April 28, 2010

My mind is spinning in a million directions today. I just found out that we are expecting another baby! I am so thrilled and just in complete shock that this really happened. I haven't even told Kevin yet and am still trying to think of ways to break the news to him.

For those of you who don't know, it was not easy to get pregnant the first time. After 18 months and finally having to see an infertility specialist, we got pregnant using clomid, an ovulation inducing drug, and IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) . We hoped it would be possible to conceive naturally the next time around, but I was still very doubtful. We decided we would not do anything to prevent a pregnancy since we didn't know how long it would take the 2nd time around.

We knew that once Kaden was close to a year, we would actively try for another baby. I had heard some things about Natural Family Planning and decided to look into it. I was told about the book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility and decided to read it and see if it could help me. I learned SO much about my body from that book and decided to start using the sympto-thermal method of NFP to try to conceive. It involves taking your basal body temperature every morning, and checking some other body signs to determine when you are fertile. Last month was my first month charting, but since I actually started in the middle of the month, April was my first FULL month of charting.

I got pregnant my FIRST full month of using NFP. After 18 months of infertility before Kaden. I am just in awe at God's goodness to us and his awesome blessing to our family.

I can't wait to tell my husband this wonderful news!

I am posting this now because I wanted to make sure we were able to tell our family first, but I still wanted to get my thoughts down before I forget what I felt like the day I found out we were pregnant again.