Clomid Clomid Clomid

Maybe if I say it three times, it will give me three babies.

And before you even start yes I know there are increased risk with triples and no one should ever wish to have triplets ever as they are bound to be born premature and with developmental issues and so forth and one or possibly all babies might die.

I'm just saying I've seen it come out as a happy ending plenty of times.

Triplets would be cool.

Twins would be cool too.

I have a mommy friend that is trying to conceive #2 right now (we are cycle twins!) and I was telling her how hubster is on Clomid and she told me she had trouble ovulating and couldn't get pregnant until her first round of clomid and then BAM! First cycle she got Ben. YOU SHOULD TRY IT! So I said heck sure why not! and then she goes, oh well there is one thing; it increases your likelihood of multiples, don't know if that's a deal breaker.

Deal Breaker?!

Excuse me Howie Mandel where the heck is that button I press?!

So Yeah, I'm on the Clomid train too. Now they say your chances of getting pregnant with twins on Clomid is only 10%. Well I took statistics in college. Did you know you that 1 in 10 chance includes data from the women who were not successful conceiving on Clomid? Think about that. They are telling you the likelihood that you will conceive triplets, but first you have to conceive at all and some women don't!

The rate is actually higher than 10% if you are lucky enough to conceive on Clomid.

I was on this forum when someone asked if anyone else had conceived multiples on clomid and the majority of the answers were "Clomid didn't work for me" or "Im pregnant with twins from Clomid and it was a TOTAL shock! twins don't run in our family!"

You mess with your hormones, produce super eggs and more than one you are bound to get multiples is all I am saying.

But yes, Mama friend had a singleton so it is possible also!

However, since Husband is on Clomid too, do you think that doubles our chances?! That would be great ;D

Husband and I are DYING for twins. We would really like to have both pregnancies done at once so that I do not have to cut open my uterus two more times and have all of that scar tissue building up on there. Hello 2 for 1!

Also as mush as I am dying to be pregnant right now, pregnancy is difficult for me. I am sick 24-7 right away. And not in that "I felt a little nauseas this morning" or even "I felt sick all day!" or even "I threw up yesterday!" its I threw up every minute of every day for the past week until I threw up nasty yellow throat burning bile and then I had to go to the hospital because I threw up all my liquids and now my uterus is trying to contract on me. (back! back I say!) So to be honest as much as I love the little kicks and the cute belly and the attention and care people give you while you have a baby on board, I am okay doing it all in one shot.

Plus I will have an incompetent cervix anyway and will probably need to have my cervix sewed up and be on bed rest anyway.

Thanks again LEEPs!

So anyway I was texting my Best Fran Kits and I was telling her that Holy God in Heaven Above I must be ovulating 12 eggs right now, and I am sure 8 of them are going to implant and so we need Octuplet names that all start with the letter 'B'

Here is what face book has come up with:

Brett, Brent, Blair, Bryden, Bryce, Beyonce, Boomer and Buck

Bentley, Brandon, Bree, Brooklyn, Bradley, Brian, Bailey, and Blake.

B-1,B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6, B-7, B-8 (Har Har)

Bradley, Benjiman, Bradford, Bentley, Bocephus, Billy Jack, Bo Diddley, Bo

Derrick and I already have our two baby names picked out: Brinley and/or Benjamin.
But then with the Clomid, what if there is two? What if they are both boys or both girls?

SO we like Brinley and Benjamin, but I want Blair, Bree, Bailey Blayne, Brent and Brian too. And or less girl or Boy names as applicable.

 Is it terrible that if I do have eight I do not want to give any of them middle names?

Also people don't worry about us; Derrick gets free tuition for his dependents because he is an ASU employee. Any State College in Arizona! But obviously they will all attend ASU.

Also no I do not seriously think I ovulated 12 eggs. And even if I did I doubt 8 would fertilize. And even if they did I doubt all 8 would implant. and If they did they would all be my children. Because like Monica says on friends:

" I don't care if it's two babies. I don't care if it's three babies! I don't care if the entire cast of Eight is Enough comes out of there! We are taking them home, because they are our children!"

So I will let you know soon if I am feeling like I could be pregnant. Should know in about a week and a half!

Then it will be a few weeks before I tell you how many B names we will need!

Stay tuned!

D has to go in a cup. No the other kind of go. The awkward one.

So I had my LEEP. And as I said before I was convinced that was what was wrong, because I have two children already and it was easy. Oh how I hated younger me for getting pregnant so easy. What a bitch.

But at the same time there was another new variable in the mix. Husbone did not have any children save the one we lost.
Perhaps his little soldiers were in a war zone down there and they just weren't strong enough to storm the beach?

Maybe his guys were lazy and didn't even move an inch?

Maybe there was only like one or two guys down there and they were marooned on an island and didn't think to even look for the egg because they were preparing for the impending apocalypse!

So I says to my Huz, Deary I think you should get...the semen analysis.

HUUUH!

(I gasped for him for dramatic effect)

Surprisingly he was cool with it. So I find him a urologist (which is the way the internet told me to get an analysis done) on the bluecross blue shield website. I dialed the number for him, and handed him the phone. Because I have to guide Hub through everything hold his hand like a little baby man. (love him!) GASPO! They take a lunch hour?! but hubs called back on his own an hour later and set up his own appointment!

So Husband is asking me a million questions about his appointment (Because I will know exactly how it is) I do my best to give him the most likely scenarios. He goes for blood work and they order the spermies to be checked thoroughly.

He goes one Monday while I am at work and I text him long after it should be over (Didn't want to risk interrupting him!) and say:
K: how was it?
D: Terrible.
K: In general or was there some sort of incident?!
D: THEY HAD NO MATERIAL

How strange is that?! They want a man to spunk in a cup and they give him NOTHING to work with? he said it was a big empty white room with nothing in it, he even checked all the drawers! How awkward is that. This sterile lab facility is not sexy to begin with and they expect him to just climax right there. Well some how I am amazed HUSBAND DID IT. I do not think I could have in his position. But then maybe that's because I don't know how easy it is to go. It could be that you just have to picture boobies in your head and that's all it takes.

So to wrap up a long story Husband had low testosterone, BUT THATS IT.

Of course I google what that means for fertility and I see that testosterone replacement therapy completely wipes out sperm count for six months while you are taking it then builds it back up.

WELL SHIT.

ANOTHER SIX EFFING MONTHS BEFORE WE CAN EVEN TRY.

I am livid. Until D sees his doc who gives his a px for Clomid. He says
I know you're trying to make a baby so this is a hormone that will block your estrogen and produce a negative feedback which will ultimately make you produce more testosterone. So D was prescribed 25 mg of Clomid daily, or 50 mg every other, which ever is easiest.

Clomid my friends is wonderful for Men. Increased D's drive a LOT. we are now up to the requirements to make a baby I believe and I even threw out my ovulation prediction tests because we didn't need them, didn't matter when I ovulated, there would be sperm there.

Okay to be real I ran out, I didn't throw them out. If I still had some I would be checking just to be sure...

So that's Man side for now. Man is being great about it too. Man wants baby. I am watching this 1 1/2 year old girl on Saturdays and she is in LOVE with D. Wont leave his side and cries if he has to put her down. So D says to me, "I want a little girl. I want a little girl that will love me like that."

Love him.

EDIT: Our insurance doesn't cover the office visit to the urologist!! Is that not BOGUS?!?!?! I mean yes we had to pay for the script out of pocket, but the doctor visit?! Because Infertility isn't covered by our insurance?! He had low testosterone AND THATS IT! He's not even infertile! What if he had gone in and said,

"Doc My libido is crap and I am not as active as I used to be and I feel very tired all the time."

 Would insurance have said "We do not cover normal things like this because you might also possibly benefit in the conception area."

If they did I would B slap them!

Full time baby maker

Well I'm prepping to be so.

I quit my Job.

sort of.

I resigned my position with my work as a Family Specialist. It was crazy stressful. I was constantly going into work on Saturdays to either recruit foster families, catch up on paperwork, attend mandatory SATURDAY trainings or go to work parties (the parties were the hardest ;D ) I was constantly behind on my work and I felt like at any moment they were going to say YOU ARE AWFUL and I was trying so so hard.

I also had a horrible foster family tell me I was a lying when I said my job was to be there to support the foster children and I have no compassion blah blah blah so I was like you knooooow, I work very hard and I have compassion for just about EVERYONE. I'm liberal like that! And I love these kids I do. I had to tell myself I was a good person.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I work in a job where I need to tell myself I have compassion and I am a good person? Uhhhh this isn't working out. I don't want to be inducted into the sainthood but I want to do work that people can recognize is helping them, or helping someone. They don't have to tell me, but don't tell me I am not doing that, that just don't work for me.

So I gave my notice. And I left and people were actually sad. I stayed on as what's called a respite provider though, I watch foster kids in my house (Yay legit work from home!) through my former foster care and adoption agency. So I left, but I didn't.

I also work occasionally in our Tucson office doing data entry two days a week. I get paid for the commute too and I get to ride in the passenger seat of our QA lady's nice infinity.

So I made the right choice. Because as some of my well-meaning-but-I could-so-scream-at-your-perfect-24-year-old-never-tried-to-have-a-baby-in-your-life-perfect-hips-for-it-though-face coworker said "Just stop stressing and it will happen!"

Great. Let me get right on that. If I stop stressing maybe my husbands testosterone will magically increase. Maybe the lining in my uterus will magically fatten right up.

And maybe if I relax reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard, I wont even have to have sex at all right? Because as soon as you stop trying you will get pregnant! So there you have it folks! you actually have to STOP having sex if you want to get pregnant!

You heard it here first! You've heard it from everyone I bet.

But I am doing my best to relax and go with the flow. No I will not stop trying, because that is ridiculous. If you wanted to win a radio contest and you had to be caller 10 would you stop calling? Like okay if I really want to win those tickets, I need to stop calling them and they will call me. Uh no! not going to happen!!

So to end I will share this list of things people say to infertile people from the perspective of if you were saying it to a paraplegic. Makes you think.

As soon as you buy a wheelchair, I bet you'll be able to walk again!

You can't use your legs? Boy, I wish I was paralyzed. I get so tired of walking, and if I were paralyzed I wouldn't have to walk anywhere!

My cousin was paralyzed but she started shaving her legs in the other direction and she could walk again. You should try that.

I guess God just didn't mean for you to be able to walk.

Oh, I know exactly how you feel, because I have an ingrown toenail.

Sorry, we don't cover treatment for paraplegia, because it's not a life-threatening illness.

So... when are you going to start walking?

Oh, I have just the opposite problem. I have to walk everywhere I go! 

You're just trying too hard. Relax and you'll be able to walk.

You're so lucky... think of the money you save on shoes.

I hope you don't try those anti-paralyzation drugs. They sometimes make people run too fast and they get hurt.

I broke my leg skiing, and was on crutches for weeks, and was worried I'd have a permanent limp, but I'm 100% healed.

If you just lose weight your legs will work again.

If you would just have more sex, you could walk!

You are just trying too hard to walk. Give up, and then you'll walk.

Here, touch my legs for good luck, then you'll walk!

Just take a vacation, and the stress-break will be sure to get you walking!

Don't say these things people. Just don't. Just say "I don't know what you're going through (unless you do) But it must be a bitch! I hope you get pregnant soon and also I love you!:

Unless you know, I like barely know you. Then its weird that you are confessing your love to me and I will doubt the sincerity because I will feel like you just blurted that out because I am barren and you feel awkward talking about it.