Baby Boom?

Is it just me or does it seem that everybody is pregnant, working on getting pregnant, or just recently had a baby. Maybe its because the subject is perpetually in the back of my mind, but I swear in the last year there are way more pregnant women around me than there were when we first started trying two years ago. I know about 10 women who are pregnant or just recently gave birth. Everywhere I look on facebook or myspace there's photos of 8wk ultrasounds being posted. Its enough to drive somebody a little off the cliff!

No Fun For You (next weekend)!

So last night was um, disasterous. Thankfully next weekend is the weekend I will need dh fully responsive and in control of his senses. Last night that was definitely not the case. We went out with two of our fellow infertile couples (one of whom is prego due to successful IVF) to the last ASU football game for the year. Obviously the guys had some pent up frustrations that needed to get worked out. And they definitely worked it out through the consumption of large amounts of alcohol. My dh was completely not functioning last night and was pretty much useless all day today.

I had to initiate a little chat with dh about not doing this again next weekend. We have our appointment to do the midcycle ultrasound on Saturday (13th). That'll be cd14 and if things go like they did last time I will probably get my trigger shot that day. We are having a birthday party for dh/holiday party that night. So you see the potential for conflict right? Thankfully Dh has put together a plan and we're goign to try and stick to that and make things as romantic as possible. The part that I'm really happy about (as long as things go our way) is that we'll be doing stuff over a weekend and then maybe on Monday too. dh is working a day shift on Monday so that works out fantastic! If timing was the issue last month and that's what we're currently blaming, we have really high hopes that we'll be able to negate that factor.

So I feel slightly bad about laying down the law on dh's ability to have a great time at his party, but I think he understands that taking these hormones are not a whole lot of fun and there are more important things in life than drinking a ton. He'll have plenty of other nights to do it, right?

Feeling a little apathetic lately

Strangely enough once I talked to the docs on Monday/Tuesday I've kindof lost alot of my interest in anything TTC. Don't really have much to blog about... not really interested in reading the posts on the discussion board that I've been writing on... just not feeling very obsessive at all. Its a wierd feeling. I thought that I would be just as if not more obsessive since this is the second cycle and the first cycle didn't work. But nope.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm hopeful and all that jazz, but just not excited. Maybe its because of the disappointment that this last cycle didn't work. Maybe that was just a really big reality check. There is a very real possibility that this could take us awhile to do. Just because we've got two years under our belts doesn't mean that this won't take longer. Unfortunately its just going to be a wait and see what happens.

I suppose part of it is that what we're doing is nothing new, its the same dance as last time. Part of me is ok with that and hopeful that we'll get better results in terms of follicle counts and part of me is doubtful that we're going to get anything different. I know I should be positive but I find myself slipping more towards being realistic about this really working.

And Again

CD 3. Starting clomid again tonight for the next 5 days. We're doing the same thing as last month. Although I've been purusing the internet (what's new right?) and I found some rather interesting information. One is that one of the side effects of clomid is that it causes cervical mucus (sorry if this is TMI for you) to dry up. Well as we all know (don't we?) that cervical mucus(CM) is vital to the ability of the swimmers to make their journey to the promised land. If its not there they have nothing to swim in. *are you following what I'm saying?*

Basically if there isn't any CM to swim in its kind of a moot point of how many follicles get created, especially when you're doing it our way which is the old fashioned way. So along with this information I've found alot of information about women who take Mucinex during their cycle in order to boost the quality of CM.

I'm thinking that this may be something I might try. I haven't exactly cleared it with the docs, but I've determined that its ok to take if you're TTC. Hey - I want all the advantages I can get here! If things don't work for us this time round we're looking at moving to greater levels of assistance which in turn means greater costs (not the max of course) that the insurance doesn't cover.