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Back to Acu...Mission Re-Balance in Effect
Monday's are always better when you've been a "good girl" over the weekend. What qualifies being a good girl to me? For one, making it the entire weekend without consuming sugar. I was soooo tempted to...
View ArticleOperation Win A Baby...As Told by My Sister
You know you have been trying to conceive too long when even your family members begin developing hair-brained schemes to win you a baby. Ok, maybe hair-brained is a little extreme. Let me...
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Our Work Here is Done... Dear God, We Need a Miracle!
The wait is on...the two week wait that is. As you all know, I was a little nervous earlier this week when I had a feeling ovulation was approaching and hubby was still out of the country. Want to hear...
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Dear God, I've Sacrificed Facebook for Lent! Can You Hear Me Now?
Is it bad that I didn't even know it was Ash Wednesday until I logged onto facebook this morning? There was a funny picture posted outside a church that read, "Get your ash into church." Haha! Maybe I...
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Onion volcanoes, photo shoots & shopping...Distractions from the 2WW
Busy bee-ing it up as much as possible lately. I need to take my mind off the fact that there are only a few days left until I test. So far, no symptoms that make me "feel pregnant" in the least, and I...
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Here Goes Nothing... Correction: EVERYTHING!
Time to pull out the big guns, the whole kit and caboodle, the kitchen sink...or in other words IVF. Last week we found out our last attempt at becoming pregnant (pre-IVF) was not successful. I wasn't...
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BCP's- (code word for Crazy Bitch!)
Just when I thought I was going to escape the dreaded mood swings and side effects of being on birth control pills for the first time in 5 years, I was proven wrong. To re-cap... I am taking BCP's for...
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Holy Big Pharma...To Infertility and Beyond!
This morning's mail brought our IVF plan with a complete list of meds (for now at least). Take a gander at this whopper of a list...-Leuprolide Microdose (Lupron 40 mcg/0.1cc) 40 syringes-Gonal-F...
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Making it a DIY Spa Day
Hubby was up at the butt crack of dawn this morning to head off to his early golf tee time, and I was already pacing at 7 AM wondering what to do today. I hit the gym for a quick workout and decided to...
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It's My IVF Pity Party & I'll Cry If I Want To
People are always remarking on how I inspire them to be more positive. Well, you sure wouldn't think that if you saw me today. I feel completely defeated, like I just want to curl into a ball next to a...
View ArticleWith Lil' Jon and Jesus for You, Who Dare Be Against You??
Today is the day that we start shooting up! As you know, I have not been looking forward to the whole process, and although Monday's lesson from nurse Jamie was helpful, it's still pretty daunting for...
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C'mon Lucky 7!
Today was our "Stim Day 5" ultrasound for our IVF cycle, meaning it's been 5 days since we started the stimulation meds (Gonal F & Menopur).Yep, we've survived 5 whole days of 5 joyous injections...
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IVF Update: 11 Follies a Moseying
I can't say I've ever had an egg hunt in my very own uterus on Easter before, but it looks like that is indeed what we will be doing this Sunday! Is it weird that I'm actually excited about that? If I...
View ArticleEaster Egg Forecast: Trigger Tomorrow!
I'm happy to report that our Easter egg hunt went very well this morning. As predicted, the smaller follies we saw two days ago have caught up quite nicely and are appearing more mature and closer...
View ArticleEgg Retrieval Complete: Make that 17!
The past 48 hours have been unfolding as well as we could possibly hope for. My estradiol came back looking great on Monday (3681), so we triggered at 7:45 PM that evening and scheduled our egg...
View ArticleFertilization Report Is In
So far this morning, I've received a phone call from the embryology lab, the IVF surgery center, and Dr. Vaughn himself, all making sure we received our fertilization report and that I'm doing OK...
View Article5 Day Transfer Confirmed for Tomorrow...It's Really Happening!
Got the call bright and early yesterday (Day 3 following retrieval) telling us that we would NOT be doing a 3DT. As you probably know from my previous post, this was welcome news. As long as our...
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Two Little Embies Transferred
I've been trying my best all weekend to have faith our embryos would be strong and ready once we arrived for our transfer today. I kept having those pesky thoughts creep into my head that we would...
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5 Frosties...and No I Don't Mean the Chocolate Kind
Our embryologist just called with an update on our potential "frosties." I was hoping he would say we had the 3 we expected make it to freeze quality today, but to my surprise he said we actually have...
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2 Days Down, What Feels Like a Century to Go!
How many days left until the pregnancy blood draw? A whole week you say?? I don't think I will make it...already going crazy waiting and wondering! Even though my RE doesn't require strict bed rest...
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