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!!!