Just for fun...

Check out this site http://www.babymed.com/pregnancy-calendar-and-calculator-week-by-week

If I get pregnant I am right now 0 weeks 4 days pregnant.  LOL.  I love it - I'm gonna start rubbing my belly and requesting pickles and ice cream immediately!

24 hours til stims!

First of all, does anyone else notice how many BFPs have been announced lately?  Congrats ladies and gents!  It fills me with hope right now - but if I get a bfn and drop off the commenting universe briefly please understand.

I am feeling really good today.  After a dose of Phillips Milk of Magnesia I finally have a little relief :)  I have decided that once stims start I am limiting myself to these over the counter meds :(I put this list together  form a combination of your guys' thoughts, my own common sense, and google)  tylenol for pain, colace and glycerin suppositories for constipation, and Benadryl 25mg for any insomnia.

ACNE.  Anyone else?  I almost never break out, and right now I have 3(!) huge monsters on my face - one that's redness reaches about the circumference of a dime.  Between that, the constipation and bruised abdomen I am feeling sexy, y'all!

Tonight will be my last combo dose of:

Lupron 10 units

Prenatal

Baby aspirin

Tomorrow start:

Lupron 3 units

Bravelle 300 units

Menopur 75 units

Prenatal

Baby aspirin

This weekend I am going to RRRREEEELLLLAAAAXXXX.  DH finally finished writing his dissertation and I am actually off work so we are gonna do the quality time thing - movies, board games, dinner out, maybe even church (yikes, it's been a long while...like a year).  I've already requested breakfast in bed for saturday - I deserve some pampering!!!!

Have a good weekend everyone!  I am off to take a walk - I lost 10 pounds in the 2 months prior to starting IVF - and I am really worried about plumping right back up.  Too bad I can't stop eating :)  Seriously food tastes so good right now....

It's been awhile

I haven't posted forever...which is a good thing really.  It means I haven't felt the need to vent or get support...I suppose that's a sign of health!  BUT I missed writing and reading what's going on with everyone. Here's what's new with me:

• Went to Vegas with the hubby.  Had a BLAST!!!
• I have been working my tail off doing overtime....yuck.
• Lost and then gained back 7 pounds (see the Vegas trip:)
• Realized my husband has no idea what IVF entails:

While in Vegas I had a moment of sadness...for some reason there were babies EVERYWHERE and it got me thinking.  I said, "Wouldn't it be so cool if a year from now we are pregnant?".  He looked at me with a seriously inquisitive face and said, "There is no reason why we won't be".  Ummmm.  I have lots of reasons!  We don't have enough sperm to work with.  We don't have enough money for IVF.  IVF won't necessarily work.  We might be to scared to use donor sperm.  We have shitty luck and it is seriously hard to imagine something going our way for once.

But I digress.

The great thing about his statement is it made me sad/angry/horrified for about 30 seconds.  Then I laughed. Hard.  I mean, how insanely ridiculous???  This is obviously a sign that before IVF he needs some major EDUCATION.  Jeesh.

Tomorrow we are going in for a couples counseling session.  I am kinda looking forward to it.  I am curious to know what emotional obstacles there are to overcome if we go the donor sperm route...because quite frankly that remains to be the option that I think is most feasible for our situation right now.

I am going to try to catch up on all of your fabulous blogs over the weekend...I hope I read only good news!!!

Relaxing Sunday...

I love Sundays, don't you?  Caught up on laundry, lasagna in the crockpot, dishes done, clean sheets on the bed...now to relax with my DVR list.  Heaven!

I've mentioned how I work with several pregnant women (7 actually!).  One of them has had a miscarriage, other than that I believed that the others were super fertile.  Well I was wrong!  A woman I don't know very well but have worked with for a few years came up to me yesterday and asked me if I would like her copy of "Taking Charge of Your Fertility".  I was taken aback!  I had heard that she had gotten pregnant 'by accident'.  She went on to tell me that she had 3 miscarriages and was SURE that she would never have a baby.  I was really touched that she thought of me...and it really made me want to stop hating most pregnant women I see.  I guess it's not always obvious when a pregnant woman is actually an infertile in hiding.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  Is anyone else as excited for Fall as I am?

Good old days...

Last weekend was such a blast!  Got way too drunk for 48 hours straight, got sunburnt, and my abs literally ached by Sunday from laughing so hard.  High school friends are the best!  I felt 17 again!

One of the girls is 18 weeks pregnant, she did a lot of drinking juice and seemed to have a fun time too...obviously I am ridiculously jealous, so jealous I could scream.  She was on the pill when she conceived, hadn't even missed a pill.  Her baby bump was so cute too!  

No real news on our front...except DH's doctoral studies may come to a close sooner than we think...which is a total bummer for him because he has worked so hard but maybe it's meant to be...with work and personal stuff it has all been a lot to handle.  SO maybe we won't have to wait until next summer to try.  If that happens then my blog will turn back into that fascinating roller coaster of dIUI vs IVF.  Stay tuned!  I know you are all on the edge of your seat :)

Wow....

So many BFPs, both bloggy and IRL!!!  Congrats ladies (and gentleman)!!!

I have friends coming into town this weekend and I couldn't be more excited...time for drinking too much beer, going to the pool, getting pedicures and laughing. 

I hope you all have great weekends!