My FIrst Ever Blog Post!!

This is my very first ever blog post! My plan is to use this blog as a way to document my IF/IVF journey and hopefully onto my pregnancy and into motherhood. For those that are reading this and may not know me please allow me to introduce myself :) My name is Lindsay and I have been married for almost 5 years to my wonderful, supportive husband Brad. We live in a suburb north of Atlanta, Georgia. I am a public defender and Brad is an infant toy designer (ironic? yes.). We have been trying to conceive (TTC) for over a year. My diagnosis is slightly unclear to me at this point, I have been diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome by one doctor but then another told me that I don't have PCOS, just "polycystic ovaries." In any event, since we have been trying for the past 14 months or so, I have ovulated zero times. Not once. I have tried several cycles of a fertility drug called Clomid (I tried 4 cycles of this) and one cycle of a cancer drug called Femara. Femara has the off-label benefit of causing ovulation in some women. Not me though! Brad has great swimmers so hopefully once I can get things together on my end we'll be good to go!

I currently have a plan to get things going. My doc thinks that IVF is our best option since he thinks that my ovaries will respond too well to injectible medications. If I develop too many follicles another procedure such as IUI would have to be cancelled since we don't want to be the next John and Kate. With IVF we can be sure that at most we will have 2 embryos put back and it will be safer for me. Soooo, here's the current timeline: 2/09-HSG (just to make sure that my tubes are clear); 4/09 IVF consult; 5/09 vacation (maybe our last as a childless couple!) and hopefully will start birth control for suppression for IVF; 6/09 IVF! That's our goal outline at this point. My plan is to post whenever I have something new to report, so keep your eyes peeled and your fingers crossed!!