Our Struggle

Well for my first ever blog post, I figured I would start you out with a wee bit of history. (No pop quizes, I promise!)

This August marked 4 years being married to my best friend and, allow me to get mushy and cliche', my soul mate. Andrew and I started dating back in the summer 2005 when he had just graduated High School and I was on my way to becoming a Senior. It pretty much becomes the same old song and dance. We moved in together, got married and enjoyed our marriage, blah, blah, blah. Where it becomes interesting is when we made the monumental decision to expand our little family. To have a baby.

We both knew it would be no cake walk for us to conceive. I have a condition called Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or PCOS. To save you from the boring details and medical jabber, Ill give you the "Readers Digest" version. Basically, I dont have cycles and thus cannot get pregnant without medical intervention. So, after about a year of "trying" on our own, we pulled out the big guns and made an appointment to see a fertility specialist.

During our time with the specialist, I had taken countless daily fertility pills, injections, blood draws and ultrasounds. We were even "lucky" enough to do two rounds of IUI. (Intrauterine Insemination) We did, however, conceive on the first IUI attempt, but miscarried only days later. And the second IUI was just plain depressing. After everything was said and done, Andrew and I had spent over $11,000 out of pocket, (as our insurance did NOT cover infertility treatments) and 19 months trying to have a baby all for nothing. We were both crushed! We couldnt go through it any longer, we had no more money to throw at it, and the heartbreak was becoming too much. We just wanted to be parents. We figured when the time was right we would look into adoption.

Here is when the story becomes exciting!

Two months after Andrew and I had "given up" the most amazing thing happened.....we got a surprise positive pregnancy test three days after Christmas 2009! We didnt even "try!" We didnt have medical intervention! It was truly a shock.

And that is the beginning of Connor's story......