Baby Steps

Yesterday we made progress in finding a fertility specialist. I took the business cards my obgyn gave me and ran them by two very good trusted friends in the health care field( Thank you Brooke and Amy!) It was an incredible blessing that both came back with the same name, they not only took in to account the information I had but they knew, looked in to insurance options,... God really has placed the most amazing people in my life. I couldn't do this alone... Billy has been wonderfully understanding of the many strong emotions emitting from his wife. I've said before I don't want encouragement, but I think I just don't want a summarization. I want to know how other people have dealt with frustrations, disappointments , unmet expectations, that's encouraging to me... not "everything will be okay" while I know that, it just doesn't acknowledge the meaning of all of this...Okay, I digressed. So I went online and read the 19 PAGE new patient packet ( I will have no personal secret information by the time I have completed this, I just know). I am looking forward to a consultation so we can find out what all the options are. So Dr Doody here we come..... Side note, I've been having some random cramping like I did just after the HSG last week yesterday and a bit this morning. I'm trying very hard not to have any food issues. My current theory is that one of the side effects of Celiac is infertility. Talking to my primary care physician she said it's because of the proximity between my intestines ( which become inflamed with the presence of any gluten) and uterus. So I drew the conclusion based on the fact that the HSG kinda puffed up my uterus with the balloon and the dye going through the fallopian tubes that MAYBE ( I'll ask the specialist and update later if this is actually true or not) the tubes aren't squished and we would have a better chance at a baby just based on having the test. Gotta spend the rest of my lunch hour starting the packet. Keep praying as Billy and I are getting more bold in asking for a baby that comes from my body. Also, if it's a girl I wouldn't be quite as clueless :-)

Thought I'd add a picture of the crib we bought in faith 2 years ago for our future child. We know and trust God will fill this crib with our child one day.