Intro...

I am not new to blogging by any means, but have been out of the game for a while. This blog in particular is going to be about life, love & baby making!

My husband & I decided last September that we were going to get married in January on our 5 year anniversary, have our reception/honeymoon in July & then be pregnant by September. Well...the first two panned out. How naive were we?

*Cut to today*

Here we are in our fourth cycle of TTC. This is not a long time in any sense of the word. But, I am a TOTAL planner & this was not part of my plan. Wow, & that my dear Mrs. Kuhlmann is REAL life.

I was on Depo Provera for a total of 7 years & finally got off of it last June at the suggestion of my OB/Gyn. She said if I ever wanted to get pregnant that I should give my body a chance to get the Depo out of my system. In August 2009, she started me on Junel with a warning that I could possibly not expect a period for 6 months even on the pill. I took my BCP faithfully & to my utter surprise...I had a period again my first month on the pill. I figured, okay...so my body is bouncing back from the Depo better then I thought. I continued taking my BCP until the end of June this year & then stopped. Thinking to myself, alright...it's close enough to our July reception/honeymoon that if I get knocked up then no biggie. Only, it didn't happen that month.

I wasn't too surprised when my period came at the end of July. I had been lurking on the Bump & learned that maybe I didn't know as much about my body & getting pregnant as I thought I had. I joined FF & started temping, checking CM & doing OPKs. When I ovulated I thought to myself, "YES! Now I will be KU for sure! Our timing was soo great!" I know there is about a 20% chance each month of getting pregnant, even for normal healthy couples, but I convinced myself that this was it for us. I had every phantom symptom in the book those first few days. And then, I had a temp dip & started spotting at 7dpo. "Okay", I thought to myself, "this must be an implantation dip & implantation spotting." I mean, it had to be right...I was only 7dpo. WAYYY too early for AF.

WRONG! AF arrived that next morning & 8 dpo turned into CD1. I cried.