L 12-13 R 4-5
Possible retrieval this Wednesday! I’m so excited! Hopefully hubster will produce lots so we can get these oocytes a splitting!
It is now starting to hit me, wow, I could be pregnant soon!
Happy Fall!
Having Fun at the local Orchard! (Yes that is a horse made out of hay, and yes kids can ride the pony!)
I’m chained!
So what does all the IVF medication look like?
It is crazy, a lot and overwhelming.
The best part was the next day when the Nurse explained how everything is injected and the restrictions set forth.
My favorite quote. “Your ovaries are the size of walnuts. With the medicine you are taking they could swell to be the size of grapefruits.”
Grapefruits?
Because of this no lifting, intercourse, twisting, jumping and etc.
So, what can you do? Light walking, sitting, and laying down.
fun huh?
-The Naked Egg
Oh the Irony, you want a kid right? Yes? Good, take the white birth control pill.
Wait, What?
Birth control pill = quiet ovaries
Quiet Ovaries=no eggs
no eggs = no babies. So, why the white pill?
I started the IVF cycle a little confused in the bright and airy doctors office while the cheery IVF coordinator chattered with my husband and I about the upcoming months. I was still stuck on that pill. The white pill, the first step to having a baby.
It’s all to do with the ovaries.
As most women know each month our dreaded and very annoying aunt comes to visit. We deal with her in a range of ways, from cursing, binge eating, or assuming the fetal position and rocking back and forth chanting “Only ___ more days to go.” (You fill in the blank)
Then she quietly goes away with a wink, for we ALL know she’ll be back, and with a vengeance. Although when she is away we get to be our sexy selves again and the ovaries happily develop the largest single cell in the human body waiting for a champion swimmer.
It’s this single cell, or the egg, that is the problem. And that magic little white pill stops the ovaries from producing. And when entering the IVF cycle, where everything is timed to precision, (They put the North Korean army to shame) You.Must.Be.On.Time.
And thus, that little white pill, that one that prevents you from having a baby, happens.
Princess Peach (at top) Reminds us to take our Birth control. To bad my pharmacy was all out of Mario themed cases and chocolate.
-The Naked Egg
An ongoing struggle with recurrent pregnancy loss
Writer & Mind Coach
This is my IVF diary. My husband and I have been trying to have a baby for four years now, and have a diagnosis of 'unexplained infertility'. We have finally reached the top of the waiting list for IVF - a form of assisted conception. I'm blogging about what happens as it happens, as a kind of therapy for me and as an awareness raising exercise of what IVF is all about.
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