I didn't realize I hadn't posted the pink or blue news yet! Well, I am now 28 weeks and we're seeing lots of BLUE! We're so thrilled to be having a son!!! His name is Mason James Carr :) He's quite the mover and shaker, and I LOVE that. It's so reassuring. I had my glucose test yesterday and that's fine too. Things are going so wonderfuly, we just need to buy furniture, have our shower and we'll be ready

Half way to the finish line!

Well, I am almost half way there! I am just over 19 weeks today! Tim and I will go for my ultrasound next week on November 24th. We both cannot wait to find out if it's a boy or girl. The pregnancy so far has been pretty uneventful, which is good :) I had some nausea in the beginning, and some of the normal symptoms, but I'm well beyond that now and am starting to get a little belly and have a wonderful appetite. I'll post again after next week with pink or blue news! :)

Well, it looks like with God, and acupuncture, ALL things are possible!!! I found out last week that I am pregnant. This week I am 5 weeks along. No real symptoms yet, a little tired, and peeing ALOT, but that's about it. Although from what I've read, lots of times the symptoms don't come till around 6 weeks...oh well, after waiting this long, I'll take whatever this baby wants to give me!

So I'm diving into the acupuncture! I went this past Friday and it was really neat! I'm going again tonight, and will go once a week for a few months anyways, or as long as we can afford it. We also talked about chinese herbs and supplements, so I may be going off the milk thistle with dandelion if I do that. Tim and I are also going to be seeing a homeopath. This won't happen right away since we want to have the money up front, and not go on a payment plan. Again, all of this being done for my endometriosis and to get my body (and Tim's) in the right place to create new life, and allow it to grow. I'm praying this will help our efforts and that we can be parents soon! Thanks for all the positive thoughts and prayers.

Treating Endometriosis

On my 'quest' to treat endometriosis naturally, I've started taking a supplement called Milk Thistle with Dandelion. It improves liver function. Part of what happens with endometriosis is that there is an excess of estrogen that the liver cannot process. My hopes are that by improving my liver function, my body will be able to get rid of the excess estrogen, and that will keep the endometriosis from forming, and then hopefully make it easier for me to get pregnant. I'm also looking into acupunture. I've been doing a lot of research on acupunture to treat endometriosis, as well as infertility. I've contacted a place in Portsmouth that specializes in this, so, I guess we'll see what happens!

It never gets easier

Well, my 2WW turned into a 1WW (one week wait) I found out Monday that I am not pregnant.

We've decided that it's time to take a break from treatments. I'm going to focus on treating my endometriosis naturally, with diet, vitamins, etc.

Thank you all for all of your support

I'll catch you up

I'm kind of doing this all backwards, but bear with me, I'm a first time blogger ;)

I guess I should go back and explain what was supposed to happen this past month. There may be a little too much information here...I was to go through my first round of 'real' fertility treatments, which would have given me multiple eggs/chances at getting pregnant. All throughout this time, bloodwork and ultrasounds are being done to monitor my hormone levels and ovaries. So, I took the 5 days of Clomid, got bloodwork and everything looked perftect, so I was on the the injections. Not NEARLY as bad as I thought they were going to be. I did 2 days of the injections and had more bloodwork and ultrasound. The Dr. saw on the ultrasound that I had one large follical in my right ovary and a few smaller ones in the left and was concerned that the one large one would overpower the others, but had to wait for the results of the bloodwork to know for sure. A few hours later after getting bloodwork, I get a call that my estrogen level had skyrocketed and the treatments were basically cancelled. I was devistated, but am trying to remember that I really don't have control over everything, and thateverything happens for a reason. So, now, here we are, in the 2WW...