MichJ0602

Hey girls,
I thought no one ever responded to this and was just checking things out and saw the comments. How is everyone doing? Where are you all at in the process now? So far things have been going great. The meds have been so much easier to take then I imagined. I have had no bad sympoms other then night sweats. The shots have been easy so far. I found out I had low uterine bloodflow so I have been going to an acupuncturist for that for a few weeks now. My numbers have greatly improved so all is good there now. I plan to continue the acupuncture until the date of the transfer. I went in for another ultrasound yesterday morning and got good news. They think they will be moving the date of ER up to this Thursday. I will find out for sure at my next ultrasound which will be today. I am so excited! This entire process has been going so fast and I am very thankful for that. The money has been the biggest stressor. It seems there is always another unexpected cost for something that keeps getting added. The accupunture is 65 each time now. This is a great price for good accupunture and I feel it is well worth it but still it adds up to an already expensive journey. My husband is doing good in all of this. He is excited and that makes me very happy. He blames himself though and I am just praying for a mircle this first try because I don't want to tell him it didn't work. God is great so I know that he has a plan for us in all of this. How are your husbands doing through this process?

My original schedule would have had me doing the ER and ET on the same days as you but I just got bumped up a day. I wish we had been able to keep up with eachother earlier. I took my trigger shot today. I was worried since it was in the muscle that it would be painful but it felt just like all the other shots. What a relief. I go in tomorrow morning for blood work to make sure the shot is doing what it is suppose to and then Thursday morning will be the ER. They have been counting 21 eggs but the nurse told me today that 13 of those are what look mature. It sounds like a good number so I am happy so far :). Good luck to you also, I will keep you also in my prayers. How many embryos will you transfering? We plan on transfering 2.

Wow you have a great number of eggs. They got 20 from me and I will find out today how many were mature and fertilized
. The ER went great. It was quick and painless. I feel crampy now but nothing bad. I want to heal the best I can so when they put the little embies in my body can focus on that and not the healing of the ER. Although I did have pizza last night, yum :). I figure I have no eggs or babies in me for the moment so I should eat one last bad for me meal , lol. No more shots for you huh? Thats nice. Tomorrow I start my progesterone shot which is once a morning innermuscular. Thankfully it is in the a.m. so my hubby can do it. You must be doing supositories. I know what you meabout the bag of needles. I have also been doing the accupuncture so with the two of those together and the blood draws there doesnt seem to be a spot without a mark:). I have read a bit on the acupuncture and I feel like we have a better chance of this working from that. Im glad your doing it too. Your place must do things a bit different. Conceptions had us do the trigger 36 hours before retrival. Are you also doing a 5 day transfer? I cant wait to hear how they are growing. Its so interesting. We get to take our pregnancy test on Christmas Eve. How awesome is that, lol. Im so excited. You will know by the new Year. What a great way that will be to start 2012!

By the way my husband and I LOVE Oregon and plan to live there one day. We vacation there almost every year. It is absolutly beautiful!

The ER went great but today was more painful then the previous day. I hope to feel much better tomorrow. It isn't anything to bad just more then I expected I guess. I haven't taken any pain meds for it but I may tomorrow if it isn't better.

How exciting that you will know on the 23. I definitely plan to POAS by the 23. I'm happy you will also know by Christmas. What a great gift this will be. I go in for blood work on the 11th, 18th, 21st and 24th. I don't know what they are testing for on the 11th since my transer isn't until the 13th but now I wonder if they will be testing for the hcg on the 18th, 21st and 24th? I will have to ask about this.

They retrieved 20 eggs, 16 were mature and 9 fertilized. They said this is expected with low morphology. They don't plan to tell us anything else until transfer day, day 5, but I plan to call on day 3 and see how things are going. I don't want to be completely surprised if it is bad news. I am extremely worried so any prayers you can send our way would be greatly appreciated :).

Your ER number is great! This part seems so interesting and scary at the same time. I look forward to hearing how many were mature and fertilized. With such a great starting number I think it will be great news :).

We always stop in Portland. We typically drive the entire coast of Oregon and just stop at different spots and cruise in land for a bit and head back out. We would have already moved out there but it is hard to leave family. I just love how green it is there and like you said you have the ocean and the mountains, it has some of everything. Beautiful!

Ahh feeling much better today. I couldn't sleep today. All I can think about is our little embyos. I will definitely be calling today to see how they are doing. I can't wait until Tuesday. We are so excited :)

Humm I replied to this post but dont see it here. I must have forgot to hit post :p. I need to stop posting with my phone. It takes me 3 times longer too.

How are you doing? How was your transfer? The day of the transfer I woke up feeling sick and it only got worse. I feel much better today. The transfer it self went great. No pain from that at all. It was a very fast procedure. I did the acupuncture before and after. Because of that I started drinking my water early and that made it incredibly hard to hold my pee. As soon as the transfer was done I was only able to sit there for a few minutes and I HAD to get up and go to the bathroom. A lesson learned is to wait to start drinking my water until right before the acupuncture :). We had 2 embryos to transfer, 1 AB and 1 BB. They said they were rock stars and gave us a 80% chance of pregnancy with a 50/60% chance of twins. We also had 1 other rock star to freeze. I worry with being sick that I have lessened my chances of a pregnancy but I know God is in control and I need to just keep the faith. My husband has been amazing. He has been cleaning and doing anything he can to make me confortable. Also every night or when he is leaving he has been kissing my belly 2 times (one for each baby) :). I feel so blessed!

I dont have any pregnancy symptoms yet. I know it is super early but I cant help think about it non stop. How are you feeling? I found out they test to see is Im pregnant on the 21st and then again on the 24th but they dont give us a call with the news until the 24th. I guess because they jlknow better how things are progressing at that point? I plan to call to get a result on the 21st though. Im excited to hear how your doing so tell me everything! :)

Im so happy you had 8 to freeze that is really great. AAA...not sure what the 3rd A is but the others are an A for look of the fetus and A for the look of the placenta. Sounds like perfect little embryos :). My bloating from the ER has also been crazy and it is just finally starting to get better. I still feel a little pain from it also. I have not had any symptoms yet which makes me nervous but it is still early. At least that is what I keep telling myself. I can't help but always look for somekind of sign and also count down every moment till the blood test.

Test results came in and they are ..................................BFP!!!!!!! Yay!!!!! Merry Christmas! Can't wait to hear your good news :)!!!

This is so weird. I have been checking and not seeing any comments from you. Its actually annoying, I wonder why it has done that. Now I just posted something and three of your comments show up. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

I am soooo happy to hear your great news. What great Christmas gifts we have recieved! We are hoping for twins but we don't know yet. I can't remember my exact numbers but it was like 150ish on 8dp5dt and 550ish on 11dp5dt. I have been haveing all the cramping also which has been scaring me but I keep reading it is totally normal. It is the only symptom I have been having so far. My boobs aren't even sore or anything. What were your numbers? I don't think mine are in the twin range but we could still get surprised. We don't have the appointment yet but they said we will have an u/s in 3 weeks. Do you know what we will see at that time? I'm guessing they will be listening for a heart beat and we should know if there are one or two little ones in there :).

I think it just opens to my last comment but not the last entry so I need to make sure I am on the last page of entries :).

Our ultrasound has been scheduled for Jan 12th. I can't wait! What is the date for your ultrasound? All the symptoms you are having sound great. I am thankful to not have any symptoms but at the same time I really wish I was having some because I feel like it isn't true that I am pregnant. Currently I am not having a single symptom that I have noticed. Other then the missed period and positive tests :).

I can't wait for the ultrasound to be able to really see something going on in there. It seems like the next 8 months are going to be full of countdowns. Right now I am counting down to being able to see that little or hopefully those little heartbeats :).

Hey OregonGirl how are you doing? I have been stressing out. I can't wait for Jan 12th. I still have not been having any symptoms of the pregnancy and I just want to see that heartbeat to calm my nerves. I feel like there is something wrong and it isn't real. I just want to see that everything is going good. I might call to see if I can go in for another beta at least. Anything to help me feel better would be great :).

What a rollercoaster you have been on. I am so sorry to hear about your little one but so happy you have your two healthy little heartbeats and you are doing good. It is sooo exciting! We went in for the 7 weeks ultrasound today and......two healthy heartbeats :):)!!!! We are so excited. It is so amazing. I am so happy for both of us. After all this time to be blessed on the 1st try and then with 2! It is so awesome. We are not telling anyone about the IVF part of our journey but Im on facebook if you are interested to keep in touch. Also I will continue to check this because I would love to keep up with the pregnancy and compare notes :). I have been so nervous that something may have gone wrong since I just haven't had really any symptoms except the cramps and then the past couple of days I have slightly started to have the morning sickness. I am so releaved and feel like now I can sit back and just enjoy all of the pregnancy. I have already gone through and entire 100,000 book of baby names and do not have a single name that I like. Now we need two :) hahahaha. God is awesome! Please keep in touch

I understand. We didn't say anything to anyone except close family until our 1st ultrasound. Everything looks so great that I'm sure you have seen now that we did announce it to the world on facebook last night :) Cant wait to see your ultrasound pictures!