"You have sex...you get pregnant!!"

.....at least that's what my parents and health teachers told me growing up, which I am assuming was to discourage premarital sex( which BTW , didn't work). Now in my adult years I have come to find out that it's a little more complicated than that.
So in 2002...I miss a few days on the pill...and By Goly...my parents were right, "You have sex...you get pregnant!!" and the next nine months are filled with a very happy and healthy pregnancy. It's as easy as that, right???

Fast forward 7 years later, DH and I finally decide its time for another addition to the family. I mentioned this to a friend of mine and she proceeded to send me an ovulation calendar link. Hmmmm, so I never knew something like this existed, and I will admit at age 30, I actually had never heard the word ovulation, nor did I know that conception was all about "timing". So now with my newfound knowledge, three different ovulation calendars saved in favorites, and BC out the window...let the BD'ing begin.

Wouldn't you know it...6 weeks later nauseous begins to set in....I think to myself, it must be the sushi I am eating for dinner, I then proceed to throw it out. The next day...still nauseous..."that darn sushi"*I think to myself* As DH, LO and I are leaving home improvement store I begin to throw up in car. DH immediately pulls over at next drug store, he asks "Could it be morning sickness??" my reply "No, it can't be...we just started trying, it can't be this easy!?!?" DH purchases test, we get home and in less than 2 minutes CBE states we are Pregnant. Man....this is easy. "You have sex, you get pregnant!"

But alas, it's not as easy as I had thought. 6 weeks later at 10 weeks 5 days, we find ourselves in the ER in the early stages of a MC.

If only pregnancy was as simple as the what I was told in HS...or maybe I was told all this in health class, but since health was after lunch, it was normally used as naptime. So now I find myself obsessing over all things fertility: ovulation calendars, CM, BD timing/positions, DPO's, 2WW and phantom symptoms. I told myself I was going to give TTC 3 months, before I start temping and charting consistently so until then I have decided to start this blog to chronicle my TTC journey and hopeful pregnancy jouney and maybe time spent on here will keep me off of TTC sites :).