May is Pregnancy Awareness Month
Posted on May 16, 2008 - Filed Under Newsworthy
Welcome!
Posted on May 16, 2008 - Filed Under Adventures In Babymaking
If you’ve ever been here before, you might have noticed a change. Yes, there’s a new template. In addition, this blog will be devoted to our journey to pregnancy. It’s a little late in the journey, since we’ve been trying on our own for 14 months now. So we’ve called in the pros.
Since Jonathan’s swimmers are in excellent health, that at least narrows the problem down to me. I have two issues we know about: 1. hypothyroidism and 2. low progesterone. I’ve been on Armour Thyroid for about 3 weeks already to treat the hypothyroidism. Yesterday, I finally got my newest prescriptions from the doctor. She mailed them as it comes with an instruction guide.
Yes, an instruction guide.
I’ll be starting 50 mg Clomid, to stimulate ovulation (days 3-7 of cycle)- followed by Estradiol, an estrogen hormone (days 8-12) - and Prochieve 8%, a progesterone vaginal cream (days 17-28). (I so wanted to work vagina into this blog somehow.) I’ll also be using an ovulation prediction kit (opk) to make sure I’m ovulating.
This sounds more like a science project than trying to conceive. I should have done this in high school for the science fair. It would have gotten a better grade than my lousy “I think talking to flowers makes them grow more” project. Which, really, I just made my “data” up. I killed the plants the first week.
New Site Up & Ready
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Newsworthy
Ok, I have meredithwatmough.com up and running now. I think this blog will likely turn into a journal of our trying to get pregnant. So those of you completely uninterested that, can check out your regularly scheduled blog at meredithwatmough.com.
Every thing’s not completely done yet though. I’m going to transfer the entries from here to there and then this page will get a makeover. Give me a little time to make all that happen though. I hope I’ll get it done by the weekend.
Don’t forget to update your blogroll and bloglines to meredithwatmough.com!
Shake It Up A Bit
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Newsworthy
It’s time for some spring cleaning around here. On the to do list - update/change the blog template. I’ve found some nice ones online and uploaded them already. Just have to customize, which is the difficult part. Stay tuned…
Maybe It’s Me…
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under Adventures In Babymaking
Well, Jonathan’s latest rounds of tests seem to absolve him of any of our BM (Baby Making) woes. I found out I have low progesterone as well, and my doctor wants to treat it with Clomid. I’m not unwilling to try Clomid, but it seems to me that we should treat low progesterone with a progesterone cream or supplement. Not sure why Clomid is the first line of attack.
But even more importantly than all that, I’m having to come to grips with the fact that I really might be infertile. That there might not be a baby in my future. I mean, we have a lot of testing left to do and a lot of options open to us still, so it’s not a hopeless cause. But it is a distinct possibility. We’ll need to figure out how far we’re going to take the treatments.
In 7 months, I turn 34. Once I hit 35, our chances decrease even more. So as stressful and emotional as this all has been, I just don’t feel like we can take a break right now. Maybe after the next round of tests and Clomid treatments. That should only be about 6 months. Another 6 months, then we re-evaluate where we are and where we’re going.
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