When my husband and I married, we put ourselves on the "five year plan." We would both work full-time and save up money to start a family. When we married, I had no desire to be a mother yet but figured I would want it someday. Then, my nephew was born, and my biological clock started ticking. Unfortunately, my nephew's birth did nothing to get my husband's clock going. All he saw was a whole lot of work, sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and one big fat expense.

After four years passed, I started counting down the days until we would start trying to conceive. ... more