Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands!

Despite all of our hope, spawned by a couple of very faint and very early HPT's the wicked and evil AF found me yesterday. The scary thing is that means that my luteal phase last cycle was only 10 days!  My luteal phase is ALWAYS 14 days...always....so I will just attribute the short one to my miscarriage last month and my body trying to get back to normal. I had been instructed to call my RE's nurse on CD 1 so that she could call in a prescription of Clomid for me to start on CD3 for an IUI. However, I figured that since we got pregnant on our own...they probably would want us to try on our own for a while instead of jumping right into IUI's. WRONG!!!! The nurse told me that I was scheduled for an ultrasound at cd 13 to look for developing follicles and for a prometrium (?) shot that same day to bring on O. I asked her if we could slow down and try on our own for a few months...and she said "sure, just save the Clomid until you are ready to go forward." I don't think she understood. I wanted to take the Clomid, but wanted to TTC without IUI's for a few cycles...with the assistance of Clomid. I believe that my RE's office would like us to skip right to IVF/ICSI....they would rather have us get pregnant that way than to do it on our own. I really believe that. Well, we are going to pick up the Clomid tonight and I am going to take it! And if we don't get pregnant on our own with the Clomid, I guess I will have to explain to the nurse what I did at that time (because they will want me to start the Clomid before my IUI and I won't have any left.) I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. (oh, I hope I get pregnant and don't have to explain!!!! )