By the time Nikki turned a year old in 2004, we were ready to think about another baby. I never went back on birth control after she was born. And since she was conceived without medical treatment, I thought "the pipes were cleared" and we would soon be pregnant again.
Before we knew it Nikki was 2, then another summer had passed, and it was late 2005. My OB suggested at my age (36), it was time to start testing for problems again.
Dan got to go first by providing another sample (I'm sure by now he could hit the cup with his eyes closed). No problems there. Then I get to go through the not-so-funny tests: Lots of bloodwork: check thyroid, check egg reserve by measuring a hormone at various days of my cycle, and check other female hormone levels. Everything ok there
(TMI alert here)
Next up the really icky test - the one to see if your fallopian tubes are blocked. I went to the hospital to have a piece of metal clamped onto my cervix while dye is injected into my uterus and pushed out of the fallopian tubes. Hopefully it spills out of the end of the tubes. That means they are clear. We found that one of my tubes was completely blocked. They dont know how or when it happened.
Oh yes - this same year I also started having mammograms. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer (stage zero-thank God). She went through surgeries, radiation, and finally reconstruction and a clean bill of health. Based on her age and history - they wanted me to start before turning 40. They found a mass on the first shot - so off to have an ultrasound. Luckily it was only a cyst - but now I had to come back every 6 months to have that checked. Put it on the calendar with everything else......
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