Round Two

Maggie is 4 months away from being 2; I can not believe how quickly time has passed. Every day my baby looks more and more like a little girl and less like a baby. Which is both exciting and sad. Exciting because I really have come to love watching her grow and experiencing her "learning" journey with her. And the more obvious sad because she is growing up so fast. I feel like it was just yesterday that she was my 9 lb 8 oz bundle of joy complete with wiring, tubes and an entire NICU staff to care for her; and now she is not only breathing on her own she is my little chatterbox "running","jumping", and even feeding herself. She is well on her way to being ready to be a big sister or at least will be eventually. Which brings me to the reason this entry is called round two. We have been talking about having another baby since this past October, actually a little before that. Anyway...this past October we went and had a consult with a fertility clinic here in Connecticut to get an idea of the process this time around. The visit helped us figure out how we were going to time trying. As you know if you follow this blog that we have been very busy since October so our plan was to hold off until we were back here in Connecticut. So here we are in Connecticut settled in enough to have had some time to get things rolling with the fertility clinic. So this time around will be played a little differently, first off our insurance doesn't cover fertility assistance or treatment, but it does cover diagnostics. So that being said this time around it is making a deeper impact on us financially but isn't really altering our plan of action. Because I had a c-section our Dr. wanted to do some "diagnostic" tests (covered by insurance) blood work, ultrasound, HSG and SHG. HSG which is also called a tube flush is where they squirt an iodine solution into your uterus and up your fallopian tubes to see if there are any blockages like scar tissue. SHG is also referred to as lining check is where they squirt saline solution into your uterus and then do an ultrasound to look at the lining of your uterus they check it for scar tissue or any polyps. So this past week I got to be poked and prodded something I didn't really miss from our first endeavor. Luckily the procedures involved very little pain opposite of what many have said and they didn't take too long. I am also happy to report everything came back great! We have a consult scheduled with our doctor on the 11th of June to draw out our game plan. Before the consult I have to get all the paperwork done to have our sperm shipped to the fertility clinic and then it should just be similar to our 1st endeavor where we wait until the right time and I get poked and prodded and hopefully the beginning of July should be around when we try for the 1st time!