"I Thought I Was Infertile - But 9 Months Latter..." If you are anything like me, you are having trouble trying to conceive. You may have already had some tests done, or you may just be wondering why nature is not taking the normal course. Trying to conceive with no results is incredibly frustrating! Having trouble getting pregnant is not something you ever think about when you imagine yourself with children.

Most of the time, you spend years trying NOT to get pregnant, so you think that when you are ready to get pregnant, it should happen right away. But for a segment of the population, that does not happen. "Getting Pregnant Is Not Always Easy. Sometimes It’s Downright Hard, and It Gets Harder and Harder The Longer It Takes..."

The fact is, studies show that because couples are waiting until later in life to have a family, infertility problems are more common. Instead of having families in your 20s, people are now waiting until their 30s and 40s to conceive children.

Whether it is because people are getting married later in life or putting off having a family to have a career, getting pregnant is not always as easy as it might seem.
But I really don’t have to tell you this, right? You know the heartache and worry that comes with not being able to conceive. You know how it feels to try month after month with no results.

You began the process of getting pregnant with such excitement, and happily shared the news that you are trying to conceive with family and friends. Now, months or even years later, you find that you dread the inevitable questions about whether or not you are pregnant.  You look at other pregnant women you see with envy and end up spending your time wondering if it will ever happen to you and worrying about that fact that it might not happen to you

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Let Me Begin By Telling  You My Story....

My husband and I got married when we were in our late 20s. We decided that we wanted to have a child right away, and spent the first six months of our marriage trying to conceive. We had plenty of sex and a lot of optimism. We thought it would happen, and didn’t give much thought to the fact that it might not happen. This was even though I had worked in a private adoption agency and dealt with infertile couples on a regular basis. No one ever thinks they might be infertile. Ever.

If you want children at some point in your life, then you just assume that you will have them when you are ready and want them. I wanted a girl first, with my blonde hair and my husband’s green eyes. I pictured this little girl in my mind, and she became very real. We joked about names, and planned a nursery filled with everything pink! But it did not happen, and we started to wonder why. We were still fairly young, both of us were healthy, and our lives were not overly filled with stress.

When we hadn’t gotten pregnant after six months, we finally paid a visit to my OB/GYN. He checked me out, and pronounced me physically able to have children. There was nothing medically wrong with me. He said that since we were just about into our 30s that our chances for conception were still very good. He suggested that we relax, enjoy ourselves and let nature take its course for at least another six months. If we still had not conceived by that time, then my husband and I could start undergoing some of the testing for fertility problems.

That advice, while well-meant, was not easily taken. How do you relax when all you really want to do is get pregnant and have a baby?