Amy

Hi there! I'm Amy. I live in CT with my husband, Howie and two year old daughter, Aislinn (pronounced Ash-lynn).

These days I'm a stay at home mom. I used to work for a public health consulting firm in the DC metro area but when I was pregnant with my daughter we moved up north to be closer to our families. I love being at home with my daughter but if we still lived in VA I'd probably still be working for my old company because they were awesome and the benefits were unreal.

Howie and I have known each other since July of 1997 and we've been married since October of 2003. Thank God for him, because most men would have run for the hills with me and my crazy hormones.

Which brings me to my crazy hormones. Almost a year after Howie and I got married we decided to start trying to have a baby. I only got two periods in the whole year after I stopped taking birth control. So I went to my ob/gyn. She sent me for some blood test and ultrasounds and then she concluded that I had PCOS. Awesome! We were referred to a fertility doc that I like to call Dr. Sunshine. We started off with a chlomid cycle, which did absolutely nothing for me. Then we did an IUI cycle and I actually conceived but unfortunately I miscarried. We did two more IUIs with no success at all. We then moved on to IVF and that time it worked! I was pregnant with Aislinn. Soon after my first ultrasound at 6 weeks the morning sickness started and I had never loved throwing up so much. How could I complain? On January 29, 2007 Aislinn was born and she was perfect! Of course.

Since having Aislinn I have continued to struggle with PCOS. I also went to have my one and only frozen embryo transferred last May and that ended in an awful miscarriage. I've done everything, supplements, herbs, acupuncture, dieting, exercise and one more failed IVF cycle. At this point the funds for fertility treatments are gone and all I want is to feel normal and to be healthy... and hopefully to magically get pregnant at home instead of in a fertility clinic.

This blog is about my life as a woman, a wife, a mother with PCOS.