It has been a few days since I last posted, so I have a lot to catch up on...mainly my overactive ovaries. Apparently, they are responding so excellent to the stim drug that they are now worried I could hyperstimulate. The funny thing is, in my last post, I said I wanted lots of follies, well, I got that, I have over 40 follicles growing. That is somewhere around twice the amount of normal ovaries response (per some blog post I read)...thank you polysystic ovaries! If they do hyperstimulate I'll be put on bedrest for the remaining portion of my cycle and into the first few weeks of pregnancy...so PLEASE calm down little ones, my pelvic can't take much more, as the follicles grow and continue to create more, my ovaries are expanding, my nurse called it ovarian stretching...seriously, my ovaries are stretching? She said my "little pelvic" (I love that she called it little) can't handle the growth which is why it's causing cramping and bloating...the difference between this feeling and the feeling prego women experience is the timing, when you are pregnant and your uterus grows it puts pressure on everything around it, but it has time to grow and stretch, in my case right now, it happened overnight. Some women have said that the bloated feeling never really went away and that their pants stopped fitting before they even became pregnant, O NOOOO is all I can say to that. However, I think my appetite is shrinking so maybe that will make up for the bloating...these are the things I think about all day long...It's so hard to do everything else that needs to be done when my brain doesn't want to think about anything else...
The newest medication that I'm taking looks like a pen and is injected below my belly button on a smiley face line (did I already say that in another post?) Its a lot of medicine and it burns going in and makes me feel really weird after. I can't do this one to myself, and the other night my resident dr was in class but I was lucky enough to have Aunt Jen around to give me the injection, Thank God! She did an excellent job and she ended up having to give me two because we had to change pen cartridges, she is going to be the best auntie ever and I'm so thankful for her support, especially helping me through all my ups and downs of emotions...I <3 her so!
On a side note, I thought this was so sweet...Ty is really excited about this whole process and every now and then he surprises me with little snippets of baby knowledge he has picked up along the way - the other night he informed me that if we had twins they would never be on the same schedule, when one is up, the other would be down, etc...so it's a good thing he doesn't need much sleep, we were also discussing where we would put a bassinet in our bedroom (we are big planners). Our king size bed takes up most of the space, he recommended putting the bassinet on his side of the bed...so now he gets to be the one that wakes up every few hours for feedings, not to sure how that would work out...it was funnier when he said it. Well, as much as I would love to type all night, I have to get back to studying. 4 more days of injections, yay! I'm so special that I get to go in every morning for blood work and ultrasounds. They need to make sure I'm staying on track, so I have an appointment with the most wonderful nurse in the world bright and early tomorrow, and Aunt Jen is coming so she can meet my follies on the big screen...it's a date :0)
The newest medication that I'm taking looks like a pen and is injected below my belly button on a smiley face line (did I already say that in another post?) Its a lot of medicine and it burns going in and makes me feel really weird after. I can't do this one to myself, and the other night my resident dr was in class but I was lucky enough to have Aunt Jen around to give me the injection, Thank God! She did an excellent job and she ended up having to give me two because we had to change pen cartridges, she is going to be the best auntie ever and I'm so thankful for her support, especially helping me through all my ups and downs of emotions...I <3 her so!
On a side note, I thought this was so sweet...Ty is really excited about this whole process and every now and then he surprises me with little snippets of baby knowledge he has picked up along the way - the other night he informed me that if we had twins they would never be on the same schedule, when one is up, the other would be down, etc...so it's a good thing he doesn't need much sleep, we were also discussing where we would put a bassinet in our bedroom (we are big planners). Our king size bed takes up most of the space, he recommended putting the bassinet on his side of the bed...so now he gets to be the one that wakes up every few hours for feedings, not to sure how that would work out...it was funnier when he said it. Well, as much as I would love to type all night, I have to get back to studying. 4 more days of injections, yay! I'm so special that I get to go in every morning for blood work and ultrasounds. They need to make sure I'm staying on track, so I have an appointment with the most wonderful nurse in the world bright and early tomorrow, and Aunt Jen is coming so she can meet my follies on the big screen...it's a date :0)
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