How are you feeling?

This is the daily question. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it every bit! It's so nice how concerned people can be.

I've felt pretty good so far since the embryo transfer. I go for my pregnancy test on Tuesday, December 11th. This has to have been the slowest week!!!

I've gotten a little sick after eating a few times and have had some major hot flashes. All in all, I've felt fine though.

All we can do is keep our fingers crossed and pray this works!

Embryo Transfer

The moment we've been waiting for... the transfer.

On Sunday, December 2nd we had the embryo transfer. It was such an exciting and emotional day.

I had acupuncture twice on this day. Before the transfer and after.

My doctor performed the transfer and everything went great!

What a moment to be thankful for. We've made it so far.

This picture is of our two little jewels that were transferred on this day!

I'm sad to say, the other two embryos we were going to freeze for later did not make it to they cryopreservation stage.

Egg Retrieval

Tuesday, November 27th, they retrieved 8 eggs! This is an awesome number for me. The doctor's office called with daily updates on the eggs after they'd done ICSI (injecting sperm into the egg)

On day 2, we had a total of 4 fertilized eggs.

Acupuncture and shots worked great!!!

I've been shot way too many times!!!

Time has past but I should document my shot experience. Everything is falling into place. I began taking my stim injections to stimulate my ovary (yes, one) to produce eggs for the IVF. Let me just say, these injections were VERY painful and if it weren't for the outcome of the whole thing I would have stopped. Rather than mix my medicines as they suggest to cut down on the shots I had to do them separately because they stung so bad as I mixed them together. Taking the stim meds and Lupron - I'd have a total of 2 FULL insulin syringes of Follistim and another full syringe of Menapure, and just a tiny bit of Lupron. All in all I'd stick myself several times changing the stomach are to inject all the medicine in.

What a pain!!!

Latest Appointment

I had an appointment today at the fertility doc's office. This is a followup visit to make sure the shots are doing what they are supposed to. Good news! They are.

Sunday, I'll start my Stim meds. I will not have 3 medicines to inject into my stomach. Lupron, Menapure and Follistim. Hopefully this coctail won't make me crazy.

I'll go back to the doc on Black Friday to check to make sure I'm on track. If all goes well, eggs will come out on the 28th or 29th.

I'm Stuck on You

Don't you love getting shots. Try giving them to yourself. It's nice.

I've almost made it a full week taking Lupron. My first round of injections. For starters, I must say it is hard to stick a needle in your stomach. I don't care how little it may be, the fact is, there's a NEEDLE going into my skin and I don't appreciate it. My husband tells me to just look away and stick myself, but I'd rather not stab my hand in the process then have to try again. I just take a breath and ohhhhhhh. But it doesn't hurt. It's just the idea I'm doing it. Well, many more to come.

So far, it hasn't been to bad but today I was feeling the emotions. This morning on my long journey from the parking deck to the building at work I began sweating like a pig. I felt the tiny beads forming above my lips, my back, my chest, my pits... Keep in mind it's winter time. Luckily for me, this continued throughout the day. On my way home from work I sobbed when I saw this sad lab that had been hit on the side of the road. He was looking right at me! I swear his eyes were open and all I could see was my two little wieners! I'd die if something happened to them. Then I thought about the poor owners of this dog. They probably have no idea. Well, they are probably idiots because their dog should not have been on a busy road or outside in the freezing cold for that matter. This sobbing went on for several minutes. Then I began to realize, I was sad the dog got hit, but there isn't anything I can do and my dogs are perfectly fine inside (probably under a blanket somewhere)

Who knows what tomorrow will be like. Lupron 10

My first blog!

ok, here it goes. My first blog. Should I get the camera?

ummm, I speachless. I have two cakes in the oven at the moment. I'm sitting here in my fleece pj's a sweatshirt. I'm trying to figure out what the heck to do on this site. I'll get the hang of it before long.

The purpose of my blogs will be to entertain my mother's need for a journal in my life during IVF. Cary and I have been wanting kids for a while now. It just seems nothing is working for us. This month I began my IVF cycle. Next month, they will implant a few kids in my belly! Hopefully one day I will look back at this point in my life and laugh. Right now, I'm just trying to live it day by day.

More to come, this is my first blog so I don't want to get too detailed yet.

Stay tuned for a post about injections!