Clomid Round 3

Figured I would come on here and talk about where we are at with trying to get pregnant. I have continued to chart my BBT pretty consistently since last August. And the reason I chart it is because it lets me know without a doubt if I have ovulated or not. Disclaimer: Yes, I am one of those women that is all up in the science of TTC. I am the kind of person that likes to know exactly how things work. So when it comes to me trying to get pregnant, I do rely heavily on science and biology and how the woman's body actually works when it comes to doing so. I am also a whole hearted believer that God is in control of whether or not we actually conceive, regardless of if Clomid helps me ovulate or not.

CD57 - 57 days after my chemical pregnancy my body decided it was going to ovulate on its own. I was ecstatic but not really not too shocked, since Clomid can stay in your system for some time.  On 8dpo, AF showed up. Without Provera, on its own, real life period, showed up. This was amazing! I get it, after you ovulate, you get a period... But thats not the case for someone with PCOS that is annovulatory majority of the time. I believe the short luteal phase is due to the length of my cycle, but I honestly have no idea.

Anywho, Jonathan and I decided that we are confident in doing another round of Clomid for this very cycle. I am so happy that we chose not to delay any longer. My momma heart has so much love to give! I believe that with lots of prayer and petition and asking the Lord persistantly for that which my heart desires, he will one day bless me with getting pregnant again. I hope and pray that now is the timing that he has in mind. 

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." 

- Philipians 4:6

"Be Persistant in prayer, and keep alert as you pray, giving thanks to God." 

- Colossians 4:2

In the 60-Day Devotional I am reading, In Due Time by Caroline Harries, it has encouraged me to declare those blessings over my life and claim those things as already mine. 

"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he say will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." 

- Mark 11:23

In conversation with a friend of mine recently, she made one of these bold and confident declarations. It was so encouraging to me to see a friend of mine making these declarations that I am reading about in my devotional! I figure, if I am reading about it, and also at the same time I have a friend unknowingly demonstrating the same thing that I am reading.... this has got to be God nudging me to be stronger in my faith in him and how powerful he is! I need to have the same confidence in making declarations to God, and believe that what I pray for WILL come true.

My Declaration: If it is God's Will, I will get Pregnant this cycle with a healthy baby! I will take a test in early May and see two SOLID pink lines!  

Lord, I am so grateful for your Word and how it is a tool for me to use through my day-to-day. It is such a blessing how compleletely relevant it is to my life in every situation I face. I know you blessed Sarah and Abraham with allowing Sarah to conceive. BY FAITH! Thank you Lord, for this gives me such an incredible hope.

"And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise." 

- Hebrews 11:11

Today is CD 9, and I finished the last dose of Clomid 100mg Saturday night. In the past two cycles we took clomid days 5-9. It took my body 10 days to ovulate last time. So, I decided to try days 3-7 in hopes of ovulating a little earlier in my cycle. I am also drinking 8oz of 100% Pomegranate Juice CDs 1-14 to hopefully encourage a healthy uterine lining.

Clomid has given me a few hot flashes and twinges in my ovaries, but nothing out of the ordinary. I'm lucky I don't have any crazy side effects like some women. I'm sure I will get a little moody over the next couple days, but thats also a pretty common thing  for me when I take Clomid. Could be hormone related, or could be just my anxiousness keeping me on edge. So that's whats going on in a little more than a nutshell. 

I hope if you're reading this, you will be encouraged to also make the same kind of declarations to God in whatever situation you are facing. But don't forget to praise him for all of the blessings you have recieved and that you will receive from Him in the future. I encourage you to read Galatians chapter 3 as it helped me so much to understand why I have the right to claim these blessings and declare them as my own.