In the meantime, Detox Diet time!!

Chris and I are attempting the Whole Living Action Plan, which is a 21 day detox diet. For the first week, you eat nothing but fruits, veggies, seeds and nuts. There is no sugar, dairy, gluten, caffeine or processed foods the entire time.

This morning I had Blueberry Mint smoothie which was really yummy.  For lunch, its a decent looking Detox salad which is a copycat of the Whole Foods detox salad. Its chopped up carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, raisins and sunflower seeds. Chris says it looks like what they feed the birds at the zoo! haha  Dinner is a sweet potato, green apple slaw, which looks and tastes very similar to the detox salad.

I already gave myself a cheat for a small coffee with  minimal cream and sugar every morning. Since it's tax season I don't have time for withdrawal headaches every day.

BFN

I cried, I cried some more, then I started to move on mentally. It sucks so bad, but I can't change it. The only thing I can do is move forward, get some guidance at my consult on 3/14 and plan our FET.

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