The Waiting

After our miscarriage, we wasted no time in starting to try again! At first it was fun, like an adventure, but as the months went on, it became more frustrating that nothing was happening. We purchased special thermometers to record readings every single morning, used pillows to get me tilted "just the right way", switched the hubby to boxers...you name it, we tried it! But month after month, it just wasn't happening. The more desperate and frustrated we became, the more and more it wasn't so fun anymore.
16/17 mos. later, we went to the Dr. to start testing both of us to see if there were any medical reasons why we were not getting results. They did a sperm count test on my husband and also had us to a test where they wanted to get samples of him from ME, so he came home from work early one day...we did our business and headed to the Dr! They poked, prodded and swabbed and sent us on our way to await results. A couple weeks later, we got a letter in the mail stating that his sperm was "slow" and they wanted him to come in for another test. That next morning, however, we got some very different news about his sperm! That next morning, I decided to take a home test since I was late...It was September 11th, 2001. I was in the bathroom and Tyree was in the bedroom watching TV as we both got ready for the morning. He was glued to the TV - yelling a story to me about a plane crash in New York. Exactly in the 7 minutes between World Trade Centers 1 and 2 being crashed into by terrorists, I ran into the bedroom frantically waving the test in my hand! We were pregnant again! With the tragic events of the morning staring at us from the small 13" screen in the bedroom of a basement apartment in North Minneapolis - somehow through all of the chaos that the world was suddenly in, I knew in an instant that everything with this pregnancy would work out and we would have a baby!
(On a side note, as we calculated the conception date at our first Dr.'s Appts, we concluded that conception took place that day he came home from work early for our Dr. Appt we had to test how everything was working - you know, the one that told us his sperm was slow? Yep! That's when it happened!)