Valentine's Day dinner

Since I have been restricted to bed we have put off Valentine's dinner until tonight & I am really looking forward to getting out of the house. We did exchange gifts yesterday & my lovely husband got me flowers (lilies, my favorite) & a GC to Ann Taylor Loft (one of my favorite stores). If money was no object I would shop there all the time, I love everything in there. Currently I shop off the sales racks in the back of the store, which is just fine with me.

We went shopping last weekend for Chris' gift so he already had his. He really needed a new pair of dress shoes for work & we also go him a black wool coat from Kohls. He is really happy with his gifts as well, especially since he got to enjoy them ahead of time.

Hope you all had a great V-Day!

New design

I have been working on a new design for my blog but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to load correctly. I guess I am going to have to do some research to try & figure it out. If anyone has any insight please let me know. I do work on our website at work but I don't have to know html to work on it & I don't think this is going to be as easy. Stay tuned, hopefully I will figure it out over the weekend.

The rest of the story...

Now that we have moved into the second 24 hours it is much easier to post on my blog. Last night & this morning were a little rough, but I like I will be okay now. While Chris was at church last night I started having really bad cramps & an upset stomach. Now for someone who doesn't really have menstral cramps (yes you read that correctly, I don't really have mentral cramps) I guess that is what you could compare them to, really strong ones. Luckily by the time Chris came home they were gone but I was still really uncomfortable & that lasted all night & into this morning.

I got really upset this morning because the cramps came back really strong along with the upset stomach but Chris was afraid to let me take any meds. So Chris being the wonderful husband that he is called my ivf nurse. Then much to our surprise & Shane's my nurse, I was suppose to get some Vikaden pain pills to help with all the pain & discomfort I was having. So he said the take some Tylenol, Mylanta & let him know if I don't feel any better soon. Now, I felt much better knowing all this is normal & usually ivf patients go home with pain meds but maybe Dr. Crain doesn't use them, you just never know. Each one of the doctors at REACH have their own way/plan for their patients & I trust his judgement completely.

I don't remember if I shared this yesterday or not but Dr. Crain gave us pictures on the embryos he placed yesterday & Chris really wants me to scan them in so we can share them so I may do that over the weekend. It is really neat to have them & know that those are possibly growing inside of me right now.

Now we wait

The transfer went fairly well this morning & now I am really tired, sore & laying in bed. Have you ever tried typing while laying down, I must say its not very easy.

Anyway, Dr. Crain did transfer 2 embryos and it took a little longer than we all expected. I had to drink 4.5 bottles of water to fill my bladder and then we began. It was a little more stressful & painful than I expected but the staff was great & kept me calm. Dr. Crain even gave us pictures of the embryos to take home which was really cool. Now I must lay flat for the first 24 hours & the 2nd 24 hours I can sit on the couch with my feet up. So I will not be heading back to work until Monday.

Chris has been wonderful, which doesn't surprise me at all. He will be home with me tomorrow too, Friday I will be on my own.

New schedule

My ivf nurse called & left me a message while I was at lunch & tomorrow at 11:30 is the new time. I will still be taking my valium 1 hour before & start filling up my bladder at 10:30 as well. Wish us luck.

New orders..

I just got a call from my ivf nurse & they are moving the transfer to tomorrow. Now that is not bad news, it is actually kind of in our favor. Dr. Crain wants to give the embryos 1 more day to mature. We now only have 7 embryos growing which means that 4 have stopped growing & did not mature. Again this is okay too, we are only planning on transferring 2 anyway & if we have to we will only transfer one.

Now the worst part of it is I have to do the ucky inserts again tomorrow morning. My nurse asked me how that went this morning & I told him it was terrible & it took my 20 minutes to be able to do with many tears. He laughed but then apoligized & said most all the women hate that part, but it is just part of it.

So now I will post when we are scheduled for tomorrow later today.

The day has come..

and I must say I am a lot more nervous that ever expected. It really should be very painful, but the idea that I could finally be pregnant after all this time is just too much to comprehend. I really didn't sleep well last night & I probably should have taken some Simply Sleep before I went to bed but I was so tired I thought I would make it. I even took a hot bath to try & relax myself even more & it worked for a while but I woke up at 3am & couldn't go back to sleep.

Our dog Spencer came up to me & licked my faced & snuggled with me for a while & I finally fell back to sleep around 5am, knowing my alarm would be going off in just 30 minutes. Then I finally got up at 5:50 & took my shower. I only have to do a few things to prep for the transfer & the worse one of all was this morning. I will not go into any details other than I don't want to ever have to insert anything there again if I can help, gross.

I also need to empty my bladder at 11am & then take my valium. I have also been instructed to drink as much liquids as possible from 11am to 12:00 to help them see better in the ultra sound where to place the embryos.

Oh I forgot to tell you what my sweet husband did last night. He asked me if I wanted my final meal out or if I wanted to eat dinner at home. At first I told him I really wanted to go home but he talked into going out since I will have to be in the bed until Thursday & we had a good dinner at Parkway. It was fried squash day which I love. Thanks Chris.