More Room in My Heart: Needles Galore!

Friday, August 13, 2010

Needles Galore!

I started my "big" drugs this past Monday (menopur and follistim) and my poor little belly looks like a black and blue bruised pin cushion. I'm feeling surprisingly relaxed about the whole process. Perhaps it is because we had friends visit this past weekend with their three kids and IT WAS MADNESS. It made me realize that two kids is much more my speed than three kids and I'm OK with this process taking time. I have 2 3/4 years before I hit the 35 deadline where fertility just take a nosedive. Suddenly, I'm feeling like I have plenty of time.

My retrieval should be at the end of next week (between August 18th-20th) and then the transfer should be 3-5 days after that and then the beta should be the first week in September.

P.S. note the lovely little "blue" box...from Tiffany & Co.! My hubby got me a nice little surprise for enduring all this infertility crap. You can't appreciate how amazing this is unless you know a) my husband's great disdain for "big box" jewelers; b) my husband's horrible taste in jewelry that has resulted in several fights. Maybe I'll tell that story in another post.

6 comments:

cherelliAugust 14, 2010 at 6:02 AM
How nice of hubby :) You sound in a MUCH better place mentally than a couple of months ago. Relaxed...I like it, I need to adopt that approach now too. May the force be with you....(sorry but Star Wars came into my head, may as well go with it)
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jsmarslenderAugust 16, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Glad you're on your way. : ) And do tell a jewelry story now that your husband has redeemed himself. : )

And, yeah, I'm starting to think two kids might be an easier speed than three... Though I love odd numbers.
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Angela and DavidAugust 16, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Nice work by the hubby. And I'm so glad you are relaxed about it. I'm in total agreement - I want no more than 2. If the next one is half as active as Zach I am in big, big trouble.
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Allison ChappleAugust 16, 2010 at 3:19 PM
You sound like you're in a really good place with all of this. Crossing my fingers!!
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Rebecca DeWireAugust 17, 2010 at 10:05 AM
You definitely deserve that pretty blue box for all that you are going through. Like everyone else said, you sound so nice and relaxed with terms of where you are right now. And I agree that 2 kids seems sort of reasonable. Thanks for sharing that adding a 3rd to the equation just equals madness. Fingers crossed for you.
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BillieAugust 18, 2010 at 7:13 AM
Well done on the hubby's part. You more than deserve it!
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Our Infertility Journey

Aug 2013: IVF#10: Antagonist protocol with estrogen priming at Same Big Clinic: 8 eggs, 3 mature, 2 fertilized, 2 3-day 7-cell and 8-cell transferred.

Jun 2013: IVF#9: BFN: Antagonist protocol with estrogen priming at Same Big Clinic: 9 eggs, 5 mature, 4 fertilized, 2 3-day 8-cell transferred.

Apr 2013: My son Mackenzie Ryan died at 22 weeks 1 day due to a degenerative placenta. I delivered him on April 3, 2013. It was the most horrific experience of my life.

Feb 2013: Major car accident likely damaged placenta.

Jan 2013: Our little twin left this world.

Nov 2012: IVF#8: BFP: Antagonist protocol with estrogen priming at Same Big Clinic (Clinic #3): 15 eggs, 10 mature, 9 fertilized, 1 8-cell and 1 7-cell transferred

Sept 2012: IVF#7: BFN: Antagonist protocol at Same Big Clinic (Clinic #3): 5 eggs, 4 mature, 1 fertilized, 1 9-cell transferred

Dec 2011: Hello Baby Girl! No year of "magical thinking" this time. We know no way and no how are we ever going to get knocked up naturally. Begin the weaning process in June. Take Provera in July. Fail. Move on to bcp and *finally* get period in August.

Apr/May 2011: IVF#6: BFP! Antagonist protocol with Estrogen Priming at Big Clinic (Clinic #3): 6 eggs, 4 mature, 2 fertilized, 2 3-day 8-cell and 7-cell transferred.

Mar/Apr 2011: HSG (again) and estrogen priming; Month of my Amazing 18 Antral Follicle Count

Feb/Mar 2011: Natural IUI: BFN: Pretty sure this is going to be negative, but what the heck.

Jan/Feb 2011: IVF#5: BFN: Antagonist protocol at RMA-NJ, (6 eggs, 5 mature, 4 fertilized, 2 day-5 hatching blasts transferred, 1 day-6 blast frozen)

Dec 2010: Meet with multiple doctors (RMA, SIRM-NY, Cornell). Start adoption paperwork. Begin accupuncture.

Nov 2010: IVF #4: BFN (Microdose Lupron Flare Protocol, 8 eggs, 4 mature, 4 fertilized, 1 Day 5 blastocyst & 2 Day 5 morulas transferred, none frozen)

Oct 2010: Treat mild, chronic endometritis (diagnosed in Sept endometrial biopsy).

Sept 2010: Testing. Why no implantation? HSG again (all clear!). Endometrial biopsy (endometritis:<). Diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve (AMH=1.1, FSH=5.7).

Jul/Aug/Sept 2010: IVF #3: BFN (long lupron protocol, 9 eggs, 8 mature, 5 fert, 2 5-day transferred, none frozen)

Jun/Jul 2010: Where is my period??

Apr/May/Jun 2010: FET #2: BFN

Mar 2010: Clomid/HCG/coitis

Feb 2010: Clomid/HCG/coitis

Jan 2010: Provera to bring on period; ovulate instead, HCG trigger, timed intercourse

Dec 2009: Where is my period? 13 months no period since birth of son.

Nov 2009: SA improved! 7% normal morph=normal couple!!

Baby's First Year: Breastfeeding, recovering from awful delivery, running like crazy! My "year of magical thinking" hoping that we get to be one of those "lucky" couples that don't have any problems getting pregnant with #2. No BC. No period. No pregnancy.

Nov 2008: Hello Baby Nugget!!

Jan/Feb/Mar 2008: IVF#1: BFP!! (long stim, 6 eggs, 6 embryos, 2 3-day transferred, 2 5-day frozen)

Nov/Dec 2007: IUI #1: BFN

Oct 30, 2007: Diagnosis: Male factor infertility 2% morphology; ovulatory dsyfunction

Sept/Oct 2007: tests galore

Aug/Sept 2007: 44 day cycle; visit obgyn; referred to RE

April/May 2007: Trip to Machu Picchu for my 29th birthday; officially TTC with charting, etc.

Feb 2007: Stop taking BCP; regular periods; not preventing, but not consciously trying