Clomid

Today I called the doctor's office and talked to one of the nurses. She called my fertility medication, Clomid, into the pharmacy. Side effects with taking this medication is: Hot flashes, mood swings, dizziness, headaches, cramps, breast tenderness and nausea. Sounds great, doesn't?? 

It's a very set schedule of what to do and when to do it. I start taking Clomid tomorrow, which is Day 3 of my cycle. I take it until day 7. I will be fertile day 14-21. Which I was told that we need to have intercourse every other day. Then day 21, 22 or 23, I have to go to the doctor. My appointment is December 30th at 1:15. They will check me for any cysts (which is another one of the side effects of Clomid). Then they will check my blood to see if I ovulated or not.

Please pray for us as I hope this will be our month!!

Finally

I finally started my period tonight. I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow to find out what I need to do next. I will hopefully have more information tomorrow.

Noah Thomas Mize has arrived!

At 6:50pm Brandon and Amanda had their little baby boy, Noah Thomas Mize! He weighed 7lbs 7oz, 20 inches long. Such a precious little boy.
CONGRATULATIONS BRANDON AND AMANDA!! AKA Mommy and Daddy!

My X-Ray

I had my x-ray this morning. Mom and Lisa were with me. We arrived at the hospital around 7:20am. Checked in, sat in the waiting room for about 10-15 minutes. Then my name was called. Mom and Lisa were not able to come in the room with me, which was very hard. That made me cry. I had to go into a room and change my clothes into the hospital gown. The nurse escorted me to the room where the procedure was. Went into the room and sat on their x-ray table. The doctor told me what was going to happen, what to expect and she also showed me what they were going to use. I had to sit and wait for about 15-20 minutes for Dr. Clevenger and the radiologist to get there. Finally, everyone got there and we started. She felt my cervix and uterus to make sure everything was alright. A speculum was inserted into me, they cleansed my cervix, and they inserted a catheter into my cervix. Which was VERY uncomfortable. They removed the speculum and they situated me underneath the fluoroscope device. They inserted the contrast material (dye) than it filled my uterine cavity, fallopian tubes and peritoneal cavity through the catheter then the fluoroscopic images are taken. When they inserted that dye, It was very uncomfortable! but then in a snap it was all done! The whole thing lasted about 5 minutes. Did not take very long at all! Dr. Clevenger then let me see the images. It showed her inserting the dye and it came out perfectly! Such a HUGE relief!! So Dr. Clevenger said that I will have to start fertility medication when I start my period next month. She said one of the side effects of this medication is... TWINS!! I am getting very excited, hoping and praying to have good news in a month or so.

No hubby

I just found out tonight that Seth will not be able to go to my x-ray on Monday. I really don't want to do this without him. I feel so much more comfortable with him there with me. I hope I will be able to get through this without him. But, thankfully his mom will take me and keep me company which will help a lot. I guess I should be thankful that I am not going to be alone, then I know I wouldn't be able to do it AT ALL! I just hope and pray that there is no blockage! I have done research for HSG. After woman have gone through this procedure most of them have become pregnant within 3 months. The HSG along with checking for blockage cleans the fallopian tubes which will make me more fertile. So hopefully in the next few months I will have a baby in my belly!

HSG X-Ray

Well I started my period yesterday so I called my OB to schedule a HSG x-ray. My appointment is on Monday, November 17th. HSG is actually, Hysterosalpingography. This is our next step to try to get pregnant. Seth had his semen analysis done last week. His little guys are fine. 56 million of them so that is great!

HSG x-ray is a radio logic procedure to investigate the shape of the uterine cavity and the shape and patency of the Fallopian tube. In other words, They want to check and see if my fallopian tubes are blocked which could be a reason why I can't get pregnant. They inject dye into my uterine cavity and cervix. I believe I find out that day of there's a blockage or not.

I am so scared! I hope and pray that there's no blockage! I also hope and pray that my husband will go with me. I don't know if I can go through with it without him. If there's a blockage then I will have to have surgery to unblock it. If there's no blockage then the next step will be for me to be on fertility medication which will help my eggs drop.

The results are in

Today, I found out the test result for Seth's semen sample. He is A-OKAY! They like to see about 20 million little guys and he has 56! The viability and motility were normal. Which is very good. We were happy to hear that. Well... I kinda take that back. I was but wasn't. Since it's not him, it's me so I'm very nervous and sad because of that. I just hope that they can find out what's going on. I also got my result for my blood test. Thyroid test is normal and I am immune to rubella. Which is good.