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I waited about three years after my first pregnancy that turned into a miscarriage to try to get pregnant again. This time around, I tried using an ovulation calendar as well as the ovulation test. Both of which did me no good. And although, a friend of mine said the ovulation test worked for her, I found that it was a waste of my time and money. I guess what confused me with the test was the pink line and the faded pink line. It said that if it was pink and faded pink that I was not ovulating, but I could never tell whether the color was dark enough, or not.

So the first time I tried the ovulation test was on November of 2006. I had two lines, one of which was faded, but I thought that I was ovulating anyway. The instructions says that once you get a positive result, there is only a few days time frame to get pregnant. The window depends on when you take the test. The ovulation test should be taken on the first day that you think you might be ovulating. Then continue to take the test until a positive test shows. Well, I don't think I ever got the two solid pink lines the whole time that I tried the ovulation test.

I also had problems with the ovulation chart. I would take my temperature at the same time each day, but it would vary so much that my chart was worthless. I didn't have anything consistent enough to show when I was ovulating. And, although I thought the mucus discharge was the best sign to tell whether or not I was pregnant, I still had problems. The problem with the mucus discharge was that sometimes I couldn't differentiate from the different types of discharge I should have during certain parts of the month. I also had a period that jumped around a few days each month. So my period never came the same time every month. I felt like no matter what I did, it was not working. I could not figure out when I was ovulating.

I was very much into my ovulation that I was trying to watch closely the signs of my discharge, period, temperature, but could not get the readings right. There were times when my period was late and thought I may have been pregnant, but then a few days later my actual period would start.

I kept nagging my husband about not getting pregnant and he suggested I see my ob-gyn doctor. Perhaps there was something wrong with me after all. We had a friend who tried getting pregnant for a couple of years with no luck, until one day, the doctor found a polyp and which they ended up removing. That same week they got pregnant and now have a happy little girl.

Towards the end of January of 2007, I decided to meet with my ob-gyn doctor. I told her about trying to get pregnant for a while now. My doctor suggested that I take an ovulation blood test with them. The blood test is more accurate than the home ovulation test. She calculated the days of my period and and scheduled me for an appointment. A week later, the result came in and showed that I had no signs of ovulation.

It was hard to hear that I may not be able to ovulate on my own, which in turn means that I may not be able to get pregnant. My doctor then suggested that if I did want to get pregnant that I should consider taking a fertility drug. One of the drugs that was suggested was clomid, which is one of the more popular fertility drugs to start with. But there are a few different types out there to choose from. By taking a fertility drug, there was a slightly higher chance of multiples as your ovaries may end up releasing more eggs than it should. I thought about the idea for a second and told her that I would think about it some more and get back with her.

On another visit a week later, my doctor decided to perform an ultrasound on me. I had a transvaginal ultrasound done where a transducer is used to check my ovaries, and whatever else they needed to check to make sure that there was no visible signs of anything causing me not to get pregnant. The ultrasound technician said that I looked good inside, and she could not find anything wrong with me during the ultrasound. Well the good news is there's a chance there might not be anything wrong with me.

After talking to my husband about the fertility drugs, we decided to not do it. We felt that if we couldn't get pregnant on our own that perhaps we weren't meant to have a baby and that was alright by us. We thought we would just enjoy life and each other even more.

Okay, so after I heard that I might not be ovulating on my own, which means I can't get pregnant on my own, I decided to feel down, sort of depressed. I wasn't, and didn't, feel like I was going through some depression issues, more or less just sad at the fact I may not be able to have a baby. And although I didn't exactly believed it, because in all reality we never really tried for very long. We only started to try a couple of months earlier.