A blog like every other...

This is my very first blog posting ever. I don't really even know why I'm doing a blog, except that it seems the thing to do these days. (Is that a good reason? No...)

We're on a road of adventure called infertility! It seems like this journey is only one that you can make sense of in hindsight, and so I want a place where we can record and remember each stop along the way, each byway, each detour - so that when we finally hold our baby in our arms, we can look back and see just what a miraculous, difficult, blessed adventure it has been.

While this journey of infertility is unlike any other I've experienced, this blog certainly won't be - I've read about a dozen blogs of the same sort. I guess those of us who struggle with infertility are drawn to blogs - safe places to whisper our hopes, scream our frustrations, and sing of our successes. Discussing these things are difficult in daily life, though. The weird, and the awkward, and the medically specific don't often make great dinner conversation.

And so we blog about it. It's a therapudic way of saying, "We're here, fighting this. We don't have it easy, and it hurts. But we will be hopeful. We will get through this, we will!" And for some reason, it helps.

I'll spare anyone who's reading this the details of how we came to this blog, but to sum up: we've been trying to have a baby for a little more than a while, have been through a few more medical tests and procedures than we would have expected, and have discovered that we have a small number of physical challenges that hinder conceiving on our own. We recently switched doctors, and our new and wonderful doctor told us the news on Friday that at this point, IVF (in-vitro fertilization) is our option, aside from some miracle.

I truly believe that we will be on the other side of this challenge soon, I hope so, and I really want a place where I can come back and read, laugh and cry, and celebrate the journey. Thanks for reading.