Thursday, March 31, 2011

Stubborn

I had a blood test yesterday and in the afternoon my nurse called my cell, home and sent an email all in one minute!  I thought something was definitely wrong!! Shocker!! My body is being totally stubborn and my estrogen levels were half of what they should be. The dr typically gradually increases the number of patches over a couple days. Not me we jumped right to three a day and a pill!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Here we go

Were finally in the final process now. Today is day two, tomorrow I add in estrogen patches and baby asprin. The injections are going great its a super small amount and just and insulin needle, I've done all of them on my own :)
A week ago I had a bad dream about the boys and I've spent the last week working through that and getting back to a positive place. The other day my grandma reminded me that granpa is up there helping me, and I found  comfort in that as sad as it is. I do miss him!
Shad is flying me out to see my girls on the first, so that's been a great distraction!  Im so looking forward to it! Its great timing too! Once I get back its less then two weeks away.
Im going to do my best to keep my mind busy and control the anxiety as best as I can. Im going to plan vacations. I read its more relaxing for your body then the actual  trip. And listen to an audio book or two... on my way to SC im going to read a book (recommended by Cari) on meditation!  We will see how that goes!  My next doctor appointment is the 30th just to monitor progress before we increase meds.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Moving forward

Today I start the process of getting my body ready for transfer. Started injections tonight, a few more days of the pill then slowly add in, estrogen, progesterone, baby asprin and other med and antibiotics for a few days towards the end. Transfer is still set for April 15th...

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Final embryo update

We ended up with 8 good, frozen embryos. That sounded low to me, especially since the last I heard was 17. But she said 8 is above average so that is great. They froze three yesterday and five today, once they were  at the blasotcyst stage.
I could be octomom! Just kidding!

Our transfer will be April 15th!!

(I won't post anything else for about three weeks until we get going again)