It's On Like Donkey Kong!

As many of you know, Clint and I have been trying to have a baby for a while now.

A little over a year to be exact.

At the end of April, I went to my lady doctor to get a game plan for this whole baby thing 'cause it's not happening on its own. I was pretty excited to get some stuff figured out and get the ball rolling.

Let me tell you a little about my lady doctor. She's a wham-bam-thank you -ma'am kind of doctor. And I like it.

We went over what we've been doing so far. Doing the baby-making dance and using ovulation predictor kits are pretty much the extent of it. Well, there was that few months where I took my temperature every day but that was hard to get done at the same time every day.

Then my lady doctor asked the big question. "Do you need a baby like tomorrow or do you just want to try a little harder?"

My first instinct was to say that I needed one like yesterday but then I paused.

I got a little scared.

What I really wanted was to be able to get pregnant on my own. While I am fully supportive of anyone who has to go to a fertility specialist and get all hard-core with getting pregnant, I didn't feel like it was right for us right now.

I have really been trying to jinx myself into getting pregnant. And in doing this, I have decided to go back to school and won't be done until next spring. Plus we're trying to sell Clint's truck. And I just bought all those new pants...

So I said, "Well, I don't want to wait too much longer but I wouldn't mind taking it easy through the summer."

What we decided on was to take a "medium-intensity" fertility approach with Clomid. She said that taking Clomid would help me to ovulate really well and we could see if that helps. "Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but it's cheap and sometimes works before you go to an infertility specialist"

I told her to sign me up and she gave me a hand-written instruction sheet that included the words "have lots of sex" (and of course I giggled).

There are some side effects to Clomid. I may get hot flashes and be moody. Not a big deal at the time.

Now, as I sit here PMSing, trying to make it through the day without killing any of my students or my husband, I'm getting a little worried. If I'm a raging B without being on any kind of drugs, what am I going to be like when "mood swings" are a possible side effect?

Next week may get a little interesting...