I hate April Fool’s Day. Hate it. I’m not tricky or clever, and I don’t like it when other people try to be. Don’t get me wrong–it was hilarious when my mom fed my brother chocolate-covered-cubes-of-wax. But any scenario involving me as the butt of the joke? No, thanks. I managed to muddle through yesterday […]
It’s Thursday, although it’s felt like a Saturday all day, and I’ve been doing my best to occupy myself while trying to remain in a (mostly) horizontal position. Here’s a little catch-up: ∞ There’s no such thing as TMI on in infertility blog, right? Good, because I finally pooped today! And without all of your […]
It’s been an up-and-down day. I’ve got a lot to wrap my brain around, so I’m breaking it down sort-of-bullet-style. Good: I had two visits this morning and took the rest of the day off, so Hubby and I got to have lunch together before our appointment, and I spent the rest of the afternoon […]
Yep, that’s me. Hubby and I had sex on Saturday night (for the first time in I-don’t-know-how-long and the last time until who-knows-when), and I’ve been having cramps ever since. I’m afraid I was right about this being the mother of all periods. Yesterday was CD1, and I go back on birth control tomorrow morning. […]
It’s official. Our first IVF has now become (hopefully) our first FET. We have four frozen embryos. Which begs the question, what do I call these little boogers? Frosties? Snow Babies? Totsicles? Fro-yos? It’s all been done before. I have a few ideas, but I need your help, dear readers. You, after all, are the […]
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your words of support and encouragement yesterday. I really needed them. We got the call this morning, after another night of both of us tossing and turning. Three blasts, possibly a fourth on the way. They will be biopsied and frozen. I am to stop the progesterone and […]
If you’ve been reading my blog a while, you may remember when I posted about Hubby and I each moving along at our own pace from the time we were children. I’ve determined this must be genetic because our embryos are now showing the same quality. It’s day 5, but none of them have yet […]
Is killing me. Not actually the waiting so much as the not-knowing. I have no idea how our embryos are doing. Apparently, when you plan to do a 5- or 6-day transfer, our clinic doesn’t give any updates on day 3. They check to make sure at least some of the embryos are still dividing, […]
Okay, so it’s the same plan, just a few weeks later. My baseline ultrasound is now scheduled for December 27, hopefully cyst-free this time. I hesitate to look beyond that date. One step at a time. (I’m just glad it’s not on the 26th, which was supposed to be my beta day.) Until then, I’m […]
None of this has gone according to plan. Why should I have expected our first IVF cycle to be any different? Except I did. Because we were finally getting somewhere. And now we’re stalled. Again. It’s been a not-so-great couple of days. After the disappointment of Thursday, I read this post. Tami’s been through some […]
