Well, Terri started a trend, and I’m loving it. Oh my goodness, everyone looks so beautiful! What a gorgeous group of ladies. Wow! It’s really nice to see everyone and your DHs, too, to put names to faces. I’ll change my profile pic to one of my wedding ones, too. I mean, who doesn’t love to post pictures from one of the very best days of their life and looking the prettiest they’ve ever looked? My DH looks kind of goofy in this pic, but I look good, so that’s all that really matters, right?!
Terri— It’s almost strange to see you with hair?! You’re lucky you can rock hair (it would be weird if you couldn’t!) or no hair. Beautiful! Glad to hear you are on drugs. And that you had a wonderful weekend ride. Don’t you love those days where all is right in the world? I have to tell you something really stupid….when I read this sentence in one of your posts, “When I was a MUCH younger internet queen, I used to frequent this site that was hosted my motorcycle guys,” I thought you were saying you used to come on B&B, which was hosted by your motorcycle guys and I thought, “Why would motor cycle guys be posting on B&B? “ Omg I’m laughing so much thinking how dumb that was!
Kfs1—I agree, get BD, because you still have one perfect tube and I’ve heard eggs can jump from tube to tube or something to that effect. I don’t know how, but that’s something I’ve heard? And you know, that embryo could impant somewhere other than where the polyp/fibroid is. Hope is certainly NOT lost!
Sis—Hooray for getting that BD in! Just in the nick of time. And I know they say raising your legs up and elevating your hips doesn’t matter, but I think it does. I mean, if some of the fluid leaks out, isn’t the sperm coming out with it? I don’t know, the 3 times I’ve gotten a BFP, I elevated afterwards! Have you tried soy isoflaven pills to boost your O before? And on a side-note, what’s really weird is I actually pictured you looking a lot like you do….maybe from seeing the the pics of your family?! Love the pic!
Blues—I’m sorry about the BFN, but what dpo are you? Sounds like everyone is saying you tested early and I do know how depressing that can be. I’m still holding out hope for this cycle!
Wish—That is like, perfect, timing! Now that’s something to be very happy about! You typically ovulate 24-48 hours after the positive opk, so that’s giving the swimmers time to get where they need to go. I think the fastest they can make it to the egg is 30 minutes but the average time (I think) is 12 hours? And of course we know they live for up to 5 days, and the egg hangs around for (I think) 24 hours so, yeah, good timing!
Radkat—Totally understand not feeling up for testing on Mother’s Day, but when is AF due for you? How is your chart looking?
Moni—Excited for your upcoming IVF! The cysts aren’t great but they usually do resolve themselves and are common, so that probably won’t be a big issue. Great about your hubby’s SA numbers being in the normal range and although I’ve heard morphology isn’t the biggest worry in the numbers, I guess it doesn’t matter as much since you are doing IVF and is ICSI a wash they do on the sperm?
Erin—I’m so glad to hear your IUI update and I think it’s great that you get your P checked along the way, so if there is an issue, you can get on supplements. Really, this whole IUI process is really helpful when you look at all the stuff they do for it, you know? It’s like they monitor every step of the way. I know I’m stating the obvious but I guess it just occurred to me how much they really do to help and monitor the whole cycle!
AFM—I pulled myself out of my funk from the last time I posted and had lost my symptoms. The symptoms came back full force the next day, which was a relief. Anyway, I still plunked down another $50 for a 4th beta on Monday and I got the results back today and they were much higher than I expected. They needed to be 2100 and they were 3483 and I cried I was so happy.
So, I’m going to calm down and stop with the blood draws. But getting them is truly peace of mind. Just remember that when you get pregnant….if your doctor’s office won’t do them when you want, there are walk-in labs (like where you get drug tested for a job) and you can pay out of pocket for them…you can actually use your flexible spending healthcare account funds, if you have that.
Anyway, I’m at peace today. Have a great day everyone!