The Road to a Miracle

Hello, my name is Brandie and I started this blog because my husband Brise and I are trying to conceive our first child. We've been together since we were young, since I was 13 and he was 17, and we've been married since October 21, 2006. We have two dogs, a small female poodle named Sadie who I've had for years, and another poodle mix that we took in from our neighborhood; Buddy.

Brise is very excited to become a daddy one day. It hasn't been as easy as we thought but we're learning. We started our journey with trying to let nature take its course by just being together but after a few months we decided we would actively get more involved. I've been using ovulation predictors for a few months and I've added prenatal vitamins as well as B6 after noticing a short LP cycle.

This month I'm considering using progesterone cream but just as easy as it is to use it it is also pretty serious if you stop taking it or forget to. I'm not one that runs to the doctor for each and every thing so I'm going to put forth a few more months worth of effort before I go and discuss any issues with my OB/GYN. Because of events in the past I'll be changing to a new OB/GYN so I have to make a list and make some visits to different places. My husband has already decided which hospital he would like to have our child out but we'll need to take visits of the hospitals and get a good idea of the care and atmosphere.

I think my husband is more excited about our journey than I am, I'm one of those who isn't sure if there is ever a "perfect time" to have a baby, it is such a responsibility and you give up so much to have a child. You give up your time, freedom, independence and together time, you give up your life because it is no longer about you. I know that it is worth it but it is a lot to think about.

We've only told two people we're trying, a great guy he works with and my best friend. My mom and dad I don't think will be excited at all, they live very young and my mother already doesn't even want to be called "grandma", after all she rides a motorcycle and they take vacations once every other month. My husband's father is a very strange person, he is very cold and doesn't like me at all, never has but he's ok at times. We haven't spoken more than 20 minutes worth of conversation to each other in 10 years. My husband's family is very cold, his mother and father are divorced--both remarried. I know that his mother will be excited, she talks about it all the time. I only have my father's mother and father left and they've both got advanced stages of dementia so they won't understand when I'm pregnant but he still has both sets of his grandparents so maybe they will be excited.

It is a scary journey but he and I have been though a lot of tough times and we've made it this far and still love each other very much so I'm willing to take this journey with him. I don't think I could ask for a more excited man to have a baby with, I just hope I can make him a daddy soon.