Babies

My friend Christy had her baby on Tuesday and he is soooo cute!

She is so lucky and he seems like he is going to be a great little bundle of joy. He must have been exhausted because he slept through our entire visit?

It was so odd seeing Matt hold the baby and know that I may never be able to hand him our child. He was a total natural with the baby. He was not nervous or anything! It was truly amazing.

At this point, I am going to be visiting 2 more babies in the hospital by the end on the month. I have 1 friend who is due on the 25th and another who is due on the 27th. I am going to try to get all of my baby checks in by the end of the month in hopes that it gives me good luck for my own hopes for a pregnancy by the end of the year. We will wait and see what happens.

On the IVF front, we did our E2V IM shot last night and it went really well. It was not as bad as I had expected. We had our baseline U/S and blood work in Monday and everything went well. Doctor S said everything looked good although he expressed his concern regarding the quality of our eggs because of our history. He was trying to sound realistic but at the same time hopeful and it just made me sad to think that this is our last try. This is it! If this does not work out, we are going to either commit to be a childless couple or take some time off and think about adoption. At this point, I don't want to think about it! It makes me sad.

Anyway, we are remaining hopeful and trying to stay positive. I am sure I have said this before but I am expecting the best but preparing myself for the worst. That should be my quote for 2008. A whole year of IVF, I am exhausted!!!

Let the fun begin!

I am still hanging onto HOPE!

Hope that that this cycle works and we have nothing but good news this time around. I did a little bit of math in talking to my BFF last night and determined that we will be finding out about a possible BFP sometime the week of Christmas!!

2 Things can happen...either it will be a really great Christmas or a really bad Christmas. Either way, I am glad we are finishing the year with the conclusion of our IVF journey. Let me rephrase that, our IVF Cycle journey. I may still be infertile after this year but I will no longer be under the physical, mental and monetary pressures of hoping for a BFN and subjecting my life to this process. This year has been hard!!!

Anyway....

We have been doing the Lupron injections for about a week and start the Ganirelix tomorrow. Luckily they are both SubQ so that makes it easier.

My husband is the greatest! He is an old pro now at delivering these injections and does an AMAZING job!!

Side effects: Nothing but heartburn ALL freaking day long. I am miserable all of the time with the hearburn. It has got to be the medication because I never get heartburn except when I am cycling and taking 5 different types of medications a day! Oh well. I have to take the good with the bad, right?