For starters my name is Katie Baer. I am 20 years old and live in the interesting state of Utah. I know what your next question is going to be and yes i am a Mormon. I have been married for about 6 months to my wonderful husband Ammaron, we were married on February 11th in the Salt Lake Temple.
Now that I have introduced my self I'll give you a little background info on my life and my inspiration behind this whole blog business. As i previously said My husband and I were married back in February. When we got married i was on a IUD form of birth control (TMI I know), but within a week or so of using it started to make me feel quite awful...After much thought and discussion on the matter my husband and i chose to discontinue the use of birth control and essentially see what happens.
Now is where it gets interesting...so it has been about 6 months since my husband and i have been using birth control. Me being a naive girl that i am sorta assumed that i would get pregnant right off the bat.. i mean that is what is suppose to happen when you don't use protection right??? Well of course it is technically.... what i didn't fully realize was that it'd take more than just having unprotected baby dancing to become pregnant.
So for the first few months that i didn't get pregnant, i never really thought anything of it. It wasn't till about the third month (May/June) that i started to wonder and get discouraged. I of course went to the Internet to start looking up stuff about pregnancy and conceiving. Little did i know i just opened a whole new confusing world of information, everything from charting temperature to taking baby asprin during ovulation. Overwhelmed was an understatement in the least. However i did come across a few valuable articles which gave me statics and such of how many couples on average get pregnant within a certain amount of time. I think it was something like 2%-5% Of couples will get pregnant within 3 months of trying, but that most normal couples should get pregnant within a year. From that i decided that maybe we haven't really been trying long enough and we aren't that serious about a baby to begin with at this time, i mean if nothing happens within a year I'll look into it again.
I have decided to get a little bit more serious about this whole spon thing, at first this wasn't so but now that we are approaching the 6 months mark and realizing that statistically there might be something wrong fertility wise. Both My husband and i have family members with infertility struggles.... we know this is not out of the realm of possibility for us. Which is why we started to get a bit more serious about it.
So that is where things are in my life at this moment. I know this was a quite a long post....but that is just some background information that will shed more light on my regular posts. I plan on doing more than just TTC (trying to conceive) post but those will probably be the majority of the updates.
