Clomid, Cycle Day 4-CD 8

After getting mildly chewed out by sweet lil' Dr. Chen, I had my ultrasound to check egg development.  Apparently, I should have called her as she would have preferred to start me on Clomid Saturday as opposed to today (Monday).  Lucky for us, Clomid isn't as time specific as the injectable fertility meds are, so we should be just fine. My eggs look fine and dandy, which is nice!

The jist: I will be on a very high dosage of Clomid for 4 days. 150mg daily. Most women start on 50mg daily.  I really love how aggressive she is in fertility.  The way she (and I) sees it, there is no sense in doing 3 or 4 rounds of Clomid at 50 mg increments, why not start at the top? Then you know if it will (or won't) work and what the next step will be if needed.  I do feel for Sebastian though. With higher doses of Clomid, women tend to experience serious mood swings and hot flashes. Good times. ;)

So, I will stop the Clomid CD 8, which is the 29th of October. She suspects I will have a mature egg (or eggs) on November 1st (our anniversary!)--I have an ultrasound appointment on the 1st at 8:30a to check on our lil' eggies.  If/when the egg/s are ready to go, I will then get a 'trigger shot' to release it.  Then I believe the IUI would follow shortly after.  During the egg-check appointment, she will also check my uterine lining.  Clomid can make the lining thin/weak and if it looks to be the case for me, she will start me on a medication to remedy that (can't remember the name, but it's 2x a day).  Hopefully all is well, the less meds the better I'm thinking!

So, transvag ultrasound was fine.  No pain, nothing. Which is great, since I'll have another one a week from now.  We're going away for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary early since it's on a Monday. Kind of doubly exciting seeing as how my uterus and his.. parts... will be on-call the next couple weeks or more.  So it will be nice to have some time to get away and be alone and relax.

It's becoming more and more real to me that we just might be pregnant this time next month. For what a 'process' this has been, it's actually going really, really fast.  We're very excited! :)