1. Spending time with DH.

2. Meeting cool new people.


3. Good ole' fashion heart-to-heart talks.
4. Laughing.


5. Trying new foods.
6. SPICY food. (the hotter the better!)
7. Babies!!!

1. Jesus!
2. Reading.
3. Exercising.

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If you are also pregnant & due in February - click this blinkie to join my TWW club: Due in February '09.

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Hello and blessings to all. I am 29 and my husband is 30. He is a youth counselor and I am a studying my way through grad school to become a behavioral scientist/ researcher in the field of public health. We've been together since summer 2002 and got married on or 5th anniversary on July 7, 2007.

The best news at the moment is that we are expecting our first child! We have been trying since February 2008 and finally conceived in May 2008. This is a blessing because I have been diagnosed with a Prolactinoma which has previously given us problems in our conceiving efforts. But God has the right timing on everything right?

A Prolactinoma is a condition in which a noncancerous tumor (adenoma) of the pituitary gland in your brain overproduces the hormone prolactin. The major effect of increased prolactin is a decrease in normal levels of sex hormones — estrogen in women and testosterone in men.

Although prolactinoma isn't life-threatening, it can cause visual impairment, infertility and other effects.

For mem the main complication was having elevated levels of the hormone prolactin. This causes disruption of the reproductive system (hypogonadism), and some of the signs and symptoms of the prolactinoma are unique for each sex.

In some cases, there aren't any signs and symptoms. But my symptoms (when not taking my medicine) included:

• Irregular menstrual periods (oligomenorrhea) or lack of menstrual periods (amenorrhea), and


• Lack of energy

Doctors often are able to effectively treat prolactinomas with medications to restore your prolactin level to normal. Surgery to remove the pituitary tumor also may be an option to treat prolactinoma. Thankfuly, my tumor is small enough not to call for surgery.
[img]I just take medicine that keeps my prolactin low, my periods regular and me fertile.

So here we are expecting #1. I have been having regular periods in 2008, no breast leaks and a better sex life. In the past two years (prior to 2008) I was very irregular, as a matter of fact I don't remember a period in 2007. Thank God for medicine!

I am on this website to give and receive support as well as to give and receive knowledge. I love to pray for people--let me know if you would like another one!

Thanks for taking the time out to get to know me. Please keep in touch if you feel the urge.
God bless you!

Lord please bless us with a