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After an 8 year battle with infertility and countless struggles, our family is finally complete. This blog chronicles the journey it took for us to start and build the family we always wanted. Background on the blog (started in 2012, just days before I found out the embryo transfer for our son worked).... I decided to start a blog after realizing I have only been able to make it through my TWW's (two week waits) with the help of Google and with the openness of other women suffering from infertility sharing their own stories and giving others hope. I have time and time again found my exact symptoms on other women's blogs and felt an overwhelming sense of calmness they provided me. I thought it was time to pay it forward and hopefully provide this same thing to other women on their own journeys.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

6dp5dt - Symptoms

Symptoms:

Early morning: cramps when I woke up, cramps sometimes when I move, super bloated, constipated, a few twinges here and there

Mid morning: A few tiny pinches ~9am.  Nothing really after, maybe a little bloated?  Went for a walk with a friend, crampy and bloated during the walk.

Noon/afternoon:  nothing really, a little bloat.  Starting to freak that I feel mostly normal!

Drive home from work:  pinching - finally something!   Thirst?

After work - Tiiiiiiiiny bit of brown spotting.

Evening - Cramps during dinner, I think I'm starting to get veiny boobs (weren't veiny at all on a second look)?   Definitely thirsty.


Monday, July 6, 2015

5dp5dt - Symptoms


Symptoms:

Middle of the night:  vivid dream (not sex related tho), cramps in the middle of the night

Morning: Constipated (lovely), tiny cramps to start, bigger cramps later in the morning

Walk during lunch yielded some tugging and pinching.

Afternoon:  Bloated.  Super DUPER bloated.   I seriously look 12 weeks pregnant.  lol   That only lasted an hour or so, now I'm just regular bloated.

Evening walk:  Bloated.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

4dp5dt - Symptoms


Symptoms:

~7am - Woke up to a sex dream.   Maybe it's a symptom?   Maybe I'm just repressed.  Lol.  It wasn't super vivid but still hoping it's a good sign.

~ 9am - Super duper bloated.

~10am - Maybe a few pulls when moving in the uterus?    Please let this be it!

11:45am -  Thirsty?  I did take a walk this morning so I'm probably just thirsty since I haven't really had much to drink since we've been back!   Bloating mostly gone.

1:11pm - Feeling completely normal and 100% losing my mind.  I checked my past symptom lists and the only time I ever had bloating resulted in a BFN.  :(

Evening - Cramps, weird uneasy feelings in stomach, acne on chin and a little on chest

Middle of the night - Cramps, twinges, pulls


Saturday, July 4, 2015

3dp5dt - Symptoms?

Today was the day I was watching for symptoms like a hawk.   Nothing.   Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe one little pang on the lower right side that happened a few times in the span of 10 seconds.  I should note I had weird ovarian pangs before the embryo transfer as well so who knows.   I think I had cramps (teeeeeeeeeny tiny ones) in the night between 3dp and 4dp transfer. 

Friday, July 3, 2015

2dp5dt - Mr. Moon & Symptoms

No symptoms yet.  My two BFPs (not the chemical) I had symptoms starting tomorrow.  So today is my LAST day of non-symptom watching!   Anyhoo.....there is totally a moon in one of my embryos!   I hope he/she is my lucky embryo!



Thursday, July 2, 2015

1dp5dt - No Symptoms

Nothing to report symptom wise.   I've decided to do modified bed rest this transfer instead of keeping up my 15,000 steps a day routine.  So far today (and it's already 6:30pm) I've only clocked 2,300 steps.   Still walking around the house to keep the blood flowing but not doing anything crazy today and tomorrow.  I'll start to work my way back up to 15k steps a day Saturday and be fully back by Tuesday.  The implantation window is typically 7dpo through 10dpo so tomorrow (2dp5dt) through Monday (5dp5dt).  So I want to stay pretty low key through that!  If you are a praying type, please continue to pray for us!  It means the world to us!


Wednesday, July 1, 2015

FET #5 Frozen Embryo Transfer Day!

The day's happenings:

• 9:45 Got on the road

• 11:30 Accupuncture

• 12:45 Chugging 20oz of water and popped 1.5 valium for my 1:45 transfer / 
Stopped to get lunch for Mike.

• 1:20 Arrive at Cleveland Clinic -Threw coins in the fountain to make a wish!

• 1:25 Waiting room.  Drank another 15oz (35oz, took the other 0.5 valium to total 2 valium, barely feel like I have to pee)

• 1:50 Finally in a holding room before transfer (was suppose to be at 1:45.  REALLY have to pee.  Like my FROZEN socks?  Get it?  Frozen Embryos.  I'm also flashing the # 7 since it's our seventh transfer.   Feeling like I have to pee but not that bad.  Thank you valium!

• Seventh transfer.

• Our babies.  Embryos 12 and 13.  Thawed blasts.  Let them be our take home babies or baby!  Please God!   They said my bladder was perfect (didn't comment on my uterus, I should have asked).

• 2:40 Returned to acupuncture for post transfer treatment


Our journey so far.....