November 30th, 2007
Just got the call..
Beta at 12dpIUI = 33.1
Progesterone = 16.8
Both seem pretty low to me. My lovely friends from the TTTC board on the nest said its fine and I shouldn’t be worried, but how do you not worry? Particularly when, according to Betabase.info the median HCG level at 12 days is 48??That’s a lot [...]
November 30th, 2007
Pregnant!!!!
Its so nice to see that word.. no lines to interpret, just that one little word. How can it contain such joy? And such fear?
Needless to say I didn’t sleep at all last night.. Poor Jeff, I kept waking him up with all my tossing and turning and asking him “How can you sleep? We [...]
November 29th, 2007
Yes, I am only 11dpIUI, 10dp ovulation if I ovulated late which I think I did.. and I shouldn’t be testing this early, but I couldn’t help it. The $1 dollar tree pregnancy tests are so cheap I have hard time NOT peeing on them all the time..
I was FULLY expecting to see nothing, another [...]
November 28th, 2007
In regards to my previous post about the high temperature - it was a fluke. My BBT went back down to 98.4 ish yesterday and back up to around 98.7 today.
I woke up at 5am this morning and could NOT fall back to sleep. Partly because I was restless in general but I was also [...]
November 26th, 2007
This morning I woke up and my temperature was 98.85!
You can see from the chart above that this is much higher than my normal temperatures.
In the REAL world, this would probably have no significance. But in the alternate world of infertility, this is the kind of “sign” that desperate infertiles obsess over during the crazy-making [...]
November 24th, 2007
So much for treating my body like a temple.. I have an incredible weakness for prosecco. Thanksgiving dinner I had at least two glasses.
Last night, the night after thanksgiving we drove my friend Amy home to Brooklyn and met some of our other friends out at a bar (the other friends are a pregnant couple [...]
November 21st, 2007
What I mean by this is that in my herculean effort to actually GET pregnant, I have to treat my body like I already am.
For example, I have quit smoking (even socially) drinking, diet coke and cut back to 1 cup of coffee per day. At my accupuncturist’s insistance I am also eating more to [...]
November 20th, 2007
I woke up this morning and THANK GOD my temps were finally up, 98.11 to be exact. Not really that high, but high enough to be a clear thermal shift meaning that I DID ovulate.. I just wonder when.
Unfortunately neither Jeff nor I could muster up the energy to have sex last night, so I’m [...]
November 19th, 2007
Because things couldn’t possibly just go smoothly, I woke up this morning the day following my IUI expecting my BBT (basal body temperature) to be well above 98, which it always is after ovulation. But no, my temperature has DROPPED from the previous day to 97.5 or so. WTF?
Of course this sends me into [...]
November 18th, 2007
Today was our second IUI. As usual, I was expected to be in the office early with Jeff’s “sample.”
Because the Westchester branch of my clinic is closed on the weekends, I had to once again go into NYC for treatment. My appointment was for 9am, which means that the timing had to be perfect. The [...]