Soooooooo this is pretty embarrassing. More like reeeeeeaaaaallllly embarrassing. In 2007 I had gastric bypass. I lost 110lbs. It changed my life. It was amazing.
Today- my nurse called me to get my weight because Le Baby Factory has a BMI limit. And I'm above it. ::hangs head in total shame:: So in order to start stims- I have to drop 17lbs by the end of November. I'm not entirely sure that I can accomplish that, but all I can do is try.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Got my calendar!
October 7th- Start Birth Control Pills
October 31st- Stop Birth Control Pills
November 5th- Start Birth Control Pills. Again.
November 17th- VACATION!! Hence all the birth control. We gotta work around our already planned Thanksgiving get away to the Bahamas.
November 24th- Home from the Bahama Mamas
November 28th- Stop BCP's
December 1st- Suppression check and hopefully start STIMS! Ow Ow!!
I'm ready to get all shot up. Bring on the needles.
October 31st- Stop Birth Control Pills
November 5th- Start Birth Control Pills. Again.
November 17th- VACATION!! Hence all the birth control. We gotta work around our already planned Thanksgiving get away to the Bahamas.
November 24th- Home from the Bahama Mamas
November 28th- Stop BCP's
December 1st- Suppression check and hopefully start STIMS! Ow Ow!!
I'm ready to get all shot up. Bring on the needles.
Monday, October 22, 2012
100!
100 FOLLOWERS?!? Whaaaaaaaaaat? That's pretty cool. My blog is 100% self serving, but I am happy to have other people read it. Even if it helps just one single person just one time. I love going back and following myself through all of this. I really appreciate those who comment and follow. I love my followers. <3 p="p">
I've done this before, but OUT YOURSELF. Leave me a note. Tell me how you found me. Tell me what we have in common. Tell me what you liked to read about. And keep reading. Thanks. For realz.
I've done this before, but OUT YOURSELF. Leave me a note. Tell me how you found me. Tell me what we have in common. Tell me what you liked to read about. And keep reading. Thanks. For realz.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The Irony of Having a Baby
I'm trying to have a baby and tonight I took these:
This is my very first time ever taking birth control pills. I hope they don't make me a crazy cakes. Ha! But the good news of all of this is that we are going to be able to cycle before the holiday! Woot! I got my period last Thursday so we are going to have plenty of time to work things out around our vacation. I'm waiting to get my schedule, but it looks like I will start stims right after Thanksgiving!!
This is my very first time ever taking birth control pills. I hope they don't make me a crazy cakes. Ha! But the good news of all of this is that we are going to be able to cycle before the holiday! Woot! I got my period last Thursday so we are going to have plenty of time to work things out around our vacation. I'm waiting to get my schedule, but it looks like I will start stims right after Thanksgiving!!
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Martha?? You out there?
I've been thinking about you.
Did you go to Le Baby Factory? I hope you had a good consult. I feel good about going back to them and I hope you do too.
Keep me posted!
Did you go to Le Baby Factory? I hope you had a good consult. I feel good about going back to them and I hope you do too.
Keep me posted!
:::tap, tap::: Is this thing on?
Anyone still reading? I'm here, I'm alive! Just until today, I've been boring. I started a new job with an amazeballs new schedule and without one biatch of a manager and that's about it. We've been doing a lot of waiting. I'm really good at the waiting.
Today we went back to our first RE at the largest group in town. We'll call it Le Baby Factory. It sounds better if you say it all French and stuff. Anyway- our RE there Dr. K- thinks we don't have a sperm problem. He thinks J has plenty of sperm for ICSI and that we most likely won't need to have the Uro do the biopsy as a back up, but that he likes the idea of the back up. I don't have to repeat any testing so we are good to go as soon as we want to.
So really the only thing in my way is the schedule. J and I are going away for a week in November- and that jacks up the program. Because the IVF lab at Le Baby Factory is closed for the holidays. Blah. In order to cycle before things shut down- I'll have to start stims no later than 12/6. Which means we'll have to try and mess with my cycle a bit in order to get that to happen. If not- we wait till next year. A whole other year gone with no baby. ::sigh::
So right now the plan is to start Birth Control with this period. I'll take it for two weeks, then stop for four days, then go back on for 19 days. And then- we start. All of this is contingent on me getting my period no later than the 15th of October. That bitch better come early.
Today we went back to our first RE at the largest group in town. We'll call it Le Baby Factory. It sounds better if you say it all French and stuff. Anyway- our RE there Dr. K- thinks we don't have a sperm problem. He thinks J has plenty of sperm for ICSI and that we most likely won't need to have the Uro do the biopsy as a back up, but that he likes the idea of the back up. I don't have to repeat any testing so we are good to go as soon as we want to.
So really the only thing in my way is the schedule. J and I are going away for a week in November- and that jacks up the program. Because the IVF lab at Le Baby Factory is closed for the holidays. Blah. In order to cycle before things shut down- I'll have to start stims no later than 12/6. Which means we'll have to try and mess with my cycle a bit in order to get that to happen. If not- we wait till next year. A whole other year gone with no baby. ::sigh::
So right now the plan is to start Birth Control with this period. I'll take it for two weeks, then stop for four days, then go back on for 19 days. And then- we start. All of this is contingent on me getting my period no later than the 15th of October. That bitch better come early.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Where do we go from here?
I love J's Urologist. He has always made things easy to understand. He explains the numbers of the SA in a way that the RE's don't. He's straight forward about what would be the best way for us to have children. After our WTF appointment with the RE, we decided to go back to the Urologist. Maybe a final effort to figure out if there was anything anything anything we could do to improve the numbers, I guess? The whole thing about donor sperm kept coming up and we wanted to be totally certain there wasn't anything else that could help J's swimmers.
The urologist things we're nuts for thinking about donor sperm. And I'm so thankful for that because while I would have really considered it, it would have been a huge, huge issue for me and in the long run, I'm just not sure if I could have gotten to the point where I would be 1000% comfortable with it. But I digress. He thinks J has plenty of sperm. The problem doesn't really lie with count, but with motility. J doesn't have a lot of sperm, but he REALLY doesn't have a lot of motile sperm. And because of this, we are doing ourselves a disservice by having only one egg to work with. I knew all along that he wasn't really a fan of Natural Cycle IVF, but the idea of no drugs was so appealing and when we got that insurance coverage- we figured we would try it. He did give J Clomid, but said it will really only help with count, not so much motility. He suggested Conception Rx for Motility (the expensive one blahhh) and traditional IVF with ISCI.
He wants J to give a sample the day before retrieval and then again the day of. He said there is a way to "warm" the sperm (WTF that means I have no idea?) that will help them distinguish the good from the bad. If there are no good sperm, they will do an emergency biopsy and take sperm right from the testicle that day.
So where do we go from here. Well I cancelled our Natural Cycle IVF cycle. We are going back to the first RE that we went to. They have significantly better success rates with traditional IVF than the clinic we are going to now. And even though it's kind of like a factory- they are good at what they do. We have a consult set up for October 9th. They will likely make me repeat my HSG and then we're going on vacation for Thanksgiving so that puts us on BCP's for November and cycling in December/January. More freakin waiting. It's like a curse.
This is our original path. So I feel confident. And now with good insurance we have three cycles to deal with. I think if it doesn't work in three cycles, we'll be done. I don't know if I can take much more than that. So we'll see. For now, we wait. Again.
The urologist things we're nuts for thinking about donor sperm. And I'm so thankful for that because while I would have really considered it, it would have been a huge, huge issue for me and in the long run, I'm just not sure if I could have gotten to the point where I would be 1000% comfortable with it. But I digress. He thinks J has plenty of sperm. The problem doesn't really lie with count, but with motility. J doesn't have a lot of sperm, but he REALLY doesn't have a lot of motile sperm. And because of this, we are doing ourselves a disservice by having only one egg to work with. I knew all along that he wasn't really a fan of Natural Cycle IVF, but the idea of no drugs was so appealing and when we got that insurance coverage- we figured we would try it. He did give J Clomid, but said it will really only help with count, not so much motility. He suggested Conception Rx for Motility (the expensive one blahhh) and traditional IVF with ISCI.
He wants J to give a sample the day before retrieval and then again the day of. He said there is a way to "warm" the sperm (WTF that means I have no idea?) that will help them distinguish the good from the bad. If there are no good sperm, they will do an emergency biopsy and take sperm right from the testicle that day.
So where do we go from here. Well I cancelled our Natural Cycle IVF cycle. We are going back to the first RE that we went to. They have significantly better success rates with traditional IVF than the clinic we are going to now. And even though it's kind of like a factory- they are good at what they do. We have a consult set up for October 9th. They will likely make me repeat my HSG and then we're going on vacation for Thanksgiving so that puts us on BCP's for November and cycling in December/January. More freakin waiting. It's like a curse.
This is our original path. So I feel confident. And now with good insurance we have three cycles to deal with. I think if it doesn't work in three cycles, we'll be done. I don't know if I can take much more than that. So we'll see. For now, we wait. Again.
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