GBNF, Part III

I was calling everyone I knew trying to find the right OB. I decided this time I wanted to see a woman. She would know how precious these organs are to another woman, and would take me seriously. I had my aunt ask my regular dr. who she would recommend and I got Dr. Carns name. I had already called the office to see which docs were taking new patients and she was one of them.

My first appointment with her I fell in love and it has just been a blossoming relationship since then. She came here from Arizona and said that PCOS was uncommon there and the thinks it is a geographical thing because there are tons of cases in SE Missouri. She prescribed Metformin and told me I needed to lose weight. I already knew about the weight loss part, losing a mere 10% of your body weight GREATLY increases your chances of getting pregnant on your own.

I don't remember dates exactly, but I know it was in or after March when Dr. J made me mad. I saw Dr. Carns shortly after and between the Metformin and going on my on version of an Atkins/SouthBeach/low carb and sugar diet, the weight started to fall off. Carmon and I also joined a gym, which proved to be worthless because we never used it.

In May 2007 Jess and I took a girls trip to Chicago. She had started trying to get pregnant also just a short time before. We luckily didn't go out bar-hopping too much. Her visitor should have came while we were in Chi-town but never arrived. When she got back to Springfield I convinced her to take a pregnancy test. She called me back and told me she wasn't sure, but she thought she was pregnant. I was like, how can you not be sure. I told her to take a pic of the test and e-mail it to me. I could CLEARLY see the two lines I had been desperately wanting to see for myself.

We figured up her due date which was February 5, 2008. A few weeks later my visitor should have came and didn't show up. How exciting, I thought! We can be pregnant together! I went to my aunt's office to have a blood PT after an at home one came back positive, but another had came back negative. It confirmed it, I was pregnant. I got on those same websites that we had been on just weeks before. My due date was February 21, 2008. Our babies would only be 3 weeks apart if all went well. My HCG levels were really low though. Instead of the 6 weeks I thought I was pregnant, the test only showed 1-2 weeks. The next week I went to see the nurse practioner at Dr. Carns office and they did some blood work.

The day after my appt. was my birthday. We went to Lamberts to celebrate both my birthday and my pregnancy. I couldn't have been happier.