A Bit of Background

I want to start this blog out with a bit of background. I have decided to document this journey through blog posts for myself to look back on but also in case anyone else is interested in other peoples journeys. I am 26 years old and have a 27 year old husband. We have two kids, a six year old that I did not grow in my own body, but came into my life along with my husband a little over 4 years ago. We also have a three year old son. We got pregnant with our son unbelievably quickly and without trying at all. We were actually actively preventing pregnancy but life has other plans and I’m grateful for that. Then in October of 2020, while we were also actively preventing pregnancy, I got pregnant with twins who we unfortunately lost at just 6 weeks gestation. After that we decided to wait to try until after our wedding in January of 2022. I started preparing to try by going off of my birth control in early December and when January rolled around I started taking a prenatal, vitamin c, a decongestant, and taking daily ovulation tests following my period until they were positive and back to negative. I did this for four cycles with no luck and decided to take a break and that cycle I got a positive pregnancy test about 10 days before my period was due. Unfortunately again, this time after many doctors appointments and ultrasounds we were diagnosed with a missed miscarriage and on May 17th 2022 I had a D&C that officially ended that pregnancy. After a little over two months of mourning and trying to get back to normal we have decided to start trying again. I am hopeful that we will get a baby out of this eventually and hope that happens sooner rather than later. I will be documenting my cycles here along with how I’m feeling about how things are going. I hope to be able to look back at this time and be thankful for the journey and appreciate all of the emotions that go along with trying to have a baby.