Monday, July 28, 2008

overview of this yr

Well were do i start a long , long time ago (bout 8 months ago) we decided we wanted our family to grow just a little bit more , and tired of doing the same ole clomid treaments that were getting us no where(just made me loopy!)So i was playing around the net i came across more choices of fertility treaments, and saw this group in NJ that had great creditials so Mr.Grumpy gave me the go ahead(he only looks grumpy),so i made an appt and started our road down infertility lane.

So heres the day in review i showed up at SIRM and met our lil munchkins creator Dr.Dlugi .. so he took down my history and then exlained to me our options he said likely due to my age and that we have a child that getting preggers would be easy,Sooooo... I booked an appt for me and Mr.Grumpy... well that appt a very fun one to say the lease we found out that my system was a ok, but we did find out Grumpy had some problems, his coun was low,the motility was slow , and a very small morph prob , so right then and there he said we prob could get pg but it might be hard and instead of doing IUI's (because it would be a waste of time ) straight into the dark, dark world of IVF ....And unless you go through a cycle yourself you have no clue...finally around mid feb i started to take BCP'S then finally came the day of supression with injectable drugs, lupron and dexamethasone they were easy and then march 23 i started my stims menopur,follistim,along with the others the lupron and dexamethsone so thats 4 shots dailly in the belly ..and one oral steriod well that week was in and out of dr.d's offices finally april 1st i got to trigger!!!!! and the fun began april 3 we went in for egg retrieval!!!we got 20 eggies!!!!!!!! and the next day we got the fert report.... it went like this >>>RING...RING ... Hi jenn, this is dr.d your'e like a star here , all your eggies fertilized!!! omg this is insane i said because normal only half make it to this part,(we did icsi, its when you inject the sperm straight into the egg)i said wow really he then said he would call us a day later to let us know...well we did a 6 day transfer because they were all doin well....we transfered 2 great looking embryos one was crawling out of its zona ... now the dreaded 2 week wait ..well 9 days ..well let me tell you i eat under stress ans from retrieval till my beta i had gained 24 pds, part of it was becaus eof all the extra hormones injected into me and the steriods the rest was blue bunny ice cream ....well beta day came and we got our BFP !!! so there could possibley be 2 lurking in my uterus...well along with the good came the bad during that nite my lil cousin passed away in a horrible car accident along with his best friend....the funerals were tough on me and my body...and on the first day of his wake ...i started to bleed and me and grumpy went to the hosp went for a ultrasound and the tech saw nothing ...we thought it was over .. but my beta had rose from 872 to 1609 almost doubled in less then 24 hrs......fastforword to today 7/28/o8 i have been in and out of the hosp about 3 times i have a high risk doc , an ob , a urologist and a nutrionist taking care of me and Allison (90%girl Mr.Video game aka my son says we will reat her like a boy!) my kidney doesnt wanna function normal and i have gestational diabetes, yup im falling apart, only good thing is i havent gained any wght at all except the 24 pd durining stimm time and i lost 4 of them !!! wooohooo last time around i already gained about 30 pds by 5 months ...lol ....Well our lil petri dish babys due date is CHRISTMAS EVE but it looks like she'll be born the week of DEC 16 or so via c-section