Clomid here I come!

One tiny little pill. Will it do the trick?

We had a cut off date, August 5th, 2006. Drew would be turning 5. Kait would be 9 1/2, Khloe 7 1/2. We felt that if we didn't have a pregnancy by this time then we would call it quits. We are concerned that there would be to large of an age difference between the kids, and we want to be a close family, not have three kids that are close and then on child that feels like an only child in a family of 6. So August 2006 was supposed to be the deadline. August has come and gone and still no pregnancy. Rich and I have talked about it and we have decided to give it some more time and see a doctor. I had not seen a doctor up to this point. I had done the basal body temperature charting for 7 months, I had taken Ovulex, which is a combination of many herbs that I had researched, I was drinking Green Tea, and a herbal Fertility Tea, cut caffeine, nicotine, standing on my head, you name it we tried it! We finally decided that we needed to see a doctor and find out if there were any physical reasons that we were not conceiving.

I went to my GP in July and she referred me to an OB. I saw the OB for the first time in August. She ordered some blood work and some tests for Rich. I had the blood work in August and my progesterone level came back low. Progesterone is the hormone that is released when you ovulate. If you don't ovulate, your progesterone level will be less than three. If you ovulate effectively, your level will be over 10 on a non-medicated cycle or over 15 on a medicated cycle. My level was 13.3. We repeated in September and added a thyroid test as well as a prolactin level. This progesterone level was 2.someting. This indicates that I did not ovulate this cycle, so the OB wanted to start me on Clomid.

Rich and I have talked about medical intervention. We had talked about how far we would go and where we draw the line. I have talked about this with several friends, some christian, some not. This topic is a heated one. My personal opinion and my personal beliefs and not black and white, I wish they were. I still have some gray area that I need to work out. "When are you 'stepping on God's toes?'" "Where does fertility treatments cross over to playing God?" These are questions that we have asked ourselves. We feel that Clomid is a hormonal boost to help my body do what it was made to do but is just having a bit of difficulty. We will do Clomid for three months. If I have not achieved a pregnancy by the end of January the OB wants to do more extensive testing. We will have to make a decision at that point what we feel is best for our family.

So tomorrow is the big day! I take my first dose of Clomid. WOW! I never thought I would ever be on fertility drugs. Pray for us. Some of the side effects can be moodiness, short temperedness, hot flashes. Hot flashes I can deal with, I'm already moody and short tempered, I would hate to see that get worse! Pray that I don't have those side effects. Pray that it works!