I’m 30, I live in the Midwest, and I’m having some trouble in the baby-making department. I really want to be a Mom. Please?
My dealio
I'm a 30-ish girl living in the Midwest with my awesome hubs, trying so hard to make a baby! I don't ovulate without lots of help from modern medicine and spent a year undergoing infertility treatment and figuring out the mystery of my body. We finally (miraculously!) aligned all of our stars thanks to the genius of Dr. Awesome at RE Clinic #2 and got a BFP in August 2010. Hubs and I are so grateful to be where we are—expecting twins in April 2011! I'm also a writer (for real, that's my job), a runner (umm, my sanity) and kind of a goofball (I mean, I am writing about my sex life and body for all the world to see, heyyyo!). My bloggie gets its name from my hubs and the other wonderful people in my life. I call them good eggs. I would really, really like for hubs and I to make our own little good egg!Give me a shout at
suchagoodegg@gmail.comGood eggies
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2ww cervix Clomid contractions cooking cyst dilation Dr. A Dr. Awesome Dr. C Dr. K Dr. Zen endorphins Estrogen exercise first trimester follies friends and family Gonal-F happy holidays injects IUI lining Luveris monitoring OPK Ovidrel ovulation period pregnant Progesterone Provera RE running second trimester symptoms travel TTC twins ultrasound waiting work worry yogaWhat’s done is done!
The long & short of it
Currently - So very very very happy up on Cloud 9!
April 23 - 40-week due-date
March 21 - Our sweet little babies arrive at 35w3d (we are in LOVE with them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
March 7 - Cervix 100% effaced and now dilated to 3cm, high blood pressure, back to L&D for monitoring; no big contractions or cervical change and test negative for pre-e so sent home for more bedrest
February 28 - Ditto
February 21 - Cervix still 100% effaced but no change in dilation (1cm)
February 16 - Discharged from L&D, home on bedrest
February 14 - Routine biweekly appt, hospitalized due to 100% effaced cervix (cervical length = 0cm, 1cm dilated) and contrax every 90 seconds-3 min (which I could not feel)
February 4 - Pass follow-up GD test (hello again, milkshakes!)
January 17 - "Borderline" fail the gestational diabetes test (au revoir, milkshakes!)
December 7 - Anatomy scan (we're having a boy and a girl!!)
October 6 - NT scan (all is well with both babies!)
September 13 - OB-GYN appt (all good!)
August 31 - Two heartbeats (yip!!)
August 25 - Whoa...two yolk sacs!
August 20 - One gestational sac!
August 14 - Beta #2 @ 15dpiui = 247!
August 12 - Beta #1 @ 13dpiui = 128!August 2010/IUI #3 - Gonal-F (75iu in p.m. starting CD2, down to 37.5iu starting CD10) + Low-dose HCG (100iu in the p.m. starting CD7) + Ganirelix (25mg starting CD9) + Trigger (CD13) + IUI (CD15) + Prog Supps (starting CD15) with Dr. A at clinic #2 = first-ever BFP! (1 definite follie at 18.5mm, 1 hopefully follie at 16mm, 3 maybe follies at 14.9mm, 14.5mm, 14.5mm; lining 7.8mm)
Au revoir, clinic #1!
July 2010/IUI #2 - Luveris (37.5iu in the a.m. starting CD3) + Gonal-F (75iu in the p.m. starting CD3) + Ovidrel trigger (CD19) + IUI (CD21) + Prog Supps (starting CD23) with Dr. K at clinic #1 = BFN (5 follies over 17mm but very low E2 (292); lining 8.1mm)
June 2010 - Benched with yet another cyst and put on BCPs + consult with Dr. Awesome at new RE clinic + new round of blood work (still normal) + another SA for hubs (nailed it)
May 2010/IUI #1 - Gonal-F (112.5iu starting CD3, then 75iu starting CD12, then 37.5iu on CD14) + Luveris (37.5iu starting CD8) + Ovidrel trigger (CD15) + IUI (CD17) + Prog Supps (starting CD19) = BFN (1, maybe 2, mature follies; lining 7.8mm)
April 2010 - Benched with a new cyst + put on BCPs + consult with Dr. K & she observes chronically low LH in my history
March 2010/Clomid #3 - Cyst finally gone! 50mg Clomid CD3-CD7 + 1mg Estradiol suppositories starting CD8 = very thin lining (4.4mm) and no follies over 10mm; cycle canceled on CD16 in WTF consult #2 with Dr. C + Provera to get my period + begin supplements (vitamin E, L-arginine, baby aspirin, fish oil) and acupuncture to try to boost lining
February 2010 - Cyst even bigger (*#%&*), benched again and on BCPs
January 2010 - Benched with a cyst + HSG all clear! + follow-up consult with Dr. C to adjust protocol + Provera to get my period
December 2009/Clomid #2 - 100mg Clomid + monitoring + Ovidrel trigger = BFN (two 17mm follies + very thin 3.2mm lining + but I DID ovulate with a 35.7 P4)
November 2009 - "Borderline" cyst, benched for a cycle
October 2009/Clomid #1 - 50mg Clomid unmonitored = BFN ("borderline" ovulation with a 3.5 P4)
October 2009 - Consult with RE, more bloodwork (all normal), thyroid panel test (A-OK), sperm analysis for hubs (looks good), diagnosis = unexplained anovulation
September 2009 - Period still MIA, ob-gyn sends me to RE after a high TSH test
Spring & Summer 2009 - Go off BC, period never shows up. Have to take Provera to get my period.
April 2009 - Now hubs is totally and completely ready to TTC, get a clean bill of health from my gyn
2007 & 2008 - Talk more and more about wanting babies + move from NYC to Chicago + marathons and triathlons + travel + working hard
July 2006 - Married!
January 2006 - Engaged!
January 2001 - Begin birth control
October 2000 - Begin dating my amazing hubs senior year of college
Verbatim
"It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen."—Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."— Jean Kerr
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."—Peter Marshall
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."—Anne Lamott
Such A Good Egg · Trying to conceive a good little eggie.
I’m so sorry to hear of your troubles. Best of luck to you and your husband from a fellow Midwesterner!!
Stay positive, love one another and everything will fall into place. I can just feel it.
-Gary
MMMM…I am so excited to read more. I got your blog link off of This Place is Home. You see, I am currently living in Boston, but originally from Chicago. I have been at this fertility thing for about as long as you have and had a cryo transfer yesterday! (currently sitting on my couch with legs up!) I am praying that this is your time too
They say that “three is a charm”, but lets hope that our second try works!!
From infertility, comes strength. Just keep hoping and believing.
MMMM…I am so excited to read more. I got your blog link off of This Place is Home. You see, I am currently living in Boston, but originally from Chicago. I have been at this fertility thing for about as long as you have and had a cryo transfer yesterday! (currently sitting on my couch with legs up!) I am praying that this is your time too They say that “three is a charm”, but lets hope that our second try works!!
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