I met with my aunt this morning to talk about everything I'm going through lately.  She made me feel like I have something seriously wrong with me.  She was going on and on about how our family has been so lucky and no one's ever been really injured or sick in anyway and that this is the first time in our family someone's had a physical problem that they've been diagnosed with.  Everyone has had kids so easy with little trying and she figured we all just be as fertile as they come and was very surprised.  She started talking to me about getting egg donors and adoption and have we decided what we're going to do?  I told her, yes, there are a lot of options for us, but we haven't even really gotten into the infertility arena because I've never even been on Clomid, so we have lots of time to make further decisions if nothing happens in the next year.  She just seemed very curious about it all.  I think her daughter-in-law is going through some of this behind her back and so she wanted to talk to someone who would tell her whatever she wanted to know.  I'm not private by any means so I answered every question she had and entertained all of her ideas with her.  She doesn't really know how to talk to someone with infertility so I was a good sounding board for her.  I liked talking about it with someone who was actually interested in it.  Everyone else is bored with it at this point, so I don't talk about things a whole lot.

I'm excited to go in for my acupuncture session on Monday afternoon.  I'm not sure if it will work because I was really really almost on my death bed sick, and my temps have been all over the place since then so I'm not sure if I ovulated, or if the high temps are lingering from being sick, or if being sick in general messed up the cycle and is making me ovulate later than usual.  Not that I really ovulate, but my body acts like it does.  So all that to say is that I'm not sure the acupuncture will be that effective because they like you to do it the day before you ovulate and I have lost track of that this cycle.  :)  But I'm so close to getting on the Clomid!!!  All I have to do is hurry up and start a new cycle and they'll do the U/S to check for cysts and than I'll be on it!  I'm crossing my fingers for no cysts...

I was talking to another aunt a few weeks ago who tried for a few years for her first baby and was put on Clomid.  All they gave her was 25 mg for 5 days and she got pregnant the first cycle!  She needed it for her 2nd baby also but it was exactly the same as the first time.  And she got pregnant on her own with her 3rd.  She never thought she'd have one baby, let alone 3 beautiful girls!  So hopefully that'll be me~~~~!   Twins would be fine too, so I don't mind the risk there.  It freaks my husband out a little though.  Especially for our first and just where we are in our lives.  Supporting one baby financially is much easier than two.

Alright, enough from me.  Updates to come.

Making Progress

I saw my Dr. today for a consult to get on Clomid and it went really well.  She ordered an HSG for me and I scheduled it for this coming Monday.  I work at the facility that does them so I worked it around so that I could get in even though I'll technically be 13 days past my period start and not 10.  Plus me and my husband had a little fun this week, which is not allowed, so I lied and said we didn't.  But I'll still take a pregnancy test Sunday night to be sure.  Plus she upped my Metformin from twice a day to three times a day and around CD 24 I'll be doing an accupuncture session that helps for infertility.  It stimulates ovulation or so they say.  My friend at work that got pregnant is pretty sure that's what did it for her.  or at least helped her along.  I'm a massage therapist so I really believe in all of that.  So I'm feeling really hopeful for this cycle.  I'm hoping that my tubes being opened from the HSG and the accupuncture will result in ovulation and a smooth transport.  It's like the perfect storm for conception.  If it doesn't happen, I'm supposed to call on CD 1 of my next cycle to schedule an ultrasound and start my Clomid.   I really really hope that all of this works.  I have people praying for me like crazy and lot's of support, so I feel really blessed.  My goal is to at least ovulate once!!  That's all I need and with some good timing I just might get pregnant.  :)  It's been a while since I've been hopeful so I feel like that alone is really big for me. Here's to hoping!!

Guess who's pregnant?!

Oh yeah, and it's definitely not me!  There's a new girl at work that I've connected with.  She's been TTC for about 18 active months and just found out she's pregnant this weekend!  I'm really excited for her.  And I really mean really.  :)  Plus it gives me a lot of hope. She has PCOS also, and actually a more severe version of it then me, so if she can get pregnant so can I!

My Dr. put me on Metformin last month and I've gone through a full 40 day cycle on it.  My period came on it's own which was very exciting and I'm feeling hopeful.  I have a consult to get on Clomid this Friday.  I want to go through one more natural cycle just on the Metformin and then try the Clomid, so we're going to work out the timing for whatever last testing they need so I can *hopefully* start next cycle.  I want to make sure that even though the chances are slow I'm not pregnant before we start.

I have high hopes that we get pregnant soon because my OB-Gyn will only do 3 or 4 cycles of the Clomid before they refer me to a fertility specialist and we can't afford what the next step entails.  So it would be just good ole' regular trying after this for at least a year until my husband is teaching full time and we have more baby making funds available.

Wish me luck!!!!!