Before the Beginning

Introduction
I stopped blogging years ago when I started digital scrapbooking.  I get annoyed with "oversharers" on social media so I keep my sharing to a minimum but my lurking to a maximum.  It's a problem.  Digital scrapbooking allowed me to keep a record of our lives, journal on a semi-regular basis, and organize my pictures.  Anyways.....

I decided to start a new blog to document our IVF journey.  Yep.  That's right.  Didn't see that coming.  Or did you?

I actually haven't been writing much during this process but I have been making video diaries.  To your luck, I'm keeping those close and not sharing any.

Since I'm writing most of this after the fact, I am going to date the blogs in a semi-correct time-frame so anyone thinking about this process gets an idea for how longs things can take.  Here goes nothing.


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Chapter 1- Before the Beginning
Like many couples, we decided to wait a couple of years before trying to get pregnant.  A month or two goes by and you don't think anything about it.  Then it's 3-4 months.  Then 6-8 months and you start getting worried.

I knew most people aren't encouraged to go to the doctor until it's been a year of trying but this was about the time we were going to move from Rexburg and I was going to lose my insurance so I went to a family doctor.  They gave me a medication to try and I used that one month but then my insurance ran out and I didn't want to pay for the meds out of pocket so we decided to wait until I found a job and had new insurance.

Fast forwarding...got a job, got insurance, went to OBGYN, did bloodwork (was normal), had Nate tested (was abnormal), Nate went to a doctor who wanted to do surgery, Nate went to another doctor who maybe wanted to do surgery but wanted more bloodwork, didn't get bloodwork because didn't have good insurance, went to fertility clinic, finally more bloodwork for both of us, too much money later there's not a lot they can fix, a few months of new medications, those didn't work, we can also try X, Y, and Z for slim chances of good results, IVF is an option but it's really expensive.

Whew.  I think that covers that.