Good morning, ladies!
Terri-Beary - In case you are still
ing out there - Take all the time you need. I hope you don't stay away too long though because it just won't be the same without you here. I completely understand, though. Sorry DH wasn't as supportive as he should have been. Seems like men just can't process things sometimes. I often joke that my DH is a robot with no feelings.
LadySosa - Where are you going to be in eastern WA? That's getting sort of close to my neck of the woods. Well, that's kind of a stretch but I'm just curious. If you don't want to divulge, I understand. We have been in bed early the last couple of years for NYE too. I told DH the other day that I just don't understand what is so big about NYE. If my 20-yr old self met my current day self she would be so disappointed.
Moni - I hope you aren't too sore from your fall. I bet that was scary!
jkb - Hooray!!! I'm glad you get to move ahead with your transfer.
JCM - As always, your stories crack me up. I'm sorry you have a literal pain in the ass right now.
knitgirl - I'm sure it's fairly common for estrogen to make us emotional. I know just the BCP does it to me so I'm not looking forward to finding out what the Estrace does. Hopefully, your lower dose of Lupron will help you feel better too.
Erin - Sounds like the first trimester fatigue is starting to settle in.
I'm sure it's no fun to be so tired but it means that you are pregnant so I'm excited about it.
Beagle - At my clinic, you buy your way into a series. They have a line item for each procedure they do. Since we decided to go with a single cycle plan (and not a bundled multi-cycle package), we paid for the retrieval up front (before I could get started). We also paid for the biopsy and freezing prior to getting started too. After my first mock in October, when we though we might go ahead with the December FET, we paid for that at that time to buy our way into the December series. A FET at my clinic costs about $1600 (monitoring is not included in that price since my insurance picks up most of that). Does that make any sense??
babywhisperer - Ugh. Sorry you are dealing with multiple sicknesses at once. I sure hope you are on the mend soon.
Amy - I see you have February down for your FET. I'm sorry it has to be this way at all but maybe we will be cycle buddies.
kfs - How are you doing, lady??
Hello to
brighteyez if you are still out there. You are starting again soon, right??
Hope I didn't miss anyone out there!!
All this talk about when to announce your pregnancy has me finally getting hopeful that I might get to that point someday!!! I don't plan on telling anyone until after the first trimester, if possible. They only person who I would tell right away is my sister as she is the only one who knows we are doing IVF. If my February FET works, the end of my first trimester would be around the beginning of May. I am thinking of planning a trip to KY to visit my family around then (and for the KY Derby) so I'm hoping I could tell my Mom in person. I won't do a Facebook announcement. I never posted that DH and I were engaged or getting married (we had already been together 9 years at that point). I ended up just posting a picture from our reception. I might do something similar for a baby.
Hang in there!
