This is me and my journey!

I decided to start blogging a journey my husband and I are on! So before I talk about what my journey is I figure why not start with my life! I'm 28 and my husband is 25 and we have now been married for almost 6 months! Neither of us have any children! I'm a social worker and my husband is a former United States Marine! He is currently working Security at a local hospital here in Michigan! We live on the West side of Michigan close to the lake so it is very peaceful! My husband and I went to high school together in Indiana, but never hung out. We reconnected over facebook just a few very short months before his last deployment which was not easy. It's incredibly hard to maintain a relationship, new or old, when you have no communication for 7 months. Upon his return we were able to again reconnect. Since then we have been inseparable and love to spend our free time with each other! Never have I felt so close to another human being (other than my immediate family, obviously). I could not imagine life without him next to me! After close to 6 months of marriage I have realized that we continue to grow closer together and that he will probably never stop making me laugh! He did, in fact, make me spit pop out all over the floor today from laughing!

Now on to our journey! We are on a journey to having a family! I have decided to blog about it to share our story and to help get my feelings out there! I was married once before and had tried during that time and it never happened. Now after 6 months of marriage we also have no sign of a baby. It's frustrating and heartbreaking! It has not been without tears, but yet I continue to pray and hope that God will bless us! Each new cycle cuts like a knife! I do not know how else to really explain the feelings to someone who has not been in this position and I sincerely hope that none of my family and friends have to go through this! So on to the journey! I started a natural fertility medication at the beginning of September 2011 called FertilAid and FertilAidCM which is supposed to help boost fertility and cervical mucus (sorry to those who do NOT want to know this..lol). This medication has been compared to Clomid, but is one you do not need a prescription for. I also wake up at 7 a.m. religiously to take my basal temperature and chart it. *Sidenote: I am just learning to chart so I have not quite gotten that right yet* I also use something called a Fertile-Focus. It's a small microscope the size of a tube of lipstick. It tracks a hormone surge using your saliva. Before you ovulate you will have that hormone surge which shows up as what is called ferning (it looks like a fern leaf). I have noticed on my chart that I have tracked multiple surges of estrogen which could be a potential problem. I do have a doctor appointment on 9/30/11 since I have been sick for 2 weeks and it is a new doctor for me. I do not know how much he will be able to discuss with me since it is an initial appointment, but I am hoping we can discuss some test options. Only time will tell for us what is going to happen and what our options are. I can only ask that people pray that we are blessed with a positive pregnancy test at some point!

<a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/36efe5">My Ovulation Chart</a>