Caroline!!! My only friend and ttc journal stalker!!
YOu are right, it is not good to lie.. but I felt I had no choice... I've been worried about my ability to have children since I turned 28, bc since then my periods have been very short and light, so I was always going to different docs to ask about it, but I felt they were not paying enough attention to me... and once, a doc asked me if I was trying to get pregnant.. so she planted the seed on my head.
So since I knew that here they can't see you until you have tried for a year, I went in december 08 saying I wanted to see a gyno regarding my light periods as I was trying to get pregnant for 4 months and nothing (I felt funny saying I was trying for a year when I was not even ttc, so I only said 4).. so the doctor gave me an appt to see a fertility specialist for june 09!! I thought it was a joke!!! 6 months wait?!! I said "good thing I am starting this early!!
In june last year I went to the fertility specialist, she is sooo nice, a spanish girl (I am too, so it was nice to speak in our language).
I still remember clearly her words back then "Don't you worry, I am going to help you get pregnant" the first thing she did was look in to my uterus... and I also remember clearly her saying "wow! you have a beautiful uterus"
So as you can imagine, at that time, I didn't know much about the ttc game, so I told her I was just not using protection and not really trying.
She ordered some blood tests and asked me to chart my BBT. I never made a follop up appt bc she asked me to come back with my charts and I never did them, I only wanted the test results.
So I went back this year at the end of september, I was hoping she wouldn't ask about those charts ... so now she thinks I have been trying for a long time... but I told her that I have been really ttc since this year...
This last time I went (I was on my CD13), she looked at my ovaries.. and told me that I had two ripe follicles! she seemed excited, although I wasn't sure what that meant... she said that that is where the eggs mature and that she can see I was going to ovulate soon... so I was confused.. bc I thought we only have 1 egg per cylce.. and she said " yes, but sometimes women have two and that is why twins happen!"
later that day I tested with my ov kit and sure it came positive! so I was wondering about the twins thing..
That day she gave me a list of things to test and check ( I can scan them I pass it on to you if you want)
One was an sperm analysis... my hubby was "no way! it is too early to do that!" I was so mad!!
so anyway I told him, ok I will do all mine first, and if we aren't pregnant by then, you have to go shoot in a cup!!
so now, he is willing to do it... I cried so much yesterday, that his only way to comfort me was "ok baby I will shoot in that cup"
My next (3rd) appt with her is in 2 weeks! she will let me know about my ovarian reserve (Im scared!) and about the semen analysis....
I really want to know about my hubby analysis, bc I read that ejaculating often increases their sperm quality, but if his quantity isn't great, then I shouldn't try everyday around fertility window... now I am trying to do it every other day bc I dont know if maybe he has low sperm count...If he doesn't, then I would like to do it everyday, to get a high quality sperm
Anyway I think this was too long! but I will keep you posted with these things... hopefully you don't need to go to any specialist... I really did all this before becuase I was very concerned about my periods being soo light... but it seems that yours are not that way...
to all early 30's TTC#1!!!