Two tickets on a time machine to April.

I wish I could just hop in a time machine and have it take me to the day at the end of April where I get the results of my Pregnancy test.  Or even take me to the week when I start my IVF protocol.  I know that all the medication, ultrasounds, blood work.... and all the other things that go on during ivf isn't going to be a walk in the park, but I don't care I want to be there.  It's not going to feel real until actually start the process.
I go friday to talk with my RE and get the actual protocol, and all the scripts for my medication.  And hopefully I will be able to start the bc pills next weekend.  Once I start the pill to regulate my cycle it should only be a week or 2 and I can start the injectable medication.  Just thinking about staring makes me so happy.  I've been waiting over 3 years to be prego and the idea that in only a few more months I might be is so great.   Even though thinking about it makes me so happy I wish it was here already.  AHHHH I just want to be prego so bad!  I know it's going to happen, I'm more positive about this than I've ever been before.  This is the road I am supposed to be on.

I'm really new at blogging but I really hope to dictate my whole IVF journey.  Day to day, how I'm feeling, medications i'm taking, how my husband is reacting to it all. Hopefully before everyone's eye's I can happily share my positive results, and then share my pregnancy journey.

A bundle of (financial) joy

IVF's can cost so much money.  Thankfully I have Insurance that covers Infertility.  Or at least that's what I thought.  My Insurance allows us to have 10,000 life time max benefits for infertility, which we still have around 9,000 left.  Well last year our coverage was 80/20 so that means we would have only had to pay around 3,000 for our  IVF cycle.  Well thanks to consumer driven health care my insurance was changed this year to 50/50.  As blessed as I am to have any coverage at all, now with only 1 1/2 months till our IVF  we have to come up with more like 6-8 thousand to be able to afford our treatment. 
After talking over all of our options from borrowing from family to taking money out of our profit sharing... we have decided to take out a new credit card (not my favorite option, I hate to be more in debt when a baby comes).  Thant brings me to my latest thought, we will be putting our baby on credit.  I think it's kind of funny.  Of all the strange things people put on credit and all the things I've put on credit I never thought I would be putting my baby on credit. 


We have our next doctors apointment next friday, March 4th, to talk about the details of our IVF.  I will know exactly what medication I will be talking and when I will start the meds.  I can't wait, less than 2 months left to wait is nothing when I think back on the last 3 1/2 years we have been trying.

My first blog post ever!

Hi my name is Rachel and My husbands name is Joe we have been TTC for over 3 years.  If someone would have told me 4 years ago I wouldn't have a child by now I would have said no way, no one in my family or my hubbies has ever had IF trouble.  But I guess there has to be one in every family, and that one is me.
Now after going though all the stages (denial, anger, acceptance.....) I know that everything happens for a reason and even though I might not always know the reason I know that I will have my miracle(s) that I long for. 
Right now I am nearing the end of a three month treatment of  Lupron Depot (a medication that puts me into temporary menopause to help relieve my endo symptoms, and help me conceive).  I'm waiting for AF to show her ugly face, and as soon as she does I will be starting BC pills in order to regulate my cycle to be able to start my first (and hopefully only) round of IVF. 
I know this is the path for me, I can feel it deep down in my bones!