Happy Belated Thanksgiving, American friends! When I was at uni, I had an American girl on my rugby team who cooked Thanksgiving dinner for us - I don't remember the name of this, but she did sone kind of sweet potato mash with marshmallow on???? So crazy but so delicious!
TB, your chartsvare always so text book. Really hoping that was implantation bleeding. When will you test?
Amber, wahoo for crosshairs! Let's see what the next week or so will bring
Dream, I know you said it feels bittersweet, but I think it is really lovely and brave of you to plan your friend's baby shower. I hope it all goes smoothly. Does your friend know that you're TTC?
Sunny, I don't know why you're not enjoying the cold weather and grey skies, I doubt Florida sun could be any better than this... glad to hear that you're not finding the injections too bad, feeling any different yet? I think we have spoken about this before, but will you be taking Cetrotide in the mornings at some point too? I found those ones stung a tiny bit for a while after and come up looking like a gnat bite, but again nothing to write home about!
AFM, hubby was finally able to come with me for my latest appointment yesterday morning. He started to put the clinic into the sat nav and I just glared at him and told him I had been there seven times in two weeks and I'm pretty sure I know my way now. Thankfully (sticking with the American theme), there had been some slight growth since Wednesday so retrieval is scheduled for Monday and I am triggering at 21:40 this evening. Hallelujah! My ovaries are so bloody big now that they are all squished together and touching each other which explains a lot of this discomfort.
They were hoping to be able to give me a Suprecur trigger which would reduce the risk of OHSS, but for that one we would have to rely on my hormones to kick in by themselves and ripen the eggs and my blood test results (and history) show that it's unlikely that my body would do the right thing, so I have an Ovidrel trigger.
Definitely looking forward to retrieval now, but not so much what might be in store for me afterwards! As of Monday I have to begin Prontogest injections. They recommend it in your bum because it's a big intramuscular injection, but because my husband won't always be home to administer it, they think I'm going to have to do it in my thigh, which is much less fatty... really not excited about that! As for transfer, who knows! We won't know about the fresh or frozen thing until Monday. Of course I haven't even considered the possibility that we might not get any embryos, because I think that's pretty unlikely. If we do a fresh transfer next week, test day will be 11th December, one day after our anniversary 😊
AF started yesterday so today will be my first day of injections. I haven't decided yet if I should be scared or excited lol. I'm going with excited for now! Tickets to Prague are booked and my first scan will be next Monday. I can't even imagine how things will be a week from now. I feel like such a noob right now but hope to be an expert by next week haha.
Sending you so many well wishes for the next couple of weeks.
I took my temp 3 times this morning one right after the other and got 96.5, 96.7, 96.79. So just went with an average. I've been having some left side cramping since last night that has continued today so maybe I'm ovulating later than I thought? I'm not sure what is going on!
