Quick intro: My name is Ai and I met my soul mate, Joe when I moved to Cincinnati. I left Japan when I was 18 years with a curious mind and wanted to explore what's out there. I have moved around a quite bit but I am happily settled after I met my amazing husband of almost 5 years back in 2007. Things had been great with wonderful family, friends, 3 loving pets, etc....but I had a dream to pursue MBA, so I told Joe "Let's wait to have kids until I am done with school".
We waited and started TTC seriously after I finished my degree. I turned 34 and he was 35 at this point. 1st & 2nd month....fmmm, I am tempting, charting, eating certain food to get pregnant. 3rd month...fmmm, maybe, I shouldn't drink caffein, alcohol, etc. 4th month.....I am using OPK. 5th month, WTF? what is wrong with me? Went on and on....finally, I told my OB/GN "Something is not right and I am almost 35. What do you suggest?" She took me serious (Thank you!) and had me go through CD3 b/w, HSG, CD21 b/w. HSG was unbearable. It was awful, period. Joe also did SA. The result told us that we have an issue and my OB/GN referred us to a RE right away!
I joined the bump and started lurking and posting on 3T board around that time. I am so thankful to be part of 3T because it's an amazing support group and I cannot appreciate enough for 3T girls' comments/suggestions/encouragements when I needed someone who understood what I was going through. I was on CD3 when I had the initial consultation with my RE, so he put me on Femara that day and we did the 3 rounds of IUI afterwards and all of them failed unfortunately...
It's so surreal, but we are already stepping in the path of IVF and I would love to capture my feelings and milestones I go through.....
