no…

many (many, many, many) tears later, it is still so hard to believe that the answer is – NO – we are *not* pregnant.
thank you all for the amazing love and tons of positive vibes you all have been beaming our way… we felt/feel them, they helped us keep hope.
let me just say for the [...]

excruciating

this wait has been excruciating! absolutely excruciating…
we have 4 days left till we find out… we test on the morning of wednesday 31st and they call back by 4pm if you are lucky. (a long day to be sure)
i have been shaky for days, vaguely nauseous and headachy. i had horrible runs on the 24th [...]

sleep? backpain, crampy, crazy… arrrrghhh!

it is 5:13 am and i have been awake since about 3:45 when one of the kitties (the cream colored, curly tailed wonder, trouble) came in and started purring and cuddling with us. i lay in bed for about 45 minutes, just long enough for the other kitty (squint, who rarely squints anymore now that [...]

our flat christmas tree…

i wanted to share our flat christmas tree with you all. i love the smell of pine and the lights on a tree… we have these two little kitties who LIVE to destroy. what was i to do??
last week after the saturday disappointment, when i still thought there was a sunday insemination coming… i needed [...]

blastoff!

went in this morning with knees knocking… would my lining be up to snuff? would we be turned away again – no sperm last week, no embryo this week…
well, good news! my lining was almost 11cm up from 8 and when the doc looked at past months info, 8 had been the best i had [...]

hope in a holding pattern…

went to doc to check lining yesterday. my lining is *ok* but not excellent. we are only gonna do this IF things are in the best possible shape for implantation. we only have 4 embryos, we can’t take a chance (and pay all that $) if conditions are not right.
she gave me two estrogen patches, [...]

hope?

if you have not yet read dakota’s guest post on my blog last night, please do…
dakota on homicidal thinking
it will tell you the evil story of how we came to this moment… and my words below will make more sense.
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i was almost asleep, exhausted and so upset that we did not even have the chance [...]

Dakota on Homicidal Thinking

My beloved, mulberry, is feeling so bloated and well, so many things that I, Dakota, am guest blogging today about our progress.
Thank you all so much for your well wishes but I regret to report that there was no insemination due to incompetence.
We originally thought we would be doing this insemination next Tuesday, but mulberry’s [...]

no blastoff… more of a standstill…

we arrived, the tank didn’t…
horror! (guilt on my part that we did not have it waiting way ahead as i usually do) and fury at the mistake/incompetence/and lies – grrrrrrr
we show up at 9:30, tank was supposed to arrive no later than 9:00am so the sample should be washed and ready to go. nope.
i sit [...]

3.2.1.blastoff…

last cycle they started me at 300 ius of follistm, after a couple days they brought me down to 225… startled that my body made so many (6) follicles. (now of which felt like makin’ babies however) this cycle they started me on 225 ius of follistim, after a couple days they brought me down [...]