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The Road to Becoming Pregnant
When my husband and I decided we were ready to start trying to get pregnant I think we both figured we would be one of those couples who are successful the first time around. Yeah, that’s not really what happened for us… and a lot of women I know for that matter. In fact, it took us about three years of trying and even then we were told that we wouldn’t be able to conceive naturally since I was having hormonal issues and severe endometriosis. Here’s our story to getting pregnant. After about the second year of trying to conceive on our own I started researching our options. After…
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Celebrating Families this Holiday Season
Some of you might know about our family’s difficulty conceiving years ago and were told that the only way I would get pregnant was if I went through months of fertility drugs and artificial insemination due to hormonal issues I was having at the time. Since my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at a young age (48), I wasn’t too keen on disrupting my hormones with drugs. Hearing those words in the doctors office was very painful and I remember feeling like I was somehow failing – myself and my husband. I think feeling this way is pretty normal when you are told you cannot have a child naturally and…
