Pregnant?: Tk 2, Wk 1
My prayers have been answered! Woo hoo! I’ve never been so excited to be a woman! How sad. So this is Week 1 of Take 2. And today I started Clomid. Dr. Rupe had planned on posting this weekend to tell...
View ArticlePregnant?: Tk 2, Wk 2
Today begins week 2 of round 2. I finished up the Clomid yesterday and I am happy to report it did not make me crazy this time around. Hold on while I ask Dave to confirm that. . .He says he hasn’t...
View ArticlePregnant?: Tk 2, Wk 3
Nothing much to report this week. Just hoping the ovulation fairy visits me this time around. I will visit Dr. Rupe’s office on day 21 to get my progesterone levels checked and that will let us know if...
View ArticlePregnant?: Tk 2, Wk 4
Nothing much to report this week except that my initial progesterone check did not indicate ovulation. I am not disappointed yet because as I mentioned before, I suspect I ovulate later than most (if I...
View ArticlePregnant?: Tk 2, No Deal
My boss has this recording on his phone that he picked up from the Webkins website of all places. Apparently it is what young children hear when they don’t win the game. . .or something like that. The...
View ArticleTime Doesn’t Fly When You are Staring at a Pee Stick
We all seem to complain that time seems to fly. Perhaps we should all just try to get pregnant, that pretty much makes it crawl at a snail’s pace. It may be helpful to remember that “normal” fertile...
View ArticleFertility-Clinic Chronicles
It’s funny to me how women don’t like to make eye contact at the fertility clinic. We’re all in the same boat! Hello, it’s alright for other women to see you there because, ahem, they are there too....
View ArticleFollicular What?
Dr. Rupe may be horrified that I am attempting to address something medical in a post. I’m writing about ultrasounds and since I’ve been on the receiving end of about 100 of them, I think my point of...
View ArticleClomid, STAT!
Infertility. I find that patients often approach it in 1 of 2 ways. A. Denial: “We haven’t used protection since we got married 10 years ago, but we haven’t really been ‘trying’ either. We may start...
View ArticlePCOS Part 3: Getting Pregnant {Featuring Pregnitude: A New Natural Supplement}
Often one of the first things that women hear when they are given the diagnosis of PCOS is that they will be infertile or at least have a challenging time getting pregnant. Such news can be...
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