Love Shack Baby

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/339f4d There is my chart as of today.

Yesterday we were on the first leg of our trip and I had HORRIBLE pain in the left side of my uterus all day. It wasn’t like cramps, it was like “I’m going to die” stabbing pain. Tylenol didn’t help, pms pills didn’t help. It sucked. I couldn’t sleep the past 2 nights because of this really intense pain. Today, my temperature went down a little but I’m still above baseline. I don’t know what to think is going on.

We are out of down until June 3rd. We are currently away for my little brother’s wedding. We’ll get back to Philly on Sunday night and then on Monday morning we fly out to Florida for 6 days. C’s work is sending him to a convention (and just told him on Tuesday!) and I get to tag along.. and stay in a fancy resort hotel and swim all day while he plays scientist. Sometimes I love his job! ha ha ha. So, I won’t be able to get any bloodwork or anything done and we’re going to have to sit out the June cycle unless we want to do it on our own, which we don’t want to. We have decided to exclusively do inseminations through the RE for a while and we’re going to stick with it.

I’m sure that my body won’t mind if we take a break from the Clomid and progesterone. I’ve felt so gross for two months now and a break would be much welcomed, even if it sets me off a month. Plus, with all of this traveling, we need to build up our savings again!

I don’t know whether to be hopeful that I’ve got a late implanter in there that isn’t showing on tests yet or if I should resign myself to my period being on the way. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will test again and after that, no more! If it’s still negative, I’m done with the hoping.

Picture this: 

Arriving at the dr appt for you 9am insemination to be told that they’re running an hour behind on procedures.. on a day when you don’t have an extra hour to spare! I grumbled and waited patiently for my name to be called. We get into the room and verify donor number and then the dr comes in. She again verifies the donor number and has me put my feet up and lay down. She lets us know that we have 15million good swimmers! Then the bed starts rocking like a honeymoon sweet! I look at my hubby and we’re both trying to act like this is perfectly normal. Then the dr asks if that’s me shaking the bed. AH!! She realizes that she had hit a foot petal that caused the bed to shake. We all had a good laugh and that set the mood. 

It took about 1 minute to get the insemination done. The worst was the speculum, OMG, it was really uncomfortable. But once it was in, I was fine and we rested for ten minutes before checking out. About ten minutes later I had a short period of cramping and besides that I’ve been “normal”. I now have the heavy feeling in my uterus (Started 2 days ago) and that’s no fun. This time they are having me take progesterone which isn’t gonna make me feel any better from what I remember. Hopefully it helps with the pregnancy though! I’m so excited for this to work.

Yesterdays events were a hit and I think everyone enjoyed my program. In about two hours I’ll be “preaching” for the first time ever! AH! I had this whole speech planned out and then yesterday I decided that just wouldn’t work and I’m going a totally different way with it. I’m so nervous but grateful that it’s a smaller congregation than the one that I work for. Let this two weeks fly by! 

Today’s check-up concluded that I am ovulating on my own. That’s not a big surprise considering I’ve not needed the trigger shot in a LONG time. My Estradiol was 192 (should be 200-600 on ovulation day) Progesterone 0.6 (<1 is good at this stage) and they gave me another number that was 82, but I can't remember what that was. Tomorrow morning at 9am I will be getting inseminated. I hope it's not the stupid Dr that I don't like on duty tomorrow. I'd rather have my regular doctor or one of the other doctors that I haven't spent much time with. There is this one guy that I just can't stand. Gah!
This is going to be the craziest get pregnant weekend ever! ha ha. I have so many things to do.

Today I went in for bloodwork and ultrasounds. I had 1 13mm follicle, 2 12mm follicles and over ten under 10mm. We are waiting on the blood numbers, but I’d say we’re not ready yet! Also, I’ve had no clomid side effects except hot flashes. This did scare me but the dr said that once the uterus is stretched due to the drug, often the side effects go away. That makes sense, right? I had said that I wasn’t over the first side effects when I started taking it again and maybe that was true. It looks like insemination later in the week. This causes me super nervousness because I have a VERY full weekend.

On Saturday I am throwing a brunch so I have to be there for the guests. That night I’m going to stay out of town with church friends because I am “guest preaching” at their church the next day. I am no seminarian, I have zero desire to be a full-time preacher person. This is my first time speaking at length in front of a congregation and I’m nervous. I’m supposed to talk about Gods good works, my job and my own religious connections. Easy enough right? I hope so. If it looks like I’ll need to inseminate on Sunday, I will have to cancel with the church and I’d really HATE to do that. Here’s hoping for a Friday insemination day! 

*I’ll update later with the bloodwork numbers* 

Est = 131 Next visit is Friday.. which means my weekend might be rearranged. GAH!

My fertility friend now says that I ovulated Tuesday, SCORE! I knew it! We inseminated on Mon-Wed and that covers all of our options for being fertile this month. I’m dealing with horrible exhaustion and allergies and that sucks. The RE told me that I could take whatever I want for it even though the warnings say “see doctor if you plan to become pregnant”. Oh well, hopefully this isn’t ruining my chances of conception. 

My temperatures have remained high which is a good sign and nothing else is screaming pregnant yet. Some time next week I’ll post my chart again for you all to review and judge me. ha ha. I am really freaking excited to have the perfect timing and the most flexible donor ever. I couldn’t help but wonder the other day how hetero women do it. Don’t you get tired of having penetrative sex? Does the guy get tired of having sex on command? I just doesn’t sound fun to me. Oh, the things I’ll never be able to relate to! 

Almost all of the blogs I follow have moved on into the pregnant section or have had their babies already (WOW, I’ve been blogging through some ppl having more than 1 kid/pregnancy) and I have three in the trying to get pregnant section. I need other ttc blogs, leave comments if you know of any good ones! 

Today my dominant follicle was a 25! The other little ones grew a bit but nothing too exciting. My progesterone was 0.6 up from 0.3 yesterday and my estrogen was 317 (forgot Mondays numbers). The nurse called to let me now that I do not need the Ovidrel shot this month! Woo hoo! I am ovulating on my own and they suggest insemination tomorrow. Lucky for us, we inseminated last night also. I was feeling like being early, we did an early insemination the time I got pregnant. So, we have an insem on day 13, ovulation possibly today day 14 and then we need to make insemination choices! Should we insem tonight or wait until tomorrow as suggested? We can’t insem on Thursday-Friday because my better half is having surgery Thursday and I’ll be taking care of him.
These decisions are so tough! HELP!