PUPO

So after another million, ok 4, appointments, they decided I was ok to trigger on Wed, the day before Valentine's Day!  We made the arrangements for my mom to take Audrey Valentine's night since we had to be up there at 10:30 with "the sample" aka sperm.  So we thought, yay! night to ourselves, clean up, rest, etc.  Nope, I ended up with a stomach bug and didn't leave the bed all.day. It was awful and very boring for Chris!

Luckily by Friday morning I was mostly recovered, it helped that I hadn't eaten in 2 days! So the retrieval went well and they were able to get 15 eggs! I was shocked, honestly. The last u/s showed about 5ish around 20 and 5ish around 14/15 with a few above and a few below. I thought we were going to be lucky to get 10.

Daily updates said we ended up 14 normal embryos that kept dividing normally. Transfer was scheduled for the following Wed, which leads up to today.  They came in and told us they had one 4AA blast ready for us and 6(!!) to freeze. Given that AWESOME news, its such a weight off knowing we have more we can try with if this one doesn't stick. It also makes me believe the quality of the one we transferred is really good, probably better then the ones we transferred last time.  They didn't give us the actual grades last time.

So today I'm PUPO. Pregnant until proven otherwise.

Testing commences this weekend, stay tuned.

Monitoring #2

4 follies at 12m, a bunch 10 and under. Follistim is upped to 150 and start Ganirelix tomorrow night. Monitoring Sat, wheeeee

Go Time

U/S was clear, 1 vial Menopur and 125iu Follistim starting 7pm tonight!

Excited and nervous.

Milestones

Milestones are always so bittersweet. Its so rewarding to see them grow and learn but it makes you realize how fast time is going. We're not "Mama" and "Dada" anymore but Mommy and Daddy.  Too soon we'll just be Mom and Dad.

IVF 2 underway

Started the bcp while on vacation in Colorado, I'll take them until 1/27 then start stim shots 2/1 - Menopur and Follistim.  I'm doing an antagonist protocol this time which is slightly different and I'll be adding Ganirelix shots into the mix at some point. Right now the estimated retrieval date is the week of 2/11.

Here we gooooooooo

Most Loved Items List

I love reading these so I figure I'll start one.

There's many toys she likes and plays with but there's some that she just hasn't been able to get enough of.  These are all besides my wallet, keys, cell phone, ipad and sunglasses :)

Fisher Price Luv U Zoo Jumperoo.  She jumped for DAYS in this.  Loved this so so much.

Laugh n Learn activity table

Fisher Price Laugh N Learn Activity Table.  She still plays with this! It has a setting for music, for abcs, for spanish (which she loved!) and for everything is on mode :)

M&D Sand Baking

Melissa & Doug Sand Baking Kit.  This picture is off, but she absolutely loves this.  Plays with it every day since she got back in August and its December now! She carries around the different pieces, puts the bucket on her head, she does it all lol.

Laugh n Learn Farm

Fisher Price Laugh n Learn Farm ( or house or kitchen) A must have for any baby, she loved this when she could only sit, when she learned to pull and she still walks around it and plays with it.

Shape Sorter

IQ Baby shape sorter.  She got this as a gift and loves it! She is even getting better at putting the right shapes in the right spot.  Mostly she loves putting everything she sees into and out of it.

Sandra Boynton books

Not a toy but she loves "reading" them, we have a bunch all over the house and she loves flipping through them and having us read one page before she runs off.

It's go time! Oh wait.

Last week, after taking clomid on days 3-7 (100mg just like last time) I went for my CD14 u/s expecting to see one or two follies ready to rock.  Umm yeah, nothing. None over 8mm, nowhere near ready to ovulate.  Whyyyyyy. Why can't my body just work and failing that, why can't it just respond to medicine?!

I'd never heard of it, but they put me right back on clomid for another 5 days. 150mg this time.  And then that's it, done with clomid and the hot flashes it brings forever. That's too much clomid and to not even respond this time is ridiculous.

The only plus is that, this go round we are both much calmer about everything. I actually laughed when they told me no response. Like, seriously?! My body is stupid. Oh well.  Next u/s is Monday and hopefully this time we'll get ready for our hail mary IUI.