Baby Blue Eyes, I understand your frustrations and the desire to have your children within a certain age gap (I ended up with longer gap than I wanted too) but i would advise caution with Clomid. I got pg on the second cycle with DD but we were trying for close to a year with DS - I went off the pill and didn't have a period for over 100 days!!!! I was charting and it was clear I just wasn't ovulating. I had all the tests and there was "nothing wrong" - I apparently wasn't ovulating for no reason. I did 3 cycles of clomid and the drugs made me terribly depressed and those 3 cycles were unsuccessful. I then went "natural" again, hoping the clomid had kick started my body and also because the timing would have been wrong on the clomid anyway (I would have been away on conference at the time I was going to O on the clomid!) I had 2 longish cycles (about 50 days) and was pregnant on the second one.

My husband said I was really depressed and difficult to live with while on clomid - he was ready to chuck the whole TTC thing in and didn't like at all what it was doing to me. I felt terrible and like it would never happen for me again, and he felt under pressure. While I'm not suggesting that it will do the same to you (many women have good expereinces with it) I would be inclined to try all the other options first - ie, chart for a while, maybe use OPK's, take the supplements that everyone talks about and all that. I'm pretty sure also that GP's won't prescribe it, they'll most likely send you to a specialist, who will likely respond better if you can walk in having done your "homework" so to speak - ie present him with your charts, tell him all the steps you've taken and then ask assertively for clomid! I really hope you get pg really soon and that you don't have to travel down the AC path.

On the other side, I wanted my kids closer together by about a year and a half, but it didn't work out that way, and now I have found that the way we have it has many unexpected benefits - both financial and social (DD absolutely LOVES her brother to death!) and my maternity leave worked out to coincide with when DD started school!