History Revisited

Ok, so i wanted to kinda give a bit of history so people can maybe get to know me better....Roger and i have been married for 10 years...Wow that is a long time. It doesn't seem that long. Well maybe some times it does! We worked many jobs before becoming house parents in 2001-2002. We worked at the Kings Ranch in Chelsea, Al. We were there for 4 years. It was a real true growing experience. We often had close to 7 teenage girls in the home at a time, but had no children of our own at the time. We tried for years to get pregnant and finally in 2005 decided after several years of trying that we better find out what was wrong. So off to the doctor we go...I went to the doc and found out that i had lots of cyst on my ovaries. He was concerned so he sent me to a fertility specialist...but in the mean time Roger was having issues to. We found out he had to have surgery to fix the issues he was having...that was a blow, because it would be at least 6 months before everything for him was working right. So I was having test run and found out that i had PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome), also that I was insulin resistant, part of pcos. OUCH! They put me on glucophage and told me to try to eat different and exercise. These things would help the issues pcos causes. They informed me that pcos will never go away and it was something i would have to live with. Also I would not be able to conceive on my own, but with help i had a chance. So, we did what they said, i lost about 40 lbs and roger followed all the instructions on his side. There were lots of doctors visits, taking my blood and weighing me and lots of other things that i didn't know they would do...very odd test and procedures!! I never knew how many people have difficulty getting pregnant until i walked into the office WOW!!! Lots of couples... We used the Art Program in Birmingham, Al. They were great, and the nurses were so kind. After doing all of this things for me still were not working so they told us we would have to do an IUI (intrauterine insemination sp?) I was like "what ?what is that?" But , we did it. We had everyone praying (thanks Dana!!) and were praying ourselves. See what i haven't told you yet is that Roger and I, with all the problems we had only had a 10% chance of conceiving a child. Not only that but women with pcos have a harder time keeping the pregnancy. But God saw it fit to let me get pregnant!! Not only that but the first time we did the cycle. He also saw it fit to allow me to carry the baby full term, literally! Isaac was born January 12, 2006. A beautiful bouncing baby boy!! What joy!! I was due January 13, but induced the 12th. they were afraid Isaac was too big, and apparently he was for me after 14 hours of labor he was born by c-section. We were so excited to finally have a baby!! He is now 3 years old and wild and crazy!! We know from experience that anything is possible, with God. He has given us the privilege of taking care of Isaac. I want to say that if you have problems with conceiving a child, make sure pcos is not the problem. The only reason i ever found out is because my doc recognized the side effects, and believe me there are quite a few. Most of the info we read in books and on the Internet. If you ever have questions about pcos or just need encouragement please feel free to ask.