Monday, October 27, 2014

Femara round 2

So today is CD12 so I went in for my egg scan with the hopes of having good news since I responded so well last time and I had been cramping again. 

The news was not as great as I had hoped. 

I had one at 16mm on one side and one at 12mm on the other. Since last time on CD11 I had one at 21mm, this was slightly disappointing news. 

She still wants me to trigger on Wednesday around 7pm and then start progesterone on Saturday. 

I already feel like this will not be our cycle. I am not confident that my body will cooperate. I hope it does but, as the past has shown, it normally does not. 

We were also told that we could try this 2 more times before moving on to IUI which my insurance doesn't cover. I think we should go ahead and start saving for it just to make sure we can cover the cost! 

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Tricky tricky

I think anyone who is TTC tries something new each cycle in hopes that that will be the answer to getting that BFP. I have tried teas, pineapple, being lazy, being energetic, being around babies for good kharma, avoiding babies, taking coughs syrup, avoiding medications, basically anything that I thought would help. 

After a discussion with my husband, we feel that this is the answer this time: 


Yes, that is a pile of pillows. 

We were discussing how this months treatment is the same as last months (2nd femara cycle, ovidrel injection, progesterone suppositories until test date). We also discussed how (TMI alert!) "very wet" things are after BD and that we thought I lost a lot of the sperm due to him pulling out when he was done. So, we decided my hips need to be "tilted back" and that he needed to not only stay in after he was done but keep going since he generally has to use the restroom a lot afterwards and says he is still going when he does. 

We tested our theory last week with the pillows and discovered that things were much less "wet" afterwards and he felt like he got everything out. So, fingers crossed that's been part of our problem! 

It's crazy the things we try. I can definitely tell the femara is working again. I feel a lot of cramps and have a lot of EWCM. I'm almost worried I will ovulate before my trigger! My appointment is tomorrow, fingers crossed that what I'm feeling means good news and that our pillow theory is the answer!