The Gap

As I read through my spiral notebook on my infertility journey I remembered that there was a very interesting gap in my entries. My first entry, my last post, dated December 18, 2001 and the very next entry dated December 18, 2004. I remember as I wrote that second entry 3 years later that it was EXACTLY three years later.

The Gap includes all of our OB tests, HSG, post-coital, estrogen levels, etc. Everything seemed normal, so after several months (I can't even remember how long it was), she sent us over to Dr. B, the wonderful fertility specialist here in our home town.

(Side note: I remember reading about people who's fertility Dr. was hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles away. I remember feeling very lucky to have such a wonderful and well known Dr. right here in town. I couldn't imagine all of the trips and how to do this long distance. Wow.)

In July 2003, we did a laproscopy to check and make sure there was no endometriosis, fibroids or anything else suspicious that could be causing our inability to get pregnant. He did find a very small amount of endometriosis, but not enough to be blocking our attempts at pregnancy.

At this point, I still thought I had a chance to get pregnant on my own. I was 36, but still optomistic. My thought was that it was taking a longer amount of time because of my age. In 2003 we did 2 IUI attempts, but also kept trying on our own.

Unexplained infertility. Hmmmmm.