Into the testing we go.

So I haven't written all summer, but the same has been going on. No preggo yet. Remember that abnormal pap that I had back in April? Well Dr. did a colposcopy, to take a sample of the tissue, to see what grade of significance this might be. It came back negative. YEAH! So now I think we are back to square on having 3 normal paps in a row. Next one is scheduled for October, I beleive. Dr. also set up our appointment to go over infertility testing for Sept 18th. That brings us to today.

LMP: 8/23/08
Dr. set up a few tests that we are doing in the first step of tests.

• Pelvic Ultrasound - to see if there are any abnormalities within the Uterus and Ovaries.
• Thyroid and Hormonal Labs - blood labs to be drawn on the 3rd day of my period to see how my hormonal levels are.
  
• Hysteroscopy - to check the endometrial lining of my Uterus.
• Semen Analysis - to see what sperm count is with hubby.

I just had the Ultrasound this morning and everything looks okay with that. Just a little bit of free fluid behind the Uterus, which is normal and common. I *should* be starting my period sometime next week, so I'll get those blood labs drawn then. Dr. wanted the Hysteroscopy to be done in 2 weeks, but the first available isn't for 4 weeks on October 22nd. Bummer! And hubby will have to try to make an appointment with the lab to drop off his sample within 30 minutes of producing it. Thats gotta have some perfect timing I guess! Hope that times out well.

Dr. says that if these tests all come back normal, we would move into doing a Hysterosalpingogram. Which inserts dye into your fallopian tubes to see if there is blockage in them. They watch this under fluroscopy and usually the dye that is force in the tubes will clean out any blockage if there is any there. Sounds painful and usually is, but I know the Xray tech that does this procedure at the hospital and she actually had this done herself a year ago. But we will worry about that when that time comes. Thats if all 4 of these tests come back normal.

So maybe we will get the Ultrasound report and blood drawn lab results back by the end of next week. I'll update when something changes.

Blogging the cycles

I've decided to start this blog to keep track of how this infertility journey is going. Just so we can look back on it one day and see where we come from once we do get pregnant.

To be honest, I'm not overly upset or frustrated anymore with not getting pregnant. Yes, I want to be pregnant right now, but I think just knowing that we have one biological child is putting my mind at ease. We do want more children, obviously. So if we can't more biologically, then we are pretty sure that we will want to adopt. Either way, we still plan to have a family of four... or five. :)