I can't wait to wake up tomorrow morning because then we'll be in a single digit countdown - woo-hoo!!! Yeah baby!! What's really crazy is I remember my pregnancy ticker when the pregnancy first started and it was saying I had 243 days or so to go. Now knowing that we're going to deliver in only 10 more sleeps, well, that's just plain mind boggling - in a good way!
This weekend was pretty uneventful. DH & I went out for a nice lunch on Saturday and talked about how this may be one of our last lunches with just the two of us. Next time we go we'll have our little princess with us and be timing our lunch date around breastfeeding.
Sunday was pretty tough as I had painful contractions for a good 10 hours. And DH was gone from 6am until almost 10pm so I had dog walking honors all day. Let me just say, it's definitely a challenge to walk a dog with contractions that stop you in your tracks. There were a few times where I just had to tell pup to stop and bend over for a couple minutes to let the contraction pass. At some points during the day, I contemplated calling Dr D but then the contractions would go all irregular again. In the end I'm glad I didn't bother the good doc because by the time I went to bed, they'd let up considerably. Today, DH has another long day so I'm the dog walking queen again but it's been much, much easier with more of the "normal" contractions that I'm used to. So now I just wait for my appointment on Thursday morning.
On another note, I'm really excited for one of my message board friends "N". Now, back when we did our IVF cycle, N was my cycle buddy. We both joined the summer cycle group thread in June/July but by the time we both went through our testing and prep ended up moving on to the fall cycle group thread. We were both self-pay so we could relate to the fear of spending soooo much money and not having anything to show for it. We started our stims one day apart and had our egg retrieval on the same day, October 21st. I had a 3-day transfer, while she had enough embies to try a 5-day transfer. Throughout our cycle we messaged each other numerous times a day - cheering each other on and keeping each other positive through the worry. As we all know, I got my BFP but N got a BFN. I was so, so sad for her as I'd really hoped we'd be able to go through our pregnancies together. And yet while she was going through such a painful time, she always stayed supportive of my pregnancy. (That couldn't have been easy for her.)
N & her DH took some time away to contemplate whether to try another fresh cycle or do a frozen embryo transfer (FET) with the one embryo that made it to the freezing stage. An FET is considerably cheaper since there is no retrieval and no stims necessary, but N was so afraid that the embie wouldn't survive the thaw (around 70% survive thawing) or that just transferring 1 would not take. They decided to do their FET, the embie survived the thaw and was transferred, and then N's wait began. I had 23 internet cheapie pregnancy tests leftover so after her FET, I mailed her the sticks so she'd have plenty of HPTs to test with. And she got a BFP! Beautiful 2nd lines over and over until she went for her b/w and then her betas have been fabulous. This Wednesday she goes for her first u/s. I've been praying for her daily that when she goes on Wednesday she & her DH will see a beautiful sac with a beautiful heartbeat in there. That wait for the first u/s is worse than the wait for the betas. We've seen so many women post that there was no heartbeat, that it was just a blighted ovum, or that it's an ectopic so seeing the heartbeat is what a fertility clinic (and us pregnant women) take as "really pregnant!" So the wait for the first u/s is an emotionally draining time, I know!
So to my former cycle buddy and friend N in Tennessee, good luck on Wednesday. The prayers and positive thoughts will keep coming and I can't wait to follow your pregnancy!
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