Yay - we have started stims

Yes indeed we are on our way! Randy gave me my first injects tonight along with a lower dose of Suprefact and away we go.

Hard to believe on January 31st I just thought I needed just a little extra 'help' and now here we are, at the epitome of medical intervention. Boy the stories we could tell this baby...

Injection #1

Okay so I was so excited to do my first shot last night. I purposely didn't dwell on the act of injecting a needle into my body, just the excitement of moving ahead. We were good to go standing in the kitchen, swabbed a chunk of tummy and needle in hand.

Needle in hand...

Needle still in hand...

Needle still in hand....

Randy says okay, on the count of threee, 1, 2, 3.

Needle still in hand...

Bah, I couldn't do it. It's such a wee needle too but I just kept looking at the pale chunk of fat I was holding and couldn't do it. I had to hand the needle to Randy and he did it. I flinched so he half poked me and then had to do it again LOL. Then it was done. Easy as pie. I think he will end up doing them all but we shall see if I can bring myself to do it tonight or not.

I did wake up at 430 DRENCHED. OMG it was disgusting to say the least. I had to get up and get changed. Side effect of the Suprefact is hot flushes so I guess this process has offically begun. I think once we start the stims this stuff will settle down...I hope anyways.

Baby names

Randy and I were discussing baby names on the way to Victoria today. It was fun to really chat about why we like certain names and why we don't like other names. He was really into it as much as I was:)

We both like Jack and Max for a boy. One syllable and both are good for little boys and grown men (hate pussy names). I still like Christian but agree with him that Chris for a boy doesn't feel right. I have more name son the list...Jonah (which a friend had a baby who died that was Jonah so it doesn't feel right anymore), Cole, Joshua (Randy doesn't like), Maxwell (good middle name), Ethan and Aslan (still love this one).

Girl names...we both used to like Isabelle but meh, not so much anymore. I think we like it because we like Izzy, not Isabelle (but maybe Isabella). I love Sophie, Lauren and Olivia as does Randy. Elizabeth is nice too and we could have our Izzy from that if we wanted to. Alexandria, Grace, Gabrielle (Gabby but still makes me think poodle) and Regan (but Randy isn't in love with the name Regan). Lauren is cool as it would be nice to honor Randy's dad (Laurent/Lawrence). I am currently thinking twin girls - Olivia Michele and Sophie Kendra. I don't know - I am trying to incorporate K&M as they have done so much for us in this IVF process. It's hard to thank someone for something so huge so I think it would be a nice way to honor them:)

Actually the name Kendra is growing on me as a first name too. Not common but non uncommon.

Green light!

Well I got up this morning and got my e2 level bloodwork done at 730am. Who would have thought that there would be a line-up at a lab? Well I guess everyone was fasting and wanted to eat LOL. I was 5th in line so it still went pretty fast for me. Then back home with a quick stop at rotten ronnies for breakfast and then off to Victoria.

I got to meet Dr Spence - he was a very nice man. I screwed up thinking my bladder was TOO full so I peed just a little but ended up emptying my bladder completely. Dr Spence wasn't too worried about it but apparently my uterus is very tilted (the things you learn). Since I have had a baby he isn't worried about it but I am kicking myself as it would be nice to get all of this right the first time. My lining looks good 'perfect' is what he said actually. 2mm. My ovaries are sleeping with 3-4 follicles on each side. I would love for 10 eggs to mature - that would give us some breathing room. We shall see how the stims and me work. I know Dr. H thinks I will be a poor responder but I can only hope for the best.

Got my call from Dale at 430 - E2 levels are under 100 so that was the final stopping point before starting Suprefact tomorrow...woohoo!

I'm a mess

Oh boy, the hormone train has hit me today. Here I sit just wanting to bawl for no reason. Well I hate my business and getting up each and every day knowing I have to put time and energy into something I loathe so much isn't helping. I used to love it and now, hard to want to even turn on the computer. *sigh* I so wish I could just do web design and work at the clinic but that will never pay all of the bills and it certainly won't pay Ken and Michele back for the IVF treatments that they are helping us with. So I need to kick myself in the butt, get over it and get to work. At least I have the options to be able to work form home and most mother's don't have that privilege. See I am trying to talk myself into thinking positively LOL.

Lord, am I going to be like this ALL month????

LIttle dancer

Gosh I am so proud of Miss Jessica. Tonight was her last parks & rec dance class (she's been going Friday's to the regular class as well). She is really doing good! We practice just a little each day - her choice, she really loves this. Well she did awesome. All the parents got to come in and sit on the floor to watch this last class and she was smiling and dancing and doing so good! I am totally impressed how far she's come in 5 weeks. She still needs some practice to catch up to the class that started in September BUT, she is doing really good considering they started 6 months prior to her.

After dance she got to go for a sleepover to auntie Michele's. Gosh she loves her so much. She must have asked us 50 times if she was still going today LOL. She adores her and looks up to her. Plus the fact that she gets 100% one on one attention helps too I would guess:) When we dropped her off, Caitlin, Kyle and Kevin also dropped by - great for her to get to spend time with Ken's kid's as she really doesn't know her cousins all that well. After about 15 minutes she looked at me and said "You can go now mom, I'm ready". ROFL. Alrighty then, I guess that's our cue.

Randy and I proceeded to break my diet and go to Kelsey's for quesadillas and calamari and then to SS for a few groceries. Came home, watched Heroes, talked about how much we missed Jess and fixed the little tiles in front of 2 of the bedrooms. Tomorrow we are off to Victoria for Randy's SFA and to get our IVF package. Progress!

frowns

Yuck, am I ever pissy today. BCP I assume. While I was out doing chores today I was just pissy...I felt like I could bite someone's head off had anyone been around.

14 days on these seems like a very.long.time right now.