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I'm so glad ladies are finally posting. Welcome to all, and I hope we all soon conceive. Haveboxer, I've done quite a bit of research on clomid and conceiving twins, and here's what I learned. First of all: I know a lot of women use baby aspirin to help with blood flow, and the lining of the uterus. But from the research I've done (including a study on just this topic) the doctors involved in the study found a higher incidence of miscarraige with the women who took the aspirin. Also, they found that any ibuprofen or aspirin taken (even at the beginning of the cycle for menstrual cramps) remained in a woman's system and could effect miscarraige rates. The mucinex is what I'm currently taking, because it has extended release tablets that only need to be taken every 12 hours, instead of robitussin which is much more often (and tastes horrible - maybe they have a pill form though). The mucinex is to increase your cervical mucus and make a nice place for sperm. You're supposed to take the mucinex 600mg extended release tablets twice a day, beginning 5-7 days before you expect ovulation to 3 days after your temperature has been up (or 3 days after you're sure you've ovulated). And yes, egg whites are great, that's what the mucinex will help with, because the estrogen increase brought on from the clomid dries you up. Also on the clomid. I've found that several women actually take clomid for 7 days such as: 2-8, to create more eggs in the beginning and keep them stronger in the later days. Now I'm not recommending that anyone do this, but I know it's been done. And I just did it. I'm on cd 13 and I took clomid cd 2-8 with a mix of 50mg & 100mg doses (I'll have to let you know if it works for multiples, the side effects were mild, and I don't feel my ovaries overstimulating). Also, clomid is taken by male body builders for 30 days in a row, granted they're only taking 10-25mg doses, but still...30 day doses. Don't use baby oil though, you want a water-based not oil-based lubricant. Oils can create the perfect breeding ground for infection. Try astro-glide...I love it (and it's pretty cheap at the grocery store). Another research study I found was that more women conceive twins in June and July more than any other month. I read as much research as I could on this topic, and it's because of the pineal gland in the brain. The more sunlight (or artificial sunlight) the gland soaks in, the more it releases reproductive hormones that trigger the pituitary gland and sometimes causes hyperovulation. There was also a study done on this topic, where they tested women by having a light bulb that mimics sunlight (not a tanning bed bulb) set on a timer in their bedroom. It would flip on every morning around 5 or 6 am while they were still sleeping, then they were encouraged to soak in as many rays as they could throughout the day, and again the bulb would flip on again in the evening until bed. The ideal was to recieve 16 hours of sunlight (combined with artificial sunlight) per day. The study found that the increased light did increase the chances of twinning by approximately 10%. Side note: a side effect of clomid can be brown spots on your skin from sun exposure, so use a lot of sunscreen when soaking in the rays. I'm also planning to use progesterone cream 3-4 days after I'm sure I've ovulated. I have a short (10-12 day) luteal phase which I'm hoping to fix, and the progesterone should help the lining of my uterus quite nicely, as opposed to aspirin. But only use 100% USP natural progesterone cream (Pro-gest or Fem-gest), the synthetics can have side effects on you and the fetus. The progesterone has to be at least 450mg of USP progesterone per ounce to be effective (which another study I've read found that Pro-gest over the counter was as equally absorbed into the blood stream as perscription Prometrium 200mg. But if you start the progesterone you have to use it for the entire first trimester. Stopping could bring on miscarraige. SoReady, good luck to you. Please keep me posted. MZwest what is estradiol? Is your hope mutiples, then? Good luck to you all. I haven't O'd yet, but it should be within the next couple of days.

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