Lucia burst out laughing at this point, and despite being a grown woman, talking to a medical professional, I blushed to the roots of my hair.
Dr. Kelly glanced between the two of us with a look of bewilderment on her face.
‘Lucia, you and I are all done. Would you mind waiting outside for a few minutes please?’
Lucia stood up with a dramatic roll of her eyes. ‘Hey, all I know is that Alana and Alejandro are doing it way more than once a day,’ she giggled.
‘Lucia!’ I blushed again. How the hell did she even know that?
Lucia winked at me as she walked out of the door.
‘I’m sorry if I embarrassed you, Mrs. Montoya,’ Dr. Kelly said.
I shook my head. ‘It’s fine. I don’t know what she’s talking about. It’s not like we do anything in front of her.’
She laughed softly. ‘I’m sure you don’t. But if you are having sex every day and you haven’t fallen pregnant yet, it might be worth us running some tests.’
‘Oh. Why?’
She shrugged. ‘Maybe you’re not ovulating regularly? You have a window of about six days per month where you’re fertile, so if you’re having sex around those times and haven’t fallen pregnant yet, it could be worth checking out, just so you know what’s going on.’
I blinked at her. ‘I didn’t realize there could be a problem.’
‘There probably isn’t. Maybe you’re just not having sex around those dates?’
I felt a sick feeling in my stomach as I realized what she was saying. ‘We must have been having sex on my fertile days. We have sex twice a day, at least.’
‘Every day?’ she frowned.
I blushed again. ‘Yes. Except for two nights last month when he had to go away on business.’
‘Oh?’ she sat back slightly.
‘We’re newlyweds,’ I offered with a shrug, feeling the need to defend myself again.
‘Hey. I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable. I’m just jealous,’ she started to laugh. ‘But, I do think it would be worth us running a few tests. My next patient cancelled so we can make a start now if you like? And we should really test your husband too.’
‘Well, let’s start with me, and take it from there,’ I said, wondering how Alejandro would respond to fertility tests.
‘Hey, it could be nothing. We usually advise couples to try for twelve months before having tests. But, I’m a fertility specialist, and Mr. Montoya’s insurance covers everything I offer, so there’s no harm in getting ahead of the curve, is there?’
‘No, I suppose not,’ I said with a forced smile.
I sat in her office for another half hour, answering questions, providing blood and urine samples. I had never even considered that I wouldn’t be able to fall pregnant when I wanted to. Alejandro and I had decided as soon as we’d started having sex that we wouldn’t use contraception. I didn’t like the idea of putting hormones in my body, and he didn’t want to wear condoms. And as we were both happy with the idea of having a baby, we decided we’d see what happened. I hadn’t really thought about it since.
We were both young and healthy, and happy, and I assumed there would be no problems at all in that department. But now I was faced with the possibility that there might be a medical reason for why I hadn’t gotten pregnant yet. I kind of wished I hadn’t accompanied Lucia to her doctor’s appointment now. Perhaps, ignorance was bliss.