The sickness

I got it, bad. The all day everyday morning sickness. I've lost 5 lbs in the last week, I can't keep anything down it seems. and if it's not coming up then it's exiting quite fast out the other way. So when we go to the Dr's on Tuesday I'll be letting them know and see what they can do for me. I know it's part of the routine and lots of girls get it but this is pretty ridiculous. I don't think it's safe for me or the baby. So hopefully I can get some relief so that i can eat without vomiting. It's no fun anyway. I can't go anywhere because i can't be far from a toilet!

Holy crap!

So, wow. I don't even know what to say right now. my period was due on Sunday. It did not arrive, but I've been late before because i've misjudged my o time. Today we decided to test. BFP!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!! totally nerve racking but exciting. So, i called the R.E. to let them know and they sent me for a blood test to confirm. We just got the results back and my HCG level is at 2509. !!!!!! let me give you some perpestive. normal levels for a single baby at 17dpo is 291. The dr said either i conceived earlier than i think or i have more than 1 baby in there.. HOLY CRAP! We knew that was a high possibility and are pretty mentally prepared for that, but i'm still needing to breathe about it now that it's a strong possibility. so i go in next week for my first ultrasound and hopefully news stays good!


Update: we had our first ultrasound and there is only one little baby in there. My numbers are just really high.

blood tests

I got a call from our clinic today to inform me that more of my blood work came back. Everything is still normal and looking good. Then she said "How 'bout that man of yours, when's he getting his taken care of?!" so after I explained J had his taken a couple days after i did mine she sounded not too happy and informed me she'd be calling the lab inquiring about the results. J said he's not giving up anymore blood, so they better not have lost it. He cracks me up. He'll be down there this weekend if needed, but I'll let him think what he wants.

Acupunture

I almost forgot to mention this. I started acupuncture 2 weeks ago. After the first treatment I was already starting to feel differences. Now I'm going for fertility reasons, it's supposed to help boost fertility and help boost your percentage for a successful IUI or IVF treatment. At this point it can't hurt I don't think. I've noticed that my headaches have basically gone away. I used to get headaches everyday. I'm on a anti seizure med that i take every night that is supposed to help reduce migraines, which it has, but i was still getting pretty bad "normal" headaches. I also noticed less back pain. For a while now I've been getting pretty bad lower back pain for whatever reason. It would just feel really tight and uncomfy in the mornings.
The acupuncture guy also gave me some herbal supplements but after the first dose I just about threw up my insides and then proceeded to get a nasty little migraine. So i don't take those and when i informed him of this he said to stop taking them then. Which I already did. I'll just stick with the little needles poking my skin, thank you very much.
My second session was the other day and so far so good, nothing new to report, so hopefully it's getting my body in balance and upping my fertility a bit.

Test results are in...

Well most of them anyway. All mine came back normal. So no chromosome issues and I'm disease free. I'm not sure what other tests they did, i know there was a lot, but everything is fine. And the tests of J's that have come in are all normal also. I think we're still waiting on his chromosome test. So far so good.

family histories, vag cams and earthquakes, oh my!-1st R.E. appointment

So in preparation for our first appointment I had to fill out about 30 pages of medical history. Holy crap, that's a lot of info. I called my mom to ask some questions that i wasn't sure on and she was just not funny at all. When asked if anyone in our family had fertility issues she just started laughing. Now, I already knew this to be true, everyone in my family gets pregnant or gets their significant others pregnant just by thinking about it. My Uncle and his wife had issues but i believe that was a problem of hers not his. I spoke with my gramma on my dad's side also. My aunt had like 1 and 1/2 of her tubes removed and told that she will probably never get pregnant. Guess what happened the next month after her surgery! She was pregnant. My gramma was told she would have a hard time getting pregnant due to her titlted uterus, she said to me "After the 5th kid I asked when it was going to start getting hard!" A simple no issues here honey, would have been fine. But I guess it's good to know all the details.
There were also no issues on J's side of the family either. So we are basically the only fertile rejects in our families. Nice.
We had some preliminary testing done prior to our appoint in October of 2008. That was a year after we had initially started trying. Some blood tests which came back fine and I had an HSG done. That's a pleasant little procedure where you go into an x-ray room and the dr puts a catheter through your cervix into your uterus and injects dye. Yes it's as fun as it sounds! It's to make sure there is no blockages in your tubes. I was free and clear. The dr however forgot to deflate the little balloon thing on the tube and just yanked it right out.. It was not comfortable in the least bit. J had submitted some of his semen for analysis also and everything came back good as well. So his good swimmers and my good eggs were just having some issues connecting I was told. We did one cycle of Clomid and according to the accomponiying blood tests it worked great! But still did nothing by way of helping us get pregnant. So we decided to wait until this summer to take the next step.

Our dr, Dr H, is wonderful! We really like her. She's a fast talker and answered all our questions to our liking. She did an internal exam with the dildo cam to make sure that all my woman bits were present and accounted for and to check out my ute, blood vessels and lining for herself. She liked what she saw, except that my uterus is on the small side. Which apparently she said is no big deal because it's going to stretch anyway. And she was talking about polka dots on my ovaries or something. Anyway, she said 13 is a good average number on both sides and I have about 10 on each side. But she still didn't think that was an issue. She just simply thinks that for whatever reason our sperm and egg don't like combining. So she ordered more blood tests and then we'll have out first IUI in August.
After our appointment with her we were sitting in a waiting area for the IUI coordinator to get all our paperwork ready for us when we had an earthquake. It wasn't big, just a 3.7, but we had to evacuate the building just in case. Hopefully that's not a sign of how this journey is going to go..
So as of now we know that our only problem is that J's sperms and my eggs hate each other. More details when the blood tests start coming back!

Beginings- Why don't you blog about it!

Since quite a few people have asked me if I was going to start an IF blog, I decided to do so. This little bliggity blog will be a place for me to keep all my thoughts I have on this spectacular little journey J and I are going through. It'll also help keep our friends and family updated on what's going on. Not that I mind sharing the same story 50 times but if everything is in one place then it just makes it easier, I hope. I promise not to get too crazy with the cheez-whiz when it comes to details some people might find disturbing, but you might have to live with them sometimes. Also, I read a lot of blogs that have helped inform me over the last 18 months and so perhaps I might help someone too.
Anyone who knows me in real life knows that I'm not a very serious person. So I will approach this like I approach everything, with a sense of humor. Life is way too short to be serious all the time and even though IF is a serious malfunction with peoples bodies, I like to keep it light & flaky! Otherwise, I would probably be way too bummed out and get crazy obsessed with things.
Babies aren't bestowed to everyone so easy, some of us have to work a little harder. So this is my journey, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF MY UTERUS!!!

p.s. I'm open to other blog name suggestions. So feel free to let me know.