Balancing God and Medicine

Lately I've been thinking a lot about God versus man's medical advice. I've been reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility, which is a great book that describes the woman's cycle in a lot of detail. I definitely learned a lot of things that I didn't know before. Things such as how important cervical mucus is (yeah gross I know but its so important!!), what your chart means, what your hormones are doing throughout your cycle. It makes me think about how to keep God in control of this whole process, and whether trying to take control of your fertility is an act of not trusting God completely. Or that we are trying to take things into our own hands. While I want to trust God completely in this, I often find myself trying to do what I can to get pregnant without God's help. These last 4 months have been really humbling, because everything is SO out of my control. I'm still trying to find the balance between trusting God solely and completely, versus trying techniques to increase our chances of being pregnant. I heard a message last Sunday that talked about this exactly! God was definitely working in my heart during that message. Basically what I got out of it was that we can try try try as hard as we can with our own efforts but ultimately without God's help it won't amount to anything. The pastor also brought up the point of trying to please God with our works versus our heart. After we sin we often say, "I need to get better at that, I'll have to try harder at that".  I have definitely been in the mindset of "how do I please God so that He will bless us with a baby". As hard as that was to write, it's true. I'm trying to change my mindset to because of what Jesus has done for me, I will obey Him. So to balance God and trying to use these techniques that I have learned, I am putting God first in all of my decisions of how to approach getting pregnant. I don't believe that techniques or modern medicine is bad per se, but without trusting in God first through this process, we will just be spinning our wheels which will just end up in frustration and anger. Everyday I pray to God and ask for His will to be done. I definitely cannot do it without His strength and His comfort through this time.