What an amazing night we just had!
OMG!!
One of my besties was married last night and it was an amazingly beautiful wedding. The love that V and L share is infectious. Hubbs and I danced the night away with all our dearest friends and we all had a blast. I basically was a basket case from the time V walked down the aisle until the speeches were over. Cried like a baby.
I am so very thrilled for my friends, they are amazing!!!
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
The eve of pill 3
I have had an amazing week! My sister in law delivered a new baby boy in the wee hours of the morning Thursday, and Saturday My sister delivered a new baby girl!! All mama's and babies are doing wonderful! I am so very thrilled for them! I have already been lucky enough to snuggle my nephew "Ervin", and will get the pleasure of meeting my sweet niece "Emily" in October when my sister comes home. I absolutely cannot wait. It was a great week!
Clomid Update: Ok so the last 2 days have been pretty good on a whole. Yesterday I had mega hot flashes, and today I am dizzy dizzy dizzy. It just came on after supper. Strange, but if this gets me pregnant, it is so worth it.
On completely separate issues, today a small bird flew into our sliding glass door!! I heard a loud thunk on the glass, looked over and saw feathers floating everywhere. I went out onto the deck to investigate and saw the poor thing upside down, flapping one wing. It was pitiful looking :( I picked it up and it's head was rolling around, so I figured that it probably broke it's neck. It couldn't even chirp anymore, and just laid there looking at me trying to make noise. I held it until it made one last weak noise and closed it's eyes and went to heaven. It was so sad. I buried it in our flower bed.
ANNNNDDD I cried. my eyes out. What else was I supposed to do?
Clomid Update: Ok so the last 2 days have been pretty good on a whole. Yesterday I had mega hot flashes, and today I am dizzy dizzy dizzy. It just came on after supper. Strange, but if this gets me pregnant, it is so worth it.
On completely separate issues, today a small bird flew into our sliding glass door!! I heard a loud thunk on the glass, looked over and saw feathers floating everywhere. I went out onto the deck to investigate and saw the poor thing upside down, flapping one wing. It was pitiful looking :( I picked it up and it's head was rolling around, so I figured that it probably broke it's neck. It couldn't even chirp anymore, and just laid there looking at me trying to make noise. I held it until it made one last weak noise and closed it's eyes and went to heaven. It was so sad. I buried it in our flower bed.
ANNNNDDD I cried. my eyes out. What else was I supposed to do?
Friday, 20 July 2012
And so the treatment begins
Ok, so doctor's appointment was good. I got my bloodwork results back and they showed that my male hormones (androgens) were slightly elevated. Hubb's checked out just fine, and I am being treated as a PCOS patient for my lack of ovulation.
I am beginning my Clomid tonight. I take 50mg starting on CD 2-6 and then 5-10 days later I should Ovulate! Wow. it could really happen this month.
I am almost overwhelmed about this.
I will update as I take the clomid and as I chart this cycle to see if anything looks different!!
SO PUMPED!
I am beginning my Clomid tonight. I take 50mg starting on CD 2-6 and then 5-10 days later I should Ovulate! Wow. it could really happen this month.
I am almost overwhelmed about this.
I will update as I take the clomid and as I chart this cycle to see if anything looks different!!
SO PUMPED!
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Yikes!
Jeez.. blogger drop out! Things have been a little crazy around here in the last month. I busily spent the last month with all my focus on assessments, report cards, parent meetings and wrapping up my school year. Phew!! It was so busy and exhausting, but here I am a month later, and enjoying my first day of vaca!!! WOOT WOOT!! ::Fist pump::
So other than wrapping things up at work, we celebrated Father's Day, I have been kept busy with baking for different events and we ran around to appointments to get all my bloodwork done, and Hubb's Seman Analysis done. We go back to see Dr. Trites July 10th, which is less than 2 weeks away. I am nervously excited. I know this means answers and I am excited to begin the journey, and I feel that much closer to our goal, BUT I get anxious because I am afraid that things may be worse than we previously anticipated.
This is a more emotional journey than I ever guessed it would be. Some days I can wrap my head around all this, and others I just can't. Some days are a pity party of one, and others I am eager for the next few weeks to be over.
It is a roller coaster up in here yo!
Today I am on the brink of a new cycle. I have been spotting for 2 days and I think tomorrow will be cycle day 1 again. That will mean I have had 3- 30 day cycles. which is nice that they are shortening, but it's not like I am ovulating, so I guess the point is moot. I also have had the weirdest reactions to my period starting. I sometimes almost am relieved, because that means that Dr. Trites was right, and we really can't get pregnant on our own, and sometimes I am angry and frustrated that Dr. Trites is right and we CAN'T get pregnant on our own. It is weird.
I figured, based on when I think I will be able to start clomid (If that is the road we end up taking) I won't be having a baby until at least this time next year, if not later in the summer. I figure that the clomid will take a while to work too. So I still am waiting, but am a pinch closer!
Thank goodness for summer vacation, so at least I am not going to be a crazy person at work during this process.
So other than wrapping things up at work, we celebrated Father's Day, I have been kept busy with baking for different events and we ran around to appointments to get all my bloodwork done, and Hubb's Seman Analysis done. We go back to see Dr. Trites July 10th, which is less than 2 weeks away. I am nervously excited. I know this means answers and I am excited to begin the journey, and I feel that much closer to our goal, BUT I get anxious because I am afraid that things may be worse than we previously anticipated.
This is a more emotional journey than I ever guessed it would be. Some days I can wrap my head around all this, and others I just can't. Some days are a pity party of one, and others I am eager for the next few weeks to be over.
It is a roller coaster up in here yo!
Today I am on the brink of a new cycle. I have been spotting for 2 days and I think tomorrow will be cycle day 1 again. That will mean I have had 3- 30 day cycles. which is nice that they are shortening, but it's not like I am ovulating, so I guess the point is moot. I also have had the weirdest reactions to my period starting. I sometimes almost am relieved, because that means that Dr. Trites was right, and we really can't get pregnant on our own, and sometimes I am angry and frustrated that Dr. Trites is right and we CAN'T get pregnant on our own. It is weird.
I figured, based on when I think I will be able to start clomid (If that is the road we end up taking) I won't be having a baby until at least this time next year, if not later in the summer. I figure that the clomid will take a while to work too. So I still am waiting, but am a pinch closer!
Thank goodness for summer vacation, so at least I am not going to be a crazy person at work during this process.
Monday, 28 May 2012
The Steps to a Baby
step 1: Go to OB's office, and be told you have a little larger problem than you had anticipated. {check}
step 2: Get 8 (yes, 8) viles of blood taken to have sent off for analysis{check}
step 3: Have Hubb's sample brought in for analysis {Wednesday a.m. sample will be collected ;) and sent to pathology} {Check}
Step 4: Return to OB to find out results from afore mentioned 8 viles and Hubb's sample. { July 10} {Check}
Step 5: Currently unknown {Clomid 50mgs CD 2-6}
As this process unfolds I am finding it a little overwhelming some day. The fact that we just can't do this on our own makes me really upset some days. I feel betrayed by my body. Why could we get pregnant so easily twice before, and since Ben, we can't at all?
This has been such a long process. I first went off birth control Jan. 2011. This was when I had 60+ day cycles and had no sweet clue as to what was going on. Fast forward to July '11. I began charting and by September noticed that I was ovulating late (Or not at all by what Dr. Trites says) and had a very short LP. Then came Nov. '11 where I started blogging and really hoping it would happen for us, because I REALLY wanted to have a baby in the summer. I was still excited and hopeful and DEVASTATED when it didn't happen each and every cycle. I think that was when the realization began setting in that maybe it won't happen naturally for us.
Cut to Jan. '12 when we made it to the year mark that it takes for healthy, normal couples to conceive and we still we're not pregnant. Feb '12 I called my family doc. to see me, Mar'12 I had my appointment with him, and was referred on to an OBGYN. May '12 we finally see Dr. Trites and still have an appointment with Dr. Sheppard scheduled for Sept. '12 just in case.
It has taken us 16-17 months to get here. That's right, almost a year and a half, and I am now hopeful that we will be pregnant by the end of the year. The long winding road is starting to straighten out and get a lot shorter.
phew..
step 2: Get 8 (yes, 8) viles of blood taken to have sent off for analysis{check}
step 3: Have Hubb's sample brought in for analysis {Wednesday a.m. sample will be collected ;) and sent to pathology} {Check}
Step 4: Return to OB to find out results from afore mentioned 8 viles and Hubb's sample. { July 10} {Check}
Step 5: Currently unknown {Clomid 50mgs CD 2-6}
As this process unfolds I am finding it a little overwhelming some day. The fact that we just can't do this on our own makes me really upset some days. I feel betrayed by my body. Why could we get pregnant so easily twice before, and since Ben, we can't at all?
This has been such a long process. I first went off birth control Jan. 2011. This was when I had 60+ day cycles and had no sweet clue as to what was going on. Fast forward to July '11. I began charting and by September noticed that I was ovulating late (Or not at all by what Dr. Trites says) and had a very short LP. Then came Nov. '11 where I started blogging and really hoping it would happen for us, because I REALLY wanted to have a baby in the summer. I was still excited and hopeful and DEVASTATED when it didn't happen each and every cycle. I think that was when the realization began setting in that maybe it won't happen naturally for us.
Cut to Jan. '12 when we made it to the year mark that it takes for healthy, normal couples to conceive and we still we're not pregnant. Feb '12 I called my family doc. to see me, Mar'12 I had my appointment with him, and was referred on to an OBGYN. May '12 we finally see Dr. Trites and still have an appointment with Dr. Sheppard scheduled for Sept. '12 just in case.
It has taken us 16-17 months to get here. That's right, almost a year and a half, and I am now hopeful that we will be pregnant by the end of the year. The long winding road is starting to straighten out and get a lot shorter.
phew..
Saturday, 19 May 2012
A-Typical PCOS
My Doctor thinks that I may actually have PCOS(Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and I am A-Typical in the fact that I am not overweight and I don't have problems with cysts on my ovaries, but she believes that I am either not ovulating at all, OR I am not producing enough hormones to make a good enough egg.
I am being sent for blood work and I go back in 6 weeks for a follow up, where she will put me on Clomid to force the ovulation to occur.
The idea of clomid alone has spurred a discussion between the Hubbs and I. With Clomid can come Multiples. Multiples also already runs on both sides of my family, so we had to really talk about how we felt about this.
I am excited that I am not in the unknown category now, and I can place a label on my problem. I have secondary infertility with possible PCOS. I am so excited to be on the right path now. It is helping to calm my mind for a while.
My unknown path has a light shining on it,all of a sudden!
I am being sent for blood work and I go back in 6 weeks for a follow up, where she will put me on Clomid to force the ovulation to occur.
The idea of clomid alone has spurred a discussion between the Hubbs and I. With Clomid can come Multiples. Multiples also already runs on both sides of my family, so we had to really talk about how we felt about this.
I am excited that I am not in the unknown category now, and I can place a label on my problem. I have secondary infertility with possible PCOS. I am so excited to be on the right path now. It is helping to calm my mind for a while.
My unknown path has a light shining on it,all of a sudden!
Monday, 14 May 2012
Saturday!!!
This Saturday I have my OBGYN appointment with Dr. Trites!!
I am SO pumped! I also still have an appointment with DR sheppard's office just incase.
::FIST PUMPS::
I am SO pumped! I also still have an appointment with DR sheppard's office just incase.
::FIST PUMPS::
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