Just because I have a bazillion follicles on my left ovary and a uterus full of spermies - does not mean I should go crazy. "Crazy" in the pick out baby bedding kind of way. Nope. Totally shouldn't do that.
...But I just can't help it! Baby stuff is sooo cute. Between the furniture and the bedding and those super cute little bitty shoes- I mean come on. Who doesn't think about that stuff constantly? And don't you dare say normal, sane people. Besides which, I wouldn't believe you anyway. Everyone in my universe is obsessed with babies and baby stuff. Yep. I swear. Alright, so maybe "everybody" is just me and my one other friend who's also playing along in a similar science experiment.
Whew. Deep breath.
My wife is on the way home from work and I promised her I wouldn't be crazy when she got home. Well, not any more crazy than when she left this morning : )
One insem down, one more to go.
By this time tomorrow I'll be chock full of spermies and eggs.
Fingers crossed for a BFP
...and for not quads. Can I wish for both at the same time?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Clomi*d, where have you been all my life?
Sooo excited.
We're on try number 4, IUI #3, and our first round with clomid.
When I went in for the trigger shot on Friday, all our hopes seemed to be dashed. It looked like only 1 egg would make it to maturity -and we'd have to come back on Monday for the trigger shot, because that 1 egg wasn't quite ready.. While we've been lucky to get an egg each cycle, we've only gotten AN egg. We wanted so much to get at least 2 eggs after switching to clom*d. Our spirits were a little low all weekend.
Three days made all the difference. This morning's ultrasound/trigger shot was an entirely different experience.
Laying on the table, I started to get nervous because the doctor was being very quiet. The only sound in the room was the clicking on the ultrasound machine, measurement after measurement being recorded. It felt like forever. I finally got up the courage to ask what she was seeing. She was seeing eggs. Eggs, eggs, and more eggs! So many that she did the measurements twice. We were teetering on the edge of having to cancel the cycle - so she wanted to be extra sure that she made the right call. I think total, there were about 10 eggs on the left ovary. No worries though. Only 4 are mature. The others are lagging behind a good bit. Absolutely nothing on the right ovary, which is par for the course...and a little worrisome.
We have 4 eggs!
First insem is tomorrow morning and then another the following day.
Whew. This is the polar opposite of how I was expecting to feel today.
Fingers crossed for some super swimmers!
We're on try number 4, IUI #3, and our first round with clomid.
When I went in for the trigger shot on Friday, all our hopes seemed to be dashed. It looked like only 1 egg would make it to maturity -and we'd have to come back on Monday for the trigger shot, because that 1 egg wasn't quite ready.. While we've been lucky to get an egg each cycle, we've only gotten AN egg. We wanted so much to get at least 2 eggs after switching to clom*d. Our spirits were a little low all weekend.
Three days made all the difference. This morning's ultrasound/trigger shot was an entirely different experience.
Laying on the table, I started to get nervous because the doctor was being very quiet. The only sound in the room was the clicking on the ultrasound machine, measurement after measurement being recorded. It felt like forever. I finally got up the courage to ask what she was seeing. She was seeing eggs. Eggs, eggs, and more eggs! So many that she did the measurements twice. We were teetering on the edge of having to cancel the cycle - so she wanted to be extra sure that she made the right call. I think total, there were about 10 eggs on the left ovary. No worries though. Only 4 are mature. The others are lagging behind a good bit. Absolutely nothing on the right ovary, which is par for the course...and a little worrisome.
We have 4 eggs!
First insem is tomorrow morning and then another the following day.
Whew. This is the polar opposite of how I was expecting to feel today.
Fingers crossed for some super swimmers!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Where we are now
So... it's been a while.
Yeah.
Here's what we've been up to:
The try in April was a BFN.
We took May off, thank god. A month withno ttc stuff less ttc stuff was awesome. The week long vacation we took definitely helped too.
Yeah, so that little bit off ttc stuff that we did included one very bad experience. A bad experience involving 4 people staring at my girly parts, an ultrasound machine, a million gallons of saline and an uncooperative uterus and fallopian tubes. I forget what the test was called - but its the one where they pump you full of saline and air and check the uterus for polyps and make sure your tubes are open. The experience was awful. And painful. Yep, painfully awful.
In other news - gained a bunch of weight. Got yelled at by the baby making doctor so now we're back on the South Beach Diet. I'm having a hard time with my latest breakup with carbs. I really do love carbs. But I feel like crap and need to loose weight to help make baby.
I also took a gigantic step today. I found a therapist and went for my first session this morning. I was even a big girl about it and made the next 2 appointments. This is my first time in therapy since 2004. But its something I need to do, for myself and my family.
Yeah.
Here's what we've been up to:
The try in April was a BFN.
We took May off, thank god. A month with
Yeah, so that little bit off ttc stuff that we did included one very bad experience. A bad experience involving 4 people staring at my girly parts, an ultrasound machine, a million gallons of saline and an uncooperative uterus and fallopian tubes. I forget what the test was called - but its the one where they pump you full of saline and air and check the uterus for polyps and make sure your tubes are open. The experience was awful. And painful. Yep, painfully awful.
In other news - gained a bunch of weight. Got yelled at by the baby making doctor so now we're back on the South Beach Diet. I'm having a hard time with my latest breakup with carbs. I really do love carbs. But I feel like crap and need to loose weight to help make baby.
I also took a gigantic step today. I found a therapist and went for my first session this morning. I was even a big girl about it and made the next 2 appointments. This is my first time in therapy since 2004. But its something I need to do, for myself and my family.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The end is in sight
We're almost done with this cycle's TWW. It's been relatively painless - physically and emotionally - compared to the last one. The hardest part comes tomorrow. We're not going to order a rushed result. I'll go for the test tomorrow morning - but then watch the seconds tick by until Thursday afternoon. Hopefully we'll get the phone call by then or my head and heart might explode : )
No positives on any of the million and and a half HPTs we've done. But I'm not freaking out yet, because last cycle we didn't have a positive until the evening after I took the blood test.
Fingers are crossed. Hopes are high. Please, please let this be the one!
No positives on any of the million and and a half HPTs we've done. But I'm not freaking out yet, because last cycle we didn't have a positive until the evening after I took the blood test.
Fingers are crossed. Hopes are high. Please, please let this be the one!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Go spermies, go!
My uterus is locked and loaded : ) Well, mostly loaded. Did you know it was possible for your uterus and/or cervix to hiccup and push the "sample" back out? Yeah...me neither. WTF? Now listen here little uterus, we paid good money for that stuff. No more rejecting. None. That's not allowed. More importantly, I can not stand those ewwy instea.d cups. Seriously. How in the world do people use those? Especially for their intended purpose. Nope. Not for me. Probably not for any of my short stubby fingered brethren either.
The doc sucked up all of the lovely "reject" and placed it in the inste.ad cup. She wasn't sure if it was the sample or other bodily fluids, but she wanted to save it just in case.
*Over share warning* This cycle we did a 10,000unit trigger shot. Profas.i has mad my cervical mucus go crazy. Not a little crazy. Super crazy. Like as in the doc- the one that stares at hoohaas all day long- commented on it at yesterday's insemination. Maybe I should actually read the labels on all these drugs that I'm taking. (Not that I don't read the labels, but obviously I haven't been retainiing the information.)
Fingers and toes are crossed.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Game on!
Our visit to the doc went well today. Not quite as well as we were hoping, but we did have one good sized follicle. It seems that our biggest follicle has a tendency to beat up on the smaller follicles. We did the trigger shot this morning and got the lovely smiley face on the OPK this evening.
Insem 1 will be tomorrow morning. Not sure if it will be a double insem, or if we'll go with the regular plan and do another IUI Thursday morning. Guess we'll find out in the morning.
In other news - that's not related what so ever - twice in the past 2 weeks I've got to hang out with a 15ish month old kiddo and an infant at the exact same time. The first family I visited accidently got pregnant TWICE within 13 months. They're great parents, but really. Twice? They did make some absolutely adorable Irish twins. They're looking into the permanent birth control options because apparently they're
very fertile. I hope I caught some of their fertility cooties while I was visiting : )
The second duo I visited was my niece and a very cute baby that her mom happened to be babysitting. Going out to lunch was an interesting experience. One that I hope to repeat often when we have a kidlet of our very own.
Insem 1 will be tomorrow morning. Not sure if it will be a double insem, or if we'll go with the regular plan and do another IUI Thursday morning. Guess we'll find out in the morning.
In other news - that's not related what so ever - twice in the past 2 weeks I've got to hang out with a 15ish month old kiddo and an infant at the exact same time. The first family I visited accidently got pregnant TWICE within 13 months. They're great parents, but really. Twice? They did make some absolutely adorable Irish twins. They're looking into the permanent birth control options because apparently they're
very fertile. I hope I caught some of their fertility cooties while I was visiting : )
The second duo I visited was my niece and a very cute baby that her mom happened to be babysitting. Going out to lunch was an interesting experience. One that I hope to repeat often when we have a kidlet of our very own.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Ouch
Double ouch!
Shots that hurt should come with warnings. On second thought, maybe not. This cycle we're trying to up the follicle count with a single dose of Meno.pur. Silly me not realizing that a single dose could mean two shots. Two very painful shots. Holy cow! Perhaps not knowing how much it would hurt made the first one a bit easier.
I definitely have a new found respect for all those ladies going through IVF. Having to self inject that stuff for days on end would be miserable.
The doc did see 3 budding follicles though. Here's to hoping that the Fe.mera + a shot of Men.opur = BFP.
Shots that hurt should come with warnings. On second thought, maybe not. This cycle we're trying to up the follicle count with a single dose of Meno.pur. Silly me not realizing that a single dose could mean two shots. Two very painful shots. Holy cow! Perhaps not knowing how much it would hurt made the first one a bit easier.
I definitely have a new found respect for all those ladies going through IVF. Having to self inject that stuff for days on end would be miserable.
The doc did see 3 budding follicles though. Here's to hoping that the Fe.mera + a shot of Men.opur = BFP.
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