Idiot, Me

Against all my better judgement, I was compelled to POAS last night… a mere 7dp3dt.  I know, I know… what was I thinking.  (In case anyone is wondering whether I’m one of the lucky ones who always seem to be posting on the fertility boards that they got a BFP a mere 3 or 4 days [...]

Mel’s Show and Tell – The Beach Version

Welcome to Show and Tell here at May the Road Rise! To see what others are showing, click here. For today’s edition,  I thought I’d take a little break from the world of IF to take a trip to the beach – Riviera Maya in Mexico to be exact.  This picture was taken on LG’s [...]

Happy ICLW Week!

I’m excited for this week as I need to redeem myself for my poor performance* last month. I thought I’d provide a quick synopsis of where things stand to date for those stopping by the first time (I’m very happy you’re here!), and then go back to regularly scheduled programming. My husband (known here as [...]

Trading Places

Day 2 of the 2WW…so far so good.  The fact that I’ve taken this whole week off of work has really helped keep my stress levels down, and I feel like I’m in a better place than I was at this point last time.  If all is going according to plan, my 3 little guys [...]

Cautiously Optimistic

We went in bright and early for our transfer this morning.  We were quite nervous as we weren’t given any information about the condition of our embryos when they called yesterday to give us our time, which is unusual.  Normally, they give you a day by day update on how things are developing. Turns out [...]

Somewhere between Agony, Optimism, and Prayer

Yesterday’s retrieval went off without a hitch.  I’m feeling much better today than I did last time when I had symptoms of OHSS and was in pretty severe pain the following day.  That is…until we got the call from the clinic this morning with the results. My issue is not producing eggs…in fact, my one [...]

Breaking up with Facebook

Despite the fact that if I successfully fall pregnant I will qualify for the Advanced Maternal Age sticker (where’s my discount at Denny’s?), I joined the ranks of Facebook about six months ago.  I did so mostly to keep in touch with my classmates from graduate school, but quickly fell into friends collecting mode.  As [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Egg retrieval is set for Saturday!  Guess where we’ll be spending Valentine’s Day.   My left ovary went crazy over the past 24 hours…it’s like a little popcorn machine in there!  Somehow I went from 7 follicles over 12mm yesterday morning to 20 today.  (I suspect we may have gotten some squirrely counts throughout the [...]

Keep on Stimmin’

Between work and this cycle, I’m fried, so today’s post will take the form of random bullet points. Follicle growth is slow but apparently steady.   After 8 days of stims, I have 7 follicles measuring over 12mm.  E2 is 1561, so definitely getting there. The follicle count is somehow down from a couple of days [...]

Mel’s Show and Tell

Welcome to Show and Tell here at May the Road Rise!  To see what others are showing, click here. Today’s Show and Tell comes from an amazing vacation that LG and I took last June.  As I’ve mentioned, we’re typically beach people, but in this case I had a work conference in Vancouver, so we [...]

Another Milestone

So, my last post garnered me my first Comment Hater along with another milestone – the first time anyone condemningly said “why don’t you just adopt.”  (BTW, according to spellcheck, condeminingly isn’t a word…whatever – it should be.) While it was jolting at first, it did make me realize that compared to so many people [...]

The Fertility Shuffle

Many many thanks to all those who’ve commented on my last post and given us great vacation ideas.  Even though, as Erica said, I hope we don’t end up taking it – at least not as a consolation prize for a BFN – having it to think about and plan keeps me in a more [...]

Leaving on a Jet Plane

First, title shout-out to John Denver! In the spirit of full disclosure, I must share that I am a John Denver aficionado. (Pause for those who are so inclined to snicker and comment upon my relative coolness. I’ll help you out there…I lack even a single cool gene.)  When I was growing up, I had [...]

It Seems Like Just Yesterday

In the midst of the Great Blog Dust-up of 2009, LG and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary.  Honestly, things were so tense around that time and I was so emotionally strung out (much of that I now know was hormonally induced) that I probably would have skipped town and headed to my sister’s for [...]

Take Two

So, I’m back after all – albeit with new digs.  In my last entry (which seems like forever ago in my hormonal-fueled emotional state but was actually just over a week or so), I shared the news that I was shutting down the blog due to LG’s discomfort with the general concept of putting our [...]