Morning Sickness

Morning sickness has officially reared its ugly head. For the last 2 weeks or so, whenever I tried to go to sleep I got a little sick and it took me anywhere from 2 to five hours to finally fall asleep. But, once I was asleep I was fine. I could wake up in the middle of the night to pee and go back to sleep no problem. I could sleep in the middle of the day like a champ. Then Sunday came. I felt sick on and off all day, I didn’t actually hurl but I kept feeling like I was going to, and (TMI) I kept throwing up a little in my mouth. Then night came and all hell broke loose. The last two nights I haven’t been able to fall asleep at night, when I do finally fall asleep, then wake up to pee, I feel sick again and the whole process starts again. I also can’t sleep during the day. The only interesting thing is I have the most vivid dreams, I told my husband that we need to figure out how to get inside my head to get them out clearly, I think we have a few books or movies up there. Problem is that with dreams, when you try to explain them after the fact, they never really make sense. He thinks I’m a little nuts. Hopefully only 3 more weeks of this. It’s only suppose to last until week 12 right?

7 weeks 6 days

7 weeks 6 days, you can't see how long tand strange the swirly things are on the end but you can definetly see a change in my utuerus.  Hopefully it will continue to grow and stretch!

6 weeks 3 days

Ok, that wasn't actually that hard.  Here is the 6 week 3 day picture.

8 Weeks Pregnant

I've been too scared and too tired to write a real blog but as of yesterday we are at 8 weeks. I had some brown spotting and was put on bedrest for 10 days but now I'm back at it, kind of. All I really want to do is sleep but that will have to wait a little longer.

I would post the ultrasound pictures but I have no idea how and don't have the energy to figure it out. The 6 week picture was crazy! it looked like a banana with a chickpea in the middle, touching both sides of my uterus. My unicorn uterus is definitely strange. The 8 week picture was a little better. It stretched out quite a bit and the baby wasn't touching both sides but it did look like a ball with two thin swirls coming from both sides. Hopefully I'll post pictures soon.

Congrats to all the others out there who also had a sucessful IVF. Looks like there are a few of us:)

And then there were 4

We went on Tuesday for the egg retrieval. I had sixteen follicles, some were quite large and Dr. Z knew they would be over mature we kept waiting for my lining to get thicker before we did the transfer. As I woke up from anesthesia I asked my husband "Poso kaneis" again. The same thing I did last time, which in Greek means how much do you cost, not how many were there. Apparently my Greek lessons aren't going so well.

Dr. Z only got 5 eggs out of the 16. She was expecting 7-8. Her exact words to me were "it was a disaster." As she went to get the eggs the first 6-7 were empty, not cyst like she expected but completely empty. No cells at all. She said she had to stick me 3 times for each 16, no wonder I'm sore, spotting and feel like my insides have been ripped apart.

There was talk of doing a 3 day transfer today (Friday) because they didn't think the embryos looked that strong. Not really a good option given my half uterus and if both took we would be up shit creek and be forced to do a reduction at 3 months. Thankfully they seem to be doing well and we are going to do a 5 day transfer. 6pm on Sunday, Valentine's Day and a holiday weekend. Have I mentioned I love my doctor? Hopefully this Valentine's Day will be a good one. 3 years ago is when we went in for our 8 week check up for our first pregnancy only to find out it was a blighted ovum. Here's to new memories of the Hallmark holiday.

I'm going to stay in clinic overnight. Due to my last cervical etopic pregnancy, I'm on strict bedrest from the time they implant until the pregnancy test. I'm thinking of going to my mother in laws for 5 days and then coming back to my house for the last 5 days of bedrest. Only bad thing is she only has Greek TV and no internet. I may go crazy if I stay any longer! I think it will help take some pressure off DH too. It's a shame that husbands are kind of the forgotten ones through all of this. Everyone is so worried about us, they don't think about the emotional toll it takes on them.

Does anyone else talk to their embryos when they drive past their clinic? I know it's stupid but as I was driving home from Greek class I passed by the clinic and told them hello, that their mom and dad loved them and told them to grow. Who have I become?

Here's to a good transfer and hopefully an embryo or two to freeze!

They grow up so fast...

Had another visit with the dildo cam yesterday and my follicles are growing leaps and bounds. I walked into Dr. Z’s office yesterday and the first thing she said to me was “you are only using 75 of Fostimon and 75 of Merional right?” My blood work apparently told her things were going crazy down there. She took me off Fostimon and Merional. She said that even though the follicles were getting very big 16 – 16.5 with only 7 days of stimulation drugs, they weren’t mature. Feel like I’m dealing with an immature teenager who looks like they are 25.

Dr. Z wants to put off the egg retrieval until at least Sunday so that the follicles can mature more. My lining is also till very, very thin and I’m freaking out a little. Ok, not a little, a lot. Hope it grew since yesterday. She said it could be the strange shape of my uterus that creates such a low reading. Hopefully! I’m getting ready to go see her again so we will see how things are going.

Day 7 of Stimming

We're getting close...day 7 of stimulation drugs day 19 of Suprefact. We are 4 blood test, 3 dildo cams and 26 needle pokes in (actually 24 shots but I had to stick myself twice one day and my husband had to do the same). We had an appointment yesterday and the Dr. said all is looking good with my follicles. She's expecting 10 - 12 good quality ones. She changed my meds last night so now I'm on 75 of Fostimon, 75 of Merional and 25 of Suprefact. The names seem to be different in States but oh well, you get the point. She told us yesterday that I make good eggs and we have excellent embryos, now if we can just get my tiny uterus with its microscopic lining to cooperate we'll be in good shape. My lining is only at a 5 and she wants it at an 8 at the very least. I seem to always have this problem so if you know of any good foods I can eat in the next week or so, please, please let me know. I asked the Dr. and she said there was nothing but she would check it again tomorrow and then maybe put me on some pills. At any rate, looks like we'll be doing the retrieval on Sunday or Monday.

I don't want to leave my husband out of this, in addition to being my nurse, he started his antibiotics last night in preparation for his big day.

And a final P.S., I talked to my mom today, my dad is in the hospital, his blood count is realy low and they are doing test to try to figure out how to stop it. This happened last May as well and after a few transfusions, they got it up but never found the leak. I wish I could be there with him this time as well. Sometimes living so far away from home sucks.