A glimmer of hope and some interesting news

Yesterday, KB and I helped her parents clean out her crazy aunt's house. Her great aunt is suffering more and more from mobility and dementia issues and it just isn't a good idea for her to live by herself anymore. Cleaning out her house was quite an experience. The woman was a hoarder. For those who don't know what this means, she is a pathological pack-rat, collecting everything that she doesn't need and holding on to it for dear life. She had a lot of unused random things, such as embroidered "hers" pillow-cases---which we definitely kept because we think "hers and hers" pillows are funny. She also had a lot of unused pots, fondue forks--but no fondue maker, and old flashbulbs for cameras from the 1980's and before...a whole nightstand full of them. The best discovery of the day, was by far, a few unused baby clothes items that were actually quite cute...that and the nativity scene that according to KB looks like "jesus action figures."

While at KB's crazy aunt's house, we spent a lot of time talking to her mom, who is an OBGYN nurse and knows we are TTC. We were talking about symptoms, etc., and we found out that the symptoms KB has been having for the past week cannot be due to the clomid as she was not on a very high dose and the drug should have been out of her system about 2 weeks ago. This was a glimmer of hope...

The other very cool news, was that it might be possible for me to actually breast-feed our future baby as well. Apparently, many mothers who have adopted newborns have been able to breastfeed after taking some hormones for a couple of months prior to the babies' births. I obviously still need to do a ton of research on this as I am not going to ingest hormones without knowing potential side effects and consequences...but how cool is this? This is especially good news, as KB might not be able to breast feed as she had a substantial breast reduction 15 years ago. This was by far the high point in my day. That and the fact that KB's mom can snatch us a bunch of free pregnancy tests...

Other than that, we are counting down the days until D-day...Friday...as we are not testing until then.