Pum, I'm so excited for you! Will be thinking positive thoughts and sending you tons of SSBD! It must be pretty tough to try to contain your excitement and convince yourself that it's just another normal weekend. Nothing big going on! Lol! :-) The TWW will probably seem like two months, so try to keep your mind occupied on anything else! Good luck! :-)
Pum, do I understand you right that you had m/c's back to back or really close together? I just had two chemical pregnancies, one in December and one in January. (& I'm pretty sure an accidental one in Feb, too!) :-( Of course, I feel heartbroken, but since I've had so many of them now (6), I am trying to stay positive that we are at least able conceive (at age 42) so there is still hope! Once my hormones are balanced, hopefully I'll be able to carry to term! (if I can keep my progesterone levels up) Do they have any idea why you m/c'd twice like that?
Sherri
Ah well, count me out. Spotting and a massive headache today along with temp drop. At least my temps were back to normal ie staying up for a good 13 days. This was my first really normal cycle after the last miscarriage so feeling positive for next month. In a way I'm glad to have a break as maybe falling so quickly after the first miscarriage had something to do with the second one. Who knows.
Good luck to everyone still waiting.
Hi, Catherine -
Until I started charting for ovulation, I had no idea that women's temperatures went through such an interesting cycle of dips and peaks. It's fascinating--but I could have gone through my whole life thinking 98.6 was normal for everybody. (As it turns out, I tend to have a low temperature no matter what, and am genuinely ill/running a fever at a relatively low temp, too.) I kind of miss rolling over in bed and sticking that digital thermometer in my mouth... but then I also kind of miss the nightly IVF injections... in other words, I just like having a regimen that's giving me a sense of making some progress toward the goal.
Even with all those people in the surgery room, I didn't even think about the fact that they were all going to be flopping me around and poking me while I was asleep. It's probably a good thing I was oblivious :D
Just heard from the RE's office--out of 9 eggs retrieved, 5 fertilised. They say a 50% to 60% fertilisation rate is pretty typical. Embryo transfer will be day 3, early Sunday morning.
I'm trying not to get all happy and jumpy about it, on the theory that I should stay calm, balanced, and cool, for best results. Anything could happen between now and Sunday, and thereafter. I'll put on my relaxed, blase' facade soon--la la la, nothing special going on here, just going with the flow. But, just for a moment, I'll admit to you ladies here and that, no matter how things turn out later, right now I can't help but feel AMAZINGLY EXCITED.
Alice, I'm glad you had a good experience at the clinic. Just the thought of going through all those procedures and having so many different people mess with my body is overwhelming to me. So I don't think I have what it takes to go that route. I admire your determination and hope the procedures are a success!
AFM, I've been sick the last 8 days with some sort of cold/strep throat/flu type bug, so I'm worried I may be out this month. It's hard to know from my temps because they were really high last weekend, but I think I o'd yesterday - temps went from 97.2 yesterday to 97.6 today. Not sure though because my temps were hovering around 97.5 for about 3 days before. Anyway, DH and I did BD wed night so hopefully I have a small chance for a bfp in 2 weeks. I plan to start progesterone cream this weekend.
good luck and thanks to everyone for sharing their stories. it's very helpful knowing other women are facing this challenge too. Catherine