A story about baby Harris.

Disclaimer: Keep in mind this post will be very vague in some details because I just don't feel they are appropriate to tell over the world wide web but you will get the idea. I write this post to give hope to other couples who may be experiencing the same thing we did. Also this post will be long.

It took us about a year and a half to get pregnant. This was always one of my biggest fears and then when it was happening to us it became more like a nightmare. You always hear about other couples going through fertility issues but you never believe it will be you especially when you come from families of fertile mertiles. Needless to say we spent a lot of time praying and crying because of what we were going through. It sucked... It just plain sucked.

We decided to start trying for a family back in August of 2009. I thought I would get pregnant really fast but after six months I started to get discouraged (okay who am I kidding, I was discouraged after the first month. Can we say impatient much?) We felt it was the right time to start trying so we had a hard time understanding why nothing was happening which of course we know now why it took so long. After about 10 months I had a feeling something was not right. I kept thinking maybe I was jumping the gun and should give it more time but in the back of my mind I kept having these thoughts that something just wasn't right.

At our one year of trying I went and saw my doctor. He told me that couples are considered infertile when they have been trying for a year.... that news broke our hearts. No one wants to be told they are infertile. Thank heavens for my doctor though. He immediately wanted to find answers for us so he requested we do some testing. Testing sucks and that is all I am saying on that matter.

Anyway, the day I got the call from him is one I will never forget. I answered my phone and my doctor told me to sit down. He told me right away that the results weren't good and that he could not help us any further. He told me that we needed to go see a fertility specialist. I thought I would cry and be angry but I felt nothing but relief. I was relieved that we finally had answers. I called AE and told him the news. He was upset but also had the feeling of relief. We finally felt like we were moving forward.

We met with our fertility doctor in November 2010, who by the way I love, and again he made us feel like we were moving forward and actually getting somewhere. He explained to us that he wanted to do more tests and then if all of those came out good we would proceed with insemination. We were shocked. We had been waiting so long for a baby and now we were only a month away from possibly being pregnant. We left from that appointment stunned,excited, happy (pretty much any emotion you can come up with.)

We did more tests and everything came out great so we proceeded with the insemination (this is the only detail I will be giving you on this matter.) After the procedure they told us we could take a test on Christmas and if it was a yes to give them a call. Yeah right. I did not take a test on Christmas. I took it the day after.

When I took the test all I could do was cry. I didn't believe it. I used up all the tests we had in our house which trust me, after trying for over a year you acquire a lot. AE was home and I just showed it to him and then we shared a moment. It was fantastic. Ever since then our lives have never been the same and we could not be more thankful for this little miracle growing in side me. That is all.