When peoples look at me and say "you're too young for fertility treatment"-

I'm 24 years old and I have pcos... I'm not too young for fertility drugs. We want a second child. We are having a hard time having a second child. I don't believe in the "it happens for a reason" or "it just wasn't in your plans". Explaining to someone why its so hard to get pregnant then to have them back hand you with "well maybe you aren't meant to have a second kid, isn't Emery enough" like I don't cherish my son. That my son isn't my sun, moon earth and stars. I want my son to have siblings... the "best" thing I've heard was "well since you run a daycare he'll never not be around kids... he'll have them to play with" and at the end of the day my daycare kids, his friends and his class mates all have families to go home to. He doesn't get to keep them like he would a brother or a sister...  I'm just so sick of people telling me to be calm or to relax. I am calm, I am relaxed. Especially now knowing that I have options and I am able to try fertility treatments... It is no one else's choice as to if Ed & I have another child. No one pays our bills... no one feeds our child provides for our child or does anything for our child but us! ugh. Rant over for now.

September 1 is our first Wedding Anniversary. Sometimes I look at Ed and wonder where 5 years has gone. Everyday is always so new with him. Never a dull day in this relationship. I'm so grateful this man. He has given me the greatest gift of all, My son Emery.

We have a happy healthy marriage something I always wanted. My parents were divorced and both remarried by the time I was 10. I enjoyed growing up in 2 blended families, but I decided that if I was getting married it was goign ot be a to a guy who could put up with my crap for the nexy 50 - 70 years :)

CD 25

I should be able to test in 7 days that is of course if AF doesn't show up. My periods have been kind of regular for the past few months but nothing to brag about. The average of days between each period is about 31 days. but since January its fluctuated: 30,32,74,28, and 39 days between. I get to see my doctor next Friday and if we aren't pregnant then I get to start taking clomid. I had a few friends who took clomid and got pregnant within a few cycles. Then I have a few more friends who took clomid and saw no results. So I'm torn between being excited and anxious. excited that this might work and anxious that it might not. I guess We'll see

My name is Jessey. I'm from central Illinois where live with my husband, Edward, and my son, Emery.

I met Ed when I was 18. When we met we were both dating people and had no intentions of being anything more than friends... I think fate had other plans. We started hanging out exclusively in 2008 and he officially asked me to be his New Years Day 2009. A little over a year later we found out we were pregnant with Emery. I have PCOS and was told that when I was 19 so at that point we weren't trying or preventing a pregnancy because I was told that ti wouldn't be "easy" to get pregnant. Emery was born December 4 2010.

 I run a home daycare because I decided that after spending a year working outside the home, after my son was born, I hated being away from my son. I thought hard for quite a few months on ways I could cut our budget so I could work less hours or things I could do from home to make money. I decided to get licensed and to take on a full load of kids. I currently take care of 5 other kids from 6am-9pm. I love it. With any job you have your usual stress and anxiety. I spent 4 summers being a camp counselor at Lake Springfield Baptist camp, I was in the child care vocational class in high school and I took child development classes in college.  I've always loved being around kids and watching them learn and play.

So back to the me having PCOS.
Basically, I'm a mess. I have every single symptom that comes with PCOS. Facial hair, acne, irregular periods, and on top of that I battle anxiety & depression. I recently started taking metformin to combat the insulin resistance that comes with PCOS. after taking it for a week I feel so much better. My body doesn't hurt as much as it use to. I'm not as hungry or have the urge to snack. I feel like I have more energy.

Ed & I decided back in November 2012 that we wanted to try and get pregnant. I started trying to track my periods and cervical mucus and all that... We finally got pregnant this June. We were super excited... but only to find out that it was a chemical pregnancy. We both were sad but we knew that we couldn't give up. That we had to keep trying. I started seeing a new OB and after having a conversation with him about my fertility issues he suggested that we try clomid. I got next week for blood work to see if we were successful this cycle. If so then we're pregnant... if not we get to start clomid!

http://women.webmd.com/tc/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-topic-overview

I started this blogger to reach out to other women (with or without PCOS) who are trying for number 2, or 3 or 4 or for their first.