Relaxing

May 27th was my annual gyn appointment and also my “fertility” conference to set up a plan for getting pregnant. I was very disappointed when my Dr. said that he wanted to do 3 more natural cycles because natural is best and my greatest window of fertility will be during the first 6 months after my period starts after the lupron. I thought maybe he would suggest clomid or at the least to monitor my cycles for hormones, ovulation, and such. However all he said was to “Relax” ugh that is not was I wanted to hear…actually he said that he sees obese women who smoke, drink, and don’t take care of their bodies getting pregnant all the time and this is because they do not think about their bodies at all. I have to wonder if the stress I put on my body by thinking about getting pregnant is worse than the stress they put on their bodies by being unhealthy. Also how I’m I suppose to not think about it when every morning at 5am I have to take my temperature and record it. I start my day with thinking about it.

He did mention the expense of out of pocket fertility treatments and I know that they money really isn’t there for such an expense but I guess I wanted something more than “Relax”.

Nathan and I did get to spend the weekend together for his birthday. We went to Savage River Forest and went camping. It was very nice, just sitting by the fire, reading and taking walks. Nathan turned 29 with a Happy Birthday Smore. His last year in his 20’s. Mom and dad came out on Friday nite for hotdogs and marshmallows and we managed to dodge the rain and storms that we could hear but did not make it to the valley. We hope to go camping a few other times this summer and even talked about a cross country camping trip next summer to Colorado. We realized this would take a lot of planning especially with 2 dogs and perhaps and baby (you never know…I am trying really hard to be relaxed)

School ended on June 8th . I was very ready for the end of the school year and so were my students. We had 2 weeks between testing and the last day so that wasn’t so bad but it seemed to drag on.

We plan on spending our summer working on the house, working at Mickey D’s (Natedogg), and visiting with family and of course relaxing trying to make babies.