TCOYF
Taking Charge of Your Fertility

February 2010 - laurenAZ

  • I Should Have Known

    I should have known it wasn't going to work for me. I just should have known. And I shouldn't have let myself get excited or hopeful because I should have known it wasn't going to work. And why should it? Apparently my ridiculously perfect...
  • Wishing and hoping...

    Hope is a scary thing. It's scary how the more you hope for something, the more you're setting yourself up for disappointment if that something doesn't come. I went into this IVF with so little hope, such low expectations. As we've crossed...
  • Expecting the Unexpected

    Yesterday I woke up in the middle of a dream that most of my embies had died and the only ones remaining were in horrible condition and graded at the bottom of the scale. I spent all morning before my embryo transfer sick to my stomach thinking this was...
  • The big day (part 1)

    (I guess technically the big day would be the day of my pregnancy test in a couple weeks.. so we'll call this "Big Day Part 1!") My embryo transfer is this afternoon at 12:30. Last night I had a dream that I got to the doctor's office...
  • Halfway there

    I'm at the halfway point of my first and hopefully only IVF cycle. So far things have gone better than anyone expected. Each time a new hurdle comes along, I'm convinced it's the one that'll make us fall. But so far this hasn't happened...
  • Facing reality

    At the end of December I was hit in the face with the news that at 29 my FSH is 12.9 and our best option to conceive is IVF. I haven't blogged since that time because writing about it somehow made it all real. But at this point I'm WAY past the...
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