We are underway with all of this Sci-Fi IVF stuff…shots every night so far has not been bad. I’m lucky that so far they have been “insulin needles” so virtually painless. Lady M came back from a work party last night totally drunk! So I was a little worried about her shot giving abilities–not her shot taking abilities but…she did just fine. I can’t wait til I have to yell at her to get up a deal with the babe.
I’m so excited and anxious about this IVF cycle. I hope there’s nothing wrong with my eggs…and I hope they get a lot of strong ones. We could certainly use them! I want four…or five babies…just not at once! It’s been a stressful month so far: my car is probably dead forever, so I’m spending a lot doing the car share rentals to get to my early ass appt’s and then bus-it to work, my computer at home crapped out, so I have to stay actually AT work soooo long to deal with my increasingly overwhelming job! It’s nuts right now…
But the only reason I’m still here, in the ray race, is for our family. It WILL happen soon. I just know it.
P.S. I asked M to become unionly civilized this summer for our 10 year anniversary! Yay for being separate but equal in ILLINOISE! 
Hello!
I, too, live in Chicago and have gone through similar experiences with many inseminations and now I’m onto my 2nd round of IVF. Just wondering how it’s going with you and how your first IVF went. Cheers!
Wow, funny you should ask! Our first IVF was canceled and turned into an IUI with only one vial…but I had 4 eggs of various sizes. So today they called to tell me that my HCG is positive, albeit only 15.5. I go back Friday to see if it’s doubling…ugh, more waiting…fingers crossed!
So where are you in your second round of IVF? Are you using frozen or fresh?
How about that?! Great news. This process is so much about waiting that it becomes a Buddhist practice of patience (plus torture). Who is your doctor? I hope they’re keeping you on the progesterone.
Last month, I had a miscarriage at 7 weeks after FET. (Which truly sucked.) It looks like I start another stim cycle early/mid April for the ER/ET in May. I much prefer transferring frozen than doing the whole stim/retrieval bit but, we don’t have any more frozen left. IUI seems (except if you use Clomid?) to have a lower likelihood of multiples. With IVF, the scariest decision for us is how many embryos to transfer. (I’m 40, so they prefer to transfer a lot.) We don’t want triplets but we wouldn’t selectively reduce twins.
Where do you do acupuncture? If you want, you can email me at meinemo@gmail.com.