It is the most beautiful day. I started the day off with a 14 mile bike ride with friends down to the coast. We stopped at a cafe and had lunch on the water. It was gorgeous!
In baby news, we are taking a month off. Ali is going to start fertility massage and perhaps acupuncture and see what happens. We have to keep reminding ourselves, we have only tried four times since our miscarriage. In a straight... free sperm world that is really nothing (in terms of time). So we are working on our patience :-)
We are so excited for uterusx2... and great baby names! BTW
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Too bad
It was an early period. Very Weird. I'm three days into it. Still bloated, crampy and bleeding. :-(
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Im.plantation blee.ding or ear.ly pe.riod?
I'm stumped. Last night I went to the bathroom to find a brownish discharge on my pantyliner and when I wiped a bit of pink mucousy substance. Today when I woke up I again had light red blood when I wiped. As the day has gone on I have dark red blood when I wipe, but my pad has only had about a quarter size of bleeding on it. Today is 10 or 11dpo (remember FF changed on me). I have scoured the Internet for info on implantation bleeding, but every thing says it should be very light. So I am thinking since mine is so dark/bright red it must be an early period? 10dpo? Anybody had this kind of implantation bleeding?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Not the ride I was thinking of...
I have been miserable for 5 days. It started Friday morning with a cough that wouldn't quit, by noon my eyes hurt and my cheeks were flushed. I got home from work at 3:30p my body ached all over, the water from the shower hurt and felt good all at the same time. My temp was 100.9 and I fell into bed.
Fast forward to today. With the exception of about 4hours Sunday morning when I thought I was on the mend, but quickly knew otherwise Sunday afternoon, I have been miserable. Low grade fevers, headache, my eyes hurt, my bones hurt from laying around, I feel like I have been kicked in the ribs SEVERAL times, I am so sore from coughing. I'm whining.
I finally went to the doctor yesterday and started an antibiotic. Just what I want to do if I am pregnant... start out on meds. Oh well. No choice. I told La, it will be a miracle if an embryo could even implant with all this coughing. We'll see.
FF changed my ovulation day by my temps. At first they called in Sat, then changed to Mon, I think it was Sunday. But whatever. My point is I'm somewhere between 8 and 10dpo. No plans to test anytime soon. I will tell you of two 'signs'. On our way into our neighborhood after the first IUI this month, La saw a rabbit hopping across the lawn. She hasn't seen a rabbit in the neighborhood since our last BFP in May. Then the other night we were watching I*ron C*hef A*merica and guess what the secret ingredient was. Yep, rabbit. Now that grossed me out and I made La change the channel...but still could it be a sign? We'll see.
Fast forward to today. With the exception of about 4hours Sunday morning when I thought I was on the mend, but quickly knew otherwise Sunday afternoon, I have been miserable. Low grade fevers, headache, my eyes hurt, my bones hurt from laying around, I feel like I have been kicked in the ribs SEVERAL times, I am so sore from coughing. I'm whining.
I finally went to the doctor yesterday and started an antibiotic. Just what I want to do if I am pregnant... start out on meds. Oh well. No choice. I told La, it will be a miracle if an embryo could even implant with all this coughing. We'll see.
FF changed my ovulation day by my temps. At first they called in Sat, then changed to Mon, I think it was Sunday. But whatever. My point is I'm somewhere between 8 and 10dpo. No plans to test anytime soon. I will tell you of two 'signs'. On our way into our neighborhood after the first IUI this month, La saw a rabbit hopping across the lawn. She hasn't seen a rabbit in the neighborhood since our last BFP in May. Then the other night we were watching I*ron C*hef A*merica and guess what the secret ingredient was. Yep, rabbit. Now that grossed me out and I made La change the channel...but still could it be a sign? We'll see.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Rollercoasting
Well so much going on here, we haven't had time to post. In our news...Ali was in a car accident, and luckily no one was hurt...Thank you God! As the other woman got out of her car they started to chat a little, only to find out she had delivered her baby at the hospital Ali works and the woman remembered her. She recounted her whole birthing story....the police woman said she was laughing listening to the two of them talking...she couldn't believe the weren't arguing or fighting like many other traffic issues she gets called to.
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Baby news.....well Ali went in for her ultrasound to measure her follies...again only one mature one. We are fine with that, it only takes one...right. However our MW thought she saw something unfamiliar to her so she sent Ali to another MW who works for the new RE in town. She scanned Ali and said it looked as if she may have already ovulated......what???? Ali knows her body more than anyone and she will tell you she has not ovulated! The MW went on to say she should come on over to their clinic and get a full work up. That will cost how much? $1500.00 per cycle and 900.00 for meds....holly shit.... on top of the 12,000 spent in sperm, and not to mention pee sticks ,opk monitor, and endless emotional heartache. And does insurance cover any of this....we'll check. Well we all know insurance does not see infertility as a problem. Here is the dilemma...Ali ovulates fine on her own, but only produces 1 mature follicle....even amongst the fertility drugs she has been on..clomid, which we did conceive on...and now Femera. We really don't see a problem and aren't quite ready to go any other routes.... Ali is a bit of a naturalist and would prefer no assistance, but also trusts those who have been on this journey with us. I have a peace about it this time...one I haven't had since our last iui back in May 2007. I can tell you for whatever reason I knew then we were pregnant and we were. I have that same peace this time. Is it my mind playing tricks on me, knowing how bad we both want this? We received a peak this morning, which is one day earlier than normal. We will continue as scheduled. Pray for us as we listen for God to speak.
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Baby news.....well Ali went in for her ultrasound to measure her follies...again only one mature one. We are fine with that, it only takes one...right. However our MW thought she saw something unfamiliar to her so she sent Ali to another MW who works for the new RE in town. She scanned Ali and said it looked as if she may have already ovulated......what???? Ali knows her body more than anyone and she will tell you she has not ovulated! The MW went on to say she should come on over to their clinic and get a full work up. That will cost how much? $1500.00 per cycle and 900.00 for meds....holly shit.... on top of the 12,000 spent in sperm, and not to mention pee sticks ,opk monitor, and endless emotional heartache. And does insurance cover any of this....we'll check. Well we all know insurance does not see infertility as a problem. Here is the dilemma...Ali ovulates fine on her own, but only produces 1 mature follicle....even amongst the fertility drugs she has been on..clomid, which we did conceive on...and now Femera. We really don't see a problem and aren't quite ready to go any other routes.... Ali is a bit of a naturalist and would prefer no assistance, but also trusts those who have been on this journey with us. I have a peace about it this time...one I haven't had since our last iui back in May 2007. I can tell you for whatever reason I knew then we were pregnant and we were. I have that same peace this time. Is it my mind playing tricks on me, knowing how bad we both want this? We received a peak this morning, which is one day earlier than normal. We will continue as scheduled. Pray for us as we listen for God to speak.
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