Oh, so that’s where babies come from…thanks for clearing that up

One of my husband’s friends offered some unsolicited advice. He “warned” my husband that a woman could indeed become pregnant on her 1st cycle off the pill despite what “they” say. He said it happened to him and his wife. So who is this “they”? Because in my experience “they” say you can in fact become pregnant on your 1st cycle. Due to the way this advice was delivered as a “warning” and a “in case you didn’t know” I’m pretty sure his wife told him it would take months of trying in order to get him to agree to try. I’m not sure where he is from, but in my book unprotected sex with no birth control can most certainly equal a baby. Just not in our case yet, and to think my husband’s biggest fear was that it would happen the first time (as they taught us in health class) so we waited until we came back from a vacation. And to my husband’s friend, thanks for sharing how you got knocked up without even “trying”.

First Response should donate to my future kids’ college fund

Because if they come up with one more test I won’t be able to send my kids to school. Oh, yes, please start testing 5 days before your missed period so we can get you to use at least 4 sticks a cycle. Their profits must have doubled once the came up with this so called “early” testing. And I’m sure the cycle it actually happens and I find out “5 days sooner” I will be happy too. But they know the average (just not the people we know) couple takes about 6 months…so that 5 months of using 4 tests opposed to just one or maybe two tests if you were to wait until you miss your period. And my loving husband brought home the expensive digital ones last time…only two of them. He thought one for this month and one for next…not a bad deal. He has no clue how many of those darn tests we take. Plus with those digital ones you can’t over analyze to see if there is even a faint line. Well, what fun it that? I did get the wtf out of him when he saw the price of the 20 pack of opk’s. Don’t even get me started on those! I do refuse to break down and buy the clear blue easy monitor. I will post later on their at home fertility test and how it probably has women jumping off bridges everywhere.

So it starts....

I think I'm going to blame it on the Pottery Barn Kids catalog that showed up on my desk. I just couldn't toss it out...30 min later (after I picked out the bedding of my future and not yet conceived child) I knew I couldn't suppress the urge to have a baby any longer. Next I just had to get my husband on board. Now generally we are on the same page but I wasn't sure he would be will to move up the previous discussed time frame of 2-3 years into our marriage. We had just passed the 6 month mark...I think he knew this was coming, while my girlfriends are all single, the bulk of his friend had already had their first and were on to their second. So after much discussion we picked January as our month to start trying. So much for 2-3 years! Well, now its June and I'm on cycle 6...which I know in TTC time is really not that long at all, um, unless you are the one trying! So why am I starting this blog you ask...well my single girlfriends don't really get it (see future posts) and why I love my husband's friend's wives, I try not to throw our personal business out there for their discussion because lord know how we discuss the personal business of everyone else! So, yes, sharing our personal business with the whole Internet is a better option:) Plus I hope to entertain a few as I have been entertained by others. I have a few posts I wrote before getting the blog underway that I will post next but then everything should be current.