This started as a blog about our journey in trying to conceive, IVF, the loss of our little angel, my pregnancy and birth of our twins, and our little surprise munchkin. Now we are all on a journey with the Army. This has become more of an update of our life but if you read from the beginning you will find info about our IVF experiences.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Making up for lost time - the last 2 months
Well - here we are again. I was MIA for quite awhile learning how to not be pregnant or TTC there for awhile. I definitely enjoyed being pregnant a whole lot more than TTC! ;-) Alas, to get to that wonderful pregnancy state again - we must go through IVF again. After my D&E on August. 30th I had to wait for my next period before starting anything again. Let me tell you - that was the roughest time I think I've ever had. Between my hormones going absolutely crazy (and I can't guarantee that they're back to normal yet!!) and wanting my period to get here so I could be pregnant again....it was rough. I was an emotional wreck - very up and down. Physically I started feeling better about 2 weeks after the D&E. It was sad not to feel pregnant anymore but in a crazy way I felt better than I had in months! I contribute that to I'd been on so many different kinds of hormones (injectibles) and between the IUI's and the IVF my poor ovaries had been swollen for months on end. I was able to walk normally, exercise eventually, and could eat whatever I wanted without feeling sick! It was amazing! I decided to enjoy the time because I fully intend to be happily unable to eat anything I want and completely unable to drink alcohol for a good 9 months! ;-) SO I waited for my period....and waited.....and waited. Finally when I was about to call my doc because I thought I was losing my mind from the worst case of PMS I'd ever had and my period nowhere in sight...guess who showed up on our anniversary (Oct 15th)!! YEP - that's right - good ol' Aunt Flo! How I'd missed her. Shortly after I got a visit from the good witch (she's only good on the month's you want her to come!!) I finally started feeling like myself again - emotionally. Well kind of. LOL I'm still pretty emotional. Anyway - I was praying they'd put me on birth control pills (BCP) so I wouldn't have to endure a long cycle again. Thankfully they did! I had to do a saline sono HSG before I could be cleared for our FET. I went in for that and besides a little cramping it wasn't bad at all. My doc said my uterus was "beautiful". I felt so proud! No scar tissue, nothing bad looking - just beautiful. THANK goodness! SO then I got to wait for another AF (Aunt Flo) visit. Seems like the story of our lives when we're trying to get to get "in cycle".
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