Here I am

I decided today that starting a blog might be a good idea. My husband and I are on our 7th cycle trying to get pregnant and sometimes I feel like I need a place to vent my frustrations with the process, so here I am…

My husband and I are both 30 years old and we’ve been married for 4.5 years. When we first got married, we were 26 years old and had no desire to start trying for a baby yet. After a couple of years, we started to feel emotionally ready to have a baby, but the financial aspect scared the crap out of us. Kids are expensive! The biggest worry was the cost of daycare. We looked at our budget and just couldn’t figure out where we’d get $1,000-1,500 a month to pay for it. I started to worry that we’d never feel financially secure enough to start trying to get pregnant.

Then, at the beginning of July 2012, everything fell into place. My husband got a significant raise  and the school where I work approved an on-site daycare for staff that would have very competitive prices. At that point, the conversation with my husband went like this:

Me: You know what your raise will pay for?
Him: What?
Me: Daycare!
Him: I guess we don't have any excuses anymore.

I was just about to begin my next cycle, so I stopped birth control at that point and we began this journey. I didn’t expect to still be trying to get pregnant six months later, but here I am.