all in due time

today was filled with pricks and prods.  i had a doctor's appointment.  it's been eight months since we began our baby-making endeavor.  and it has been an adventure. 

your whole life you are told how to NOT make a baby.  but it's not until you're ready that you learn just how difficult it is to make one!  and it seems trying to conceive becomes a full-time effort: tracking cycles, testing levels, measuring temperatures and peeing on stick after stick.

so being the planner that i am, i had it all mapped out.  we bought the house in march.  we started trying in june.  and according to my mental timeline, we'd conceive before the end of the year and have a baby by next fall.  that would, after all, work perfectly with my schedule. 

but life doesn't work that way.  december has come and gone and we're well into 2010.  with that, i knew it was time to take the next step.  so into the fertility specialist we went (husband in tow). 

i wasn't really sure what to expect.  my new doctor is a man, and i usually try to steer clear of the opposite sex when dealing with "delicate" matters.  but he's the husband of my ob/gyn and had the same warm, comforting demeanor and quirky sense of humor i appreciate about her.  (he reminded adam of hector elizondo, but he reminded me more of wallace shawn.)  so he sat us down, asked a lot of questions and discovered quickly that i am very organized.  we already knew that! 

he was impressed with my tracking mechanisms.  he even asked where i got the tracking form i use so he could recommend it to others.  (it's the fertility chart from thebump.com, thank you very much.)  so with a flip through my bookkeeping, he confirmed we've been doing everything right.  well that was a nice affirmation! 

next was the physical examination.  all went well there (as well as can be expected when enduring that sort of thing) and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  he informed us that the next step is to do some additional testing on my hormone levels.  adam also gets his very own extra special test, which he is thrilled about.  and once we get the results of those tests, we can assess what's next.

so i feel good.  sitting around waiting for things to happen is not really my cup of tea.  i'd prefer to be a very active participant.  just knowing we are being proactive and doing a little more to help our cause along is a relief.  and we are keeping the faith that it will all happen exactly when and how it is supposed to.  amen.