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 [...]
November 16th, 2007
I woke up at 5am. Yes, 5am and was out the door by 5:45 on my way to RMA’s Madison Avenue office. Its a good thing I was on my way so early because, as the news radio reminded me at least 30 times, it was the first “gridlock alert” day of the Holiday season. [...]
read more...November 15th, 2007
Could be the beginning of a joke about infertility, but no, that was just my thursday (CD10).
The day started with morning monitoring at Dr. K’s office in White Plains. According to the stim sheet I’m looking at my overachieving right ovary 3 follies at 10, and one at 13,15 and 17. My slacker left ovary [...]
November 7th, 2007
I’m not exactly sure where to start. What was the beginning?
Was it August of 2006 when my husband and I “pulled the goalie” and officially started trying to conceive? Or was it 2 years ago when I was working at a publishing company on a book called the “Conception Chronicles” and knew that someday that [...]