Wish -
What a great post from you! I really enjoyed reading it!!! Back to the "old" times with all the updates!
We are painting our entire house and replacing all of the trim (around windows and base trim along the floor, replacing all doors and door jambs, door fixtures, light fixtures, new front door and all new outlets and light switches. It started out just painting and one thing has led into another. While it is stressful and a lot of money is going out - it'll all be worth it. We almost tore out deck down and had a new one built but just re-stained it a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure who is "nesting" more - my husband or me!!! I bet you do love your new deck. We have a large patio heater so that we can still sit outdoors on those cool fall evenings and I absolutely love it. If you don't have one - you should definitely get one. Also, you should buy all your patio furniture now!!! I'd think with the end of summer that patio furniture would be on clearance - if you could find something that you like. We bought new patio furniture last year and yes - it is terribly expensive.
Yes, I registered about a month ago - but I'm glad I did it when I did because I have been adding and deleting things off it since I registered. So, hopefully by the time the invitations go out, I'll be done adding or deleting things from it. There are around 50 people invited - but you know you are lucky if half show up. We aren't doing a "couples" shower but there will be a handful of guys that will hang out at the same location, just different area - so that'll be fun. Then when the shower is over, all the guys can load up the car
I wanted to do something where my husband was "celebrated" as well - so what better way than to have a select group of guys get together for the event.
Two follies after stimming for 6 days sounds good to me! And of course, there will just be more than will keep growing! I hope that you have even more than you did last time!!!
Try to keep your expectations at bay. It's hard to not compare to the last cycle - but really, it'll just stress you out. We did 3 IUI's and even though IUI is different than IVF - I was constantly comparing my scans to the cycle before....how big the follicles were on what day - what cd would be the procedure, etc. My second cycle was compared so much to my first and I started comparing my third cycle to my first/second cycle. I finally learned to just let it be. I stopped looking at my calendar every 10 minutes trying to figure out what days I'd have ultrasounds, what day I'd do the trigger shot, what day the procedure would be. I finally accepted that it'll happen as it needs to happen and we would make whatever work to have the ultrasounds, shots and procedures. I'd say my third cycle was my most relaxed cycle out of the three and that certainly doesn't hurt matters.
I love your optimism though about how you think this is the cycle....I didn't read as much into my cycle that worked before - but definitely looked back and thought "isn't the coincidences funny?!?!" Hopefully that'll just make this cycle more relaxed and be the ONE that works!!! Then you can join the craziness of not sleeping at night, having men (strangers of course) comment on your belly, comparing baby product and the crazy thoughts of "what did we just do....are we sure we REALLY wanted to have a child?!?!?" It's all wonderful though and I cannot wait for you to experience all this.
Way to go on taking care of yourself!!!!!! You are totally rocking this! Keep posting updates! I love reading them and even though I haven't been posting as much - I still lurk around! However, now that there is some progress updates to be coming from you girls - I'll respond more frequently now. And - it's crazy to think but - I could be announcing in two months that we've had a baby!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!
Hugs to you!!!
What a great post from you! I really enjoyed reading it!!! Back to the "old" times with all the updates!
We are painting our entire house and replacing all of the trim (around windows and base trim along the floor, replacing all doors and door jambs, door fixtures, light fixtures, new front door and all new outlets and light switches. It started out just painting and one thing has led into another. While it is stressful and a lot of money is going out - it'll all be worth it. We almost tore out deck down and had a new one built but just re-stained it a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure who is "nesting" more - my husband or me!!! I bet you do love your new deck. We have a large patio heater so that we can still sit outdoors on those cool fall evenings and I absolutely love it. If you don't have one - you should definitely get one. Also, you should buy all your patio furniture now!!! I'd think with the end of summer that patio furniture would be on clearance - if you could find something that you like. We bought new patio furniture last year and yes - it is terribly expensive.
Yes, I registered about a month ago - but I'm glad I did it when I did because I have been adding and deleting things off it since I registered. So, hopefully by the time the invitations go out, I'll be done adding or deleting things from it. There are around 50 people invited - but you know you are lucky if half show up. We aren't doing a "couples" shower but there will be a handful of guys that will hang out at the same location, just different area - so that'll be fun. Then when the shower is over, all the guys can load up the car
I wanted to do something where my husband was "celebrated" as well - so what better way than to have a select group of guys get together for the event. Two follies after stimming for 6 days sounds good to me! And of course, there will just be more than will keep growing! I hope that you have even more than you did last time!!!
Try to keep your expectations at bay. It's hard to not compare to the last cycle - but really, it'll just stress you out. We did 3 IUI's and even though IUI is different than IVF - I was constantly comparing my scans to the cycle before....how big the follicles were on what day - what cd would be the procedure, etc. My second cycle was compared so much to my first and I started comparing my third cycle to my first/second cycle. I finally learned to just let it be. I stopped looking at my calendar every 10 minutes trying to figure out what days I'd have ultrasounds, what day I'd do the trigger shot, what day the procedure would be. I finally accepted that it'll happen as it needs to happen and we would make whatever work to have the ultrasounds, shots and procedures. I'd say my third cycle was my most relaxed cycle out of the three and that certainly doesn't hurt matters.
I love your optimism though about how you think this is the cycle....I didn't read as much into my cycle that worked before - but definitely looked back and thought "isn't the coincidences funny?!?!" Hopefully that'll just make this cycle more relaxed and be the ONE that works!!! Then you can join the craziness of not sleeping at night, having men (strangers of course) comment on your belly, comparing baby product and the crazy thoughts of "what did we just do....are we sure we REALLY wanted to have a child?!?!?" It's all wonderful though and I cannot wait for you to experience all this.
Way to go on taking care of yourself!!!!!! You are totally rocking this! Keep posting updates! I love reading them and even though I haven't been posting as much - I still lurk around! However, now that there is some progress updates to be coming from you girls - I'll respond more frequently now. And - it's crazy to think but - I could be announcing in two months that we've had a baby!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!
Hugs to you!!!
this month then we are literally going to be the most blessed people in the world!
side of things haha DH made me buy more pregnancy tests (he has this crazy feeling that he got the job done, but I just don't think so) So I told him if AF has not shown by Saturday (CD 35) then I will take another test on CD 36 and if that one still says 
then I will be calling my doctor first thing on Monday! 
count is considerably low. the RE feels that we could still be good candidates for IUI success, but says he will have a better concept of that after the first try when they will be able to better analyze DH's count and all that stuff. So if his count is indeed to low then I think our next and maybe only other option is IVF...
