Based on everything we've been taught in school and seen in movies, we thought that once we started trying, we'd be pregnant immediately. After a few months, we realized that this was very wrong. However, according to doctors, it can take up to 1 year for healthy couples, so we told not to be concerned. By the end of the year we still were not successful, so we knew it was time to start seeking additional help.
2011 was the year of tests. We started seeing more doctors and specialists, all of whom wanted to do tests to try to see why we weren't getting pregnant. It felt like I was getting a blood test every other week. [Un]Fortunately, all the tests came back normal, and no one could figure out why we weren't getting pregnant. In September, we tried IUI, which didn't work. We were getting extremely discouraged when we went on our vacation to Beijing in October. On the day we got back, we were scheduled to visit our fertility specialist, but after traveling for 13+ hours, we decided to skip and go again next month. A few weeks later, we were delighted to find out that we were pregnant! It seemed that we had beaten the odds and gotten pregnant naturally.
Over the next few months, we went through the different phases that all expecting parents go through. First was sharing the news with family and friends, then decorating the nursery and picking baby names. We also felt like this was meant to be, since it seemed like everyone we knew was due around the same time as us. It was like we were all joining the same club together, which added additional excitement to this special time. For the first 23 weeks, it was the best time of our lives. We finally were getting this amazing gift that we had been striving for. We had so many hopes and dreams for our bundle of joy, as well as for our future as a family.
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