Hi Everyone,
I've posted pretty infrequently on this board. I have PCOS. I conceived DD with Clomid followed by a trigger and progesterone just in case in my first cycle with an RE (I had 2 failed clomid cycles with a GYN about 6 months before that). Last November when DD was 16 months (and still nursing MANY times a day) we tried again, with no response to the clomid, so of course, no trigger. Over the last year we've tried several cycles each time getting no response to the Clomid. I remained relatively calm about it assuming that the nursing was the issue.
DD (now 27 months) has been slowly weaning (pretty much on her own). She was down to once a day by September, and in mid October started skipping days, only nursing every 48 hours or so. We started a cycle in October, which still resulted in no response. In fact, less response than we had in May when she was nursing MANY times a day. DD is now weaned. She hasn't nursed in 9 days (and for the 2-3 weeks before that it was every 3-4 days). My milk is definitely gone (maybe the clomid helped with that).
So, we're looking at the possibility of moving on to injectibles. I have a very strong emotional tie to this coming cycle. It will be the first cycle where DD is completely weaned. I have been telling myself all year that I would be pregnant by Christmas and this is my last shot at that. DD was conceived in a cycle between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We were planning on a 2-3 year age gap, and this is the last cycle that's officially in that range.
I think we're going to move onto the injectibles this cycle if the timing works out perfectly. We're traveling for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, so the timing of my cycle will have to work out in a pretty tight time range. I'll probably use progesterone cream to start a cycle myself in that time range, which usually works very well for me. If the timing just doesn't work out, then I'll go ahead and do another clomid cycle.
I go in tomorrow for the "teaching appointment" where they teach you to use the injectibles. I can't believe I'm looking at the possibility of giving myself injections. I'm terrified at the increased chance of multiples. A multiples pregnancy would be so different, and a multiples birth, and then raising multiples... I could do twins (though it would sure change everything). My RE assures me he'd stop the cycle if we were looking at 4+ follicles, though I'm thinking I might cut off at 3 instead.
I'm a basketcase and second guessing everything. Maybe I should just do clomid again. Maybe I should stop it all and do acupuncture (which would in the end mean waiting until January I'm sure, which I just can't let myself do emotionally).
Not sure the point here with all of my rambling. I just need some hugs and advice. I haven't told my mother about all of this (yet?) though she knew all about it with DD. I'm debating telling her, but I can't quite get myself to tell her, especially since I'd pretty much have to tell her I'd been NOT telling her for a year...
I've posted pretty infrequently on this board. I have PCOS. I conceived DD with Clomid followed by a trigger and progesterone just in case in my first cycle with an RE (I had 2 failed clomid cycles with a GYN about 6 months before that). Last November when DD was 16 months (and still nursing MANY times a day) we tried again, with no response to the clomid, so of course, no trigger. Over the last year we've tried several cycles each time getting no response to the Clomid. I remained relatively calm about it assuming that the nursing was the issue.
DD (now 27 months) has been slowly weaning (pretty much on her own). She was down to once a day by September, and in mid October started skipping days, only nursing every 48 hours or so. We started a cycle in October, which still resulted in no response. In fact, less response than we had in May when she was nursing MANY times a day. DD is now weaned. She hasn't nursed in 9 days (and for the 2-3 weeks before that it was every 3-4 days). My milk is definitely gone (maybe the clomid helped with that).
So, we're looking at the possibility of moving on to injectibles. I have a very strong emotional tie to this coming cycle. It will be the first cycle where DD is completely weaned. I have been telling myself all year that I would be pregnant by Christmas and this is my last shot at that. DD was conceived in a cycle between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We were planning on a 2-3 year age gap, and this is the last cycle that's officially in that range.
I think we're going to move onto the injectibles this cycle if the timing works out perfectly. We're traveling for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, so the timing of my cycle will have to work out in a pretty tight time range. I'll probably use progesterone cream to start a cycle myself in that time range, which usually works very well for me. If the timing just doesn't work out, then I'll go ahead and do another clomid cycle.
I go in tomorrow for the "teaching appointment" where they teach you to use the injectibles. I can't believe I'm looking at the possibility of giving myself injections. I'm terrified at the increased chance of multiples. A multiples pregnancy would be so different, and a multiples birth, and then raising multiples... I could do twins (though it would sure change everything). My RE assures me he'd stop the cycle if we were looking at 4+ follicles, though I'm thinking I might cut off at 3 instead.
I'm a basketcase and second guessing everything. Maybe I should just do clomid again. Maybe I should stop it all and do acupuncture (which would in the end mean waiting until January I'm sure, which I just can't let myself do emotionally).
Not sure the point here with all of my rambling. I just need some hugs and advice. I haven't told my mother about all of this (yet?) though she knew all about it with DD. I'm debating telling her, but I can't quite get myself to tell her, especially since I'd pretty much have to tell her I'd been NOT telling her for a year...
Sounds like you have a really great plan set forth. I can't tell you not to stress, but take heart in the fact that you are doing what you can to add a life into your family! Injections suck, I am not gonna lie about that, but they are worth it. I would do my IVF cycle over in a heartbeat. It is a lot of ups and downs but you sound like you are in a good frame of mind.
It's all hard, and just weaning is a tough phase, even if you didn't have IF issues to cope with on top of it. Take care.
: I'M PREGNANT 
We really don't have a date on the pregnancy. The first day of my last period was Oct 23. I took Clomid on days 5-9 and my estrogen levels had gone back down by day 15 without producing a large enough follicle. I'm guessing I should be between 7-14 days past ovulation as I'm just getting a positive test. So, based on days we DTD, I'm guessing I ovulated on about Nov 23 - day 32 of my "failed Clomid cycle".
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