When Jason and I got married, we decided our ideal timeline would be to wait 2 years before trying to have kids.\u00a0Two years for us was May 2011. I was insistent we waited until after our Spring trip home in order to prevent the possibility of me being the sort-of-fat, queasy, pregnant girl for our 22 hour car\u00a0drive to WI. So vacation ended and we got to the business of ‘trying’ as people say. Being a doubting\u00a0Thomas I had decided some time ago that since we wanted children I was most likely infertile. I had inherited cycles that were stupid-irregular, and even having been off birth control for 6 months had cycles ranging from 25 to 72 days.\u00a0 For those of you totally unfamiliar with the getting pregnant process, that makes predicting when to\u00a0‘try’\u00a0next to impossible. So being the control freak that I am, I ordered a bulk box of ovulation predictor strips and\u00a0a basal temperature thermometer….and the rest, as they say is history…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Jason and I got married, we decided our ideal timeline would be to wait 2 years before trying to have kids.\u00a0Two years for us was May 2011. I was insistent we waited until after our Spring trip home in order to prevent the possibility of me being the sort-of-fat, queasy, pregnant girl for our 22 hour car\u00a0drive to WI.… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundherelately.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}