our first ultrasound!

she started her period thursday, which counts as day 1 of her cycle
we called the center and they scheduled us an appointment for monday afternoon
we went to the appt and had some blood drawn, discussed the next few steps, and we had a vaginal ultrasound to count and measure the sizes of the developing egg folicles on her ovaries!
she had something like 11 on one side and 7 on the other.
it was strange sitting in the room while another person had intimate contact, i shall say, with my girl.
i held her hand, i guess maybe i just wanted her to know that i was right there next to her...
it was kinda neat watching the ultrasound itself, i could see the folicles, some were very big, some were small.
the nurse perscribed some clomid, which is going to help her ovaries produce more than one egg this ovulation cycle, so she will ovulate multiple eggs and we'll have a better chance of concieving.
the chance of multiples rises up to 20% with this stuff, i am hoping for twins to be honest, but one healthy baby boy or girl would be just wonderful!
the last thing they did was draw blood to monitor her hormone levels i think the lady said, and then they scheduled us to come back this monday.
she takes the clomid for 5 days, once a day and has been taking prenatal vitamins for a little over a month now i think.
she has been very brave and cut out caffiene from her diet, and quit smoking too!
i know its hard for her but i am very proud of her!
i have been cheating a little bit with the caffiene and i haven't quit smoking, but i have been smoking less.
i am trying to be as supportive as i can, but it's hard when i work 106 hours a week...that's how many i worked last week.
monday we will have another ultrasound to determine how effective the clomid has been and they will guestimate when she will be ovulating.
we are supposed to use the ovulation predictor kit's you can buy at the store to know for sure and then we just call and schedule the appt for the insemination!
it's going to be as early as monday or tuesday!
i am looking forward to the entire process, but am trying not to get to overly psyched and elated as we aren't pregnant yet!
though i just know that she is fertile and i get the feeling from all the energy around us that we're going to be one of those lucky folks that it happens for them on the first time!
i am so excited!
we are really only days and days away from our first try, and though i am stressed/anxious/nervous/giddy about it i am more excited than anything.
she has also been drinking red raspberry leaf tea, as that is supposidly good for the female system, and helpful in couples trying to concieve, i have been encouraging her to drink that and green tea and i think that it helps with the transition especially with that morning cup of coffee!
gotta jet now, in the middle of another 100 hour week and gotta run.