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Anywhoo….

Currently the only pain I have felt is when my ovary  decides to yell at me because I have moved to much, walked a lot or have pressure on it.  Did I Mention that my job requires me to do almost all of this?

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I have been curled up with my kitty since I got home wishing the pain away.  Luckily it has mostly worked!

 

Yesterday I bought my first home pregnancy test in over 2 years.  I know they say you shouldn’t rely on them but I want to know NOW!  My husband hid them for me so I can’t be tempted…  But I might have to go hunting…

 

Only 7 more days to go until my Blood Draw!  (11.11)  WooWoo!

-The Naked Egg

 

I’m up all night to get lucky!

Today is the day!

Doxy + Nerves = horrible.  Also, my Boss is the best!

This morning was a non-stop roller coster of nerves and excitement jitters. THis would have been great if it weren’t for the iron clamp on my stomach.  Just when I thought I was doing well I start sweating and feeling hot, I can’t move.  Then the lerch comes, that tickle down your spine.  After a rendezvous  with the rest room my dear friend (Lets call her J) who has gone through this before takes one up down look of me and without blinking an eye. “Doxy got you didn’t it?”  Damn, She’s good. (I even had food!!)

Boss drives me home, Yes, He is that awesome! And I curl up waiting for my appointment!

Implantation.

Baseball players have all kids of lucky rituals, rite or charms.  J has the same.  It is a lucky shirt. She has said that each time she wore it during her 2 implantation that she got pregnant, another lady wore the same shirt during her two implantation’s had children.  I hope I can keep the luck alive.  So donning the shirt, head high, I hope I get lucky!

The worst part of implantation day is the bladder. As I  get into the stirrups and I pray  I won’t pee on the nice doctor who is shoving the catheter up my vagina.  Hubster and I watch the snake like apparatus enter the uterus, all the technicians get ready and with a 3-2-1 Inject! A little bubble plops into view on the ultra sound and the deed is done.  The blastocyst is in!  Luckily it was a very beautiful blastocyst with assisted hatching.  down side?  It is the only blastocyst so far.  We have a possible two more that could turn but we will not know for sure.  48 hours time will be the next update.  I am hoping for the best.

So now begins the TWW.  So to my one blastocyst currently inside,  Implant, grow and be happy!  I don’t want to see you again till you have developed into a healthy baby!

Now I’m off to nibble pineapple cores and drink green tea.

-The Naked Egg

 

Day 4 After Retrieval

Saturday, Day 3!  I quickly check my email for the embryologist report at 8am.  Nothing yet, but i mean it is the weekend after all, so instead of fussing about it my husband and I got ready to go meet some friends at a Korean Festival.

Everything was going great until the hubster closed out of the directions on how to get there the 5th time and me missing 4 different turn offs and back tracking because of it, making us almost 40 minutes later than I had told the friends I would be there. (Note: I HATE, HATE being late.  It is one of my pet peeves. If I say 6pm I’m there 5:55 LATEST.) So 40 minutes?  Well after the 4th missed turn because of chubby fingers in the passenger seat I lost it, Cried, yelled, hyperventilation, got light-headed, the works.  It got so bad I had to pull the bloody car over to prevent a crash.  The guy who’s drive way we used had the sweetest dog who ran over and started licking my hand, which I’m sure was a sight to see for the owner. Here is this crazy woman pulling into his drive way switching places with her husband who is crying hysterically and now laughing and rubbing the ears of this dog. I’m sure if he never sees me again it will be too soon.  Hah!

After a brief cool down and the hubster at the wheel we finally made it to the festival.

Lots of food, lots of music and dances!

 

Once home and resting for it is still painful if I move a lot, I finally got the news!

All 5 embryo’s are developmentally in the correct stage!!  WooHoo!!

I hope that they continue on their path to maturity, for tomorrow is the big IMPLANT DAY!

 

Although doing this for the first trimester, if implant day works tomorrow, is not going to be pleasant.

 

-The Naked Egg

Day 2 After Retrieval

Normally I would have posted yesterday about everything  since it was day one but with a work engagement and my Thursday night class, I was pooped.  Got home at 8:30pm, immediately had to get shot in the arse with progesterone, and by 9pm the lights were out and I was gone to Mr. Sandman.  Now,  I still got up 100 different times to pee during the night, each one painful as the ovaries settled down into a new position quickly but tired none the less.

DAY 1 updates: out of the 14 mature eggs that went through the  ICSI process,  5 fertilized. 

I really should not have checked that email at work.   I cried for my 9 non fertilized eggs and struggled through the next hour until I got a hold of my co-worker who has gone through the IVF process 2 times, both resulting in bouncing babies.  Thank goodness for her blunt personality.  She was helpful in calming me down and letting me know that 5 on day 1 is very good, especially with male factor.  

Because of the male factor the hubster and I have been toying around with the idea of getting the little embryos genetically tested to make sure nothing is abnormally wrong.  (Turner’s syndrome, XXY, Too many chromosomes EX: 96 instead of a healthy 48 etc..) but after talking with my IVF coordinator that the testing is NOT covered,  I was in a bit of a quandary,  but as my dear friend said “Not to sound morbid, but if something is wrong you will miscarriage, and that doesn’t cost you thousands of dollars.”     Sometimes in the hormone induced haze you need your friends, to set you strait. 

So here is to my 5 remaining fertilized eggs,   Grow grow grow into embryos!! 

-The Naked Egg