What the What?!?! Funny Fertility Faux Pas

Do women usually have more than one?

For anyone who has ever had to go through the infertility process, you know it can be tough.  You get poked, prodded and analyzed by doctors, techs and a slew of other people who see parts of you that only your spouse should be seeing.  By the time you give birth, you just don't care who sees what anymore as long as they're a medical professional!  Modesty and shyness...what are those?

Sometimes through the process, you can run into funny things.  Mine, through this last year of infertility issues has come through the pharmacy. 

It started a few months ago.  As part of the process of getting and staying pregnant, someone doing a drug-aided fertility cycle has to insert capsule-type pills into your hoo hoo each night before bed, starting 4 days after your fertility monitor says that you're having an LH surge (or ovulating for the lay-folk) and continuing through the first tri-mester.  Well, when we started this baby quest 6 months ago, my regular OB/GYN gave me a prescription for a 30 day supply.  When I picked up my Rx it was only 4 pills.  I didn't open the bag until I got home and realized the discrepancy.  I didn't find it too strange because I'd had instances where a Rx was only partially filled because they had run out of supplies so I called in the refill and waited to pick them up to see if there was a problem.  Again, I only got 4 pills.  I called the doctor's office, explained the dilemma and they said they'd call to fix it.  The PA called me to tell me she'd called the pharmacist and straightened it out.  He called me 10 minutes later and asked me how many pills were in a 30 day supply.  I said, "Well, they're supposed to be used 1 a day."  To which he replied, "So how many for a 30 day supply?"  WHAT?!?!?  Well, it got fixed and I went on my merry way.

You'd think I'd have changed pharmacies, but it's so close and there's a drive through window. 

Now jump ahead to today.  We're back at South Eastern Fertility Clinic again now since the 6 months with the OB/GYN were not successful.  This is the same clinic that helped us get Jayden.  When meeting with my coordinator yesterday, I told her of the debacle with the pharmacy with this same medication before.  She said she's make sure they had it right when she called it in that morning.  Today we picked up the prescription (pictured above). 

I didn't realize I was supposed to have more than one.  Maybe that's why we've had such a hard time conceiving on our own...

Joy and Rejoicing

I never really understood the concept of being able to find "joy and rejoicing" in your posterity.   When I looked at people with their children, as cute as they may be, I saw more of the work than the joy.  Now, after many years, tears and triumph, I get it.  The joy comes in the little, every-day moments that you experience with your children.  Then there's the feeling of loving a child so much you could literally squeeze them to death.

Tonight, I had one of those great "every-day" moments.  Jeremy had a meeting tonight and then was going to play basketball at the church.  So it was just the Bug and I.  We were just hanging out.  I was watching while he made a tornado-sized mess to the living room, once again.  Then he stopped, folded his arms as if ready for prayer and then pointed to the bookshelf at the scriptures.  He folded his arms again, so I followed his cue and we had our prayer.  Then I pulled out the scriptures, he hopped up in my lap, and we did our family scripture study (the study must go on even when dad is not home). 

It was a sweet moment (even with the short attention span once we started reading) that I am grateful for.  It was further proof to me that kids get it, no matter how young they may be!  I am so grateful for tender moments like that which help me put my daily stresses in perspective!

Great Weekend!

Dressed up like Grandpa!



Glued to the Imagination Movers on TV



This weekend we went to the annual Flowertown Festival.  The temperatures were PERFECT!  We went as a family and with a good friend on Friday.  Jayden was DETERMINED to eat a whole hot dog by himself.  And he wasn't just satisfied with taking little bites to finish it.  He wanted to fit the entire girth of the hot dog and bun in his mouth like a big boy.  It was fun to watch.  He was hungry!  Saturday, Kelli worked at the Festival in the Pampered Chef booth.  Lots of names for leads and lots of fun meeting other Pampered Chef consultants!  Then, the weekend was topped off by General Conference.  Great talks and a great spirit!  All in all, an awesome weekend!  As you can see, Jayden's growing in leaps and bounds.  He's talking more and more including such words as please, down, and Movers for the Imagination Movers!  He's so much fun!