get pregnant

I am pretty much at the same point that I was in my last entry about this. It still isn’t the right time to have a kid. Honestly, I don’t think about it all that much right now, which is actually good. When I do think about it, it can be hard knowing that kids are not in my immediate or near future. But, with the timing not being all that great, it is just going to have to wait. Money isn’t that great, we still live with my dad, we still have debt, and we really just aren’t ready. So, I am going to give this about 6 months and revisit it and see where we are in the whole baby thing. I am going to leave this on my list of 43things, but we just aren’t actively trying for a baby yet. But someday, we will. :)

I don’t know if this is the right time for a baby. My husband and I both want our first kid to be between his oldest sister’s first and second baby and she wants to get pregnant with her second baby after her first turns 1 (which is in about 8 months). We also want our first child to be close in age to his other sister’s first baby (who is about 9 months old now). The bad thing is, we have a lot of debt right now. I know that my husband is getting a new job in a few weeks and it pays WAY better than his current job ($1000 a week compared to $150 a week) and we will have our dept payed off in no time, but it is a trucking job. He wants to stick with the trucking job for 3 or 4 years so we can afford to buy and pay off a house, but that means that if we have kids, I have to stay at home without seeing him for weeks at a time. I would essentially be raising our kids alone. I don’t know if I can manage that. I don’t want him to miss out on anything. He and I have talked about that and he knows how I feel, I think he just really wants us to finally get our life moving in the direction we want it to move in. And I do too, I just wish it wasn’t at the cost of missing him.

I had my last bit of caffeine tonight and have decided to cut it out of my life until after I have a baby. I want to be healthy for conception and my pregnancy, and caffeine just doesn’t fit into that picture. So bye bye sodas, coffee, tea, even chocolate.

...and have already started taking it! On top of that, I have really been trying to eat healthy this week and work out as much as I can. I am feeling really good and hope that all goes well the next few months. Hopefully, I can lose a few pounds and then get pregnant. I am not waiting to get in perfect health before I get pregnant, but I do want to get in better shape. Anything I can do before I get pregnant to help out, I am going to do. With that said, I have to keep telling myself that I can’t wait until things are perfect or else I may never get to have kids. Things are never perfect… It is just going to take a little to make me realize that.

Yesterday, I bought some fertility herbs to start taking before we start trying for a baby. I am hoping to get my cycles to be more regular before I get pregnant so that it is easier to determine my actual due date. I hope these herbs work for me so that I don’t end up having to take Clomid or get In-Vitro. I want it to be as natural as possible.

Also, I have been working on taking on this excess weight that I have so that I am at a healthier weight when I do get pregnant. I have lost 9 pounds already and hope to lose another 30 before we start trying. That would put me at about 206 lbs. which is better than the 255 lbs. I was a few years ago. I think that losing weight will also increase my fertility, making it easier to get pregnant.

On top of all of that, my husband is working on getting a better paying job so we can pay off all of our dept. It is a really high paying job and he is almost 100% guaranteed a job, which is great. We will be able to pay off our bills, buy furniture, a used car, and all the baby stuff we could possibly need! We couldn’t have that on his Pizza Hut paychecks.

So, all in all, we are getting our acts together so we can start trying for a baby in a few months. I am really excited!

I have started using a Progesterone cream to help with my low progesterone levels and I am going to start drinking tea that has Vitex in it in hopes of regulating my cycles. We really want to get pregnant in the next 6 months, and I hope it is possible for us to. We wanted our baby to be born before we move to Texas so our families can spend some time with it and be able to be there when it is first born. I would love to have people visit us in the hospital after birth!! Anyway, I am keeping my fingers crossed that the next 6 months are going to be lucky ones for us.

We are officially starting to TTC. Yes, I am only 21, but I am married to the love of my life and we have been wanting kids for some time now. We are ready. And the fun part is, all of the baby dancing we get to do right now!!! LOL

We have given it a lot of thought and really done some soul searching to find out if this is what we want now, and it is. Our situation is improving every day as we pay off bills and figure out where we are going to move. It is at the point where we have decided everything from what furniture we are going to buy to what baby stuff we want. We have a great idea of what everything will cost and his job will make it all possible.

And we have made sacrifices too. It was my 21st b-day on the 6th of this month and I chose to not do anything for it because I want to save money. We are going to make the right choices money wise so we can have almost everything we want.

I really hope that everything goes well in the baby making department. I understand that it may take a while to get pregnant or no time at all, and I am ready for either one.