First Comes Love, then comes marriage, then comes the....

...baby in the baby carriage!

well, at least we hope that's how it works, right?

I already have two children from my previous marriage, one I foster-adopted and one biological, both boys.  Now of course my new husband has taken over the Daddy role, as their "old" daddy (as they call him) thinks 10 hours a month and $150 in child support is being a dad.  Nice, huh?

So, we're almost to our 1 month of marriage mark!

Before marriage, we had discussed doing things backwards and adding a new munchkin to our clan first, but we decided to go the "right" route and give our family the big wedding they wanted and then work on kids.

It took me 2.5 years to get pregnant with my bio son.  So of course we enter this journey with worries of infertility...  And we didn't really want the kids all too far apart.  If we could get pregnant any time soon it'd be ideal.  My oldest son just started kindergarten, my youngest son will start kinder next year, so it would give me the nice along bonding time with the baby that I missed with my youngest son.

And hopefully it's a girl!  lol!  But we won't get into that!

So, this was our first month officially "trying."  I had an IUD for about 3 years which cause MAJOR heavy 5 day periods *sorry tmi* and horrible cramps and after 3 years I was more than happy to be rid of it!  It did it's job well but it was definitely time to part ways.

So thanks to my period tracker app, it's easy to track when my ovulation is and period should be expected.... all that fun stuff.  So, last week was our baby dancing time and we did well.  every other day which was what my fertility doctor had suggested when I was trying with my ex.  Plus I think EVERY day is a little over kill and tends to stress and burn you out and I think thats what causes a lot of the fights and emotional part of infertility.  Feels so much more like a chore when you HAVE to do it.  If we couldn't do it, I didn't freak and I really just enjoyed it and didn't think of it any different.

So, we shall see what comes of this month.  We've got a few months now without using protection and didn't get pregnant but we didn't go anywhere near ovulation so we stayed pretty safe.

I think maybe I'm a little more optimistic getting pregnant this time because I've gotten pregnant and stayed pregnant, so I know it's possible for me and  I think the first time it was all the unknowns!

Our family is pretty excited about the thought of a new baby... especially since the boys are FAR from babies anymore, so everyone can't wait to snuggle up with a fresh little bundle of joy!