I'm 35 and will be 36 in a few months. My husband is 42. We've been trying for our second child for nearly five years. For the last two years, I've been using the Clear Plan Fertility Monitor. It clearly shows the ovulation each month, and we try five days before, two days after, every 36 hours. I share the frustration of so many. The more you wish, hope, pray and dream, the more it hurts when it doesn't happen month after month.

We feel blessed to have our son. He just turned 9 and if you asked me at age 25 if this many years would have gone by between siblings, I would have laughed and said, "Impossible, we'd never let that happen." But life doesn't always turn out the way you plan, and no one can know what God's plan is for each of us. So all I have left is to keep hoping, keep praying.

My faith has been tested so many times, because at times I feel somewhat forsaken. But then I force myself to snap out of it, know that he is hearing my prayers and just count my blessings. And of course, continue to patiently wait. We just signed up with a fertility specialist, so now here we go down a whole different road of tests and costs (at only 50 percent coverage). All of you who conceive naturally and fairly easily, congratulations! I hope you realize how truly lucky you are!

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