It took us two years of <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">fertility treatment</a> and trying to conceive my first born son who is now almost a year old. We want to have another child relatively close in age, but the doctors won't help me with <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">fertility treatment</a> until my son is almost a year and a half old.

It's not fair that because we can't have children naturally, that we are at the mercy of the doctors. We are ready to try for another child and do everything we can to start us in that direction, but my body just isn't capable of doing it on its own.

They say that I have to wait for two reasons.

1. I'm still breastfeeding my son. They want me to stop breastfeeding, try for 6 months to get pregnant and then go from there. Hence the 1 1/2 years old. (and that's if I can get him weened over this next month...)

2. They claim that I've shown that I'm capable of getting pregnant without treatment. Which is and isn't entirely true. I don't have periods. If I "bleed" it is just dry, brown stringy blood for a week to two weeks (tmi, sorry). And that's only every 3-4 months? I never really kept track before trying to conceive, just accepted that I only had a real period maybe once a year.

I was on everything to get pregnant with my son for two years. Progesterone. Clomid. HCG shots. Ultrasound after ultrasound after ultrasound.

We were about to start <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> after the HSG test. They had to start my period to do the test and then after the test, it kicked me into another period. It was after that test that I got pregnant.

They said that since it was an "unmedicated" period that my body did it all on its own, but had I not had the HSG procedure, I likely wouldn't have got my period...

The stars aligned and I'm so blessed to have my son. I love him with all my heart. I just want to start trying for a sister (or brother) for him and it's not fair that I don't get to be in control of my own life because I have a messed up reproductive system... 💔