Hi Everyone
My name is Brooke and I'm the girl behind this little corner of web-space.
I am a Navy wife to my wonderful husband Christopher
Dog mom to my four fur babies: Barklee, Brando, Braxton and Brogan
And I'm also journeying through infertility.
A little back story about me: I met my husband, Christopher, while I was in grad school getting my masters in speech language pathology and he was finishing his undergrad degree in chemical engineering at the University of Florida, Go Gators! We moved to Orlando together while my husband was pursuing his master's degree in environmental engineering, it was there that we go engaged and married. Less than a year after getting married my husband and I moved to south Florida and things started to get interesting: We bought our first home, Christopher decided to apply to the Navy's nuclear program and we made to decision to start to trying to have a family.
The house was great, I loved owning our home and was definitely sad when we had to sell it.
Christopher was accepted into the Navy's nuclear program. Which was AMAZING!! I am so proud of him for all the hard work he puts into completing this program.
Our decision to start a family did not go as planned. We hit the one year mark of trying to conceive just as we were moving to South Carolina, for the Navy. It was then I decided to make an appointment with an OB/GYN to discuss my concerns and see if they could help us. Less than a week after moving to South Carolina I was seen by my new doctor and I left that appointment hopeful that we would finally find something that would work for us. My doctor ordered blood work and an HSG for me and a seman analysis for my husband. All tests told us we were normal and with those results my doctor prescribed me Femara. Fast forward 4 weeks and I saw my first ever positive pregnancy test after almost 15 months of trying. It was the most amazing feeling until I went for my 7 week ultrasound and we determined that my pregnancy wasn't viable and I was going to miscarry. I was devastated. I had been hoping and praying so long for this baby and I was never going to be able to hold him/her in my arms. When we were able to start trying again I was confident we would conceive again quickly. I mean, Femara had worked wonders for us the first time I was sure it would again. That was not the case and after 4 cycles of Femara and all negative pregnancy tests I decided to make an appointment with a fertility specialist (RE). I am so glad I did! My husband and I gained so much knowledge from our appointments with our RE. We were diagnosed with unexplained infertility, which according to our doctor has only a 4% chance of conceiving naturally. We are now trying to start our family with a little help from science as we are doing IUI and hoping & praying that it works.
I am now documenting our journey through infertility as we try to start our family: everything from doctors appointments to pregnancy tests and all the happy, sad and frustrating moments in between!
I am a Navy wife to my wonderful husband Christopher
Dog mom to my four fur babies: Barklee, Brando, Braxton and Brogan
And I'm also journeying through infertility.
A little back story about me: I met my husband, Christopher, while I was in grad school getting my masters in speech language pathology and he was finishing his undergrad degree in chemical engineering at the University of Florida, Go Gators! We moved to Orlando together while my husband was pursuing his master's degree in environmental engineering, it was there that we go engaged and married. Less than a year after getting married my husband and I moved to south Florida and things started to get interesting: We bought our first home, Christopher decided to apply to the Navy's nuclear program and we made to decision to start to trying to have a family.
The house was great, I loved owning our home and was definitely sad when we had to sell it.
Christopher was accepted into the Navy's nuclear program. Which was AMAZING!! I am so proud of him for all the hard work he puts into completing this program.
Our decision to start a family did not go as planned. We hit the one year mark of trying to conceive just as we were moving to South Carolina, for the Navy. It was then I decided to make an appointment with an OB/GYN to discuss my concerns and see if they could help us. Less than a week after moving to South Carolina I was seen by my new doctor and I left that appointment hopeful that we would finally find something that would work for us. My doctor ordered blood work and an HSG for me and a seman analysis for my husband. All tests told us we were normal and with those results my doctor prescribed me Femara. Fast forward 4 weeks and I saw my first ever positive pregnancy test after almost 15 months of trying. It was the most amazing feeling until I went for my 7 week ultrasound and we determined that my pregnancy wasn't viable and I was going to miscarry. I was devastated. I had been hoping and praying so long for this baby and I was never going to be able to hold him/her in my arms. When we were able to start trying again I was confident we would conceive again quickly. I mean, Femara had worked wonders for us the first time I was sure it would again. That was not the case and after 4 cycles of Femara and all negative pregnancy tests I decided to make an appointment with a fertility specialist (RE). I am so glad I did! My husband and I gained so much knowledge from our appointments with our RE. We were diagnosed with unexplained infertility, which according to our doctor has only a 4% chance of conceiving naturally. We are now trying to start our family with a little help from science as we are doing IUI and hoping & praying that it works.
I am now documenting our journey through infertility as we try to start our family: everything from doctors appointments to pregnancy tests and all the happy, sad and frustrating moments in between!
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