For this week's flashback Friday, let's go back to the summer of 2010. It was a busy summer: we did lots of traveling and had many visitors from the USA, but what occupied my mind most of all during this period was whether or not we would be able to start a family.
In my very first blog post I mentioned that it took my husband and I 3 years to get pregnant with Nate, but I have never gone into the details. I didn't think it was important; I have my baby - he is strong and healthy and perfect, so what does it matter how he was conceived?
But as Nate grows bigger, the question inevitably on my mind is whether or not we will have another baby someday. And if we do, how long will it take us? Could I go through 8 rounds of fertility treatments again? Eight!?
This photo was taken a year-and-a-half into our journey to get pregnant. I was waiting to get an HSG test at the hospital. I was scared, but still calm enough to capture the moment on my camera. The photo reminds me what it felt like to go through fertility treatments, the nervous energy that always preceded each cycle. The disappointment when each month the tests come back negative.
In the end, after 4 medicated cycles and 3 IUI treatments, we got pregnant on our first round of IVF in October 2011. We also have 2 frozen embryos on ice at the clinic.
Now that baby Nate is here, I don't think I could put myself through so many treatments again; the desperation to start a family isn't there anymore since we already have one child. Even though I think a brother or sister for Nate would be great someday, if it doesn't happen I will be okay with that. Our family of 3 is wonderful and fulfilling and just right.
{This post is linking up to Flashback Friday over at Mummy Mishaps and The Real Housewife of Suffolk County}
