Im finally starting a TTC blog after what has been a difficult first year of it with no luck.

My name is Amber and hubby is Chad. I am 28 and he will be 30 in September. We were married May 24, 2003. On our 5 year anniversary we decided it was time to start a family after we have completed our moving around from Starkville to Nashville and then back home to be closer to family. We have one little pomeranian, Brownie who is 5 1/2 that is very spoiled.

Here is a link to my chart for anyone to look at.I have been on Clomid for 6 mths started at 50 mg, then moved to 75 mg then to 100 mg.

We began to see a RE on Feb. 11, 2009 to see what we could do. Our first month of testing it was discovered that my prolactin was very elevated and I went in for an MRI to determine that I had a pituitary tumor which scared me to no end to hear the words "tumor" I have been on cabergoline (generic for dostinex) to help bring my prolactin back to a normal range. I went back to get retested last month and the medicine is working but with still no luck. On top of this I also have found out through testing with OPK's and charting that I had a very short luteal phase which has increased some but not enough to bring it to a normal stage (11-12 DPO).

The other problem we are experiencing (not that I dont already have enough wrong with me) is that Chad has a lower sperm count at 13 million, not impossible but lower than what it should be.

Two days ago we did our very first IUI and are hoping that it works. I went for an ultrasound Monday and had 6 follicles so hopefully just one of those will help to get us a baby of our dreams.

I look forward to keeping this up to date and will be posting more information soon. Hopefully I will meet some others so that I dont feel like the only one that cant have a baby.