Our Story

Tyler and I started dating October of 2006. We both shared the same dream of raising a big family and talked about it often. In January of 2007 my adoptive sister was born into this world, we both saw how each other naturally cared and loved her and we decided to start planning for our own family. In August 2007, Tyler asked me to be his wife and in September 2007 we started trying to become pregnant. A year and a half flew by and no pregnancy occurred. We talked about making a visit to my doctor but decided to wait until after our wedding, that was only a month away at that time. On March 21st, 2009 we said "I Do" and had a beautiful wedding. When we got back from our honeymoon we thought we were pregnant and made a trip to the doctor. After a negative pregnancy test we decided to take it to the next step and under go fertility testing. All the fertility testing was coming back with no red flags and my doctor told us there was nothing wrong and to keep trying. I flat out told him NO and that I wanted to see a specialist. He then tried to talk me out of it but referred me to Dr. S, a reproductive endocrinologist. On my second visit to the office he did an ultrasound and found that I had severe pelvic adhesion's (scar tissue) around my ovaries. The scar tissue is believed to be caused from a appendectomy when I was 12. He then scheduled me for surgery December 2nd, 2009. I had the surgery and come to find out not only was the scar tissue keeping my ovaries from releasing eggs... I also had endometriosis. My recovery went okay with minor complications. We were told that if the surgery was a success, we should be able to conceive but my chances for tubal pregnancies are increased. Dr. S informed us that if we aren't pregnant within 6 months he would recommend IVF. For the time being he prescribed D/D/M/S = dinner, dancing, movies, and sex. We figured we would give it a shot. In the process of D/D/M/S, we ran into some insurance issues and I really didn't like how long it took to get an appointment with the office. Unfortunately, we had to change to a different doctor. My first appointment with Dr. G went well. We went over my history and came up with a medical plan. He recommended IVF but our insurance will only cover IVF after 6 failed attempts at IUI. We did 2 IUI's, both BFN >:(. In June, Dr. G recommended doing another laparoscopy. Surgery went well, I had an awesome quick recovery. Now we are in the process of our 2WW from our 3rd IUI. I pray this is it, this is the one. Only time will tell.