Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The a to Z's of Infertility

A – Age at Which you Started Trying To Conceive: 27
B – Baby Dancing or Sex: baby dancing
C – Children Wanted: 2
D – Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: one furbaby, a dwarf beagle named Phoebe
E – Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal vitamins, plus extra vitamin d
F – Fertility Meds I’ve Taken: Baby aspirin, prenatal vitamin, Letrozole, Clomid, Lupron, Prometrium, low dose HCG, trigger shot, Estradiol,, Ovidrel, Follistem, Gonel-F
G – Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: my "twin"kies and an understanding of how little people understand
H – HSG test: it was the most evil test - it took over an hour just to get the catheter in, turns out i have a titled cervix... the nurse felt so bad she bought me lunch while I waited for the copies of my scans
I – Infertile Pet Peeve: how my SIL was so uncaring and could not understand that we could not be at her first chemo treatment because we had an IUI scheduled, or we couldn't visit all the time because i was in the doctors office every other day...so she could have the niece and nephew she loves to "watch" grow up even though she never actually sees them because it might interrupt her life
J – Job Title: Senior Specialist
K – Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: it already was - DH's cousin told us her daugther would be isabella (years ago) so that was out, then Kailey  became popular, though spelled Kaylee, and of course Andrew and all our others
L – Lengh of Time Trying to Conceive: 3.5 years
M – Miscarriages: 1
N – Number of Times you have Swiched Reproductive Endocrinologists: none, I picked the best from the get go!
O – Ovarian Quality: decent
P – Pee-On-A-Stick or Wait for Aunt Flo: was a pee-aholic before the RE...once we started treatments, I refused util we had graduated to our OB, then it was only to actually know what a positive pee test looks like
Q – Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: "Oh you are getting fertiity treatments, thats not so bad, at least you don;t have cancer" - that was from lovely SIL...who granted had cancer, but this was after our pyscholoigist told us treatment is more isolating than cancer treatments because at least people rally around and support cancer patients
S – Sperm: below average
T – Time you Tried Naturally: not trying but not preventing - 2 years, trying - another 2 years
U – Uterus Quality: slightly tilted but otherwise good
V – Vagina: No complaints there
W – What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: now all of it, selling it at a yard sale this weekend
X – Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: during, it was everyone - as it got harder to answer the constant questions - just my sister and a few close friends
Y – Yearly Exam: usually every april
Z – Zits: after hormones, few and far between thank goodness!

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