Getting Ready...

So, when the traditional means of getting pregnant won't work, you have to look at alternatives. Wow. Who knew that would involve learning so much about making a baby. I guess that I am amazed at how easily traditional families can get pregnant, by accident even, when there is so much that goes into making a baby. We have so much to consider. Sperm (hahaha...funny to talk about sperm). Where do you get sperm outside the "normal" places? How about "charting your temperatures"? What?!? Heidi has read a fabulous book (Taking Charge of Your Fertility) and has enlightened me with new concepts, like the texture of your vaginal fluids and how a successful sperm swim requires a certain consistency in said fluids, more about your period than I ever wanted to know. Again, I say, what?!?

Then comes finding out the "hows" of two mommies-to-be becoming, well, mommies-to-be. We have to learn about insemination, sperm banks (reading anonymous profiles of mostly college students who splooge in a cup to make a few bucks), temperatures, talking to friends who have gone through the process and wondering how we are going to pay for all of this. Who knew that sperm, so freely exchanged by college students, could be so expensive to wash and buy.

And so we begin the next chapter of our lives. An exciting chapter, but a chapter filled with new challenges and hopefully the opportunity to be mommies together. Our first appointment with a fertility specialist is July 27th. ~ Taking a deep breath ~ Here we go...let's go make a baby.

Lawanna