Well after 4 years together, and planning a December wedding (well it was planned and the invitations were sent in March), DH decided we should think about having a baby. He already had an 11 year old daughter from a previous relationship and wanted to make sure that they were "relatively" close in age! He also wanted all his children before he was 40 (this I understand!) and was 35 at the time.

So we went to the doctor in June and told him of the plan. Because I had a major hormone imbalance, as well as years of irregular and painful periods, we were told it would take up to two years to get pregnant.

Came off the pill in July and were told to wait two months, then start trying.

I went back to the doctor in October, and told him "You know about that two year wait", he said "yeah", I said "well, you're wrong".

Alex was born in May (5 weeks early) but that's a whole another story!

After being extremely lazy about contraception after Alex was born (basically I kept forgetting to take the pill) we decided not to use contraceptives and let "nature" take its course.

I became pregnant with #2 when Alex was nine months old. Unfortunately I m/c at 14.5 weeks in May 2004. (mind you, just after I told all my family and friends we were expecting). It was awful.

We decided to TTC #3 in November 2004, well actually DH decided (he seems to make the TTC decisions!). I wanted to wait until after the m/c baby's EDD, which was November. It took two cycles until I fell pregnant and conceived on New Years Day!