.....I know I need to step out of the 2 week waits for a while -- too many people coming and going while I continue to wait and wait (don't get me wrong....VERY happy for everyone....it's just taking a toll on me personally).
We haven't hit the one year mark yet (it's been 9 months) but TTC is certainly taking longer than we anticipated.
So anyway....hope you don't mind if I hang out here a little.
Thought you'd all appreciate this craziness.....
I went for my first infertility appointment on Friday. What a scene. In order to have insurance cover infertility treatments I have to start with my MD for the first round of testing and get a referral to see an RE if needed.
My MD is a nice enough guy. He's been my GYN for a few years and I like and respect him....I just don't agree with him most of the time. (I have already decided that I will switch to a mid-wife for my next annual exam or prenatal care - whichever comes first - but for now I am established with him and I was able to get an appointment fairly quickly.)
Anyway....when my appointment began with him saying....
Let's talk a little bit about how to get pregnant.
: I knew it was going to be a long afternoon.
I tried to interrupt and tell him that I've been charting, I know I'm ovultating, I know we are timing BD-ing correctly etc. but he apparently felt he needed to give me a basic high school health lesson.
He went on to tell me how "easy" it is to get pregnant and how we couldn't have survived as a species for millions of years if it was hard.
Okay at this point I was starting to lose it.
I understand what he was saying but considering that the reason I was there, sitting on the crinkly-paper covered table is because I'm finding getting pregnant to be anything but EASY....I thought that was a really insensitive thing to say.
After sitting there while he listened to himself talk for about 20 minutes he finally agreed that my next step would be to have DH get a SA, me to have a blood test to confirm O and check my thyroid (although he DID finally look at my charts and he said.....oh yeah....you're ovulating all right. Your chart is beautiful. But he has to have the blood test to "proove" to the insurance company that I'm indeed ovulating).
Our insurance system is insane (but that's a whole other rant). :LOL
So......DH is going to do the SA tomorrow. He's really nervous about it but we both feel that this is what we'd like to do and whatever the results of all the testing.....it brings us another step closer to holding our babe (biological or adopted -- however s/he choses to come to us).
So....this is kind of long. Sorry.
Part introduction. Part rant. Part processing we're we are at I guess.
Thanks for being here!
~Erin
We haven't hit the one year mark yet (it's been 9 months) but TTC is certainly taking longer than we anticipated.
So anyway....hope you don't mind if I hang out here a little.
Thought you'd all appreciate this craziness.....
I went for my first infertility appointment on Friday. What a scene. In order to have insurance cover infertility treatments I have to start with my MD for the first round of testing and get a referral to see an RE if needed.
My MD is a nice enough guy. He's been my GYN for a few years and I like and respect him....I just don't agree with him most of the time. (I have already decided that I will switch to a mid-wife for my next annual exam or prenatal care - whichever comes first - but for now I am established with him and I was able to get an appointment fairly quickly.)
Anyway....when my appointment began with him saying....
Let's talk a little bit about how to get pregnant.
: I knew it was going to be a long afternoon.I tried to interrupt and tell him that I've been charting, I know I'm ovultating, I know we are timing BD-ing correctly etc. but he apparently felt he needed to give me a basic high school health lesson.
He went on to tell me how "easy" it is to get pregnant and how we couldn't have survived as a species for millions of years if it was hard.
Okay at this point I was starting to lose it.
I understand what he was saying but considering that the reason I was there, sitting on the crinkly-paper covered table is because I'm finding getting pregnant to be anything but EASY....I thought that was a really insensitive thing to say.
After sitting there while he listened to himself talk for about 20 minutes he finally agreed that my next step would be to have DH get a SA, me to have a blood test to confirm O and check my thyroid (although he DID finally look at my charts and he said.....oh yeah....you're ovulating all right. Your chart is beautiful. But he has to have the blood test to "proove" to the insurance company that I'm indeed ovulating).
Our insurance system is insane (but that's a whole other rant). :LOL
So......DH is going to do the SA tomorrow. He's really nervous about it but we both feel that this is what we'd like to do and whatever the results of all the testing.....it brings us another step closer to holding our babe (biological or adopted -- however s/he choses to come to us).
So....this is kind of long. Sorry.
Part introduction. Part rant. Part processing we're we are at I guess.
Thanks for being here!
~Erin
Hi mama-wana-be
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Now on to my testing next week.....
No one in my family has ever had trouble before. And, ironically, I am about the only one that eats right and takes care of myself as far as wellness care, exercise, meditation. etc. I feel like some of my skeptical family members are pointing and laughing at me becasue I spend so much time and energy on taking care of myself and using "alternative" care and look where it gets me... All my junk food junky, medicine taking, stressed out, no-exercise siblings are popping them out. Why? Why? Why? 
we've been praying for.
!!!!!
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