Prices for procedures vary dramatically per doctor... for a doctor that  I contacted  testing sperm cost $50.00 but another doctor a similar
sperm test  costs $110.00.  Make sure that you check prices for everything and check doctor. Check the doctors success rates
as well as reputations.

Sperm Testing -
check for size, motility, etc.  
I will give a better definition later.