No more................

Here is my list of NO MORE's

Birth control pills (finished last one yesterday)
Coffee ( I had a constant headache for the first 4 days)
Tea (love my organic green mint tea..)
Raw food
Ice
Bare feet (not a big deal..I'm to OCD to walk around barefooted)
Soda
Hot baths (this is killing me..I'm taking lukewarm baths and they suck)
Running

And here is my list of MORE'S

Prenatal vitamins (the lingering after taste is enough to make you barf)
Lipoic Acid (recommended by my embryologist)
Co Q 10 (again embryologist)
Doxycycline (fight infection)both J and I (btw J has been sick since starting them)
Lupron
Protein
Acupuncture(twice a week)


So I have everything all organized as far as what time to take which meds/pills/shot and I am certain that now that I am comfortable they will change it up on me.

I have another week of Lupron and then my baseline US. Not to stressed about it.

We opted for a multi-cycle program. We get 4 tries...2 fresh IVF cycles and 2 FET's. So I have resigned myself to 2 IVF's if we are lucky and a sheer miracle if we have anything to freeze. I had a time attempting to figure out exactly what is considered a cyle for the program we are enrolled in. Of course I went round and round with them prior to enrolling. I do work for a law firm after all and know how all the juicy stuff is in the fine print. So after numerous phone calls and emails...because of course I want it in writing.....they finally admitted that a cycle begins at stim injections not lupron. So I can be cancelled after my US and it would not count as a cycle but once I start injecting the gonadtropins its considered a cycle. So even if I only have one egg I'm going to retreival darn it!!!!!

OUCH!!!!

I mailed the IVF money and contract this afternoon!!!!

Acupuncture and Medicine

Had my first two acupuncture appointments last week and it was strangely relaxing and felt productive. The embryologist at our fertility clinic highly recommends acupuncture throughout the IVF process. So I called who she recommended and made an appointment. It was very very quite in the clinic and it seemed everyone moved gracefully and with purpose..strange. So I had my first treatment on my lower back while Dr Whang (yeah that's his name) proceed to tell me:

No raw food, No coffee, No soda, No Ice, No ice cream, No cold food
Keep feet warm (warm feet...warm uterus) I giggled at this..Whang was not amused.
No get sick ( I'm using Dr.Wangs voice if you haven't noticed)

So after my session I promptly drove home feeling limp and like I had just finished a stint at a rehab clinic. I slept for three hours it was bliss. Dr Whang insisted that I come back the following morning for another session and surprise surprise I lapsed into another 3 hour coma afterwards....needless to say I'm kinda digging this acupuncture thing.

All of my drugs were delivered also. Good Golly Miss Molly it was enough to fill a pharmacy! We have Lupron,Bravelle, Menopur, HCG, Endometrium, Estrogen Patches,Valium, Doxycycline,and an anti- inflammatory in a pear tree!

Did I mention we are doing IVF with ICSI and Assisted Hatching...how could this elaborate scheme not possibly work I ask myself.

Here"s a picture of my choo choo train of meds.

Day at the Hospital

So we spent the whole day at the hospital today getting everything in order for our IVF.

The schedule went like this:

9am          Conference with Office manager
                (translation.... money talk...notice how they schedule this first)
930am      Embryology class
1130 am   Mock Transfer- A and Back up Sperm Sample-J
Lunch       We went to Mellow Mushroom
                 (apparently we need all the mellow we can get....)
200pm      Injection class

Wow it was alot to take in but it answered so many of my questions. My poor husband had to suffer through it all (well except for the sample part). I was nuts about the embryologist she has a ton of experience and some great success rates. She took the time to explain everything to us. I had read up on all the latest technologies that most of the better clinics employ and was glad to discover that they our the first in the area to use many of them. Poor girl next to J and I  had absolutely no clue what was going on.....how can you be so misinformed when you are dropping this kind of money? J and I joked that we hope they do not mix up my eggs and hers!


Here's a pic of the Hospital.

Feb 2, 2011

Not much happening .....waiting for the days to pass so we can begin this process! I have officially watched every Baby Story ever taped and have now moved on to Bringing Home Baby! I am truly a crazed woman at this point. All I ever really think about is baby, baby, baby! I go to Target and some how magically appear in the baby section. I can tell you exactly what aisle anything baby is found in! Btw I must have the grass thingy that hold bottles while they dry and that frog pod for the tub. Think that's crazy I have the BRU site mastered as well....sad...sad...sad. Oh and the HGTV rate my space nurseries...I have marked all my favorites for future use. I have an enormous tub of absolutely beautiful girl baby clothes that my sis has given me..thanks V!!! The baby gap went out of business and my youngest daughter and I stopped by so she could pick up a few things for her good friends baby (yeah that doesn't make me feel old) and I fell in love with these small little PJ's. M said that I should but them...that maybe that would bring me luck...I bought them!

Here is a  picture of each of my girls....I love being their mom!